Indulge me with a repetition of the last item in the preceding page, to open the new page, if only to underscore that it is the feastday of St, Benedict and therefore a name day for our beloved Pope. See preceding page for earlier entries today, 7/11/12.
HAPPY NAME DAY ONCE AGAIN
TO OUR BELOVED HOLY FATHER!
Wednesday, July 11, 14th Week in Ordinary Time
MEMORIAL OF ST. BENEDICT, Abbot
ST. BENEDICT (BENEDETTO DA NURSIA) (Italy, 480-547), Father of Western Monasticism, Co-Patron of Europe
Benedict XVI dedicated his catechesis on April 9, 2008, to St. Benedict.
www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/audiences/2008/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20080409...
For more of Benedict XVI and St. Benedict, read the accounts and commentaries on the Pope's visit to Cassino and the abbey of Monte Cassino on Ascension Sunday, May 24, 2009, on one of the earliest pages of this thread:
benedettoxviforum.freeforumzone.leonardo.it/discussione.aspx?idd=852...
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings/071112.cfm
WITH THE HOLY FATHER TODAY
He will be honored with a concert in Castel Gandolfo tonight by the West Divan Youth Orchestra led by
the Argentine-Israeli maestro Daniel Barenboim, in a performance of Beethoven's symphonies #5 and #6
in the inner courtyard of the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo. The added news is that Italian President
Giorgio Napolitano will be a special guest and will dine with the Pope afterwards.
The Vatican released a communique today on the extraordinary meeting held in Rome yesterday, July 10, of
the Islamic-Catholic Liaison Committee, which agreed this time next year for their regular meeting on
the topic of a common front by believers in the face of magterialism and secularism.
One year ago today...
- The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain announced the theft of the Codex Calixtinus, a priceless 12th century illuminated manuscript, has vanished from the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. As well as a major source of historical information, the codex is considered one of the first guidebooks to the age-old pilgrimage along the Way of St James (Camino de Santiago) to his tomb in Compostela.
From left, title pages from the Codex; an image of St. James in the book; and a facsimile of the Cedex on permanent display in the Cathedral museum.
The good news is that the Codex was recovered last July 3 - 8 days short of the anniversary of its loss. And the bad news it that it was found hidden in the garage of a former employee of the cathedral. The presumed thief had worked as a caretaker and odd-job man at the Cathedral for more than 25 years but was dismissed early last year. He had been suing cathedral authorities for unfair dismissal at the time of the theft on July, 5, 2011.
The 225-page book, thought to date from around 1150, was only brought out on special occasions such as Pope Benedict XVI’s visit in November 2010.
- Also this time last year, the State of New York became the first US state to legislate same-sex marriage as the full equivalent of conventional marriage between a man and a woman.
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