Is there a microchip implant in your future?

You can inject one under your skin and no one will ever notice. Using short-range radio frequency identification (RFID) signals, it can transmit your identity as you pass through a security checkpoint or walk into a football stadium. It can help you buy groceries at Wal-Mart. In a worst-case scenario – if you are kidnapped in a foreign country, for example – it could save your life.

Microchip implants like the ones pet owners use to track their dogs and cats could become commonplace in humans in the next decade. Experts are divided on whether they’re appropriate for people, but the implants could offer several advantages. For soldiers and journalists in war zones, an implant could be the difference between life and death. A tracker could also help law enforcement quickly locate a kidnapped child.

“In the long run, chip implants could make it less intrusive than some emerging ID systems which rely on physical biometrics (like your fingerprints or unique eye pattern),” says Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author of the book “Distraction Addiction” and visiting scholar at Stanford’s University’s Peace Innovation Lab.

“This should be a matter of individual choice, but fighting crime should be much easier using chips,” adds sci-fi author Larry Niven, who predicted chip implants in the ’70s. Niven said he supports chip implantation for security reasons, provided it is an opt-in measure.

Ramez Naam, who led the early development of Microsoft software projects and is now a popular speaker and author, said he envisions using chip implantation to help monitor the location of people with Alzheimer’s disease.

They could be used to track the activities of felons who have been released from prison.

Chips are being used today to manage farm animals. Farmers can track sheep, pigs and horses as they move through a gate, weigh them instantly and make sure they are eating properly.

“Those same chips have found their way into RFID devices to activate the gas pump from a key ring and for anti-theft devices in cars,” said Stu Lipoff, an electrical engineer and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers spokesman.

“There have been people who volunteered to use them for opening the door of an apartment as a personalized ID using your arm. It could be used to track criminals targeted for patrol who might wander into a restricted area.”

Possible uses in the future

Implants are normally useful only at short ranges – as you walk through a portal or close to a transponder. So using chip implants to track people would require an infrastructure of transponders scattered around a city that read their identity in public buildings and street corners, Lipoff said.

But consider the possibilities:  People could unlock their homes or cars, gain access to a building, pass through an airport and even unlock their laptops without using a phone or watch. A pin code could be used to activate the chip – or to deactivate it to maintain privacy. 

They are easy to install and remove, and, because they are implanted under the skin, they are unobtrusive. The chips, which could be the size of a thumbnail, could be injected into an arm or a hand.

If children were chipped, teachers could take attendance in the classroom. Lipoff said that GPS would not work because skin would block the signal, although new Near Field Communication chips like those in current smartphones could work because of their low-power requirement. However, no-one has yet tried to implant NFC chips.

Police could track cars and read data without needing to scan license plates. At a hospital, administrators could locate a doctor without having to rely on a pager. And if you walked into a donut shop, the owner could read your taste preferences (glazed or not glazed) without needing a loyalty card.

But is it ethical?

Like any tech advancement, there are downsides. Concerns about the wrong people accessing personal information and tracking you via the chips have swirled since the FDA approved the first implantable microchip in 2004.

Naam and Pang both cited potential abuses, from hacking into the infrastructure and stealing your identity to invading your privacy and knowing your driving habits. There are questions about how long a felon would have to use a tracking implant. And, an implant, which has to be small and not use battery power — might not be as secure as a heavily encrypted smartphone.

Troy Dunn, who attempts to locate missing persons on his TNT show “APB with Troy Dunn,” said a chip implant would make his job easier, but he is strongly against the practice for most people. “I only support GPS chip monitoring for convicted felons while in prison and on parole; for sex offenders forever; and for children if parents opt in,” he says. “I am adamantly against the chipping of anyone else.”

Using chip implants to locate abducted children could actually have the opposite effect. Pang says a microchip would make a missing person easier to rescue, but “Kidnappers want ransoms, not dead bodies. The most dangerous time for victims is during rescue attempts or when the kidnappers think the police are closing in.”

