Sunday, May 23, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI - Pentecost Mass

Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithfuls at the end of the Pentecost
 Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on May 23, 2010.

Pope Benedict XVI sprinkles holy water during the Pentecost Mass in
 St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on May 23, 2010.

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the Pentecost Mass in St. Peter's 
Basilica at the Vatican on May 23, 2010.

Pope Benedict XVI leaves St. Peter's Basilica at the end of the 
Pentecost Mass at the Vatican on May 23, 2010.

Pope Benedict XVI waves as the end of the Pentecostal mass in Saint
 Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 23, 2010.

Pope Benedict XVI uses the incense burner as he arrives to lead the
 Pentecostal mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 23, 
2010.

1 comment:

Pablo the Mexican said...

If the Holy Father has kicked the Eucharistic Ministers and women out of the Altar area, and requires the faithful to recieve Holy Communion on the tongue, kneeling, at a communion rail,and has required women to wear veils and dresses, don't you feel odd continuing the Novus Ordo mannerisms?

For your consideration:
On January 15, 1544, St. Francis Xavier wrote to his companions in Rome from Cochin, in India, describing his incessant labors on behalf of the people in the region. The great Jesuit missionary was exhausting himself in baptizing, teaching, visiting the sick, and burying the dead. He traveled from village to village, attracting large crowds who sought his prayers and his counsel. His only regret was that there were so few missionaries to respond to the desperate hunger of the people for Christ. He wrote:
Many fail to become Christians in these regions because they have no one who is concerned with such pious and holy matters. Many times I am seized with the thought of going to the schools in your lands and of crying out there, like a man who has lost his mind, and especially at the University of Paris, telling those in the Sorbonne who have a greater regard for learning than desire to prepare themselves to produce fruit with it: “How many souls fail to go to glory and go instead to hell through their neglect!” And thus, as they make progress in their studies, if they would study the accounting which God our Lord will demand of them and of the talent which has been given to them, many of them would be greatly moved and, taking means and making spiritual exercises to know the will of God within their soul, they would say, conforming themselves to it rather than to their own inclinations: “Lord, here I am! What would you have me do? Send me wherever you will, and if need be, even to the Indies!”

Santa María de Guadalupe Esperanza nuestra, salva nuestra patria y conserva nuestra Fe.

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