Most Holy Father,
On September 22nd this year, a group of seven English-speaking blogowners and their readers, all dedicated to prayer for your Holiness' well being and intentions, began to assemble the spiritual bouquet listed below. We intend that it should be the first of many and that it will increase in size and number of contributors as the months go on. The group is united on the internet under the title of 'Pro Papa League'.
MASSES:
Our joint league chaplain regularly offers Mass and prayers for your intentions but I am sure you will understand his wish to remain anonymous. He is in the USA and a friend of 'Confiteor', the League founder.
MEDITATIONS:
The League has adopted as honorary Retreat Master, Fr Mark Kirby, whose profoundly spiritual blog 'Vultus Christi' is a source of daily spiritual nourishment to us as we pray for your Holiness. Father is a Cistercian monk of Holy Cross Abbey in Rome, now working in the diocese of Tulsa East Oklahoma, where Bishop Slattery has installed him in the new Cenacle of Eucharistic Adoration and given him charge over the spiritual direction of priests and deacons in the diocese.
A MONTH'S RETREAT WITH MEDITATION AND FASTING, dedicated to your Holiness as our Holy Father and as an individual Christian:
This will conclude at the end of October and is being made by a League blogowner NAME GIVEN)who is a traditional Catholic hermit. He is Danish and is located in his home country at Odense.
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION:
One hour before the Blessed Sacrament with your Holiness' book 'On the Way to JesuS' - offered by 'Confiteor' who also specialises in
APOLOGETICS CONTRA SEDEVACANTISTS and anyone else who expresses detraction against your Holiness on the Internet:
Several hours invested in this each week.
HARDSHIP OFFERED UP:
(NAME GIVEN)offers up 'for Pope Benedict the hardship caused by illness and much prayer for him and the Catholic Church'.
ROSARIES:
212 decades prayed by the League and followers
LITANIES OF OUR LADY:
23 prayed by the present writer and her husband (NAMES GIVEN)using your Holiness' Latin recordings of the Rosary.
OTHER PRAYERS AND OFFERINGS:
Friday fasts and abstinence - 4
Constant prayer for Bishops as integral to prayer for your Holiness
Fatima prayer, 'Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins ...' - 1
Exasperation with those who equate tradition with nostalgia, controlled and offered up - 2
Anonymous promised daily praying of 'the "Veni Creator" for Pope Benedict'.
LABOUR OF LOVE
Innumerable hours offered, at least two of the blogowners spending an average of 5 hours a day in the promotion of prayer for your Holiness.
SPREADING THE WORD OUTSIDE THE INTERNET:
(TWO NAMES GIVEN) are making our initiative known amongst their friends and in their parishes; Confiteor has appealed to Opus Dei friends for reinforcements.
Holy Father, we all pray most fervently that our efforts will bear fruit for you, as you labour in the Vineyard, and for your own personal well being, health and strength.
We hope to send the next Bouquet in time for the Solemnity of All Saints and in the meantime assure your Holiness of our filial love, obedience and loyalty. AD MULTOS ANNOS.
Signed with blog names in brackets, nationality, location and gender:
Jane Mossendew-Fulthorpe (Thoughts from an Oasis in French Catholicism)
'Confiteor' (Pro Papa Flagship)
Name given (saintbruno.blogspot.com
Name given (White Smoke Ahoy)
'Bessarion' (Dedicated to the Great Pope of Union)
'Prima' (Pro Papa USA)
Pro Papa IX (Vultus Christi)
Readers and Friends:
Lindi (Name given)
clare a (Name given)
'Grigori'
'Rise and Pray' (Name given)
'Mocath'
8 comments:
A lovely bouquet! Many thanks for your efforts in putting it together for our Holy Father. I'm sure that it will be greatly appreciated.
Jane,
Thank you very much for this.
One correction ... our "chaplain" is a priest residing in the United Kingdom.
Thank you, Jane!
God bless,
Mark
Wow Jane, how delighted I am to be associated with this. I'll make a careful note of all prayers and sacrifices to be added to the next bouquet. I'm sure I can manage more, now I have longer to prepare.
God bless!
Jane, Well done. Thank you for your hard work and inspiration. A decade of the rosary daily offered for our Holy Father.
I am humbled and honoured by my new designation. May Our Lord make me worthy of it.
Last evening (feast of Our Lady of the Rosary), at the request of my bishop, I preached an evening of recollection in the cathedral to women of the diocese desirous of responding to the Holy See's invitation to offer themselves as spiritual mothers of priests. I hope to write about it on Vultus Christi. It was a blessed experience.
Father Mark,
Thank you so much for this comment.
And may the Lord make us worthy of having you as our Hon. Retreat Master!
Thank you also for the Tulsa update. Tomorrow, I'm going to post about it, because everyone should know that this invitation has been extended to women by the Holy See.
With the assurance of my prayers,
MND,
In Christo pro Papa,
Jane
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