And beyond the obvious privacy issues, there’s something strange about injecting a chip in your body, Lipoff says. Yet pacemakers and other embedded devices are commonly used today. “People might find it a bit unsavory, but if it is not used to track you, and apart from the privacy issues, there are many interesting applications,” he says.

At least it’s better than having a barcode stitched onto our foreheads.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/08/30/is-there-microchip-implant-in-your-future/

Pope Francis calls priest serving at Iraqi refugee camp

Pope Francis called a priest at a refugee camp in Iraq to express his closeness to the persecuted Christians who have taken refuge there and to promise his continued support.

Pope Francis reportedly called Fr Behnam Benoka on August 19, a day after returning from his apostolic journey to South Korea. Fr Benoka is a priest of Bartella, a small Christian town near Mosul, and the vice-rector of the Catholic seminary in Ankawa. However, he is currently working at a refugee camp in the north of the country, assisting Christians who fled the violence perpetrated against them by Islamic militants.

During the morning telephone call, the Pope reportedly said he was deeply moved by the letter he had received from Fr Benoka a day earlier. According to a report published by Zenit, the Pope received the letter from the hands of a journalist, who is a friend of the priest, on the flight back to Rome from South Korea.

The Pope also expressed to Fr Benoka his gratitude for the volunteers working in the refugee camps and reiterated his full support and closeness to the persecuted Christians, promising that he will continue to do his best to bring relief to their suffering.

In his letter to the Pope, the priest expressed gratitude for the Pope’s repeated appeals to end the suffering and persecution of Christians and described the tragic situation faced by thousands of Iraqi Christians: “The situation of your sheep is miserable. They die and they are hungry. Your little ones are scared and cannot do it anymore. We, priests, religious, are few and fear not being able to meet the physical and mental needs of your and our children.”

“Your Holiness,” he continued, “I’m afraid of losing your children, especially infants who every day struggle and weaken more. I’m afraid that death will snatch some away. Send us your blessing so that we may have the strength to go on and maybe we can still resist.”

The Pope granted Fr Benoka’s request, concluding the telephone call by imparting his apostolic blessing and asking the Lord to grant them the gift of perseverance in the faith.

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2014/08/30/pope_francis_calls_priest_serving_at_iraqi_refugee_camp_/1105545

Rome’s Nightmare: ISIS Plot to Kill Pope!

Italy Steps Up Security Over Alleged ISIS Plot to Kill The Pope

“Our goal is to make sure that even the Vatican will be Muslim.”

Vatican scoffs at threats that Pope Francis is “in the crosshairs” of ISIS as Italy issues a terrorist threat and tightens security.

VATICAN CITY — As Pope Francis continues to straddle the fine line between calling for the end of persecution of Christians in Iraq and blessing American airstrikes against the Islamic State (also known as the “Caliphate,” ISIS, or ISIL), there is increasing concern for the pontiff’s—and the public’s—safety. 

Earlier this week, the Roman newspaper Il Tempo published a disturbing report that Francis is “in the crosshairs” of ISIS for “bearing false witness” against Islam.  Citing anonymous sources within Italy’s intelligence community and pointing to notable heightened security in Rome, the paper went on to say that ISIS plans to heat things up by “raising the level of confrontation” with Europe, Italy and very specifically Pope Francis, the “greatest exponent of the Christian religions.” The Vatican downplayed the concerns, calling them unfounded despite growing concern in Italy that it is not just the Pope who is under threat.  “There is nothing serious to this,” Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told Catholic News Agency.  “There is no particular concern in the Vatican.”

The Italian government apparently begs to differ.  Earlier this week, Italy’s deputy interior minister Filippo Bubbico said that Italy and the Vatican are equally at risk after authorities issued a terrorism alert, warning ISIS could launch terrorist attacks on what they referred to as “sensitive targets” in Rome and elsewhere, specifically pinpointing embassies to both Italy and the Holy See, Catholic churches, bus and train stations, sea ports, airports and travel agencies. Other security measures include restricting air space above Vatican City and Italy’s foreign ministry, in addition to stepped up police presence in public transportation hubs and busy tourist sites like the Coliseum, the Spanish Steps and St. Peter’s Square.  “ISIS poses an international and European security threat and we in Italy feel particularly exposed,” Bubbico told Italian SKY news.

