SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM – for your leisure reading
I have been reading this lately and meditating on it. Thought it might be a great document to share. This is the letter from the Pope regarding the use of the Roman Missal published prior to Vatican II. It is a very loving document designed to help the Church understand the proper use of the two forms of the Roman Liturgy. If you are like me, this interests you. This document shows both the love and the superhuman intelligence of our Holy Father. Enjoy…
Pope Benedicts Homily 11.28.09
to monopolize our attention? Is it not true that you devote much time to entertainment and amusements of various kinds? Sometimes the things we “overwhelming.” Advent, the liturgical season strong that we are starting, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It ‘an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are signs that God makes to us, signs of the attention that has for each of us. How often God makes us feel something of his love! Hold, so to speak, a “diary interior” of this love would be a task for our beautiful and healthy life! Advent invites us and encourages us to contemplate the Lord. The certainty of his presence should help us see the world through different eyes? It should help us to consider our whole existence as a “visit” as a way he can come to us and become close, in every situation?
Caritas in Veritate
The new Encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), is a great document that will go down as one of our Holy Father’s great works. In our current world, with economic issues, divided politics, and a divided Church, this new document is a wonderful road map to unity in social issues.
