John Duns Scotus, the "Subtle Doctor," was beatified in 1993 by Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Friday, o8 November 2013

Our Lady Immaculate & St Margaret's - Duns

 Blessed John Duns Scotus

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Franciscan Theologian
(c. 1266 - 1308)

        Blessed John (Johannes) Duns Scotus was one of the more important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages. Born at Duns in the county of Berwick, Scotland around 1266, John was descended from a wealthy farming family. John received the habit of the Friars Minor at Dumfries, where his uncle Elias Duns was superior. After novitiate he studied at Oxford and Paris and was ordained to the priesthood on 17 March 1291.

        He was nicknamed Doctor Subtilis (the "Subtle Doctor") for his penetrating and subtle manner of thought and he was remembered mostly for his defense of the doctrine of Immaculate Conception. During the night of Christmas, 1299 at the Oxford Convent, Bl. John, immersed in his contemplation of the adorable mystery of the Incarnation of the Word, was rapt in ecstasy. The Blessed Mother appeared to him and placed on his arms the Child Jesus who kissed and embraced him fondly.

        He died in 1308 and he is buried in the Franciscan church near the famous Cologne cathedral.

        Drawing on the work of John Duns Scotus, Pope Pius IX solemnly defined the Immaculate Conception of Mary in 1854. On March 20, 1993 John Duns Scotus, the "Subtle Doctor," was beatified in 1993 by Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

        Bl. John Duns Scotus, "The minstrel of the Word Incarnate" and "Defender of Mary's Immaculate Conception" was presented by Pope John Paul II to our age "wealthy of human, scientific and technological resources, but in which many have lost the sense of faith and lead lives distant from Christ and His Gospel," as "a Teacher of thought and life." For the Church, he is "an example of fidelity to the revealed truth, of effective, priestly, and serious dialogue in search for unity."

Blessed John Paul II, Poem by Fr. Edward O.P.

Bl. John Paul II

Ordinary Time: October 22nd

At the community Mass this morning, having Blessed John Paul II in mind, we prayed for one fearful of hospital diagnosis.

----Forwarded Message---- 

From: Fr. Edward ....
Subject: So many matters 

Oct 21 at 6:48 AM

Dear Father Donald,

I thought to send you this poem.

. . .

I am trying to translate the poem into Polish (via Google translator) but I cannot get it to work. There will be Poles present at the Mass tomorrow night. I thought to get one to correct the translation. Have you Polish help?

Blessings from

fr Edward

End of a Stykkisholmur Novena to Blessed John Paul

Prophetic leaves  showed

the direction and strength of the wind.

Pope Paul VI died in the Papal summer house

of Castel Gandolfo.

Expectations opened out.

To my Cambridge Brethren

before leaving for Rome

I said with conviction,

“The Church needs a totally sure moral leadership”.

but with long experience of Italy and the Church in Rome

Father Kanalm was self-sure enough to reject my candidate

who was the Polish Primate, Cardinal Vyshinski.

“A Polish Pope, Edward? Totally out of the question!”

They elected Cardinal Luciano, Patriarch of Venice.

He had written a few catechetical orderings,

and had addressed the thoughts of his soul to figures dead and living:

G.K. Chesterton, Ste Therese of Lisieux, Pinocchio,

designated together as “Illustrissimi.”

But he smiled and spoke from the depths of conscious heart-warmth,

and he chose the double name of John (in honour of Blessed John XXIII)

and Paul (in honour of Paul VI).

I arrived  in Rome for the enthusiasm of his last General Audience

with the incidental boy-scherzo with Danielo.

Two days later he was found dead in bed;

his finger nails pierced the sheet of paper he was reading (so Father Magee his Secretary),

indicating a massive stroke from which he died instantly.

Like a champion runner he passed to his successor

a relayed torch of optimism and joy.

At his funeral in the Piazza the heavens wept rain

from a grey sky, and a solitary displaced pigeon

circled the scene and disappeared.

I had heard the masons’ hammers fashioning the tomb below the Basilica floor.

The Cardinals deliberated;

the winds of hope were tangled.

One of our Sisters - Catherine - was a typist at the Secretariat of State.

