He Is Risen… - St. Francis Chapel

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EASTER SUNDAY , APRIL 24, 2011
“He
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St. Francis Chapel
Lanteri’s
Corner
Spiritual thoughts from
Ven. Bruno Lanteri,
Founder of the
Oblates
of the Virgin Mary.
“We must always grow in this virtue: it is impossible to
hope too much. The one who hopes for everything,
Fr. Bruno Lanteri
obtains everything.”
Prudential Center, Boston
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Saint Francis Chapel bids farewell to
Fr.Greg Staab, OMV, who has served
here for three years. A diligent Oblate
and a priest with zeal for Christ, the
Church, and Mary...Fr. Greg will be
missed by Boston, but will be a welcome
addition to our staff in the missions.
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Oblates of the Virgin Mary
MASS INTENTIONS THIS WEEK
MASS INTENTIONS THAT DO NOT APPEAR HERE WERE SCHEDULED AFTER THIS BULLETIN WAS FINALIZED.
Sunday, April 24 EASTER SUNDAY
8:00 AM
Easter Novena
9:15 AM
+ Clarissa Elliott
10:30 AM
Thanksgiving for miracle received
11:45 AM
+ Mary Settana
1:15 PM
+ Catalina Cardona
4:00 PM
+ Peter Cheong (in loving memory)
5:30 PM
Intentions of the BVM
Monday, April 25
8:00 AM
Mark Takesuye
12:05 PM
The Regan family
12:35 PM
Easter Novena
4:45 PM
+ Catalina Cardona
Tuesday, April 26
8:00 AM
Agnes O’Malley (special intention)
12:05 PM
Danielle’s intentions
12:35 PM
Father Ed Broom, OMV
4:45 PM
Easter Novena
Thursday, April 28
8:00 AM
Jason Feitelberg (birthday)
12:05 PM
Easter Novena
12:35 PM
+ Catalina Cardona
4:45 PM
+ Willard Arnott
Friday, April 29
8:00 AM
+ Margaret Wellings
12:05 PM
Father Ed Boom, OMV
12:35 PM
Easter Novena
4:45 PM
+ Thomas White
Saturday, April
9:00 AM
12:00 Noon
4:00 PM
5:30 PM
+
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30
Easter Novena
Helen’s intentions
Jeffrey Smith
Philip and Celia McDevitt and
Sr. M. Dolorosa
+ Eladio Restrepo
Divine Mercy Novena
Wednesday, April 27
8:00 AM
Easter Novena
12:05 PM
Mary F. McDevitt
12:35 PM
+ Catalina Cardona
4:45 PM
+ Salud Acero (1st anniversary)
Since 1983, Saint Francis Chapel has been staffed by the Oblates
of the Virgin Mary, a Roman Catholic religious congregation of
priests and brothers united in a common mission to bring the
mercy of God to all people. Founded in 1826 by Ven Fr. Pio
Bruno Lanteri, OMV, the Oblates of the Virgin Mary have
houses throughout the world. The multiple and varied
apostolates of the OMVs include preaching parish missions and
retreats based on the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius,
fraternal assistance to (and formation of) the clergy, formation of
the laity, the use of the means of social communication (the mass
media) to promote the truth against current errors, parish work,
missionary work, and other apostolates.
3PM each day...from Good
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St. Francis Chapel
Prudential Center, Boston
POPE'S REMARKS AFTER VENERATING SHROUD OF TURIN
Here is a translation of the remarks Benedict XVI gave last year after
venerating the Shroud of Turin.
Dear Friends,
This is a moment that I have been waiting for quite some time. I have found
myself before the sacred Shroud on another occasion but this time I am
experiencing this pilgrimage and this pause with particular intensity:
perhaps because the years make me more sensitive to the message of this
extraordinary icon; perhaps, and I would say above all, because I am here
as Successor of Peter, and I carry in my heart the whole Church, indeed, all
of humanity. I thank God for the gift of this pilgrimage, and also for the
opportunity to share with you a brief meditation, which was suggested to
me by the title of this solemn exhibition: “The Mystery of Holy Saturday.”
One could say that the Shroud is the icon of this mystery, the icon of Holy
Saturday. It is in fact a winding sheet, which covered the corpse of a man
who was crucified, corresponding to everything that the Gospels say of
Jesus, who was crucified about noon and died at about 3 in the afternoon.
