Author: Melissa Moody
Apostolica Sedes Vacans
Holy Spirit and Sacred Heart of Jesus
” Devotion to the Holy Spirit is bound up with devotion to the Sacred Heart. The Holy Spirit is, so to speak, the spiritual heart of God, his substantial love. The Holy Spirit formed the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is his throne where he reigns as king. The Holy Spirit is also the gift of the Sacred Heart. It’s graces are won for us by the sufferings and merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Sacred Heart of Jesus must reign within human souls and societies through the Holy Spirit.”
– Father Leo Dehon – Founder of the Priest of the Sacred Heart Of Jesus
And so we pray, come Holy Spirit Come from the Sacred Heart of Jesus and enlighten the hearts and minds of your church as we pray for a new pope. Amen.
Benedict XVI’s Last Speech as Pope
Benedict XVI as Teacher
Benedict XVI published three encyclicals throughout his eight year pontificate, the first just eight months after his election as Pope. It is titled Deus Caritas Est, “God is Love,” and delves into a reflection of human and divine love.
Benedict XVI Pontificate
Benedict’s pontificate on ecumenical questions:
– Reached out to the Eastern Orthodox
– Set up a structure for Anglicans to return to Rome
– Began the process of reconciling the traditionalist Society of St Pius X
– Extended the use of the Traditional Latin Mass
– To (among other things) preclude further traditionalist schisms
– Approved the issuing of a very important document that makes the Catholic Church’s understanding of ecclesiology, which must be the basis for any ecumenical dialogue, crystal-clear.
Detachment from things of this world
Fr. Dwight Longenecker, in Listen My Son: St. Benedict for Fathers, offers a succinct explanation:
Christian contemplative prayer is not detached from the world. Instead, as Cary-Elwes says, it is “a deep longing or attachment with all our heart, mind, soul and strength and all our being for God.” Subsequently the Christian is also attached to all other created things with a love which flows from his primary attachment and longing for the Creator himself. The pure Christian heart is “detached” from created things not because he despises them, but because he loves their Creator more.
Guac Friday
Simple and Fresh Guacamole:
one avacado (ripe: soft to the touch) – use spoon to carve out
2 T. minced onion
2 T. minced serano
mash with fork into a paste
enjoy with nachos
Lost Boy Finds Mother Using Google Earth After 25 Years
A man who became separated from his family for 25 years has tracked down his birth mother using Google Earth.
Saroo Brierley was five when he went to help his nine-year old brother who worked on trains in Khandwa, India. He fell asleep on the train journey there and woke up hundreds of miles away in Calcutta.
Saroo was able to find his birth mother by scouring Google for four years and using the memories he still had of the town in which he used to live.
Evangelizing Through Beauty: A commentary by Fr. Barron
“The beautiful will work a kind of alchemy.” -Father Barron
The beautiful seizes you, it changes you, and then it calls you and sends you.
Lent – A Time of Discipline
The 40 days of Lent are a good time to work on personal discipline in general. Instead of giving something up, it can be doing something positive. Can’t stress to myself enough about the art of “doing.” Doing leads.