The terrorism alert came the day after Italy’s parliament approved a measure to start shipping weapons to help arm Kurdish peshmerga troops fighting ISIS—a promise made by Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi on a state visit to Iraq earlier this month.  Sicilian seaports that will facilitate the shipment have already stepped up security measures, especially on incoming vessels.

Read more – http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/28/italy-steps-up-security-over-alleged-isis-plot-against-the-pope.html

O.J. Simpson plans to convert to Islam!!

O.J. Simpson is set to convert to Islam!

The former American footballer and movie star has been imprisoned in Nevada since 2008 on charges of kidnapping and armed robbery in relation to an armed robbery that took place at the Palace Station hotel-and-casino in Las Vegas in which sports memorabilia was taken.

After seeing his appeal for a re-trial quashed last and being informed in July 2013 he will serve at least another four years, Simpson has embraced the religion in a bid to change his life.

A source told National Enquirer magazine: ”O.J. really thought that he was going to be successful in a bid for a new trial and eventually be released from prison.

”But now he’s not eligible for parole until late 2017, which has angered him.”

The disgraced 67-year-old star has become interested in the religion through his friendship with former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, who was imprisoned in the early 1990s and is a devout Muslim.

Simpson has been studying the Koran but failed to successfully fast during the holy month of Ramadan.

An insider said: ”O.J. didn’t quite make it through the entire fasting process.

”He cheated during the day, and bought snacks from the prison canteen. But he’s really serious about converting to Islam. O.J. even made himself a prayer rug for his prison cell. He really likes the idea that upon converting to Islam, all of his previous sins are forgiven. O.J. has a lot to be forgiven for.”

http://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/people/2014/08/27/oj-simpson-plans-to-convert-to-islam/14676769/

San Romero of America: Pope Confirms El Salvador Bishop’s Cause Moving Forward

Archbishop Oscar Romero (Communist sympathizer) is favored by Pope Francis. Pope said he was hoping for a swift beatification process. “For me Romero is a man of God,” the pontiff told journalists on the plane bringing him back from a trip to South Korea. “There are no doctrinal problems and it is very important that [the beatification] is done quickly!”

In spite of controversy, Oscar Romero stood by his motto, “To be of one mind with the Church.”

In 1970, Father Oscar Romero was appointed auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. Upon his consecration as a bishop, Romero adopted “To be of one mind with the Church” as his episcopal motto.
Today, 34 years after his assassination at the altar and 17 years after Pope St. John Paul II approved his cause for canonization, bestowing upon him the title “Servant of God,” the Church has decided that Romero was indeed “of one mind with the Church.”
During his plane ride home from South Korea on August 18, Pope Francis confirmed that he had lifted a prudential block on Romero’s cause, paving the way for his beatification in the near future.

“There are no doctrinal problems and it is very important that it is done quickly,” said the Holy Father. “For me, he is a man of God.”
Pope Francis was actualy confirming news that had come out last year, though that may have not been noticed by most of the Catholic world. In April 2013, during a Mass honoring the 20th anniversary of the death of Bishop Antonio “Tonino” Bello, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, prefect of the Pontifical Council for the Family and postulator of Romero’s cause, declared that, “Just today … the cause of the beatification of Monsignor Romero has been unblocked.”

A few months later, in July, Gerhard Ludwig Cardinal Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), announced that an examination of Romero’s doctrinal orthodoxy had been completed and that the CDF had no objection to the cause moving forward.

“I see Oscar Arnulfo Romero as a great witness of the faith and a man who was thirsty for social justice,” said Cardinal Müller at the time, noting that as early as 2007 Pope Benedict XVI said he thought Romero “worthy of beatification.”

These developments are of particular importance to Catholics in Central and South America, especially the poor, who view Romero as a champion of their cause for social, political and economic justice.  Devotion to Romero has flourished among El Salvador’s poor since his assassination, and he is frequently referred to throughout Latin America as San Romero de América: Saint Romero of America.

