Sunday 1 January 2017

2017 is the 100th Anniversary of Fatima. "We would be mistaken to think that Fatima’s prophetic mission is complete." Pope Benedict XVI



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A few years ago Pope Benedict gave a sermon in Fatima about the incompleteness of the message of Fatima and how it is still unfolding:-

"We would be mistaken to think that Fatima’s prophetic mission is complete. Here there takes on new life the plan of God which asks humanity from the beginning: “Where is your brother Abel […] Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!” (Gen 4:9). Mankind has succeeded in unleashing a cycle of death and terror, but failed in bringing it to an end… In sacred Scripture we often find that God seeks righteous men and women in order to save the city of man and he does the same here, in Fatima, when Our Lady asks: “Do you want to offer yourselves to God, to endure all the sufferings which he will send you, in an act of reparation for the sins by which he is offended and of supplication for the conversion of sinners?” (Memoirs of Sister LĂșcia, I, 162).

At a time when the human family was ready to sacrifice all that was most sacred on the altar of the petty and selfish interests of nations, races, ideologies, groups and individuals, our Blessed Mother came from heaven, offering to implant in the hearts of all those who trust in her the Love of God burning in her own heart. At that time it was only to three children, yet the example of their lives spread and multiplied, especially as a result of the travels of the Pilgrim Virgin, in countless groups throughout the world dedicated to the cause of fraternal solidarity. May the seven years which separate us from the centenary of the apparitions hasten the fulfilment of the prophecy of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to the glory of the Most Holy Trinity."

Benedict XVI
Sermon
Fatima, May 13, 2010

We would be mistaken to think that Fatima’s prophetic mission is complete. Here there takes on new life the plan of God which asks humanity from the beginning: “Where is your brother Abel […] Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!” (Gen 4:9). Mankind has succeeded in unleashing a cycle of death and terror, but failed in bringing it to an end… In sacred Scripture we often find that God seeks righteous men and women in order to save the city of man and he does the same here, in Fatima, when Our Lady asks: “Do you want to offer yourselves to God, to endure all the sufferings which he will send you, in an act of reparation for the sins by which he is offended and of supplication for the conversion of sinners?” (Memoirs of Sister LĂșcia, I, 162).
At a time when the human family was ready to sacrifice all that was most sacred on the altar of the petty and selfish interests of nations, races, ideologies, groups and individuals, our Blessed Mother came from heaven, offering to implant in the hearts of all those who trust in her the Love of God burning in her own heart. At that time it was only to three children, yet the example of their lives spread and multiplied, especially as a result of the travels of the Pilgrim Virgin, in countless groups throughout the world dedicated to the cause of fraternal solidarity. May the seven years which separate us from the centenary of the apparitions hasten the fulfilment of the prophecy of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to the glory of the Most Holy Trinity.

Benedict XVI
Sermon
Fatima, May 13, 2010
- See more at: http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2016/12/2017-prophetic-mission-of-fatima-is-not.html#more

Saturday 24 December 2016

Happy Christmas - "Come ye Nations and Adore the Lord"



Gerard David - Triptych with the Nativity

ALLELÚIA
 
Alleluia, alleluia. V. A sanctified day hath
shone upon us: come ye nations and adore the
Lord: for this day a great light hath descended
upon the earth. Alleluia. 
 
Text of the Alleluia for Christmas Day - 3rd Mass  (1962 Missal).

Sovereign Order of Malta says 'No' to Pope's Commission to investigate sacking of Chancellor



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From Deacon Nick Donnelly EWTN UK:-

"The Grand Magistry of the Sovereign Order of Malta has issued a statement making it clear that the Holy See does not have the authority to appoint a commission to investigate the replacement of the former Grand Chancellor. This statement was in response to the Holy See's Secretariat of State announcing that Pope Francis had appointed a team to investigate the removal of the Order’s Grand Chancellor, Albrecht von Boeselager."

The full article can be found at:- https://www.ewtn.co.uk/news/europe/sovereign-order-of-malta-says-no-to-pope-s-commission-to-investigate-sacking-of-chancellor.

Wednesday 21 December 2016

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