Pope Benedict XVI’s Angelus-On the Revolution of Love

Loving the enemy is the nucleus of the “Christian revolution,” a revolution not based on strategies of economic, political or media power. The revolution of love, a love that does not base itself definitively in human resources, but in the gift of God, that is obtained only and unreservedly in his merciful goodness. Herein lies the novelty of the Gospel, which changes the world without making noise. Herein lies the heroism of the “little ones,” who believe in the love of God and spread it even at the cost of life.  (Pope Benedict XVI’s Angelus, FEB. 18, 2007)

Bishop John H. Ricard, S.S.J. Speaks About Love

“Christian love finds its origins in God, only in God. Without God, what is called love would be only sentimentality, but with God, love is an effusive, creative, dynamic force.”  (Most Reverend John H. Ricard, S.S.J., Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee, speaks at the annual diocesan Marriage Jubilee Mass at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Pensacola, Florida, on Feb. 4, 2007)

Message of His Holiness Benedict XVI for Lent 2007

Here is the message of His Holiness Benedict XVI for Lent 2007:

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/lent/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20061121_lent-2007_en.html

The Light of the East by Pope John Paul The Great

Participation in Trinitarian life takes place through the liturgy and in a special way through the Eucharist, the mystery of communion with the glorified body of Christ, the seed of immortality. In divinization and particularly in the sacraments, Eastern theology attributes a very special role to the Holy Spirit: through the power of the Spirit who dwells in man deification already begins on earth; the creature is transfigured and God’s kingdom inaugurated. (Pope John Paul II, Paragraph 6 of “The Light of the East“)

World Day of Peace 1977 Message by Pope Paul VI

But it is not only war that kills Peace. Every crime against life is a blow to Peace, especially if it strikes at the moral conduct of the people, as often happens today, with horrible and often legal ease, as in the case of the suppression of incipient life, by abortion. Reasons such as the following are brought forward to justify abortion: abortion seeks to slow down the troublesome increase of the population, to eliminate beings condemned to malformation, social dishonour, proletarian misery, and so on; it seems rather to favour Peace than to harm it. But it is not so. The suppression of an incipient life, or one that is already born, violates above all the sacrosanct moral principle to which the concept of human existence must always have reference: human life is sacred from the first moment of its conception and until the last instant of its natural survival in time. It is sacred; what does this mean? It means that life must be exempt from any arbitrary power to suppress it; it must not be touched; it is worthy of all respect, all care, all dutiful sacrifice. For those who believe in God, it is spontaneous and instinctive and indeed a duty through the law of religion. And even for those who do not have this good fortune of admitting the protecting and vindicating hand of God upon all human beings, this same sense of the sacred – that is, the untouchable and inviolable element proper to a living human existence – is and must be something sensed by virtue of human dignity. Those who have had the misfortune, the implacable guilt, the ever renewed remorse at having deliberately suppressed a life know this and feel this. The voice of innocent blood cries out with heartrending insistence in the heart of the person who killed it. Inner Peace is not possible through selfish sophistries! And even if it is, a blow at Peace – that is, at the general system that protects order, safe living in society, in a word, at Peace – has been perpetrated: the individual Life and Peace in general are always linked by an unbreakable relationship. If we wish progressive social order to be based upon intangible principles, let us not offend against it in the heart of its essential system: respect for human life. Even under this aspect Peace and Life are closely bound together at the basis of order and civilization. (“World Day of Peace 1977 Message“, by Pope Paul VI)

St. Francis: Mirror Of Christ

The first step in living a Franciscan way of life is to study the life and teachings of St. Francis of Assisi. To help start your study on St. Francis, listen to the EWTN show: “St. Francis: Mirror Of Christ“.

February 2007 Newsletter

Please find attached to this post our fraternity’s February 2007 newsletter: 02-february.pdf. We hope you enjoy our newsletter.