Romero was born in 1917 in El Salvador’s district of San Miguel. He was educated in a minor seminary in San Miguel, the Salvadoran national seminary in San Salvador, and at the Gregorian University in Rome, where he was ordained in 1942. For the first 25 years of his priesthood, Romero served in ordinary roles, mostly in the Diocese of San Miguel: parish priest, pastor, and seminary rector. He also served as secretary of the Bishops’ Conference of El Salvador, and editor of the archdiocesan newspaper, Orientación in San Salvador.

But in 1970, with his appointment as an auxiliary bishop, Romero’s life and priestly career got on the fast track. In 1974, he was appointed as bishop of Santiago de Maria, a remote diocese in an impoverished rural part of the country. Then, in 1977, Romero was made Archbishop of San Salvador. At the time, his elevation was cheered by elites, who viewed him as a traditional cleric likely to defend their political and economic domination of the country. It is easy to see why El Salvador’s power elites were inclined to trust Romero. He had staked out a reputation as a traditional churchman who avoided direct involvement in politics and vigorously defended the magisterial teaching of the Church.

But the murder of Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande, a friend of Romero’s who had been working to organize the rural poor, changed something in Romero. Grande was shot and killed along with two others less than a month after Romero assumed the chair of San Salvador. An official statement put out by Romero’s Archdiocese said, “The true reason for his death was his prophetic and pastoral efforts to raise the consciousness of the people throughout his parish. Father Grande…was only slowly forming a genuine community of faith, hope and love among them, he was making them aware of their dignity as individuals … It is work that disturbs many; and to end it, it was necessary to liquidate its proponent.”

President Obama made an unannounced visit to the tomb of Archbishop Oscar Romero

Then, as now, El Salvador was a desperately poor, densely populated country marked by grotesque economic inequality. For generations, a tiny elite class of landowners had conspired with the government and foreign corporations to appropriate the natural wealth of the country while keeping the majority of Salvadorans poor. Attempts at reform in the 1960’s and 70’s resulted in a ferocious backlash by the landowners and their allies in government and the military. That backlash included brutal repression of the Church whenever it spoke out against injustice and violence.
This was the political environment in which Oscar Romero assumed his responsibilities as Archbishop of San Salvador. He began to speak out on behalf of the poor, decrying the violence of death squads and private militias, calling for political and economic reforms that would bring some measure of dignity to both campesinos – rural peasants – and the urban poor. For his efforts, the government redoubled its persecution of the Church. As Romero wrote in 1980:

In less than three years, more than 50 priests have been attacked, threatened, calumniated. Six are already martyrs—they were murdered. Some have been tortured and others expelled [from the country]. Nuns have also been persecuted. The archdiocesan radio station and educational institutions that are Catholic or of a Christian inspiration have been attacked, threatened, intimidated, even bombed. Several parish communities have been raided. If all this has happened to persons who are the most evident representatives of the Church, you can guess what has happened to ordinary Christians, to the campesinos, catechists, lay ministers, and to the ecclesial base communities. There have been threats, arrests, tortures, murders, numbering in the hundreds and thousands …

A key date in the evolution of events was October 14, 1979. On that day a group of current and former military officers called the Revolutionary Government Junta (JRG) deposed the president and took power in a coup d’etat. The coup was welcomed by, among others, the United States Government, which immediately began providing the new government with military aid, much of which found its way into the hands of private death squads and paramilitary groups. Romero famously wrote a letter to US President Jimmy Carter, begging him to stop supporting the JRG. His pleas were ignored.

On Sunday, March 23, 1980, Romero preached a sermon at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Savior in which he called upon Salvadoran soldiers to fulfill their responsibilities as Christians and refuse orders that violated the human rights of the people.

I would like to make a special appeal to the men of the army, and specifically to the ranks of the National Guard, the police and the military. Brothers, you come from our own people. You are killing your own brother peasants when any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God which says, “Thou shalt not kill.” No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you recovered your consciences and obeyed your consciences rather than a sinful order. The church, the defender of the rights of God, of the law of God, of human dignity, of the person, cannot remain silent before such an abomination. We want the government to face the fact that reforms are valueless if they are to be carried out at the cost of so much blood. In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cries rise to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression.

