Feast day of St. John Paul II – 22nd October. We remember him, pray for him and ask his continued intercession
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Pope Francis speaking in Our Mother of Perpetual Help Cathedral on Sept. 15, 2022 | Vatican media
Pope Francis in Our Mother of Perpetual Help Cathedral on Sept. 15, 2022 | Vatican Media
Pope Francis with religious sisters in Our Mother of Perpetual Help Cathedral on Sept. 15, 2022 | Vatican Media
Pope Francis praying in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. | Rudolf Gehrig / CNA
Pope Francis praying in Our Mother of Perpetual Help Cathedral on Sept. 15, 2022 | Vatican Media
Pope Francis speaking before the icon in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual in Nur-Sultan, Kazakstan. | Rudolf Gehrig / CNA
Pope Francis blesses the icon in Our Mother of Perpetual Help Cathedral on Sept. 15, 2022 | Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Sep 15, 2022 / 02:13 am
Speaking to priests, religious sisters, and missionaries living in Kazakhstan, where Catholics make up less than 1% of the population, Pope Francis on Thursday said that God’s power is made manifest when “we acknowledge our littleness.”
“The Gospel says that being little, poor in spirit, is a blessing, a beatitude, and indeed the first of the beatitudes,” Pope Francis said in Nur-Sultan’s Cathedral of Our Lady Of Perpetual Help on Sept. 15.
“There is a hidden grace in being a small Church, a little flock, for instead of showing off our strengths, our numbers, our structures, and other things that are humanly important, we can let ourselves be guided by the Lord and humbly draw close to others,” he said.
Kazakhstan is a majority-Muslim country home to an ethnically diverse minority of Catholics — an estimated 125,000 out of the Central Asian country’s population of 19 million.
The former Soviet country was the site of one of the largest systems of collective labor camps in the Soviet Union, the KarLag. It is estimated that a million political prisoners passed through KarLag to toil in its extensive complex of mines over the decades from 1931 to 1959, including thousands of persecuted Polish, Ukrainian, German, Lithuanian, and Belorussian Catholics.
Pope Francis recalled the “great witness of faith” of Blessed Władysław Bukowiński, a priest who spent more than 10 years in Soviet gulags proclaiming the Gospel to the other prisoners sentenced to forced labor. Bukowiński was beatified in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, in 2016.
“I am told that even before his beatification there were always fresh flowers and a lighted candle on his tomb. This is a confirmation that the people of God can recognize holiness, and a pastor in love with the Gospel,” Pope Francis said.
The pope began his third and final day in Kazakhstan with a private meeting with local Jesuits at the apostolic nunciature before traveling to the cathedral to pray with the local priests and religious from Kazakhstan and other neighboring Central Asian countries.
Musicians played a traditional Kazakh song for Pope Francis when he arrived at the cathedral in a wheelchair. A new icon depicting Mary and the Child Jesus as native Kazakhs was then unveiled above the altar.
Inside the cathedral, the pope listened to testimonies from the rector of the only Catholic seminary in Central Asia, a religious sister, a father of five children, and the wife of a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest.
Pope Francis commented: “I was struck by a recurring theme in all the testimonies we heard … that in the Church, shaped by the Gospel, we learn to pass from selfishness to unconditional love.”
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North West Hospice Coffee Morning.
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Pope John Paul I Beatified
BY FRANCES D’EMILIO, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pope Francis has beatified one of his predecessors, John Paul I – a briefly serving pontiff who distinguished himself with his humility and cheerfulness, and whose abrupt death in his bedroom in 1978 shocked the world and fuelled suspicions for years about his demise.
The ceremony in St Peter’s Square on Sunday constituted the last formal step in the Vatican before possible sainthood for Albino Luciani, an Italian who died 33 days after being elected pontiff.
John Paul I “with a smile, communicated the goodness of the Lord”, Francis said in his homily.
