V. Oremus pro Pontifice nostro Benedicto.
R. Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum eius.
Pater, Ave.
Deus, omnium fidelium pastor et rector, famulum tuum Benedictum, quem pastorem Ecclesiae tuae praeesse voluisti, propitius respice: da ei, quaesumus, verbo et exemplo, quibus praeest, proficere: ut ad vitam, una cum grege sibi credito, perveniat sempiternam. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
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Pardonne, ô Seigneur, si nous avons murmuré en voyant la désolation de ton temple ; pardonne à notre raison ébranlée ! L'homme n'est lui-même qu'un édifice tombé, qu'un débris du péché et de la mort ; son amour tiède, sa foi chancelante, sa charité bornée, ses sentiments incomplets, ses pensées insuffisantes, son cœur brisé, tout chez lui n'est que ruines.
If in every person's heart there is a thirst for communion and friendship, there are also deep wounds, fears and a whole world of darkness which govern our lives in a hidden way. Coming to know this shadow side, and then to accept it, seems to me to be a first step towards true self-knowledge.
- Jean Vanier, Our Journey Home, p. xii
All of us are called to grow in Wisdom, but growth is also painful. To be fully human means sometimes being able to stay in the anguish and not let it scare us away. When people experience anguish they often feel guilty, as though this shouldn’t be happening. Anguish is very human. It is part of lasting relationships, and it has a spiritual aspect that is connected to loneliness and the fear of death.
- Jean Vanier, A Human Future, November 2004
And in the book of Genesis we hear God saying, "Where are you?" And we have the incredible words of Adam - and I would say incredibly modern words. "I was frightened because I was naked and I hid." Three words -- fear, nakedness and hiding. We are a fearful people.
- Jean Vanier, Address to the Business Community, April 2005
Each one of us is both body and spirit. Each one has his/her own physical make-up, psychological history and spiritual journey. We are one person. However, we risk becoming fragmented within ourselves and allowing divisions to become rooted in us. It is not just the pain of our past that prevents us from being fully alive and restricts in sadness; it is also our refusal to look at and accept reality, to live in the truth of who we are and to take responsibility for our own lives.
- Jean Vanier, Seeing Beyond Depression, p. 79
Then, we begin to understand that we ourselves are not perfect either, and never will be! We too have our share in wrongdoing: we have wounded our parents, our children, our husband, our wife and our friends. When we realize this, we do not have to condemn ourselves but rather to learn to accept our own poverty and inner brokenness.
- Jean Vanier, Seeing Beyond Depression, p. 71
Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 6:20 As consultor of the Holy Office; perhaps he can assist in the discussions with the Lefebvrists. I have speculated, and now the fit is over.
Ecclesia, FSSPX, Sancta Apostolica Sedes Friday, May 7, 2010 at 11:43 Noted by Paolo Rodari, Rorate Caeli, and Father Zuhlsdorf (who has added his usual gloss to the text), Mons Fellay's recent letter to the Lefebvrian faithful is worth a read. I am on the verge of changing my editorial policy and linking directly to DICI, if only because of the impressive numbers of prayers.
Atheists/Heretics/Schismatics, Ecclesia, FSSPX Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 19:24 M. Michel Janva at Le Salon Beige wonders if perhaps the folks at La Croix (scarcely a bastion of professed adherents of Tradition, ahem) have read the signs of the times correctly, as evidenced by Mlle Isabelle de Gaulmyn on her blog there; she writes:
... In short, it has become more and more difficult to justly describe those who hear Mass in the chapels of the Fraternity of St Pius X as 'integrists', which term, moreover, implies a sort of militancy which they do not, in fact, share....
Speculators seems to be anticipating an ecclesiasitcal reconciliation (at least in France) between the Hierarchy and the Lefebvrists in the not too distant future. We shall see.
Ecclesia, FSSPX, La Belle France, Sancta Apostolica Sedes 