The following day, March 24, Romero celebrated Mass in the chapel of Divine Providence Hospital. Most of those attending were nuns from a nursing order. As he elevated a chalice filled with the just-confected Precious Blood, a gunman shot Romero from the back of the chapel. He died almost immediately. At his funeral Mass six days later, nearly a quarter of a million people crowded the area around the cathedral, which apparently enraged the JRG, which opened fire on the crowd, killing between 30 and 50 mourners and wounding scores of others.

Almost immediately, Romero’s legacy was the subject of dispute, both within and outside the Church. Those on the political right charged him with being a Marxist and a supporter of violent revolution. Those on the left appropriated his memory as an apostle of liberation theology.

In fact, he was neither. As the writer Filip Mazurczak has said, “While the left has come to glorify Romero, right-wing politicians in El Salvador have accused him of inspiring leftist guerrilla violence. In reality, Romero sought a peaceful solution to El Salvador’s troubles. In his third pastoral letter, written in 1978, Romero condemned leftist guerrilla violence as ‘terrorist’ and ‘seditious.’ In the fourth letter written one year later, the archbishop of San Salvador reminded the nation that violence was justifiable only in extreme situations when all other alternatives have been exhausted, citing Catholic just war theory.”

Romero’s own words buttress Mazurczak’s assertion. “Marxism is a complex phenomenon,” wrote Romero in a pastoral letter. “It has to be studied from various points of view: economic, scientific, political, philosophical and religious. One has, moreover, to study Marxism in terms of its own history. What the church asserts … is that insofar as Marxism is an atheistic ideology it is incompatible with the Christian faith. That conviction has never changed in the Church’s history. In that sense, the church cannot be Marxist.”

In the same letter, Romero also noted that the charge of Marxism is often cast at contemporary Christians merely seeking justice. “Worldly interests try to make the Church’s position seem Marxist,” he wrote, “when it is in fact insisting on fundamental human rights and when it is placing the whole weight of its institutional and prophetic authority at the service of the dispossessed and weak.”

For all his focus on the poor, Romero rejected Marxism’s crude taxonomy of class division. “We are not demagogically in favor of one social class,” he said, “we are in favor of God’s reign, and we want to promote justice, love, and understanding, wherever there is a heart well disposed.”

Far from being a Marxist, Romero was in fact a Catholic priest with a deep commitment to the magisterial teaching of the Church and a deep, thoroughly orthodox spirituality. He came late to the struggle of El Salvador’s impoverished majority because his abiding concerns were spiritual and ecclesial, not economic or political.

Romero was first and always a follower of Jesus Christ, and that discipleship characterized his life as a pastor, as well as his martyrdom. Three weeks before he was gunned down, Romero composed the following prayer during an Ignatian retreat. Not only is it prescient regarding the brutality of his death, it reveals in Whom he placed his confidence and love:

Thus do I express my consecration to the heart of Jesus, who was ever a source of inspiration and joy in my life. Thus also I place under his loving providence all my life, and I accept with faith in him my death, however hard it be. I do not want to express an intention to him, such as that my death be for my country’s peace or our Church’s flourishing. Christ’s heart will know how to direct it to the purpose he wishes. For me to be happy and confident, it is sufficient to know with assurance that in him is my life and my death, that in spite of my sins I have placed my trust in him and I shall not be confounded, and others will carry on with greater wisdom and holiness the works of the Church and the nation.

http://www.aleteia.org/en/religion/article/san-romero-of-america-pope-confirms-el-salvador-bishops-cause-moving-forward

Feast of Saint Rose of Lima, Virgin – Mass Propers

St. Rose of Lima, Virgin

 Saint Rose, the first canonized saint of the New World, was born at Lima in 1586. She received the name of Isabella in Baptism, but one day her mother saw a beautiful rose drooping over the baby’s cradle and ever afterwards called her Rose. She was an obedient child; her mortifications were most severe. She prayed worked, and wept for the conversion of sinners; she excelled in her love for holy purity. She lived a life of simplicity and prayer in a small hut in a corner of her father’s garden; the birds would visit her and sing with her the praises of God. The Savior frequently appeared to her. Her devotion to the Passion of Our Lord was remarkable as were her own sufferings. Her bed was strewn with glass shards, with nails and thorns; she wore chafing hair-cloth; her head was crowned with painful thorns skillfully concealed by roses. She died August 26, 1617. Her Office was written by the eminent Cardinal Bona.

