The first is regarding the publication of the Pope's Motu Proprio or personal initiave to "open" the Church to the renewed use of the pre-conciliar Roman missal of 1962. In issuing this Motu Proprio last July 7, the Pope very prudently accompanied it with a letter explaining his motives. Let me quote a part of that Letter. “I now come to the positive reason which motivated my decision to issue this Motu Proprio updating that of 1988. It is a matter of coming to an interior reconciliation in the heart of the Church. Looking back over the past, to the divisions which in the course of the centuries have rent the Body of Christ, one continually has the impression that, at critical moments when divisions were coming about, not enough was done by the Church’s leaders to maintain or regain reconciliation and unity. One has the impression that omissions on the part of the Church have had their share of blame for the fact that these divisions were able to harden. This glance at the past imposes an obligation on us today: to make every effort to unable for all those who truly desire unity to remain in that unity or to attain it anew.(…)
We are now awaiting what would be the general reaction to this personal initiative of the Holy Father, hoping and praying that he really had intuited the "right time" for this highly delicate issue.
We are now awaiting what would be the general reaction to this personal initiative of the Holy Father, hoping and praying that he really had intuited the "right time" for this highly delicate issue.
The second prayer intention concerns the liberation of Fr. Giancarlo Bossi, an italian missionary of the PIME fathers who has been abducted in Southern Philippines (Zamboanga). He has remained in the hands of his captors for a month now. The PIME missionaries and their collaborators have actually organized an international prayer vigil tomorrow, July 10 to plead for his release.
Let us join them in initiative and pray especially for the conversion of his captors.
