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23 February 2007
VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT, THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS ON GOOD FRIDAY, 25th OF MARCH 2005 AT THE COLOSSEUM IN ROME
Rome (Fides News Service) - FIRST STATION: JESUS IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH
V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi.
R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum.
From the Gospel according to Matthew 27:22 ...
22 February 2007
VATICAN - Message to Catholics in Brazil for the Lenten Fraternity Campaign 2007, the Pope recalls with gratitude the many courageous men and women missionaries dedicated, “even at the risk of their life, to spreading the Catholic faith in the villages and towns of the region”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On the occasion of the annual Lenten Brotherhood Campaign in Brazil, this year with the theme “Fraternity and Amazon" and the motto "Life and Mission in that Land " (see Fides 20/2/2007 ...
22 February 2007
VATICAN - The Pope presides the first Lenten ‘station’ Mass at the basilica of Santa Sabina: “Works of charity (almsgiving), prayer and penance (fasting), and other sincere efforts for conversion find their highest significance and values in the Eucharist, source and summit of the life of the Church and the history of salvation”
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Ash Wednesday is considered the ‘gateway’ to Lent. In fact today’s Liturgy and its distinctive actions anticipate in a synthetic form the very physiognomy of the Lenten Season. In ...
22 February 2007
VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT- « STABAT MATER »
Rome (Agence Fides) - STABAT MATER
Stabat Mater is a thirteenth-century Roman Catholic hymn attributed to Jacopone da Todi. Its title is an abbreviation of the first line, Stabat mater dolorosa ("The sorrowful mother ...
22 February 2007
VATICAN - THE WORDS OF DOCTRINE - de facto couples and homosexual persons (2)
Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Since some Catholics have adopted an individualistic ‘liberal’ idea of conscience, rejecting the idea of communion of conscience, in which the individual Christian and the Church are on ...
22 February 2007
VATICAN - “This Lent, by a more fervent participation in the Eucharist, may we learn to enter more deeply into the Paschal Mystery and to “re-give” Christ’s love to others, especially the suffering and those in need”: the Pope’s teaching at the general audience
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Once again, given the large number of visitors for the General Audience on Wednesday 21 February, Ash Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI gave his audience in two stages. First to St Peter’s Bas ...
21 February 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - Mary, Queen of the Beatitudes
Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “They came to Capernaum, and when he got into the house he asked them, ‘What were you arguing about on the road?’ They said nothing, because on the road they had been arguing which of ...
21 February 2007
VATICAN - “Indicate the foundation, specificity and duties of a conscience, illuminated by the faith, but aware of the necessity to dialogue with the secular and pluralist world of cultures” aim of 13th general assembly of the Pontifical Academy
Vatican City (Fides Service) - “Christian conscience supports the right to life” is the theme of the 13th general assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life PAV to be held 23-24 February in the Vatican.
The Assemb ...
21 February 2007
VATICAN - Cardinal Paul Poupard visits Sheikh Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi, Grand Imam of al-Azhar al-Sharif
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On February 20 Cardinal Paul Poupard visited Sheikh Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi, Grand Imam of al-Azhar al-Sharif, in Cairo.The Holy See Press Office released the following communique: "Cardinal ...
21 February 2007
VATICAN - PRAYERS FOR LENT: THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Rome (Fides News Service) The STATIONS OF THE CROSS (or Way of the Cross; in Latin, Via Crucis; also called the Via Dolorosa or Way of Sorrows, or simply, The Way) refers to the depiction of the final hours (or Passion) ...
20 February 2007
VATICAN - “Christ has chosen us, dear priests, to be the only ones with the power to pardon sins in His name. This then, is a specific ecclesial service to which we must give priority.” Pope Benedict XVI addresses confessors of the four Roman Basilicas
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the late morning of February 19 Pope Benedict XVI received Cardinal James F. Stafford, major penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary, prelates and officials of that tribunal, and fat ...
20 February 2007
VATICAN - Prayers for Lent: Ave Regina Caelorum Hymn
Hail, Queen of heaven;
Hail, Mistress of the Angels;
Hail, root of Jesse;
Hail, the gate through which the
Light rose over the earth.
Rejoice, Virgin most renowned
and of unsurpassed beauty,
and pray for ...
19 February 2007
VATICAN - The Pope addresses his Apostolic Nuncios to Latin American countries: “Faced with the challenges of the present day our communities must consolidate their belonging to Christ in order to live a mature and joyous faith … truly enormous is the spiritual potential from which Latin America can draw”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 17 February Pope Benedict XVI received in audience Papal Nuncios from Latin American countries in Rome for a meeting organised by the Holy See in view of CELAM 5, the 5th Genera ...
19 February 2007
VATICAN - “Non violence for Christians does not mean resigning oneself to evil, but rather responding to evil with good, this breaks the chain of injustice” Pope Benedict XVI recalls during his Angelus meditation; an appeal for dialogue to end Guinean crisis
Vatican City (Fides Service) - On Sunday 18 February in his meditation before the midday Angelus prayer Pope Benedict XVI reflected on the Sunday Gospel passage “one of the most typical and powerful statements of Jesus ...
19 February 2007
VATICAN - Prayers for Lent
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Lent is an opportune time for Christians to convert themselves ever more deeply to Christ” Pope Benedict XVI recalled at the Angelus on Sunday 18 February. To help Catholics live this ...
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