Saturday, 11 October 2014

Today is the new feast day of St John XXIII. Youtube-Paintings of Saint John Paul II and Saint John XXIII

11th. Saturday October 2014
Mass Saint 
Introduction - Fr. Mark




Intro Mass                                                                                                                          Sat. 11 Oct 2014
Today is the new feast day of St John XXIII.  It is so recent it hasn't been included in this year's calendar.  Interestingly, today is the anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council.  Significantly, the Synod of Bishops on the Family is meeting at this time to try and resolve some of the problems facing married people today just as Vatican II attempted to bring the Church into the modern world fifty years ago.
In this Saturday's gospel reading we hear a woman in the crowd praising the mother of Jesus.  We are perhaps still a little put out by Jesus' reply to the  woman even though we know he is not in fact being disrespectful of his mother.  Our Lord wants to emphasise that his family involves more than a physical bond.   Everyone who listens to his word is part of his family.  We know from Luke's gospel that Mary is a perfect mother and a true disciple.  She more than anyone knows how to listen, to understand and follow what he has come to teach us.
Penitential Rite
1   Lord, you give us your word to teach and save us.                                       Lord, have mercy.
2   By believing in your word, we receive knowledge of eternal life.          Christ, have mercy.
3   Lord, in our obedience to you we are given fullness of life.                     Lord, have mercy.

SATURDAY 11th"
COMMUNION ANTIPHON Cf. Lk 11:27
Blessed is the womb of the Virgin Mary, which bore the Son of the eternal Father.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
As we receive this heavenly Sacrament, we beseech, 0 Lord, your mercy,
that we, who rejoice in commemorating
the Blessed Virgin Mary, may by imitating her
serve worthily the mystery of our redemption. Through Christ our Lord .
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MEDITATION   OF    THE DAY 
SAINT JOHN XXIII
Blessed Is the Womb
My thoughts turn once more to the words of the humble daughter of Israel who still speaks for our own hearts and lips, words which we repeat with enthusi­asm to the Blessed Mother of Jesus, who is our own Mother too: Beata, beata viscera Marire Virginis quos portaverunt /Eterni Patris Filium! 0 blessed indeed the womb that bore you! And I place my confident trust in the reply of Jesus which is the renewed assurance for you, children of the Catholic Church, that we may find here below on earth, as a pledge of our eternal happi­ness in heaven, prosperity, joy, and peace, in propor­tion to our unconquerable fidelity to the teaching of the divine Word, always better understood arid better guarded: Blessed rather are those who hear the Word of God and keep it.

O Mary, Mother of Jesus and our Mother too! We hail you with this cry that all generations of men re­peat, contemplating the mysteries of your life and the splendour of your Assumption. Once more we hail you as blessed, beata; intercede for us, 0 glorious Queen of the world, and be ever mindful of us, particularly in the dangers and needs of the present hour.

O Jesus, Son of Mary, our Brother and our Saviour, by the mystery of the body and blood which you deigned to assume from the Virgin's pure womb and which we today renew on our altar, preserve for us the gift of faith for the salvation of our souls, for the prosperity and greatness of our people and for the glory of your name, which will be at the same time our glory and our joy, in this present life and in eternity. Amen.
Saint John XXIII (+ 1963) reigned os pope from 1958 until 1963.

John XXIII (Saint)  . From Days of Devotion, Dorothy White, Tr. 0 2008,
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1.   Paintings of Saint John Paul II and Saint John XXIII - YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQedaSk4A1E
19 May 2014 - Uploaded by catholicnewsagency
Anna Gulak, a young polish sculptor and painter, has made a series of portraits of the two pope saints. These ...
 

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