{"id":4576,"date":"2006-02-15T10:28:43","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T10:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/modern-days-for-modern-bishops.html"},"modified":"2006-02-15T10:28:43","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T10:28:43","slug":"modern-days-for-modern-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/modern-days-for-modern-bishops.html","title":{"rendered":"Modern Days for Modern Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"

This photo, from today’s General Audience…makes me laugh:<\/p>\n

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Caption and credits here<\/a><\/p>\n

The Pope’s message:<\/a><\/p>\n

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At the beginning of the general audience Benedict XVI recalled that today’s catechesis was the last "of the long cycle begun years ago by my beloved predecessor, the unforgettable John Paul II," who wished to cover "the entire sequence of Psalms and Canticles that constitute the basic fabric of the Liturgy of the Hours and of Vespers. <\/p>\n

"Having reached the end of this textual pilgrimage – like a journey through a flower garden of praise, invocation, prayer and contemplation – we now come to the canticle that closes the celebration of Vespers: the Magnificat." <\/p>\n

The Pope went on: "It is a canticle that reveals … the spirituality … of those faithful who recognized themselves as ‘poor,’ not only in detaching themselves from all forms of idolatry of wealth and power, but also in profound humility of heart, free from the temptation to pride and open to the irruption of divine saving grace." <\/p>\n

If the first part of the Magnificat, the Holy Father explained, is "the celebration of divine grace which irrupted into the heart and the life of Mary, making her Mother of the Lord," Mary’s personal witness was nonetheless "not solitary, … because the Virgin Mother was aware she had a mission to achieve for humanity, and her own story is part of the history of salvation." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Two weeks, two weeks..and will he kiss our<\/em> bald baby?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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