Dear Father Abbot Primate,
Sister Judith Ann
and Benedictine nuns and sisters,
Welcome to Rome! I thank Father Primate for his words of introduction: I have told him that his Italian has improved! Your Symposium is a good occasion for Benedictine nuns and sisters from all over the world to experience together a period of prayer to reflect on the various ways in which the spirit of Saint Benedict,
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“Work is a good thing for man – a good thing for his humanity – because through work man not only transforms nature, adapting it to his own needs, but he also achieves fulfillment as a human being and indeed, in a sense, becomes ‘more a human being’.”
Laborem Exercens (1981) St. John Paul II
The Pope focuses our attention on the the subjective experience of the worker, who bears the imago dei and thereby lends work its dignity. He raises some things we need to regularly recall.
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Br. Roberto Genuin of the Province of Venice elected General Minister of the Friars Minor Capuchin. He was elected at the 85th General Chapter of the Order. Genuin succeeds Br. Mauro Jöhri of Switzerland. The term of office is six years.
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The St. Meinrad Oblates from the greater NYC area gathered as you know, for the 78th annual retreat this past weekend. As part of our Spiritual Exercises we have a Eucharistic Holy Hour. This year we prayed during this time for the Church which is currently in crisis as the consequence of clergy sexual abuse and cover-up, for the victims and victimizers.
Some of the Litany of the Sacred Heart that
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The September Prayer Intention of the Pope:
That young people in Africa may have access to education and work in their own countries.
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Today is the feast of the beheading of St. John the Forerunner and Baptist.
Sacred Scripture reveals that John the Baptist was a cousin of Our Lord whose mission was to preach repentance to Israel in preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The famous rebuke of King Herod for his unlawful marriage to Herodias, his brother’s wife, landed John in prison and on the wrong end
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