Saturday, July 28, 2012

St. Alphonsa's Prayer

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

Monday, July 23, 2012

Bible Quiz General-I


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Sunday, July 8, 2012

CCC & VC II


CCC &  VC II
1.     Catechism of Catholic Church

2.     Vatican Council II

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



Saturday, July 7, 2012

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