FROM PASTOR DOUG BACHELOR.
Most missed these AMAZING STATEMENTS & HAPPENINGS!
I don't know if you were able to take in Pope Leo's XIV primary mission outlined in his inaugural mass yesterday. I've highlighted some pertinent sections below. Notice how he ends with an emphasis on "healing the wounds", and on saving the environment like Francis. He then appeals that the people of the world become one church family. That Catholics reach out with a missionary spirit to other Christians and other religious groups. He then references the encyclical of his hero Pope Leo XIII that contains a section on Sunday work and Sunday law. I've highlighted this below. Section 41 from his encyclical RERUM NOVARUM ("Of new things") This encyclical addresses the rights and duties of workers.
It's also worth mentioning that Vice President JD Vance and Marco Rubio flew back to Italy to sit on the front row for this inaugural mass yesterday where the Pope lays out his mission.
They then had a private audience with the Pope afterward delivering a letter from president Trump inviting the Pope to visit the White House, hoping to improve relations. Amazing!
(Pope's Closing Text below).
“Brothers and sisters, I would like that our first great desire be for a united Church, a sign of unity and communion, which becomes a leaven for a reconciled world….
In this our time, we still see too much discord, TOO MANY WOUNDS caused by hatred, violence, prejudice, the fear of difference, and an economic paradigm that EXPLOITS THE EARTH’S RESOURCES and marginalizes the poorest. For our part, we want to be a small leaven of unity, communion, and fraternity within the world. We want to say to the world, with humility and joy: Look to Christ! Come closer to him! Welcome his word that enlightens and consoles! Listen to his offer of love and BECOME HIS ONE FAMILY: in the one Christ, we are one. This is the path to follow together, among ourselves but also with our sister Christian churches, with those who follow other religious paths, with those who are searching for God, with all women and men of goodwill, in order to build a new world where peace reigns!... (When they say, Peace, Peace.)
"Brothers and sisters, this is the hour for love! The heart of the Gospel is the love of God that makes us brothers and sisters. WITH MY PREDECESSOR LEO XIII, we can ask ourselves today: If this criterion “were to prevail in the world, would not every conflict cease and peace return?” (Rerum Novarum, 21)"….
RERUM NOVARUM - ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON CAPITAL AND LABOR
41. From this follows the obligation of the cessation from work and labor on Sundays and certain holy days. The rest from labor is not to be understood as mere giving way to idleness; much less must it be an occasion for spending money and for vicious indulgence, as many would have it to be; but it should be rest from labor, hallowed by religion. Rest (combined with religious observances) disposes man to forget for a while the business of his everyday life, to turn his thoughts to things heavenly, and to the worship which he so strictly owes to the eternal Godhead. It is this, above all, which is the reason arid motive of Sunday rest; a rest sanctioned by God's great law of the Ancient Covenant-"Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day,"(31) and taught to the world by His own mysterious "rest" after the creation of man: "He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done."(32)
"Together, as one people, as brothers and sisters, let us walk toward God and love one another."
St. Peter's Square, Pope Leo XIV, Inaugural Mass, — May 18, 2025.
Most missed these AMAZING STATEMENTS & HAPPENINGS!
I don't know if you were able to take in Pope Leo's XIV primary mission outlined in his inaugural mass yesterday. I've highlighted some pertinent sections below. Notice how he ends with an emphasis on "healing the wounds", and on saving the environment like Francis. He then appeals that the people of the world become one church family. That Catholics reach out with a missionary spirit to other Christians and other religious groups. He then references the encyclical of his hero Pope Leo XIII that contains a section on Sunday work and Sunday law. I've highlighted this below. Section 41 from his encyclical RERUM NOVARUM ("Of new things") This encyclical addresses the rights and duties of workers.
It's also worth mentioning that Vice President JD Vance and Marco Rubio flew back to Italy to sit on the front row for this inaugural mass yesterday where the Pope lays out his mission.
They then had a private audience with the Pope afterward delivering a letter from president Trump inviting the Pope to visit the White House, hoping to improve relations. Amazing!
(Pope's Closing Text below).
“Brothers and sisters, I would like that our first great desire be for a united Church, a sign of unity and communion, which becomes a leaven for a reconciled world….
In this our time, we still see too much discord, TOO MANY WOUNDS caused by hatred, violence, prejudice, the fear of difference, and an economic paradigm that EXPLOITS THE EARTH’S RESOURCES and marginalizes the poorest. For our part, we want to be a small leaven of unity, communion, and fraternity within the world. We want to say to the world, with humility and joy: Look to Christ! Come closer to him! Welcome his word that enlightens and consoles! Listen to his offer of love and BECOME HIS ONE FAMILY: in the one Christ, we are one. This is the path to follow together, among ourselves but also with our sister Christian churches, with those who follow other religious paths, with those who are searching for God, with all women and men of goodwill, in order to build a new world where peace reigns!... (When they say, Peace, Peace.)
