Friday, June 25, 12th Week in Ordinary Time
Blessed Jutta von Thueringen (Germany, ca 1200-1260)
Widow and Mother, Secular Franciscan, Patroness of Prussia
Jutta and her husband, a noble like herself, were going to the Holy Land for a pilgrimage when he died along the way. After providing for the needs of her children (all of whom eventually joined religious orders), she divested herself of the trappings of wealth, became a lay Franciscan, and dedicated her life to caring for the sick, especially lepers, the poor, and the handicapped. In life, she was considered a saint. Towards the end of her life, she set up a hermitage among non-Christians in Kulmsee, eastern Germany where she prayed for their conversion. After her death, a cultus immediately developed around her grave in Kulmsee. [I have been unable to find any image online].
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/nab/readings/062510.shtml
OR today.
The Pope's visit to the Orione Center and the Dominican nuns of Santa Maria del Rosario
'Only charity can save the world'
The issue has coverage of the Pope's pastoral visits yesterday. Other Vatican stories are on Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who celebrated the Golden Jubilee of his priesthood yesterday in a Mass concelebrated in the Cathedral of Genoa with Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco; and the physical reopening in September of the Vatican Library after three years of structural renovation, during which all of its contents have also been catalogued digitally to facilitate the work of researchers. (Outside researchers were allowed to continue doing work even during the physical closure for renovation.) International news on page 1: A situationer anticipating a ruling from the European Council's Court of Human Rights on Italy's protest (joined by 10 other European nations) against a Court ruling last year prohibiting the display of the Crucifix in Italian schools; the turnover of the anti-Taliban military command in Afghanistan from General McChrystal to General Petraeus; and a UN report on the status of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).
THE POPE'S DAY
The Holy Father met today with
- His Highness Fra Matthew Festing, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta,
with his delegation
- H.E. Luis París Chaverri, Ambassador from Costa Rica, on his farewell visit
- Prof. Lorenzo Ornaghi, newly re-elected Rector of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan
- Participants at the annual meeting of ROACO, an organization that raises funds to help the Eastern-rite
Catholic Churches. Address in Italian.
The Vatican also announced that the Holy Father has named a new Bishop for Bruges (Belgium) in
Mons. Jozef De Kesel, who was Auxiliary Bishop of Mechlin-Brussels. He succeeds the former bishop
Roger Vangheluwe, until then Belgium's longest-serving bishop, who resigned two months ago because
of sexual relations years ago with a young male parishioner.
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