POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT ARRIVES AT THE VATICAN

POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT 

ARRIVES AT THE VATICAN

Pope Francis welcomed Benedict XVI to the Vatican today, greeting him outside the re-modeled monastery where the 86-year-old retired pontiff and his five aides will now live.

HABEMUS PAPAM

EIGHT YEARS AGO TODAY JOSEPH ALOISIUS RATZINGER WAS ELECTED POPE BENEDICT XVI 

                                                       

    

I HAVE TWO PEOPLE TO THANK FOR MY FAITH AND ONE IS POPE BENEDICT. IT IS ALSO SOLELY BECAUSE OF HIM THAT I STARTED TAKING MY FAITH, 
THE ONE TRUE FAITH, 
CONSIDERABLY MORE SERIOUSLY.  MANY OF US TODAY HAVE SAID THAT WE HAVE A LOT TO THANK HIM FOR.....

SO TODAY IS A CELEBRATION

HAPPY 86th BIRTHDAY POPE BENEDICT

HAPPY 86th BIRTHDAY TO 
OUR BELOVED

POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT

TEN AMAZING THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN BRITAIN IN THE BENEDICT ERA

TEN AMAZING THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN BRITAIN DURING THE BENEDICT ERA

1. ON A PERSONAL LEVEL I BELIEVE JAMES PREECE PUT IT BEST OF ALL TODAY WHEN HE SAID :

"Those of us who grew up wondering why the grown ups had taken everything beautiful and smashed it UP found in him, at last, someone who would blow the dust off the old boxes in the attic and show us not how things used to be, but how things could be.

Pope Benedict took things that had been consigned to history and made them a gift to our generation".

2. THE BEATIFICATION OF JOHN HENRY NEWMAN - 

THIS MAY BE A 'MAN THING' BUT THERE ARE MEN I KNOW THAT ARE MOVED TO TEARS BY THE WORDS OF BL. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN. NOW EVEN MORE PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF THE SPIRITUAL DEPTHS OF NEWMAN'S WRITINGS.

3. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DEVOUT CATHOLICS GOING ON PILGRIMAGE TO VISIT THE RELICS  OF ST. THERESE WHEN THEY CAME TO BRITAIN. THIS IN ITSELF REVITALISED CATHOLICISM IN THIS COUNTRY.

4. 80,000 YOUNG CATHOLICS IN HYDE PARK JOINING POPE BENEDICT IN ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT. WOW!

5. THE ELECTION OF BISHOP MARK DAVIES & BISHOP PHILIP EGAN
(HE ALSO GAVE US A FAITHFUL APOSTOLIC NUNCIO!)

6. THE MOTU PROPRIO SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, THE RISE OF THE LATIN MASS, THE LMS, &  JUVENTUTEM IN BRITAIN.

7. THE VISIT OF THE HEART OF JEAN VIANNEY, THE CURE D'ARS, TO THE DIOCESE OF SHREWSBURY ORGANISED BY BISHOP MARK DAVIES.

8. POPE BENEDICT STANDING ON THE SITE WHERE ST. THOMAS MORE WAS CONDEMNED TO DEATH, &  POINTING OUT TO WESTMINSTER WHERE THEY WERE GOING WRONG & GIVING THEM A FEW TIMELY SOLUTIONS.

9. THE RISE OF THE CATHOLIC BLOGOSPHERE WHICH WAS THERE AT EVERY TURN DEFENDING THE FAITH, & ACCORDING TO THE EDITOR OF THE TABLET 'EVEN BEING VIEWED WITH A WATCHFUL EYE BY THE CDF, WHICH LED TO INTERVENTIONS WHEN THERE WAS DISSENT.'

AND FINALLY,

 10. POPE BENEDICT GIVING CLEAR & CONCISE WARNINGS ON A WEEKLY BASIS THAT IT IS TIME TO TURN AWAY FROM SIN, THE SECULAR WORLD, THE CULTURE OF DEATH AND TO TURN WHOLEHEARTEDLY TOWARDS CHRIST. A MESSAGE FOR THE WORLD BUT CERTAINLY A RELEVANT MESSAGE TO ALL THOSE WHO LIVE IN BRITAIN TODAY

THANK YOU POPE BENEDICT YOU TAUGHT US HOW TO BE CATHOLIC AGAIN!