This November 11 is dedicated to Franco-German reconciliation. She was seen this morning with Angela Merkel, the Arc de Triomphe.
The other big news I learned today is the opening next Saturday in the Minutes of Beatification the Abbot Franz Stock .
Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker , archbishop of Paderborn, in agreement with the Congregation for the Causes of Saints , opened the investigation process for the beatification of the Servant of God Franz Stock. To mark the opening of the beatification, Monsignor Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker will celebrate a Pontifical Mass Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 17:30 in the parish church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste-Neheim Arnsberg.
The same day, Bishop Michael Pansard, bishop of Chartres to celebrate a solemn mass at the Church of Rechèvres 18.30.
The other big news I learned today is the opening next Saturday in the Minutes of Beatification the Abbot Franz Stock .
Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker , archbishop of Paderborn, in agreement with the Congregation for the Causes of Saints , opened the investigation process for the beatification of the Servant of God Franz Stock. To mark the opening of the beatification, Monsignor Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker will celebrate a Pontifical Mass Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 17:30 in the parish church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste-Neheim Arnsberg.
The same day, Bishop Michael Pansard, bishop of Chartres to celebrate a solemn mass at the Church of Rechèvres 18.30.
"- A new world is born, and you'll be scared to discover the changes that this war has accumulated in the lives and souls of men from us.
- Soon we will see if the silence and solitude protected if the seminar you did not disconnected from the world, but instead you have trained so that the momentum of your youth and your optimism, far be broken by the test of time, instead it will be harder. Here we will see if we did not make a mistake over the years, if we were right.
- When an earthquake shakes the city, the church steeples fall with houses and factories. When political and social crisis gripping the world, institutions and life of the Church are not spared because the Church does not live outside of the history of mankind.
- As the crisis is deeper, the very foundations of human existence is questioned, the more this crisis affects the body of the Church. And today, many things are disappearing or explode. There is nothing more solid and safe around us. Ancestral beliefs, values which we were attached vanish and the most bizarre assumptions are followers.
- In such circumstances it would be surprising if the human incarnated Church remained as a relaxing oasis at the edge of a joint disintegration. What she is divine and eternal will remain intact, but we'll probably lose him making it is only human.
- Modern civilization, driven by further advances in technique, in a hundred and fifty years has changed the social life is developing at breakneck speed. A new culture is seeing the day, which initially manifested itself in signs of mechanized barbarism. Humanity at the crossroads, can make mistakes and choose the direction of human anthill or atomic suicide. The real progress is to be dominated by the spirit of the conquests of science of humanity. In the new Middle Ages, the Church must play the role it once played at the dawn of the greater Middle Ages as a witness on the natural, it can save nature, in her capacity as representative of God, it can free the man.
- Our time has had enough of individualism, they seek forms of community life, but she looks where she can find them most: in a state of political parties. It is necessary that the Church has presented the ideal model of a community, that of the Mystical Body of Christ.
- Our time is always talking about the masses and the masses we know today are further away from Christ that the heathen of distant countries. time of great persecution, where Christians are declared enemies of humanity, may well return. is why our confrontation with neo-paganism requires us new and effective methods of ministry. This possibility of martyrdom requires from us a return to basics, the spirit that animated the Christians when the blood of martyrs mingled daily wine of the Eucharist. paganized In a world, the Church again becomes a missionary. The mission is not only expressed through methods, but through a spirit which should permeate the whole of the clergy and Christian people.
- Mesmerized by the existence of these pagan masses, some believe that the ideal of the modern Christian is to lose yourself in these masses as the raindrop in the vastness of the ocean. Yet, even lost in the mass, the Christian must face, ask questions, become an object of scandal because it is precisely through the shock of the scandal that starts the real apostolate. And that Christianity must be humane and must be a Christianity whose doctrine is held, should know how to ask and gain membership, a Christianity that irradiates the darkness like a beneficent light, a Christianity steeped in a century of steel for iron A Christian can blaze in our time of atomic energy.
- Our time is oriented activism, she is excited and full of eroticism, it confuses the spiritual with the temporal. Our century saw the triumph of hatred, it is anarchic and revolutionary, it accumulates disaster and ruin, in both urban souls. Our time is divided into competing nationalisms that are as ridiculous as old clothes Zouave.
- In a word, our century is characterized by two poles: one that seeks to apostasy, which pushes the other to holiness. One denies the Church, the other draws.
- Our vision: to be the child of our century, as we reconcile the Church and the modern world.
- A number of saints intended by Providence to save our time enough. saints who give everything whole to the task and transform into virtues values of our time. Saints who, if they renounce being loved men know what they give up and will be able to live through the example of their own lives, the journey of the human in order willed by God. Saints who have no fear of disasters and revolutions, but who can be attentive to any signs and hung with their whole being to the Lord's return. Saints who can reconcile their devotion to their homeland with the love of humanity, beyond the borders of countries, nations, races or classes.
- It's Providence to us makes this call to holiness through the voice of history and we need to hear to bring the world the message of freedom, peace and love ... "
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