Once evening came, since it was Parasceve, the eve of the solemn Sabbath
of Passover, Joseph of Arimathea, a wealthy and influential member of the
Sanhedrin, courageously asked Pontius Pilate to be able to bury Jesus in his
new tomb, that he had made in the rock not far from Golgotha. Having
received the permission, he bought linen and, taking the body of Jesus
down from the cross, wrapped him in the linen and put him in that tomb
(cf. Mark 15:42-46). This is what is related by the Gospel of St. Matthew
and the other evangelists. From that moment, Jesus remained in the
sepulcher until the dawn of the day after the Sabbath, and the Shroud of
Turin offers us the image of how his body was stretched out in the tomb
during that time, which was brief chronologically (about a day and a half),
but was immense, infinite in its value and its meaning.
Holy Saturday is the day of God’s concealment, as one reads in an ancient
homily: “What happened? Today there is great silence upon the earth, great
silence and solitude. Great silence because the King sleeps … God died in
the flesh and descended to make the kingdom of hell (‘gli inferi’)
tremble” (“Homily on Holy Saturday,” PG 43, 439). In the Creed we
confess that Jesus Christ “was crucified under Pontius Pilate, died and was
buried; he descended into hell (‘negli inferi’), and the third day he rose
again from the dead.”
Dear brothers and sisters, in our time, especially after having passed
through the last century, humanity has become especially sensitive to the
mystery of Holy Saturday. God’s concealment is part of the spirituality of
contemporary man, in an existential manner, almost unconscious, as an
emptiness that continues to expand in the heart. At the end of the 18th
century, Nietzsche wrote: “God is dead! And we have killed him!” This
celebrated expression, if we consider it carefully, is taken almost word for
word from the Christian tradition, we often repeat it in the Via Crucis,
perhaps not fully realizing what we are saying. After the two World Wars,
the concentration camps, the gulags, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, our epoch
has become in ever great measure a Holy Saturday: the darkness of this day
questions all those who ask about life, it questions us believers in a special
way. We too have something to do with this darkness.
And nevertheless, the death of the Son of God, of Jesus of Nazareth, has an
opposite aspect, totally positive; it is a font of consolation and hope. And
this makes me think that the sacred Shroud acts as a “photographic”
document, with a “positive” and a “negative.” And in effect, this is exactly
how it is: The most obscure mystery of faith is at the same time the most
luminous sign of a hope without limits. Holy Saturday is the “no man’s land”
between death and resurrection, but into this “no man’s land” has entered the
One, the Only One, who has crossed it with the signs of his passion for man:
“Passio Christi. Passio hominis.” And the Shroud speaks to us precisely of
that moment; it witnesses precisely to the unique and unrepeatable interval in
the history of humanity and the universe, in which God, in Jesus Christ,
shared not only our dying, but also our remaining in death. The most radical
solidarity. In that “time-beyond-time” Jesus Christ “descended into
hell” (“agli inferi”) What does this expression mean? It means that God, made
man, went to the point of entering into the extreme and absolute solitude of
man, where no ray of love enters, where there is total abandonment without
any word of comfort: “hell” (“gli inferi”). Jesus Christ, remaining in death,
has gone beyond the gates of this ultimate solitude to lead us too to go beyond
it with him.
We have all at times felt a frightening sensation of abandonment, and that
which makes us most afraid of death is precisely this [abandonment]; just as
when as children we were afraid to be alone in the dark and only the presence
of a person who loves us could reassure us. So, it is exactly this that happened
in Holy Saturday: In the kingdom of death there resounded the voice of God.
The unthinkable happened: that Love penetrated “into hell” (“negli inferi”):
that in the most extreme darkness of the most absolute human solitude we can
hear a voice that calls us and find a hand that takes us and leads us out. The
human being lives by the fact that he is loved and can love; and if love even
has penetrated into the realm of death, then life has also arrived there. In the
hour of extreme solitude we will never be alone: “Passio Christi. Passio
hominis.”
