Wednesday, Dec. 2
First Week of Advent
BLESSED RAFAL CHYLINSKI (Poland, 1694-1741)
Franciscan
Jesuit-educated, Rafal became a cavalry officer before joining
the conventual Franciscans in 1715. After being assigned to
nine different cities, he ended up in Lageniewski where he
served to the end of his life. He was known for his simple
and candid sermons and for his holy ministry. After his death,
the church he served immediately became a place for pilgrimage.
He was beatified in 1991.
OR today.
At the General Audience dedicated to St. Julian of Norwich:
The Pope asks the faithful to pray for the bishops and Catholics of China
He meets a group of victims from the terrorist attack on a Baghdad church last month
(left photo below)
Right photo, the Holy Father met the President of Equatorial Guinea after the GA.
Other Page 1 stories: A lengthy essay on forthcoming additional revisions to streamline canon law for dealing with priest offenders includes three letters written by Cardinal Ratzinger in 1988 urging specific changes (see preceding post); Cardinal Bertone's address calling on the international community to fight anti-Christian discrimination around the world, at the current summit of the European Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) meeting in Kazakhstan; unknown snipers kill a young Christian and wound his brother in a street shooting in Mosul; and South Korea fears new artillery attacks from North Korea.
THE POPE'S DAY
At 7:30 a.m., the Holy Father celebrated a commemorative Mass for Manuela Camagni of the pontifical family
at the Pauline Chapel.* Homily in Italian.
Later, he met with
- H.E. Gábor Győriványi, Ambassador from Hungary, who presented his credentials. Address in German.
- Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris and President of the French bishops' conference,
with his two vice presidents Mons. Laurent Ulrich, Archbishop of Lille, and Mons. Hippolyte Simon,
Archbishop of Clermont; and the secretary general, Mons. Antoine Hérouard;
- Eight Philippine bishops on ad-limina visit (Group 3). Individual meetings.
*Words cannot express enough one's appreciation of the Holy Father's gestures and words of affection and grief for the loss of a member of his papal family. It really is the best 'objective correlative' to the warm humanity that emerges so radiantly in Light of the World.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 02/12/2010 14:28]