Archly she broke silence and said,

“They’re saying at the Vatican!” (the atmosphere electrified; normally she kept silent)

“the next Pope will be called John Paul ...”.

And so it was, and when presented from the  balcony he said

“and with the help of Madonna sanctissima”

the hearts of all those present were swept clean and pure by his self-consciousness;

it all augured powerfully well.

Nearly martyred in the Piazza, his assailant’s gun jammed,

but from our Grottaferrata community

Sister Letizia Judice grabbed with force the back of his jacket,

and the Carabinieri moved quickly to take him into custody

as the Vatican ambulance, “going like the clappers” said il Conte Ambrogio, my friend

(it nearly knocked him down),

and a surgeon saved his life at the Policlinico Gemelli.

He moved quickly to become a World-Pope:

not only an Italian, not only a Polish Pope.

though his Polishness was not suppressed.

He released on the Catholic Church and the whole world

the unshakeable conviction  that he was a man to be totally trusted.

Conscious of the force called into play,

he worked continually, his soul finding the charisma

within which he must pray, preach, speak and act.

Helped by an equipe of thirty priests he ran the Church

with charity and energy.

That Polish smile took on the experience and undisplayed anxieties:

so many documents,

so many sermons,

so many decisions,

so many travels.

The world knew him and he knew the world that knew him,

raised in heart and mind to the intensity of heaven

as an offering, holocausted and immolated on the altar of Saint Peter’s

and innumerable world altars on his visits.

Until he, the great preacher, could speak no more,

and must resign himself to enter the Father’s house.

Where, apotheosised, he shines in ever growing glory

where we must follow within the power of his tumultuous praise.

Stykkisholmur

20 October 2013

Fr. Father Edward O.P.

John H. Newman, Bl., 9th October, Liturgy Office

Blessed John Henry Newman

National Calendar for England, Wales, Ireland  9th. October 

http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/National/Newman.shtml  

Blessed John Henry Newman was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI at a Mass in Cofton Park, Birmingham on Sunday 19 September 2010. At the request of the Bishops he has been included in the National Calendar for England on 9 October as an optional memorial.

Pope Benedict in his homily at the Mass of Beatification said:

Cardinal Newman's motto, Cor ad cor loquitur, or "Heart speaks unto heart", gives us an insight into his understanding of the Christian life as a call to holiness, experienced as the profound desire of the human heart to enter into intimate communion with the Heart of God. He reminds us that faithfulness to prayer gradually transforms us into the divine likeness. As he wrote in one of his many fine sermons, "a habit of prayer, the practice of turning to God and the unseen world in every season, in every place, in every emergency — prayer, I say, has what may be called a natural effect in spiritualizing and elevating the soul. A man is no longer what he was before; gradually — he has imbibed a new set of ideas, and become imbued with fresh principles" (Parochial and Plain Sermons, iv, 230-231). Today's Gospel tells us that no one can be the servant of two masters (cf. Lk 16:13), and Blessed John Henry's teaching on prayer explains how the faithful Christian is definitively taken into the service of the one true Master, who alone has a claim to our unconditional devotion (cf. Mt 23:10). Newman helps us to understand what this means for our daily lives: he tells us that our divine Master has assigned a specific task to each one of us, a "definite service", committed uniquely to every single person: "I have my mission", he wrote, "I am a link in a chain, a bond of connexion between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do his work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place — if I do but keep his commandments and serve him in my calling" (Meditations and Devotions, 301-2).

·                     Texts for Mass can be found in the Roman Missal

·                     Texts for the Office of Readings (pdf) are available

A note on the date It is customary for a Saint or a Blessed to be celebrated on the day of their death unless it is impeded by another celebration. Blessed John Henry Newman died on 11 August 1890. The Church across the world celebrates St Clare on August 11 and so another date was sought. One of the reasons that 9 October was chosen was because it falls at the beginning of the University year; an area in which Newman had a particular interest.

 Blessed John Henry Newman, Priest

Born in London in 1801, he was for over twenty years an Anglican clergyman and Fellow of Oriel College, Ox­ford. His studies of the early Church led him progressively towards Catholicism, and in 1845 he embraced “the one true fold of the Redeemer”. In 1847 he was ordained priest and went on to found the Oratory of St Philip Neri in England. He was a prolific and influential writer on a variety of subjects. In 1879 he was created Cardi­nal by Pope Leo XIII. Praised for his humility, unstinting care of souls and contributions to the intellectual life of the Church, he died in Birmingham on 11 August 1890.

