The unfinished Rosary for our new pope!

[Gratias_Grace]

Hi all!

Since the pope Bendict XVI forum now is closed, I suggest that those who used to participate in the online Rosary for our new pope, ends the unfinished Rosary in privacy.

I used my own Rosary to fiish the Sorroful Mystery (the rest of the first Sorrowful Mystery + the four others). Later this day (Saturday) I will pray the Joyful Mysteries in privacy and end it at Sunday with the Glorious Mysteries (in privacy)!

Hope others may use my idea if they, too, felt that something was unfinished.

Of course we may pray as many Rosaries as we want to pray in privacy for our pope in the time to come. He will always need our prayers and support.

I searched Internet and found this prayer. I leave it here for you to pray in privacy (if you like to pray fixed prayers):

Please Lord give Pope Benedict XVI wisdom, guidance, and love so he can be a good shepard for Your people. Let the Holy Spirit provide him with a caring and wise heart. Give him courage to always make the right decision. Help him to steer the Roman Catholic Church in the right direction. We ask these things through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, One God forever and ever. Amen

**Thank you very much to Catholic Answer that gave us the oprtunity to share and participate together at the Benedict XVI’s forum. Now life must go on after the loss of a beloved pope and after the election of a new one!

Must God bless the Roman Catholic Church! **

 

[Traditional_Ang]

And I found this from the Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion for John Paul II:

(I know I should have posted this earlier…)

Pope John Paul II 1920-2005

By the Most Reverend John Hepworth

*ONE of the greatest Popes - in the long line that stretches to Peter - has died. We join our brothers and sisters throughout the Church in mourning a Father whom we also loved dearly.

It is rare for a Pope to challenge the whole world. In the cause of human life, in the cause of the freedom of each human being, in the cause of peace and justice, in the cause of learning and enlightenment, and above all in the cause of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus, the Son of God, he brought the rulers of the nations, and their subjects, to an accountability under God.

At the same time, he challenged all of us who bear the name of Christ. We were challenged with the demand of Jesus that we be one. And daringly, he challenged us to accept his ministry, the ministry of Peter, in a world grown tired of authority.

We saw in him all the frailty of the human condition. We watched him in prayer at the great shrines of Mary, face alight with love. We saw him in Canterbury, before Augustine’s throne, and we dreamed of what might be, and of what must be. We watched him in his travels and in his infirmities. We saw a man of faith. We saw a pilgrim driven by the apostolic urge to the nethermost ends of the world. We saw Peter at the feet of Christ, and in seeing, we heard the words of his Master.

Few popes have written as much, and few popes have been so earnestly read. Few human beings have caused such joy, such devotion. And few have caused so many people to so freely weep.

In the Breaking of the Bread of Life, we remember his immortal soul. Our prayerful thanksgiving is for a life that touched our life. And we invoke the Holy Spirit to stir up those who must now elect a shepherd for the Eternal City, where the bones of Peter and Paul, and John Paul, await the Resurrection.

Requiescat in pace, sacerdos magnus.

+John Hepworth*

Reading that reminded me of the 30 minutes of simultaneous cheering and crying as the crowds cried, “Vive il Papa!”

We all loved Pope John Paul II. May Pope Benedict XVI not only complete the work of repairing and reforming the Catholic Church, but start a new one of re-evangelism and re-unification that will bring many of us together to the ONE Alter UNDER one Shepherd.

Viva Pope Benedict XVI! May he live to be 103!

Blesings and Peace, Michael