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See preceding page for earlier entries on this historic day, 2/11/13. Allow me to do a normalizing correction on this page, and post belatedly what would have been my 'almanac' entry for the day.
Monday, February 11, Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
World Day for the Sick
Except for the prayer card (second from right), all illustrations are from the shrines in Lourdes.
On February 11, 1858, Bernadette Soubirous, an unschooled 14-year-old peasant girl in Lourdes, southern France, experienced the first of 18 apparitions during the next year of a lady who identified herself in Bernadette's dialect as the 'Immaculate Conception'. It had only been three years earlier that Pius IX had declared the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. Against initial skepticism and mockery, Bernadette stuck to her story, and only four years later, the Church recognized the authenticity of the visions. People began to flock to Lourdes from other parts of France and from all over the world, and numerous miracles have been attributed to Our Lady's intercession. Lourdes today is the most visited religious shrine in the world. The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes became a worldwide observance in 1907, and the Church now observes the World Day for the Sick on this anniversary.
Readings for today's Mass: www.usccb.org/bible/readings/021113.cfm
AT THE VATICAN TODAY
At 11:00 this morning, in the Consistory Hall of the Apostolic Palace, during the celebration of the Sixth Hour of the Divine Office, the Holy Father Benedict XVI held an Ordinary Public Consistory for the canonization of the following Blesseds:
- Antonio Primaldo and 800 companions (Otranto, Italy, d 1480), martyrs;
- Laura di Santa Caterina da Siena Montoya y Upegui (Colombia, 1874-1949), founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Blessed Virgin and St Catherine of Siena. and
- Maria Guadalupe García Zavala (Mexico, (Mexico, 1878-1963), co-founder of the Congregation of the Servants of Santa Margherita Maria and of the Poor.
The Pope decreed that they be inscribed in the Album of Saints on Sunday, May 12, 2013.
After this, the Holy Father made the following announcement to the cardinals:
Fratres carissimi
Non solum propter tres canonizationes ad hoc Consistorium vos convocavi, sed etiam ut vobis decisionem magni momenti pro Ecclesiae vitae communicem. Conscientia mea iterum atque iterum coram Deo explorata ad cognitionem certam perveni vires meas ingravescente aetate non iam aptas esse ad munus Petrinum aeque administrandum.
Bene conscius sum hoc munus secundum suam essentiam spiritualem non solum agendo et loquendo exsequi debere, sed non minus patiendo et orando.
Attamen in mundo nostri temporis rapidis mutationibus subiecto et quaestionibus magni ponderis pro vita fidei perturbato ad navem Sancti Petri gubernandam et ad annuntiandum Evangelium etiam vigor quidam corporis et animae necessarius est, qui ultimis mensibus in me modo tali minuitur, ut incapacitatem meam ad ministerium mihi commissum bene administrandum agnoscere debeam.
Quapropter bene conscius ponderis huius actus plena libertate declaro me ministerio Episcopi Romae, Successoris Sancti Petri, mihi per manus Cardinalium die 19 aprilis MMV commissum renuntiare ita ut a die 28 februarii MMXIII, hora 29, sedes Romae, sedes Sancti Petri vacet et Conclave ad eligendum novum Summum Pontificem ab his quibus competit convocandum esse.
Fratres carissimi, ex toto corde gratias ago vobis pro omni amore et labore, quo mecum pondus ministerii mei portastis et veniam peto pro omnibus defectibus meis.
Nunc autem Sanctam Dei Ecclesiam curae Summi eius Pastoris, Domini nostri Iesu Christi confidimus sanctamque eius Matrem Mariam imploramus, ut patribus Cardinalibus in eligendo novo Summo Pontifice materna sua bonitate assistat.
Quod ad me attinet etiam in futuro vita orationi dedicata Sanctae Ecclesiae Dei toto ex corde servire velim.
Ex Aedibus Vaticanis,
die 10 mensis februarii MMXIII
Translations to the Latin declaratio were simulataneously provided in all the official languages of the Vatican.
This year, the center of the observance of the World Day for the Sick is the shrine to Our Lady of Graces in Altoetting, Bavaria.
Altoetting, sometimes called the Lourdes of Germany (even if its history is at least a thousand years older than the shrine in France), is also particularly associated with Joseph Ratzinger who spent his childhood and youth in towns near Altoetting, and whose childhood memories include frequent visits to the Marian shrine with his family. The center of the Marian pilgrimages is the Gnadenkappelle, or Chapel of Graces (left, lower panel) with the miraculous image of the Madonna of Altoetting, also called Our Lady of Bavaria. Benedict XVI celebrated a huge open-air Mass in Altoetting when he visited Bavaria in September 2006.
Re:
TERESA BENEDETTA, 11/02/2013 12:54:
POPE BENEDICT XVI
TO RESIGN
EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 28
Pope Benedict XVI intends to resign at the end of this month as he feels he lacks the energy to continue in the job, Fr. Federico Lombardi said said Monday.
The Pontiff announced his plans in the Vatican in Latin at a consistory meeting on Monday, the spokesman said.
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The resignation, which will be effective at 1900 GMT on Feb. 28, means that a new Pope should be in place by Easter.
The bulletin is not yet on the Vatican website, but Vatican Radio has posted a translation of the Holy Father's announcement:
Dear Brothers,
I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church.
After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.
I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering.
However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.
For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.
Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects.
And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff.
With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.
From the Vatican
10 February 2013
BENEDICTUS PP XVI
Teresita, no puedo parar de llorar... ![[SM=g7364]](https://im0.freeforumzone.it/up/0/64/2938236.gif)
Si, lo mejor que puedo decir es 'menos mal que no lloramos su muerte' aunque esta noticia es una especie de muerte para nosotros que lo amamos con un amor incomparable... Rogamos por su buena salud en los anos que le quedan, ciertos que el sera siempre feliz, gozoso y sabio.
TERESA
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