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Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
Second and third from right: St. Romualdo's Vision, by Guercino, 1641; and Guido Reni's Coronation of Mary, 1595, with St. Romualdo (extreme right) and St. Catherine of Alexandria flanking Saints John the Evangelist and John the Baptist; second from right, St. Romuald by Fra Angelico, in a 1441 fresco in the Convent of St. Mark, Florence.
ST. ROMUALDO (Italy, ca 950-1027), Benedictine monk, Hermit, Abbot, Founder of the Camaldolesi Benedictines
St. Piero Damiani would write the biography of this saint a mere 15 years after his death. One of the many saints who spent their early privileged life of wealth in profligacy, Romuald had a change of heart at age 20 when he saw his father kill someone in a duel. He fled to a Benedictine monastery near Ravenna where he decided to become a monk. He left the abbey after three years because he did not think it was strict enough and became a hermit on an island. He gained a reputation for holiness that persuaded the Duke of Venice to leave office and join Romuald in a hermitage near the Benedictine abbey of San Miguel de Cuxa in Catalonia (Spain). Romuald returned to Italy after seven years when he learned that his father had become a monk but was tormented with doubts, which his son managed to resolve. Romuald also gained the friendship of Emperor Otto III who asked him to revive an old monastery as abbot. However, Romuald's reforms were resisted and he went back to being a hermit. For the rest of his life, however, he travelled all over France and Italy, establishing about a hundred monasteries and hermitages to propagate his mission to restore the Benedictine order to the primitive Rule of St. Benedict. In 1012, he founded the Congregation of Monk Hermits of Camaldoli, after he was given a property near Arezzo in Tuscany on which he could built an abbey (the Sacro Eremo). The Camaldolese have given the Church two popes (Pius VII and Gregory XVI,) many saints and blesseds. His body was found to be incorrupt at the time he was canonized in 1582. The millenary of the foundation of the Sacro Eremo in Camaldoli is being celebrated this year.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings/061913.cfm
AT THE VATICAN, June 19, 2013
General Audience Continuing his catecheses on the Church, Pope Francis reflected on the Church as the Body of Christ,
of which we are members. He said this image makes us realize the importance of strengthening our union with Christ
through daily prayer, the study of God’s word and participation in the sacraments. And that "the communion of the Church,
and in union with the Pope and Bishops, each of us has a part to play, a gift to share, a service to offer, for building
up the Body of Christ".
After the GA, he met with participants of the meeting between the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialog and
the Saudi Arabia-sponsored International Islamic Forum for Dialogue.
St. Joseph's name added
to Eucharistic Prayers
in the Canon of the Roman Mass
The Congregation for Divine Worship published a decree that decreed that adds the name of Saint Joseph, Patron of
the universal Church, to the Eucharistic Prayers in the Roman Canon [standard prayers at every Mass in the Roman
rite]. The decree was approved by Benedict XVIin response to petitions received from around the world, and
this ha s been confirmed by Pope Francis. The decree is dated May 1, liturgical feast of St. Joseph as Patron of
Laborers.
Obviously, Benedict XVI's approval was given before he stepped down as Pope. What could have taken the CDW so long to prepare it for publication? It would have been most fitting for the decree to have been issued in the Pontificate of a Pope who was baptized Joseph. But I have not seen a single report about this liturgical milestone refer in any way to what the decree itself says that it had been approved by Benedict XVI and subsequently confirmed by Pope Francis. The lead for the report in the English service of Vatican Radio says:
"In the first decree of a liturgical nature of this pontificate, Pope Francis has decided that name of St. Joseph should be added to the Eucharistic Prayers II, II and IV, as they appear in the third typical edition of the Roman Missal, after the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary". Of course, the decree was issued in this Pontificate, but the initiative was taken by Benedict XVI, as the decree itself makes clear, and the Vatican media themselves should have taken the lead in pointing this out, not in ignoring it:
DECREE TO INCLUDE THE NAME OF ST. JOSEPH
IN THE EUCHARISTIC PRAYERS 11,III, AND IV OF THE ROMAN MISSAL
Exercising his paternal care over Jesus, Saint Joseph of Nazareth, set over the Lord’s family, marvelously fulfilled the office he received by grace.
Adhering firmly to the mystery of God’s design of salvation in its very beginnings, he stands as an exemplary model of the kindness and humility that the Christian faith raises to a great destiny, and demonstrates the ordinary and simple virtues necessary for men to be good and genuine followers of Christ.
Through these virtues, this Just man, caring most lovingly for the Mother of God and happily dedicating himself to the upbringing of Jesus Christ, was placed as guardian over God the Father’s most precious treasures. Therefore he has been the subject of assiduous devotion on the part of the People of God throughout the centuries, as the support of that mystical body, which is the Church.
The faithful in the Catholic Church have shown continuous devotion to Saint Joseph and have solemnly and constantly honored his memory as the most chaste spouse of the Mother of God and as the heavenly Patron of the universal Church.
this reason Blessed Pope John XXIII, in the days of the Most Holy Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, decreed that Saint Joseph’s name be added to the ancient Roman Canon.
In response to petitions received from places throughout the world, the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI deemed them worthy of implementation and graciously approved them. The Supreme Pontiff Francis likewise has recently confirmed them. In this the Pontiffs had before their eyes the full communion of the Saints who, once pilgrims in this world, now lead us to Christ and unite us with him.
Accordingly, mature consideration having been given to all the matters mentioned here above, this Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, by virtue of the faculties granted by the Supreme Pontiff Francis, is pleased to decree that the name of Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary is henceforth to be added to Eucharistic Prayers II, III, and IV, as they appear in the third typical edition of the Roman Missal, after the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as follows: in Eucharistic Prayer II: "ut cum beáta Dei Genetríce Vírgine María, beáto Ioseph, eius Sponso, beátis Apóstolis"; in Eucharistic Prayer III: "cum beatíssima Vírgine, Dei Genetríce, María, cum beáto Ioseph, eius Sponso, cum beátis Apóstolis"; and in Eucharistic Prayer IV: "cum beáta Vírgine, Dei Genetríce, María, cum beáto Ioseph, eius Sponso, cum Apóstolis ".
As regards the Latin text, these formulas are hereby declared typical. The Congregation itself will soon provide vernacular translations in the more widespread western languages; as for other languages, translations are to be prepared by the Bishops’ Conferences, according to the norm of law, to be confirmed by the Holy See through this Dicastery.
All things to the contrary notwithstanding.
From the offices of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments,
1 May 2013, on the
Memorial of Saint Joseph the Worker.
Antonio Cardinal Cañizares Llovera
Prefect
Arthur Roche
Archbishop Secretary
EIGHT YEARS AND TWO MONTHS AGO,
Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope.
OUR LOVE AND PRAYERS, YOUR HOLINESS!
 
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