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Monday, December 21

ST. PETER CANISIUS (Netherlands, 1521-1597)
Jesuit, Theologian, Writer, Preacher, Doctor of the Church
One of the great figures of the Counter-Reformation and the first Dutch Jesuit, Peter was educated in Cologne and is called the Second Apostle of Germany after St. Boniface, for having restored Catholicism to Germany after the Reformation. Besides Germany, he also re-evangelized Austria, Bohemia and Switzerland. A great teacher and charismatic preacher, he founded many schools and seminaries for the Jesuits. He addressed the Council of Trent on the importance of the Eucharist and is credited with adding the final lines of the Hail Mary prayer (Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners...]. In 1555, he published a Catechism that directly countered Luther's Catechism and had gone into 400 editions by the end of the 17th century, for which his special designation as a Doctor of the Church is 'Doctor of Catechetical Studies'. His writings include studies of St. Cyril of Alexandria and Leo the Great, and a voluminous epistolary reminiscent of St. Bernard of Clairvaux comprising 8,000 pages. Although his tomb was immediately renowned for miracles, he was not beatified until 1864, In 1925, he became the first saint to be canonized and declared Doctor of the Church at the same time.




No OR today.



THE POPE'S DAY

Annual address to the Roman Curia - This pre-Christmas appointment has become an annual highlight
of Benedict XVI's Pontificate. In the context of reviewing the year just past in the Church and the Papacy,
he has been able to underscore the themes of his Pontificate. Today, the context was the end of the Pauline
Year and the start of the Year for Priests; the Church's special attention to Africa; with his trips to Cameroon
and Angola and the Special Assembly of the Bishops' Synod; reconciliation as a pre-political move in any
context, especially in Africa and the Middle East; the Holy Land trip for its multiple religious and political
significances, not the least that the Christian faith is not a myth; the trip to the Czech Republic as an
opportunity for re-evangelization; what the Church and Christians must do to insure a place for God in today's
world; and the special role of priests in this. [Notably, he did not say anything about the openings to the
Lefebvrians and the Anglicans initiated this year.]

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