From the Common of Pastors,

Office Of Readings

Second Reading

From the writings of Blessed John Henry Newman, Priest

(Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Chapter V: Position of My Mind since 1845, London 1864, pp. 238-239, 250-251)

It was like coming into port after a rough sea.

From the time that I became a Catholic, of course I have no further history of my religious opin­ions to narrate.

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February 20 Blesseds Jacinta and Francisco Marto
(1910-1920; 1908-1919)

Between May 13 and October 13, 1917, three children, Portuguese shepherds from Aljustrel, received apparitions of Our Lady at Cova da Iria, near Fatima, a city 110 miles north of Lisbon. At that time, Europe was involved in an extremely bloody war. Portugal itself was in political turmoil, having overthrown its monarchy in 1910; the government disbanded religious organizations soon after.
At the first appearance, Mary asked the children to return to that spot on the thirteenth of each month for the next six months. She also asked them to learn to read and write and to pray the rosary “to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war.” They were to pray for sinners and for the conversion of Russia, which had recently overthrown Czar Nicholas II and was soon to fall under communism. Up to 90,000 people gathered for Mary’s final apparition on October 13, 1917.
Less than two years later, Francisco died of influenza in his family home. He was buried in the parish cemetery and then re-buried in the Fatima basilica in 1952. Jacinta died of influenza in Lisbon, offering her suffering for the conversion of sinners, peace in the world and the Holy Father. She was re-buried in the Fatima basilica in 1951. Their cousin, Lucia dos Santos, became a Carmelite nun and was still living when Jacinta and Francisco were beatified in 2000. Sister Lucia died five years later. The shrine of Our Lady of Fatima is visited by up to 20 million people a year.

Comment:

The Church is always very cautious about endorsing alleged apparitions, but it has seen benefits from people changing their lives because of the message of Our Lady of Fatima. Prayer for sinners, devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and praying the rosary—all these reinforce the Good News Jesus came to preach.

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In his homily at their beatification, Pope John Paul II recalled that shortly before Francisco died, Jacinta said to him, “Give my greetings to Our Lord and to Our Lady and tell them that I am enduring everything they want for the conversion of sinners.”
http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx?id=1297 — « Details

Jacinta and Francisco Marto, Blessed. 20 Feb.

http://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2010/03/blessed-francisco-marto-of-fatima.html  

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:03 AM GMT  Saint of the day: 19th February Tomorrow we celebrate:  Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto Visionaries. Between 13 May and 13 October 1917, three children, Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia, Portuguese shepherds from Aljustrel, saw apparitions of Our Lady at Cova da Iria, near Fatima, a city 110 miles north of Lisbon. At that time, Europe was involved in an extremely bloody war. Portugal itself was in political turmoil, having overthrown its monarchy in 1910; the government disbanded religious organizations soon after. During the first appearance, Mary asked the children to return to that spot on the thirteenth of each month for the next six months. She also asked them to learn to read and write and to pray the rosary "to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war." They were to pray for sinners and for the conversion of Russia, which had recently overthrown Czar Nicholas II and was soon to fall under communism. Up to 90,000 people gathered for Mary's final apparition on October 13, 1917. Less than two years later, in 1919, Francisco died of influenza in his family home. He was 11. He was buried in the parish cemetery and then re-buried in the Fatima basilica in 1952. Jacinta died the next year of influenza in Lisbon. She was just 10. During her illness she offering her suffering for the conversion of sinners, peace in the world and the Holy Father. She was re-buried in the Fatima basilica in 1951. Their cousin, Lucia dos Santos, became a Carmelite nun and was still living when Jacinta and Francisco were beatified in 2000. She died on 13 February 2005. This year, on the third anniversary of her death, at a special Mass in the cathedral of Coimbra, Portugal, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins CMF, president of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, announced that an exception was being made so that the usual five-year wait could be waived and the diocesan stage of the cause for her beatification would begin. The shrine of Our Lady of Fatima is visited by up to 20 million people a year and is particularly dedicated to prayers for peace and reconciliation. http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint.php?n=153

