POPE PRAISES LEADER for devotion to COUNCIL OF TRENT
POPE (JOHN PAUL II) SAYS IMITATE PIUS V IN HIS MARIAN FILIAL DEVOTION
(MARIAN FILIAL DEVOTION = Mary Worship)
VATICAN
CITY, MAY 4, 2004 (VIS) – Made public today was a Message from the Pope to
Bishop Fernando Charrier of Alessandria, Italy upon the conclusion tomorrow, May
5 of the celebrations for the fifth centenary of the birth of
St. Pius V.
In the Message, dated May 1, the Holy Father prays “that the
intercession of St. Pius V and the example of his virtues stimulate us to make
our faith more solid, maintaining it uncontaminated and in permanent contact
with the sources of Revelation, and spreading it in society in order to make
humanity more open to Christ and disposed toward building a
civilization of love.”
John Paul II recalls that his predecessor was born in 1504 in Bosco,
Alessandria. At age fourteen, he entered the Order of the Preachers, was
ordained a priest in 1528, a bishop in 1556 and was created a cardinal in 1557.
At age sixty-two in 1566, he was elected supreme pontiff. During his pontificate
he named St. Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church.
“St. Pius V,” continues the Message, “was
concerned with faithfully applying the decisions made during the Council of
Trent: in liturgy with the publication of the new Roman Missal and the new
Breviary; in the catechetic field, entrusting especially to parish priests the
‘Catechism of the Council of Trent’; in theological material, introducing in
the universities the ‘Summa’ of St. Thomas.
He reminded bishops of the duty to reside in the diocese for attentive
pastoral care of the faithful and he stressed the opportunity for cloistered
life to religious and the importance of celibacy and sanctity of life to
priests.”
At the end of the Message, John Paul II prays that the “apostolic zeal, constant attention to holiness and love for Our Lady which characterized the life of St. Pius V may be for all a stimulus to live with greater commitment one’s own Christian vocation. I want to invite everyone in a special way to imitate him in his Marian filial devotion, rediscovering simple and deep prayer of the Rosary which, as I recalled in the Apostolic Letter ‘Rosarium Virginis Mariae’, helps us to contemplate the mystery of Christ.”
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IMITATE PIUS V IN HIS MARIAN FILIAL DEVOTION
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