by Jo Salvaña In his Apostolic Letter on the Most Holy Rosary entitled “ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE”, addressed to the bishops, clergy, and faithful, our Holy Father Pope John Paul II writes on the nature, beauty, value, and significance of the…
Monthly Archives: October 2003
THANKS TO PIZZAMAKERS OF THE WORLD On October 25, 2000, the Holy Father thanked 2,000 pizza-makers gathered from around the pie, or rather, the globe. They came from countries as scattered as Japan, the United States, Spain, Australia, and host…
Extravagant displays of devotion to Mary gets curtailed as world culture emphasizes the rational, scientific and technological aspects of life. There seems to be no more time for the more affective expressions of religion.
Then, after a while, people get fed up with the absolutely rational and logical culture, and rediscover religion and the affective part of the human soul and its needs.
And Mary is one of those.
The Church is certainly a human and historical institution with all that entails, yet her nature is not essentially political but spiritual: the Church is the People of God, Holy People of God making its way to encounter Jesus Christ. Only from this perspective can a satisfactory account be given of the Church's life and activity.
Christ is the Church's Pastor, but his presence in history passes through the freedom of human beings; from their midst one is chosen to serve as his Vicar, the successor of the Apostle Peter.
Yet Christ remains the center, not the Sucessor of Peter: Christ, Christ is the centre.
May every Christian rediscover the journey of faith so as to shed ever clearer light on the joy and renewed enthusiasm of the encounter with Christ.
A gift of love, faith and goodwill from the people of the Philippines. Pope Pius IX once said: “Give me an army praying a million rosaries a day and we will conquer the world.” We are not out to conquer the world…but to save it for God to whom it rightly belongs.