Sts. Felix and Saint Adauctus, Martyrs

The holy martyrs Saint Felix and Saint Adauctus. St. Felix suffered martyrdom in the year 303, and was joined by Adauctus, who shared his martyr crown. There is a painting, which we have not been able to find to scan, from around the sixth century which depicts both of them with the priestly tonsure. Felix is an old man, but Adauctus stands on the right hand side, although he is young and beardless.

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Dom Gueranger, Liturgical Year

What perfume from beyond the ocean breeze brings us today! Former world renews his youth in these scents from heaven; the new is reconciled by them the earth and the heavens.

One hundred years have passed since the days astonished Europe learned a new continent proved beyond the waves of the Dark Sea, fright browsers. Spain had expelled Crescent its own land; as a reward, she was given the task of planting the cross on these great tracks. Neither hero nor apostles, were lacking in this work the Catholic kingdom; nor, unfortunately for him, adventurers whose thirst for gold was the scourge of the Indians that they were bringing to the true God. If the speedy decline of the illustrious nation that had triumphed over the Moor, will soon show how much the people accused of the highest blessings yet remain supportive of the crimes committed under the guise of their name, who carries the flag of the country . We know how to Peru ended the Inca Empire: despite the indignant protests of the missionaries, despite orders from the mother country, a few years sufficed to fellow Pizarro to kill a third of the inhabitants of these successful countries; another third had finished perish in misery worse than an immediate death servitude; the rest fled into the mountains, taking in the forests hatred of the invader, and too often, alas! Gospel, head in his eyes the atrocities carried out by the baptized. Greed winners gave access to all the vices in those souls which, however, remained high faith: Lima, founded at the foot of the Cordilleras as a city of the conquered provinces, seemed built on the threefold concupiscence; before the end of the century, a new Jonas new Nineveh, St. Francis Solano threatened the wrath of God.

But mercy had already taken the lead; justice and peace had met in the soul of a child ready for any atonement insatiable love. How we would like to stop and contemplate the Peruvian virgin in his heroism that always ignored in His grace so innocent and pure! Rose who had for those who approached as fragrant sweetness, and kept it secret for spines which do not go without the roses down here! Blooming smile of Mary, she delights the Child God who wants his heart. Flowers to recognize the queen, and every season sees the answer to his desire; his invitation, plants stir happy, trees bend their branches, all nature trembles themselves insects organize choirs, birds compete with her ​​harmonies to celebrate their common origin. And she sings, remembering the names of his father and his mother, Marie Gaspard Flower and Olive: “O my Jesus, you are fine between olives and flowers; and do not despise your Rose!”

However, the eternal Wisdom was revealed in the games of the Holy Child and his beloved. This is Clement X who in the bull of canonization, reminds us that one day when she was more ill, the amiable son of the Blessed Virgin invited to a mysterious part where the issue would be left to the free choice of winner. Rose wins and needs his healing, immediately granted. But Jesus asks the other hand, and winning the second round, he makes his pain, accompanied by the gift of patience, joyfully losing; because she realized she was earning more in the second half than the first.

