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
Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 11:14 It must be an article of decoration or devotion for the use of pilgrims to St James at Compostella, I suppose; doubt that it is a proper liturgical or episcopal vestment? La Buhardilla de Jerónimo g. a.
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 14:44 At the age of 93. José Manuel Casas Torres was professor of geography at both Zaragosa and the Complutense and is credited with "modernising" the practice of Spanish geography and cartography, not that I know quite what that means. He joined the Work in July of 1939 and was an acquaintance of St Josemaria. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. @prensaopusdei g a.
Ecclesia, Hispania, Media, Opus Dei, Requiem aeternam Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 23:15 Of Our Lady's Assumption in Cordoba in Spain? I noticed that Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs posted on this yesterday (with a typically provocative title--although I do agree that the Hagia Sophia ought to be returned to the Patriarch of Constantinople) but it being Good Friday I had better things to do than this. The only major media site I checked--the Guardian's; the article being written by Giles Tremlett)--is as much concerned with not repressing the Cordoban jihadis' right to be quoted on major media sites and mocking the Catholic religion as with anything else.
... Yesterday's incident coincided with the city's famous Easter Week celebrations, where groups of nazarenos (penitents) dressed in long robes and tall conical hats carry statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary from local churches around the streets....
As Matthew Balan at the NewsBusters site points out, none of the major media corporations in the United States reported any of this themselves, although there was an AP story on the wires.
Marc
Religion Clause is the invaluable site where Professor Howard Friedman posts links to almost every religion-and-law story that appears in US English; he notes this today.
Contra Mahometismum, Ecclesia, Hispania Monday, March 1, 2010 at 5:17 Along with his suite. I wonder if they are in fact settling arrangements for (or, perhaps, lobbying for) a papal visit to Santiago de Compostela in this holy year?
Marc
The Holy Father is indeed to Compostela, on the 6th and 7th November.
Ecclesia, Hispania, Sancta Apostolica Sedes 
