St. Alphonsa's Prayer

28 July, is the Feast day & death Anniversary of St. Alphonsa,the First Catholic  Woman saint from  India.

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CCC & VC II

CCC &  VC II

1.     Catechism of Catholic Church http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/ccc_toc.htm   2.     Vatican Council II                 http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/

SG. Pope John Paul I

Called as “The Smiling Pope “ John Paul I, was the first time a pope had used a double name
Born	17th  October1912
Birth name	Albino Luciani
Died	28 September 1978 @ the age 65
Servant Of GOD	23 November 2003
Papacy began	26 August 1978
Papacy ended	28September 1978 (Only 33 Days )
Predecessor	Paul VI
Successor	John Paul II
Motto	Humilitas (humility)

Ø  1912 Born on 17 October in Forno d'Canale (Belluno Italy) later called Forno d'Agordo, son of  Giovanni and Bortola Luciani. was baptized the same day at home, by the midwife, as he was in danger of death. Ø  1923 Albino entered the  minor seminary at Feltre on October 1 Ø  1935 Ordained Priest in St Peters Church Belluno on 7 July Ø  1935 Appointed curate in Forno di Canale on 8 July Ø  1935-1937 Chaplain and teacher at Technical Institute for Miners in Agordo. Ø  1937-1947  Appointed Vice Rector in Seminary at Belluno Ø  1947 Appointed Pro Vicar General of the Diocese Ø  1950 Received a Doctorate in Theology Ø  1958 Consecrated Bishop of Vittorio Veneto on 27 December Ø  1969 Patriarch of Venice on the 15 December Ø  1973 He was made a Cardinal on 5 March Ø  1978 Elected Pope on 26 August and uses the name Pope John Paul 1 Ø  1978 Pope John Paul 1 died on 28 September after only 33 days in office

SG. Pope Paul VI

The pilgrim pope He was one of the most traveled popes in history and the first to visit five continents
Born	September 26, 1897, Concesio, Italy
Birth name	Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini
Died	August 6, 1978
Papacy began	21 June 1963
Papacy ended	6 August 1978
Predecessor	John XXIII
Successor	John Paul I
Motto	Cum Ipso in monte (With Him on the mount)

Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini was born on September 26, 1897 at Concesio (Lombardy) of a wealthy family of the upper class. His father was a non-practicing lawyer turned editor and a courageous promoter of social action. Giovanni was a frail but intelligent child who received his early education from the Jesuits near his home in Brescia. Even after entering the seminary (1916) he was allowed to live at home because of his health. After his ordination in 1920 he was sent to Rome to study at the Gregorian University and the University of Rome Besides teaching at the Accademia dei Nobili Ecclesiastici he was named chaplain to the Federation of Italian Catholic University Students (FUCI), an assignment that was to have a decisive effect on his relations with the founders of the post-war Christian Democratic Party. In 1937 he was named substitute for ordinary affairs under Cardinal Pacelli, the secretary of state, and he accompanied him to Budapest (1938) for the International Eucharistic Congress. On Pacelli's election as Pius XII in 1939, Montini was reconfirmed in his position under the new secretary of state, Cardinal Luigi Maglione. When the latter died in 1944, Montini continued to discharge his office directly under the pope. During World War II he was responsible for organizing the extensive relief work and the care of political refugees. Appointed Archbishop of Milan by Pope Pius XII in 1954.Elevated to cardinal in 1958 by Pope John XXIII. Indeed, Pope John XXIII, who had placed Archbishop Montini at the top of his first batch of cardinals, referred to his eventual successor as a "Hamlet" of "to be or not to be" fame. On the death of Pope John XXIII, Montini was elected June 21, 1963 to succeed him. 262nd  Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. In his first message to the world, he committed himself to a continuation of the work begun by John XXIII. Throughout his pontificate the tension between papal primacy and the collegiality of the episcopacy was a source of conflict. On September 14, 1965 he announced the establishment of the Synod of Bishops called for by the Council fathers, but some issues that seemed suitable for discussion by the synod were reserved to himself. Celibacy, removed from the debate of the fourth session of the Council, was made the subject of an encyclical, June 24, 1967); the regulation of birth was treated in Humanae vitae July 24, 1968), his last encyclical. The controversies over these two pronouncements tended to overshadow the last years of his pontificate. Pope Paul had an unaccountably poor press and his public image suffered by comparison with his outgoing and jovial predecessor. Those who knew him best, however, describe him as a brilliant man, deeply spiritual, humble, reserved and gentle, a man of "infinite courtesy." He was one of the most traveled popes in history and the first to visit five continents. His remarkable corpus of thought must be searched out in his many addresses and letters as well as in his major pronouncements. His successful conclusion of Vatican II has left its mark on the history of the Church, but history will also record his rigorous reform of the Roman curia, his well-received address to the UN in 1965, his encyclical Populorum progressio (1967), his second great social letter Octogesima adveniens (1971)—the first to show an awareness of many problems that have only recently been brought to light—and his apostolic exhortation Evangelii nuntiandi, his last major pronouncement which also touched on the central question of the just conception of liberation and salvation. His Holiness Pope Paul VI died on 6 August 1978 at Castelgandolfo, in the 16th year of his pontificate, at the age of 80 years. He asked that his funeral be simple with no catafalque and no monument over his grave. He was buried on 12 August in the Grottoes of the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica. The diocesan process for his canonization was initiated on 11 May 1993 by Bl. Pope John Paul II