Reserve to the church to tell, in the Legend, how far our Saint was brought by the effectiveness of these divine lessons related suffering. Into superhuman torture of his last illness, she answered that exhorted to courage: “What I ask my husband is that he does not cease to burn me with the most bitter ardor until I am the ripe fruit for him to deign to receive this land to its table of two.” And as we then surprised his safety, his certainty of going straight to heaven, she said another word that this fire also shows an entire aspect of his soul: “I have a husband who can that ‘there is bigger, has there has rarer; and I do not see myself hoping for him small things. “

Well justified by the infinite goodness, insurance and kindness of the Lord toward Rose trust. She was only thirty-one years, when, in the middle of the night opened the feast of St. Bartholomew in 1617, she heard the cry, Behold the Bridegroom! In Lima, throughout Peru, in the whole of America, and wonders of grace and conversion signaled the demise of the humble virgin, previously unknown large number. “He was legally certified, said the Supreme Pontiff, that since the discovery of Peru, no missionary had met who had produced such a shock universal penance.” Five years later, the monastery was dedicated to St. Catherine of Siena, which was to continue in the middle of Lima’s sanctifying work, sanitation, social protection, and called the Monastery of Rose, because that it was indeed before God the founder and mother. His prayers had obtained the erection she had predicted for after his death, designating in advance the plan, the religious future, the first top, it invests one day prophetically of his mind in an embrace of mystery.

 

Feast of Saint Rose of Lima, Virgin / Commemoration of the holy martyrs Saint Felix and Saint Adauctus

Double/ White       Missa “Dilexísti justítiam”

INTROIT: Ps. 44: 9

 Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Ps. 44: 2

My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the King. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity…

COLLECTS

Almighty God, the giver of all good gifts, who, by the outpouring of the heavenly dew of thy grace, didst enable thy blessed Saint Rose to shew forth among the peoples of the Indies the glory of chastity and suffering: grant to us thy servants, that running after her in the savour of her sweetness, we may be made a sweet savour unto Christ our Lord.  Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. R.  Amen.

Second Collect of Ss. Felix and Adauctus, Mm

O Lord, we humbly beseech thy majesty: that, like as thou dost ever gladden us with the remembrance of thy Saints; so thou wouldest evermore defend us with their supplications.  Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.

EPISTLE: II Cor. 10: 17-18; 11: 1-2

The Lesson is taken from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians

Brethren:  He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.  For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.  For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

GRADUAL: Ps. 44: 5-6

In thy comeliness, yea in thy beauty: go forth, ride prosperously, and reign.

ALLELUIA: Ps. 44: 16

Alleluia, alleluia.  Virgins shall be brought after her unto the King: her neighbours shall be brought unto thee.  Alleluia.

GOSPEL: Matthew 25: 1-13

The continuation of the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew.

At that time:  Jesus spake unto his disciples this parable: The kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.  And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.  They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:  But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.  While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.  And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.  Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.  And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.  But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.  And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.  Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.  But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.  Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour.

OFFERTORY: Ps. 44: 10-11             

The daughters of kings have made thee glad in thy glory.  Upon thy right hand did stand the queen in a vesture of gold, wrought about with divers colours.

SECRET

May the Sacrifice of thy holy people be acceptable unto thee, O Lord, for the honour of thy Saints:  through whose merits they know that they have received help in tribulation.  Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.

Second Secret Prayer of Ss. Felix and Adauctus

We beseech thee, O Lord, to look down in mercy on the offerings of thy people:  that, as we do devoutly offer this our service to the honour of thy Saints, so we may be profited thereby to the salvation of our souls.  Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Ghost, ever one God…

COMMON PREFACE

It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places give thanks unto thee,  O Lord holy Father almighty, everlasting God; through Christ our Lord.  Through whom the angels praise, the dominations adore, the powers, trembling with awe, worship thy majesty: which the heavens, and the forces of heaven, together with the blessed seraphim, joyfully do magnify.  And do thou command that it be permitted to our lowliness to join with them in confessing thee and unceasingly to say:

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dóminus Deus Sábaoth. Pleni sunt cæli et terra glória tua. Hosánna in excélsis. Benedíctus  qui venit in nómine Dómini. Hosánna in excélsis.

COMMUNION: Matth. 25: 4 and 6

The five wise virgins took oil in their vessels with their lamps.  And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Christ the Lord.

