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Monday, February 14, 2011

Morning Catholic must-reads:

The Pope greets faithful during the Angelus yesterday (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
Benedict XVI said that the fullness of the Law is love during his Angelus address yesterday (video).
Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, the Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt, has said that the nation’s future is now in the hands of its people.
There are 410,593 Catholic priests in the world, according to the latest Vatican figures.
Priestly vocations are a sign of the vitality of Christian life, Pope Benedict told members of the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo on Saturday (full text, video).
Cardinal Angelo Scola, the Patriarch of Venice, has described the Pope’s visit to the city on May 7-8 as a “great gift“.
Prominent Anglo-Catholics Fr Ivan Aquilina and Fr James Bradley announced their intention to join the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham yesterday, as did Fr Ed Tomlinson.
Brother Stephen Treat suggests that the average Sunday attendance at ordinariate parishes in the United States will surpass that of the Episcopal Church.
New York Times writer Russell Shorto asks whether the two parts of the term “Irish Catholic” will ever be separated.
John Allen argues that the Catholic Church in the United States lacks “missionary muscle”.
Joan Frawley Desmond considers how the journal First Things is faring two years after the death of Fr Richard John Neuhaus.
Philip Johnson, a seminarian with an inoperable brain tumour, tells the story of his vocation (video).
And Spain’s World Cup-winning football team has postponed a papal audience because it might have disrupted Barcelona’s preparations for their clash with Arsenal this week.

via catholicherald.co.uk

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Quotes from 'The Glories of Mary':

‘I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head.’

(Gen. 3:15)

“Since the devil is the head of original sin, this head it was that Mary crushed: for sin never had any entry into the soul of this Blessed Virgin, which was consequently free from all stain.”

Saint Augustine

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

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