Thursday, Oct. 25, 29th Week in Ordinary Time
Center photos show Benedict XVI at the canonization of Frei Galvao in Sao Paolo on May 11, 2007.
ST. ANTONIO DE SANT'ANNA GALVAO (Brazil, 1739-1822), Franciscan Friar, Founder of Sisters of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Miracle Healer
Born near Sao Paolo, Antonio started studying at the Jesuit seminary but decided to become a Franciscan instead and was ordained in 1762. He served as preacher, confessor and porter in a Sao Paolo parish, and was appointed confessor to the Recollect nuns of St. Teresa. With one of the nuns, he founded a new community of sisters, which he was left to care for after his co-founder's premature death. Over the next 28 years, besides acting as their spiritual director, he raised money to build a convent and church for them which was inaugurated in 1802. Now called the Monastery of Light, the complex has been declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO. At the same time, Frei Galvao became guardian of the Franciscan Friary in Sao Paolo and established a new convent in Sorocaba. During this time, he gained widespread fame for miraculous healing and other supernatural powers like bilocation. In his old age, he retired to the Recollect House where he died. His tomb remains a very popular pilgrimage site, and he is even more greatly venerated now as the first native-born saint of the world's largest Catholic country. He was beatified in 1998, and Benedict XVI canonized him during his visit to Brazil in 2007.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings/102512.cfm
AT THE VATICAN TODAY
The Holy Father met with
= H.E. Demetris Christofias, President of the Republic of Cyprus, with his wife and delegation.
- H.E. Mons. Paul Tschang In-Nam, Apostolic Nunzio to Thailand and Cambodia, and Apostolic Delegate
to Laos and Myanmar.
The Vatican Press Office announced that, there having been no appeal presented against Paolo Gabriele's sentence.
his imprisonment starts today. He will be held in a cell at the Vatican Gendarmerie headquarters instead of
being sent to an Italian jail.
At the same time, the Secretariat of State released a statement commenting on Gabriele's trial and sentence.
Hans Küng says he is retiring
from the ‘big stage'
when he turns 85 next March
25 October 2012
Liberal theologian professor Hans Küng has announced that he will withdraw from the "big stage" when he turns 85 next March.
Fr Küng, who has clashed repeatedly with the Vatican and specifically with Pope Benedict XVI during his career, announced at a meeting of reform-minded church groups in Frankfurt last weekend that he would be "withdrawing from the big stage and making room for the next generation".
Nonetheless, he told
The Tablet that
he would "continue to be present in public through the media" and would publish his third volume of memoirs next year. He said he would hand over his Global Ethic Foundation to the former German President, Horst Köhler.
At last weekend's meeting Fr Küng encouraged his listeners to seek interim solutions on such issues as priestly celibacy by pressing for it to be made voluntary instead of mandatory.
Does anyone really believe he will leave the public stage? It's been his raison d'etre for decades! Besides, the MSM will continue to flock to him every time they need his name to bolster their latest anti-Catholic move![Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 26/10/2012 02:12]