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Monday, February 11, 2013

PRAY FOR POPE BENEDICT XVI


In  Vatican  City  today  Pope  Benedict  XVI

announced  he  will  resign  2/28/13.

The  first  Pontiff  to  do  so  in  nearly

600  years.


"After  having  repeatedly  examined  my

conscience  before  God,  I  have  come  to

the  certainty  that  my  strengths  due  to

advanced  age  are  no  longer  suited  to

an  adequate  exercise  of  the  Petrine

Ministry,"  he  told  the  cardinals.


We  must  pray  for  Pope  Benedict  XVI,

  the  new  Pope  and  the  Catholic  Body

of  Christ..


I  don't  know  what  the  terms  are  in  the

Catholic  Church  but  in  the  Baptist

church  they  pick  a  committee...there  is  a

committee  for  everything.


I  just  know  that  the  POPE  did  not

come  to  this  decision  lightly  as  he

knows  how  it  will  not  only  affect  the

Catholic  Church  but  the  world.


Watching  Fox  News,  there  were  many

questions,  like  where  will  he  live?


They  said  that  he  would  be  living  on

the  grounds  where  sisters  used  to  live.

The  monastary has  been  redecorated  and  he

  will  live  there  alone,  where  he  will

read  and  pray.


I  thought  this  poem  was  somehow

appropriate  for  all,  not  just  the  Pope,

in  their  latter  years.



WINTER...

by~Ruth  Stout


There  is  a  privacy  about  it  which  no

other  season  gives  you.

In  Spring,    Summer,  and  Fall

people  sort  of  have  an  open  season

on  each  other;

ONLY  in  the  WINTER,  in  the  country,

you  can  have  longer,  quieter  stretches

When  you  can  savor  belonging  to

yourself.  




Hugs  and  Prayers


 

1 comment:

Chatty Crone said...

Very unusual happening!