Francis encouraged people to pray to the newly beatified churchman to “obtain for us the smile of the soul”.
Last year, Francis approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of John Paul I – that of the recovery of a critically ill 11-year-old girl in 2011 in Buenos Aires.
Now a young woman, Candela Giarda told a Vatican press conference last week in a video message that she had wanted to attend the ceremony but could not because she recently broke her foot while training in a gym.
Seated under a canopy outside St Peter’s Basilica, Francis led the ceremony, which was punctuated by booms of thunder, flashes of lightning and pouring rain, prompting cardinals, bishops, the choir and thousands of rank-and-file faithful in the square to open umbrellas.
When elected pontiff on August 26, 1978, Luciani, 65, had been serving as patriarch of Venice, one of the church’s more prestigious positions.
In that role as well as that previously as a bishop in north-eastern Italy, Luciani sounded warnings against corruption, including in banking circles.
In his short-lived papacy, which concluded with the discovery of his body in his bedroom in the Apostolic Palace, John Paul I immediately established a simple, direct way of communicating with the faithful in the addresses he gave, a style change considered revolutionary considering the stuffiness of church hierarchy.
Those who have campaigned for him to be made a saint have stressed his deep spirituality and his tireless emphasis on key Christian virtues – faith, hope and charity.
“Let us pray, in his own words: ‘Lord take me as I am, with my defects, with my shortcomings, but make me become what you want me to be,’” Francis said.
John Paul “lived without compromise”, Francis said, hailing Luciani for having ”conquered the temptation to put one’s ‘I’ at the centre or to seek glory”.
Although the Vatican said John Paul died of a heart attack, it gave conflicting versions of the circumstances of how his body was discovered.
First it said a priest who served as his secretary found him, but it later acknowledged John Paul was found dead by one of the nuns who brought him his customary morning coffee.
With a huge financial scandal developing at the time in Italy involving figures who had links to the Vatican’s bank, suspicions quickly took root in the secular media that perhaps Luciani was poisoned because he intended to root-out wrongdoing.
Books speculating on the circumstances surrounding his death, especially since no post-mortem was carried out, sold millions of copies.
AP Photo (JPI) and DOD. Department of the Navy. Naval Photographic Center [Public domain], via Wikimedia
I.Media for Aleteia – Kathleen N. Hattrup – published on 08/30/17
Right at this time 44 years ago, the Church was in the midst of one of the shortest papacies in history: that of Pope John Paul I, who was pope from August 26, 1978, until his sudden death from a heart attack 33 days later, on September 28.
(He shares the record for the 10th shortest papacy with Benedict V, who was pope from May 22–June 23, 964.)
The ongoing research into the life of John Paul I — who was known as “The Smiling Pope” — including the recent discovery of a hitherto unpublished letter to US President Jimmy Carter, written at the time when Carter received at Camp David the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The world leaders went on to sign the Camp David Accords on September 17, 1978.
Pope John Paul’s letter encouraged the American head of state to achieve a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt. After two weeks of intense negotiations and the adoption of the peace treaty, Jimmy Carter responded to the pope, assuring him he was “greatly inspired” by his prayers.
Pope Benedict XVI has had a hand in the progress of the cause.
The German Pontiff is an advocate for his predecessor, remembering him as “unforgettable for all of us” in 2005, when he greeted the faithful of the Diocese of Belluno-Feltre who, together with their bishop, Monsignor Giuseppe Andrich, were in Rome “to make a grateful and prayerful remembrance” of John Paul I on the anniversary of his death.
Benedict XVI in fact gave testimony for the beatification cause, it was reported in 2015. This was possible after his retirement, since as pope, he was unable to be a part of the cause which would eventually be his responsibility to approve.