"Brothers and sisters, this is the hour for love! The heart of the Gospel is the love of God that makes us brothers and sisters. WITH MY PREDECESSOR LEO XIII, we can ask ourselves today: If this criterion “were to prevail in the world, would not every conflict cease and peace return?” (Rerum Novarum, 21)"….
RERUM NOVARUM - ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON CAPITAL AND LABOR
41. From this follows the obligation of the cessation from work and labor on Sundays and certain holy days. The rest from labor is not to be understood as mere giving way to idleness; much less must it be an occasion for spending money and for vicious indulgence, as many would have it to be; but it should be rest from labor, hallowed by religion. Rest (combined with religious observances) disposes man to forget for a while the business of his everyday life, to turn his thoughts to things heavenly, and to the worship which he so strictly owes to the eternal Godhead. It is this, above all, which is the reason arid motive of Sunday rest; a rest sanctioned by God's great law of the Ancient Covenant-"Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day,"(31) and taught to the world by His own mysterious "rest" after the creation of man: "He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done."(32)
"Together, as one people, as brothers and sisters, let us walk toward God and love one another."
St. Peter's Square, Pope Leo XIV, Inaugural Mass, — May 18, 2025.
FROM PASTOR DOUG BACHELOR.
Most missed these AMAZING STATEMENTS & HAPPENINGS!
I don't know if you were able to take in Pope Leo's XIV primary mission outlined in his inaugural mass yesterday. I've highlighted some pertinent sections below. Notice how he ends with an emphasis on "healing the wounds", and on saving the environment like Francis. He then appeals that the people of the world become one church family. That Catholics reach out with a missionary spirit to other Christians and other religious groups. He then references the encyclical of his hero Pope Leo XIII that contains a section on Sunday work and Sunday law. I've highlighted this below. Section 41 from his encyclical RERUM NOVARUM ("Of new things") This encyclical addresses the rights and duties of workers.
It's also worth mentioning that Vice President JD Vance and Marco Rubio flew back to Italy to sit on the front row for this inaugural mass yesterday where the Pope lays out his mission.
They then had a private audience with the Pope afterward delivering a letter from president Trump inviting the Pope to visit the White House, hoping to improve relations. Amazing!
(Pope's Closing Text below).
“Brothers and sisters, I would like that our first great desire be for a united Church, a sign of unity and communion, which becomes a leaven for a reconciled world….
In this our time, we still see too much discord, TOO MANY WOUNDS caused by hatred, violence, prejudice, the fear of difference, and an economic paradigm that EXPLOITS THE EARTH’S RESOURCES and marginalizes the poorest. For our part, we want to be a small leaven of unity, communion, and fraternity within the world. We want to say to the world, with humility and joy: Look to Christ! Come closer to him! Welcome his word that enlightens and consoles! Listen to his offer of love and BECOME HIS ONE FAMILY: in the one Christ, we are one. This is the path to follow together, among ourselves but also with our sister Christian churches, with those who follow other religious paths, with those who are searching for God, with all women and men of goodwill, in order to build a new world where peace reigns!... (When they say, Peace, Peace.)
"Brothers and sisters, this is the hour for love! The heart of the Gospel is the love of God that makes us brothers and sisters. WITH MY PREDECESSOR LEO XIII, we can ask ourselves today: If this criterion “were to prevail in the world, would not every conflict cease and peace return?” (Rerum Novarum, 21)"….
RERUM NOVARUM - ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON CAPITAL AND LABOR
41. From this follows the obligation of the cessation from work and labor on Sundays and certain holy days. The rest from labor is not to be understood as mere giving way to idleness; much less must it be an occasion for spending money and for vicious indulgence, as many would have it to be; but it should be rest from labor, hallowed by religion. Rest (combined with religious observances) disposes man to forget for a while the business of his everyday life, to turn his thoughts to things heavenly, and to the worship which he so strictly owes to the eternal Godhead. It is this, above all, which is the reason arid motive of Sunday rest; a rest sanctioned by God's great law of the Ancient Covenant-"Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day,"(31) and taught to the world by His own mysterious "rest" after the creation of man: "He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done."(32)
"Together, as one people, as brothers and sisters, let us walk toward God and love one another."
St. Peter's Square, Pope Leo XIV, Inaugural Mass, — May 18, 2025.
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