Thou hast filled Thy household, O Lord, with sacred gifts; ever comfort us, we beseech Thee, through her intercession whose festival we celebrate. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God…

Second Postcommunion of Ss. Felix and Adauctus

Filled with Thy sacred gifts, O Lord, we beseech Thee that, by the intercession of Thy saints, we may pass our lives in giving thanks to Thee. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God…

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Divine Office –  Matins before 1960

The Lesson is taken from the Book of Ecclesiasticus

4, 23-28

My son, observe the time, and beware of evil.  For thy soul’s sake be not ashamed to speak the truth.  For there is a shame that bringeth sin; and there is a shame that bringeth glory and grace.  Accept no person against thy person, nor a lie against thine own soul.  Fear not thy neighbour when he falleth, and refrain not to speak when there is occasion to do good.  Hide not thy wisdom in her beauty.

Lesson ii – Chap. 4, 29-32

For by speech wisdom is known, and understanding, and knowledge and instruction by the word of him that understandeth, and firmness by works of righteousness.  In no wise speak against the truth, but be abashed for the falsehood which thou hast uttered through ignorance.  Be not ashamed to confess thy sins, and make not thyself an underling to any man by thy sin.  Strive not against the person of the mighty, and contend not against the course of the river.

Lesson iii       Chap. 4, 33-36

Strive for righteousness with all thy soul, and contend for righteousness unto death, and God shall beat down thine enemies for thee.  Be not hasty in thy tongue, and in thy deeds slack and remiss.  Be not as a lion in thine own house, troubling thy servants, and oppressing them that are subject unto thee.  Let not thine hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou shouldest give.

        

Lesson IV –St. Rose Of Lima

The first flower of holiness which came to full blossom in South America, was the maiden Rose.  She was born at Lima, of a Christian father and mother, and was remarkable from her childhood for marks of saintliness.  The occasion of her name was a strange likeness to a rose, which her face assumed when she was a babe.  To this name she afterwards added that of the Virgin Mother of God, desiring to be called St. Mary’s Rose.  At the age of fifteen years she uttered a vow of perpetual virginity.  As she grew older, lest her parents should force her to marry, she polled her head of all her hair, which was very beautiful.  She fasted to a degree almost superhuman, passing whole Lents without taking bread, and eating day by day only five pips of a lime.

Lesson v

She took the habit of the Third Order of St. Dominic, and then doubled her former severities.  She wore a long and very rough hair-cloth, into which she inserted small pins.  She wore day and night under her veil a crown, the inner side of which was armed with pricks.  In imitation of the hard steps of St. Catherine of Siena, she girded her loins with a threefold iron chain.  She made to herself a bed of knotty sticks, and filled the gaps with broken bits of potsherd.  She built herself a very small hut in the farthest corner of the garden, where she gave herself up to thoughts of heavenly things, and to punishing her body with often scourging, starvation, and sleeplessness.  But she waxed strong in spirit, and though she often had to fight with evil ghosts, she conquered them, fearlessly prostrated them, and triumphed over them.

Cardinal Canizares: departure from the Vatican was his own desire

 

He did Pope Francis said he would “accept the smell of sheep”, the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship said, according to the Internet portal “Vatican Insider”

Vatican City (kath.net/KNA) the existing and future Cardinal Archbishop of Valencia Antonio Canizares Llovera has asked for his transfer claims to itself.He did Pope Francis said he would “accept the smell of sheep”, the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship said, according to the Internet portal “Vatican Insider” (Friday). It was a quote from the Pope.Francis had recently said after he took office in March 2013, clerics, they should be “Shepherds with the stable smell of the sheep.”

 The Pope had appointed the 68-year-old Cardinal Archbishop of Valencia on Thursday. It occurs there in the place of Carlos Osoro Sierra, who takes over the leadership of the Hauptstadterzbistums Madrid.Canizares was at the head of the Congregation for Divine Worship since 2008. Some observers suggested his transfer as a demotion.

Hailing from near Valencia Canizares called his new diocese, “one of the liveliest dioceses in Spain and Europe, also in the number of vocations.” For over a hundred years, no son of the city had been more her bishop. “I’m really grateful to Francis,” the cardinal said.

Of the five years in the Vatican Curia Canizares drew a positive balance. “We have worked to further promote desired by the Second Vatican Council renewal,” said the cardinal. The work must go further. 

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