Or for those of you who speak the other kind of Latin...
"E-way AVE-hay a EW-nay OPE-pay
Pope Leo XIV
Chicagoan, Cubs fan
Augustinian Monk (already quoted St. Augustine)
Archbishop in - and citizen of - Peru
Said to be quiet, reserved, soft-spoken, thoughtful
That's what I know so far...
This was for March 24th, recorded for the Ascension App
Thanks for your patience - here is our next installment of The Journey - it's session # 96, but I'm also calling it PART 1 of a "miniseries" on John chapter 6.
Whoever watches it first, please let me know if it looks good or if there are any problems with it - I get through the first two sections of the text on the feeding of the 5,000.
Enjoy!
I mentioned in The Journey that I wrote a song based on Isaiah 2, which is one of my favorite OT passages:
In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain, and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it. Many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and set terms for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!
I hope you like the song!
Based on exactly zero actual knowledge of the guy...
I hope that as an American and a native English-speaker, he will be able to build bridges between the factions, schisms, and threatened schisms among American Catholicism.
I hope that he will speak less, and especially less off the cuff, and be more careful about what he says than Pope Francis was. I hope he does not enable confusion. I hope that he will speak clearly and decisively and not create ambiguity or allow too much, shall we say, German misbehavior.
What are your hopes for the new Pope?
Watching for the smoke like everyone else - no new pope yet! Let's all keep praying for the conclave and for the cardinals who will elect the next holy father.
Set your summer calendar NOW to celebrate Sicilian saints of the early Church on their feast days. It's the best way to prepare for a December pilgrimage to sunny Sicily with Jim Papandrea, Fr. Kevin Barrett, and me. Join us!
St. Joseph the Hymnographer—June 14
St. Calogero the Anchorite—18 June
Pope St. Leo II—June 28
St. Pantaenus ("The Sicilian Bee" )—July 7
St. Pancras of Taormina—July 8
St. Euplio of Catania—August 12
