Says Sin Has Not Succeeded in Erasing It VATICAN CITY, MAY 15, 2011 (Zenit.org).- People today have a hard time understanding the splendor of Michelangelo's depiction of the human body because we tend to see the body as "heavy matter," opposed to the spirit, according to Benedict XVI.
The Pope made this reflection in an address Friday to participants in a conference marking the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the John Paul II Institute...
St.Augusitine writing Confessions
While remembering all his youthful follies, he remembers how God's unfarthomable grace has been a shield for him, how grace leads to discover his faith into Three in One God.
Divine Illumination
St: Augustine receive divine illumination from Jesus the Son of God and Mary, the mother of Jesus, enlightening him while he is writing his discourse.
St.MONICA and St.AUGUSTINE at Ecstacy at Ostia
Two saints, mother and son receive a vision of heaven at Ostia, near Rome. It was the last moment of the two being together, looking heaven ward, and later St.Monica died and was buried there.
Seminarians on the wall.
With co-seminarians, where trying to escape the scourging sunlight, sitting on the fence and keeping ourselves calm with jokes.
Rosary Garden at Tabor Hill, Talamban
A place of prayer and peace, a place of love and charity where being together with the mother of our Divine Lord, and recitation of Holy Rosary knocks the doors of Heaven.
16 May, 2011
10 May, 2011
Founder of Vocationists Is Beatified
Established Order to Foster Priestly Vocations By Carmen Elena Villa POZZUOLI, Italy, MAY 9, 2011 (Zenit.org).- "Make yourselves true saints, as all the rest is zero," Don Justino Maria Russolillo would say.
And in trying to help people become saints, he founded an order to foster priestly and religious vocations.
Don Russolillo was beatified Saturday in a ceremony presided over by Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints'...
Benedict XVI Warns Against "Liquid" Society
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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Proposes Culture of Life and Beauty VENICE, Italy, MAY 9, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is warning against the danger of the present "liquid" society, which embraces relativism and rejects stability in human relations.This was one of the points stressed by the Pope on Sunday afternoon in a meeting with the world of culture and the economy at the end of his visit to Venice.
Over the weekend, he also visited the city of Aquilea, the see...
09 May, 2011
Benedict XVI Warns of an Emptied Christianity
Says Emmaus Discouragement Is Present Also Today VENICE, Italy, MAY 8, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is bringing a message of the new evangelization to northeastern Italy, urging the region to remember that the faith is more than a cultural and social tradition.
The Pope visited Venice and Aquilea Saturday and today, giving four addresses and a homily in just a few hours.
This afternoon, some 300,000 people attended the Mass he celebrated,...
Pope: Don't Forget Bible Comes From God
Stresses "Inspiration" in Message to Commission VATICAN CITY, MAY 6, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Interpreting the Bible as a collection of mere human words causes the treasure contained in Scripture to be lost, Benedict XVI says.
The Pope affirmed this in a message dated Monday and sent to the president of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, Cardinal William Levada. The message was for the commission's plenary assembly, which for a third time...
Pope: Christians Believe in Someone, Not Something
Concert Honors Benedict XVI for 6th Anniversary VATICAN CITY, MAY 6, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The Christian faith is not based on believing in something, but in Someone, Benedict XVI says.
The Pope affirmed this Thursday in an address following a concert in honor of his 6th anniversary as the Successor of Peter. He was elected April 19 and installed April 24, 2005.
The concert was offered to the Pope by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano. The...
Liturgy Needs Tradition and Progress, Says Pope
Notes Fruits as Well as Errors in 50 Years of Reform VATICAN CITY, MAY 6, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The liturgy lives from a constant relationship between tradition and progress, according to Benedict XVI.
The Pope made this observation today when he addressed participants in the 9th International Congress on the Liturgy sponsored by the Pontifical Liturgical Institute of Rome's St. Anselm Pontifical Athenaeum.
The congress, titled "The...
07 May, 2011
LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO SEMINARIANS
Saturday, May 07, 2011
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Dear Seminarians, When in December 1944 I was drafted for military service, the company commander asked each of us what we planned to do in the future. I answered that I wanted to become a Catholic priest. The lieutenant replied: “Then you ought to look for something else. In the new Germany priests are no longer needed”. I knew that this “new Germany” was already coming to an end, and that, after the enormous devastation which...
05 May, 2011
We Must Learn How to Pray, Says Pope
Launches New Catechesis Series for Wednesday Audiences VATICAN CITY, MAY 4, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI today began a new series of catecheses for Wednesday general audiences, taking up the theme of prayer and introducing the topic by a look at prayer in ancient cultures. "Virtually always and everywhere, people have turned to God," he explained.
The Pope announced that he will be catechizing on the prayer "that Jesus taught us and that...
