Saturday, June 15, 2013, Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
In the absence of any images to be found online (not even from Italian and Franciscan sites) of the indicated saint of the day, the illustrations above show, extreme left and extreme right, St. Francis receiving the stigmata, in paintings by Giotto and El Greco, respectively. Other photos show a general view of La Verna; the Chapel of the Stigmata with a Crucifixion scene by Andrea della Robbia; and Franciscans processing along the Corridor of the Stigmata for a daily Office liturgy.
Servant of God ORLANDO CATANEI, one of several companions and followers of St. Francis in his lifetime who have been declared saints, blessed or servants of God. As a count, Orlando possessed property near Arezzo including the mountain of La Verna. In 1213, hearing Francis preach about the dangers of worldly pleasures, he rethought his life, asked Francis to be his spiritual director, and spent the rest of his life performing charitable work. He also gave La Verna to Francis and built a church there. Francis, who found the wooded mountain and its caves an excellent place for meditation, accepted gratefully. Benedict XVI was to have made a pilgrimage to La Verna when he made a pastoral visit to Arezzo last year but it had to be cancelled because bad weather did not allow the helicopter flight to the mountain shrine. It was recently announced that Pope Francis will undertake the missed trip to La Verna at a date to be announced.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings/061513.cfm
AT THE VATICAN TODAY
Pope Francis met with
- Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, Archbishop of Cracow
- H.E. José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commissionm and his delegation
- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops (weekly meeting)
- Delegation of French Parliamentarians in France-Holy See Friendship Group. Address in Italian.
Vatican Radio's English translation of the Pope's brief remarks may be found here
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/06/15/pope_calls_on_french_mps_to_promote_laws_with_a_soul/en1-701872
Very strange! I had thought this would have been the perfect occasion for the Pope to say something about gay marriage, and praise the impressive grassroots moment in France that has defended traditional marriage and the traditional concept of the family these past months, Nope - no reference to that topic at all!....BUT...Utter silence about this glaring omission in the news reports about the event.
The Vatican announced that the five-man commission of cardinals exercising oversight of IOR have named, with the Pope's approval, Mons, Battista Mario Salvatore Ricca as Prelate of IOR. curfrently director of Domus Scantae Marthae, as well as three other residence-hotels operated by the Vatican for priests, religious and bishops visiting Rome. As prelate, Mons. ricca will act as secretary at meetings of the cardinals' Commission and will attend the meetings of IOR's supervisory council.
One year ago...
Benedict XVI met with H.E. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the 66th General Assembly of the United Nations; 12 bishops from Colombia on ad-limina visit; and Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (weekly meeting)...Fr. Lombardi denied published speculation that the Holy Father's apostolic visit to Lebanon on September 14-16 was in danger of being scrapped because of the worsening civil war in Syria, next door to Lebanon.
CDF formally erects
Australian Ordinariate
June 15, 2012
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under the Apostolic Constitution
Anglicanorum coetibus, formally erected today the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in the territory of the Australian Bishops' Conference.
At the same time, Pope Benedict XVI named Rev. Harry Entwistle as its first Ordinary. The Ordinariate is under the patronage of St. Augustine of Canterbury.
The first two Ordinariates, composed of former Anglicans who have professed Catholicism, are based in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
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