In 2006, Benedict was given a preview of the film Pope Luciani: God’s Smile. He said:
In particular, we have been able to revisit the sweet and gentle figure of a Pontiff who was strong in faith, firm in principles but ever ready with a welcome and a smile. Faithful to tradition and open to renewal, the Servant of God Albino Luciani, as Priest, Bishop and Pope, was unflagging in his pastoral activity, constantly encouraging clergy and lay people alike to pursue in the various fields of the apostolate the one common ideal of holiness. A teacher of truth and a passionate catechist, he reminded all believers with his customary fascinating simplicity of the work and joy of evangelization, emphasizing the beauty of Christian love, the one force that can defeat violence and build a more fraternal humanity. Lastly, I would like to recall his devotion to Our Lady. When he was Patriarch of Venice he wrote: “It is impossible to conceive of our life, the life of the Church, without the Rosary, the Marian feasts, Marian shrines and images of Our Lady”. It is beautiful to accept his invitation and, as he did, to find in humble entrustment to Mary the secret of daily serenity and effective work for peace in the world.
The intercession of John Paul I is credited with a miracle in the life of Giuseppe Denora, who in 1992 was suddenly healed from a malignant stomach tumor after he sought Pope Luciani’s intercession.
By Hannah Brockhaus(CNA)
Rome Newsroom, Sep 3, 2022 / 07:45 am
The young woman who was miraculously healed through the intercession of Pope John Paul I will not attend his beatification in Rome Sunday as planned.
The 22-year-old Candela Giarda explained in a video recorded from Argentina that she had broken her foot and was unable to travel to Italy.
“Unfortunately we can’t go because my foot is broken, but surely at some point we will be able to go to the tomb of John Paul I,” Giarda said in the video. Giarda was close to death in July 2011 when her mother and local Catholic priest Father José Dabusti prayed for her healing through the intercession of Servant of God Pope John Paul I.
Soon afterward, the 11-year-old Candela began to show signs of improvement, and around six weeks later she was discharged from the hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
After the Vatican investigation into Candela’s healing concluded, Pope Francis recognized the event as a miracle obtained through the intercession of John Paul I on Oct. 13, 2021, paving the way for his beatification.
Giarda thanked “Pope John Paul I for this second chance at life that he gave me; and to Pope Francis for inviting us to his beatification.”
Pope Francis will beatify Venerable John Paul I during Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Sept. 4.
Sometimes called “the smiling pope,” John Paul I reigned for only 33 days, from Aug. 26 to Sept. 28, 1978.
Roxana Sosa, Candela Giarda’s mother, said in the video that they are “very excited, because it is something very important that they beatify the pope thanks to Cande’s miracle.”
“What happened with Cande may help other people to have a little more faith, of hope in the face of difficult times like the ones we are experiencing,” she said. “We appreciate the prayers offered and we entrust ourselves to the prayers of Pope Francis and we are going to continue praying for him.”
The priest who prayed with Roxana Sosa the night the doctors said there was nothing else they could do for Candela will attend John Paul I’s beatification Sept. 4.
At a press conference in Rome Sept. 2 Father José Dabusti said he has often been asked why he suggested the woman entrust her daughter to John Paul I’s intercession.
“That evening of July 22, 2011, when I was called by a mother, Roxana, to go to the bedside of her dying daughter, and looking at her in that condition I was inspired to turn to John Paul I to ask for the healing of her little girl, and together with her, and with some nurses present, I prayed to him,” he said.
“Until that moment I had never prayed to John Paul I for healing,” the priest said, but he explained that the pope had inspired him at his election, which happened when Dabusti was just 13 years old.
“I was really struck by the election and the person of Pope Luciani: I saw that he was very simple and very happy,” he said. “These two traits had caught my attention and aroused my admiration, above all, my spontaneous affection for him.”
After that day, Father Dabusti said he kept a portrait of Pope John Paul I in his room: “Growing up, I begged him to help me discern which vocation to follow.”
“And I am certain that Albino Luciani was a mysterious spiritual father and a silent but effective intercessor for me in deciding to embrace the priestly vocation,” he said.
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