Bl. Pope John XXIII (Bl.Pope John 23)

John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council ,  Called him as  "The good Pope"
Born	25 November 1881,  Sotto il Monte, Italy
Birth name	Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
Died	3 June 1963, Vatican
Beatified	September 3, 2000, Pope John Paul II
Papacy began	28 October 1958
Papacy ended	3 June 1963
Predecessor	Pope XII
Successor	Paul VI
Feast	11th  October
Motto	Oboedientia et Pax   ("Obedience and Peace"),
His spiritual notes, gathered in	The Journal of a Soul

Bl. Pope John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli at Sotto il Monte, Italy, in the Diocese of Bergamo on 25 November 1881. He was the fourth in a family of 14. The family worked as sharecroppers. He entered the Bergamo seminary in 1892. Here he began the practice of making spiritual notes, which he continued in one form or another until his death, and which have been gathered together in the Journal a Soul. Here he also began the deeply cherished practice of regular spiritual direction. In 1896 he was admitted to the Secular Franciscan Order by the spiritual director of the Bergamo seminary, Fr Luigi Isacchi; he made a profession of its Rule of life on 23 May 1897. From 1901 to 1905 he was a student at the Pontifical Roman Seminary. On 10 August 1904 he was ordained a priest in the church of Santa Maria in Monte Santo in Rome's Piazza del Popolo. In 1905 he was appointed secretary to the new Bishop of Bergamo, Giacomo Maria Radini Tedeschi. When Italy went to war in 1915 he was drafted as a sergeant in the medical corps and became a chaplain to wounded soldiers. When the war ended, he opened a "Student House" for the spiritual needs of young people. In 1919 he was made spiritual director of the seminary, but in 1921 he was called to the service of the Holy See. Benedict XV brought him to Rome to be the Italian president of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. In 1925 Pius XI named him Apostolic Visitator in Bulgaria, raising him to the episcopate with the titular Diocese of Areopolis. For his Episcopal motto he chose Oboedientia et Pax, which became his guiding motto for the rest of his life. On 19 March 1925 he was ordained Bishop and left for Bulgaria. He was granted the title Apostolic Delegate and remained in Bulgaria until 1935, visiting Catholic communities and establishing relationships of respect and esteem with the other Christian communities. In 1935 he was named Apostolic Delegate in Turkey and Greece. The Catholic Church was present in many ways in the young Turkish republic. When the Second World War broke out he was in Greece. During the last months of the war and the beginning of peace he aided prisoners of war and helped to normalize the ecclesiastical organization of France. He visited the great shrines of France and participated in popular feasts and in important religious celebrations. At the death of Pius XII he was elected Pope on 28 October 1958, taking the name John XXIII. His pontificate, which lasted less than five years, presented him to the entire world as an authentic image of the Good Shepherd. Meek and gentle, enterprising and courageous, simple and active, he carried out the Christian duties of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy: visiting the imprisoned and the sick, welcoming those of every nation and faith, bestowing on all his exquisite fatherly care. His social magisterium in the Encyclicals Pacem in terris and Mater et Magistra was deeply appreciated. He convoked the Roman Synod, established the Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law and summoned the Second Vatican Council. He was present as Bishop in his Diocese of Rome through his visitation of the parishes, especially those in the new suburbs. The faithful saw in him a reflection of the goodness of God and called him "the good Pope". He was sustained by a profound spirit of prayer. He launched an extensive renewal of the Church, while radiating the peace of one who always trusted in the Lord. Pope John XXIII died on the evening of 3 June 1963, in a spirit of profound trust in Jesus and of longing for his embrace.