{"id":2777,"date":"2007-02-28T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/totus-tuus.html"},"modified":"2007-02-28T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T15:58:12","slug":"totus-tuus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/totus-tuus.html","title":{"rendered":"Totus Tuus"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a Franciscan in Rome: <\/p>\n

\n
\n

In my free time, I lend a hand doing translation work for "Totus Tuus," the monthly magazine publish by the Office of the Postulation of the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God John Paul II, which looks to follow John Paul II’s cause by interviewing those who had contact with him during his life, writing about the important themes of his magisterium (as well as highlighting the continuity with Benedict XVI’s magisterium), bringing to light the personal life of John Paul II through some of his poems and a short biographical segment, and sharing the testimonies and prayer intentions from all over the world. It is published in Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portugese, and Polish with plans to eventually have Russian and Chinese editions as well. <\/p>\n

The reason I tell you this is because the magazine and the work of the Office of the Postulation is dependent upon donations, particular the subscriptions to the magazine from Europe, Canada, and the US, which subsides subscriptions from under-developed countries so that the magazine and the message of John Paul II can reach as many people as possible. I don’t think that "Totus Tuus" is very well known in the United States (not many of these Italian ecclesial magazines are), and the last time I checked the number of English subscriptions throughout the world was less than 300. <\/p>\n

So, I was wondering if you would be willing to mention the magazine on your blog to let people know that it exists and how one can subscribe. <\/p>\n

The subscription is for a year (10 issues) and the cost is $25. To suscribe and pay by credit card one can visit the web site of the Cause for Beatification and Canonization of John Paul II here<\/a>. "VicariatusUrbis.org" is the site for Roman Vicarite. <\/p>\n

Also, part of what I do for the magazine is go over the translations for the English edition, and the English edition is in need of native English speakers (preferably who live here in Rome and who have a good knowledge of church terminology) who can translate from Italian (usually only a 2 paged double spaced article or less a month for each person). So, I was wondering if you won’t mind mentioning that translators are needed and listing me as a contact for further information. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The contact is chrisgaffrey -at – yahoo.com – that would be Br. Chris Gaffrey, OFM, who adds: <\/p>\n

\n
\n

I just heard from the Office of the Postulation today that the number of requests from the US for the holy cards of John Paul II with the "relic" has increased dramatically. They received 250 requests today alone. <\/p>\n

By the way, the Postulator has been carefully wording his replies to people’s requests because the pieces of JPII’s clothes are not quite the same as relics, as he has not been beatified. They want to avoid the use of the word "relic" because one can not use the "ex indumentis" for public devotion like the relics of saints and blesseds, but rather only for private devotion. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Br. Chris blogs here!<\/a><\/p>\n

Important Update:  <\/u><\/p>\n

PLEASE…if you send a request for a "relic," do find a way to send a donation to cover postage. Obviously you can’t do that via email, but you could follow up an email with a snailmail donation. Any currency would be fine, I’m sure. They can deal with it. They received 600 requests yesterday, and sending all of those out isn’t free…<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a Franciscan in Rome: In my free time, I lend a hand doing translation work for "Totus Tuus," the monthly magazine publish by the Office of the Postulation of the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God John Paul II, which looks to follow John Paul II’s cause by interviewing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nTotus Tuus - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/totus-tuus.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Totus Tuus - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From a Franciscan in Rome: In my free time, I lend a hand doing translation work for "Totus Tuus," the monthly magazine publish by the Office of the Postulation of the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God John Paul II, which looks to follow John Paul II’s cause by interviewing…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/totus-tuus.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-02-28T15:58:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"awelborn\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Totus Tuus - Via Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/totus-tuus.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Totus Tuus - Via Media","og_description":"From a Franciscan in Rome: In my free time, I lend a hand doing translation work for "Totus Tuus," the monthly magazine publish by the Office of the Postulation of the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God John Paul II, which looks to follow John Paul II’s cause by interviewing…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/totus-tuus.html","og_site_name":"Via Media","article_published_time":"2007-02-28T15:58:12+00:00","author":"awelborn","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/totus-tuus.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/totus-tuus.html","name":"Totus Tuus - Via Media","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#website"},"datePublished":"2007-02-28T15:58:12+00:00","dateModified":"2007-02-28T15:58:12+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/aea2dcda1635c9c2d6030d9c7595725a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/totus-tuus.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/totus-tuus.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/totus-tuus.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Totus Tuus"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/","name":"Via Media","description":"Amy Welborn","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/aea2dcda1635c9c2d6030d9c7595725a","name":"awelborn","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/9f2\/9f2100183464289fedc5b8a621c15110x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/9f2\/9f2100183464289fedc5b8a621c15110x96.jpg","caption":"awelborn"},"description":"Amy Welborn was born in 1960, the only child of a now-retired professor of political science, a teacher-librarian-artist mother,deceased since 2001, was a teacher, librarian and artist. The Catholicism comes from her side. Amy grew up in a number of places - Indiana - Washington, DC - Lubbock Texas - Arlington, Virginia - DeKalb, Illinois - Lawrence, Kansas - and Knoxville, Tennessee, where the family settled in 1973. She attended Knoxville Catholic High School, then the University of Tennessee where she majored in history. She received an MA in Church History from Vanderbilt University, where she wrote a thesis on the changing role of women in 19th century American Protestantism, and the ways Scripture was used to justify those changes. She worked as as a teacher in Catholic high schools and a Parish Director of Religious Education and started writing for the diocesan press - the Florida Catholic - in 1988. Amy has written columns for Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service at times over the past twenty years. Her articles have been published in venues ranging from Our Sunday Visitor to the New York Times to Commonweal. She has written 17 books. 18, if you included the as yet tragically unpublished novel. Amy has five children, ranging in age from 26 to 4 and was married to Michael Dubruiel, who died unexpectedly in February 2009. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/author\/awelborn"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}