Jacinta Marto later Blessed

Jacinta Marto bookmarker in Fr. Stephan's Daily Missal.
Front fly leaf, "To Patrick (Joseph) Murphy, from Daddy, March 1938." That would have made  Patrick 14 years.
From your Email, William, you give me clues to trace Stephens path, "... the small red book he always had with him when we met."
Sure enough we found his small book and so many other 'scribbles'.
Prominent was the Dailly Missal from his Daddy. The book markers told the story and chronology of of friends. First was a souvenir of a certain Br. Mark making his Solemn Profession in September 1968, and later the Ordination of Fr. Mark Caira.
Another picture, hidden among the leaves, brings a whole experience.
Two or three days before Stephen's death I had a dream, different from the usual chaotic dreams. But this 'encounter' was with an attractive and friendly young lady. The vivid face of the lassie was very familiar to me. It was the memory but no idea of the name or who she is. I Googled the PICTURES and scanned possible Saints or Blesseds, Venerables or any. Nothing turned up to suggest.
That is the surprise to find this picture in Fr. Stephen's Missal. At once seen, it was the face to recognize.  And it follows the whole story is to be found in the Internet; Blessed Jacinta Marto.

Apart from memory of the face, I had never learned anything about Jacinta, the youngest of the three children of Our Lady of Fatima. For the moment, the details are on the back of the old holy card in Stephen's Missal.
Thank you for for sending your pages from Stephen's "Understanding of Love" etc. So I even browsed to see if there was any mention of the Blessed Jacinta.

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JACINTA MARTO, born at Fatima in Portugal on March 11th 1910, died in hospital at Lisbon on February 20th 1920. aged nearly 10 years.

She was perhaps the most favoured of the three young shepherds, in spite of being the youngest. With her companions, she saw an Angel three times and Our Lady six times. But besides this she had the special privilege of seeing other appearances of the Blessed Virgin, and of the Holy Father. The theme of her life was to pray and make every possible sacrifice, for the conversion of sinners and in reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Before she died, she said: “In heaven I'm going to love Jesus very much, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary too."

God has already given many extraordinary graces through her in­tercession. The Process for the Beatification of the Servant of God, Jacinta Marto, was sent to the Sacred Congregation in Rome on the 2nd July, 1979.

PRAYER FOR JACINTA'S BEATIFICATION (For private recitation)

Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, I adore Thee pro­foundly with all the powers of my soul, and I thank Thee for the Apparitions of the Most Holy Virgin in Fatima which have made man­ifest to the world the treasures of her Immaculate Heart.

By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and through the intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary I implore Thee - if it should be for Thy greater glory and the good of our souls - to glorify in the sight of Thy Holy Church Jacinta the shepherdess of Fatima, granting us through her intercession the grace which we implore. Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father.

Please send deteits of any favours received through the interces­sion of this Servant of God, to the following address:

Vice-Postulador da Causa de Jacinta Marto - Apartado 6 P - 2496 FA TlMA Codex (Portugal).

IMPRIMATUR, Leiren, 20 Februarii 1980

+ ALBERTUS, Episcopus Leiriensis

 Below also a picture of the three children of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima.

From left to right, Jacinta Marto, Lúcia dos Santos and Francisco Marto, 
holding their rosaries in 1917. 

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http://sicsempertyrannisjmj.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/feast-of-blessed-jacinta-and-francisco.html   

Monday, February 20, 2012

 I would then recommend three books:

 first, find and OLD (1940-50s) copy of Sister Lucia’s memoirs (before all the “editing” was done to it) and get the basic story; second I highly recommend the wonderful little book 

Jacinta: The Flower of Fatima by the Rev. Fr. Joseph Galamba de Oliveira, the English edition of which boasts a preface by a young Father Fulton J. Sheen; 

and finally a very recent work that deals with a lot of the controversy over the message of Fatima in the last few years and is extremely fair and well researched: 

The Fourth Secret of Fatima by Antonio Socci, a well respected Italian journalist who works in and around Rome, and is a personal friend of our Holy Father.