This is the mystery of Holy Saturday! It is from there, from the darkness of
the death of the Son of God, that the light of a new hope has shone: the light
of the Resurrection. And it seems to me that looking upon this cloth with the
eyes of faith one perceives something of this light. In effect, the Shroud was
immersed in that profound darkness, but it is luminous at the same time; and I
think that if thousands and thousands of people come to see it -- without
counting those who contemplate copies of it -- it is because in it they do not
see only darkness, but also light; not so much the defeat of life and love but
rather victory, victory of life over death, of love over hatred; they indeed see
the death of Jesus, but glimpse his resurrection [too]; in the heart of death
there now beats life, inasmuch as love lives there. This is the power of the
Shroud: from the countenance of this “Man of sorrows,” who takes upon
himself man’s passion of every time and every place, even our passion, our
suffering, our difficulties, our sins -- “Passio Christi. Passio hominis” -- from
this moment there emanates a solemn majesty, a paradoxical lordship. This
face, these hands and these feet, this side, this whole body speaks, it is itself a
word that we can hear in silence. How does the Shroud speak? It speaks with
blood, and blood is life! The Shroud is an icon written in blood; the blood of a
man who has been scourged, crowned with thorns, crucified and wounded in
his right side. Every trace of blood speaks of love and of life. Especially that
large mark near the side, made by blood and water that poured copiously from
a great wound caused by a Roman spear, that blood and that water speak of
life. It is like a spring that speaks in silence, and we can hear it, we can listen
to it, in the silence of Holy Saturday.
Dear friends, let us praise the Lord always for his faithful and merciful love.
Departing from this holy place, we carry in our eyes the image of the Shroud,
we carry in our heart this word of love, and we praise God with a life full of
faith, of love and of charity.
Thank you.
Intentions of Pope Benedict XVI
April 2011
General Intention: That the Church may offer new generations, through the
believable proclamation of the Gospel, ever-new reasons of life and hope.
Missionary Intention: That missionaries, with the proclamation of the Gospel and
their witness of life, may bring Christ to all those who do not yet know Him.
Oblates of the Virgin Mary
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MEDITACIÓN DEL PAPA ANTE LA SÁBANA SANTA
Queridos amigos:
Se trata de un momento muy esperado por mí. En otra ocasión, estuve
ante la Sábana Santa, pero ahora vivo esta peregrinación con particular
intensidad: quizá porque el paso de los años me hace todavía más
sensible al mensaje de este extraordinario icono; quizá, y diría sobre
todo, porque estoy aquí como sucesor de Pedro, y traigo en mi corazón
a toda la Iglesia, es más, a toda la humanidad. Doy las gracias a Dios
por el don de esta peregrinación, y también por la oportunidad de
compartir con vosotros una breve meditación, que me sugiere el
subtítulo de esta solemne exposición: "El misterio del Sábado Santo".
Se puede decir que la Sábana Santa es el icono de este misterio, icono
del Sábado Santo. De hecho, es una tela de sepulcro, que ha envuelto el
cuerpo de un hombre crucificado, y que corresponde en todo a lo que
nos dicen los Evangelios sobre Jesús, quien crucificado hacia mediodía,
expiró a eso de las tres de la tarde. Al caer la noche, dado que era la
Parasceve, es decir, la vigilia del sábado solemne de Pascua, José de
Arimatea, un rico y autorizado miembro del Sanedrín, pidió
valientemente a Poncio Pilato que le permitiera sepultar a Jesús en su
sepulcro nuevo, que había excavado en la roca a poca distancia del
Gólgota. Tras alcanzar el permiso, compró una sábana y, tras la
deposición del cuerpo de Jesús de la cruz, lo envolvió con aquel lienzo
y lo puso en aquella tumba (Cf. Marcos 15,42-46). Es lo que refiere el
Evangelio de Marcos y con él concuerdan los demás evangelistas.
Desde ese momento, Jesús permaneció en el sepulcro hasta el alba del
día después del sábado, y la Sábana de Turín nos ofrece la imagen de
cómo era su cuerpo en la tumba durante ese tiempo, que
cronológicamente fue breve (en torno a un día y medio), pero con un
valor y un significado inmenso e infinito.
El Sábado Santo es el día del escondimiento de Dios, como se lee en
una antigua homilía: "¿Qué es lo que hoy sucede? Un gran silencio
envuelve la tierra; un gran silencio y soledad, porque el Rey duerme
[...]. Dios en la carne ha muerto y el Abismo ha despertado" (Homilía
sobre el Sábado Santo, PG 43, 439). En el Credo, profesamos que
Jesucristo "padeció bajo el poder de Poncio Pilato, fue crucificado
muerto y sepultado, descendió a los infiernos, al tercer día resucitó de
entre los muertos".
Queridos hermanos y hermanas: en nuestro tiempo, especialmente
después del siglo pasado, la humanidad se ha hecho particularmente
sensible al misterio del Sábado Santo. El escondimiento de Dios forma
parte de la espiritualidad del hombre contemporáneo, de manera
existencial, casi inconsciente, como un vacío en el corazón que ha ido
haciéndose cada vez más grande. Al final del siglo XIX, Nietzsche
escribía: "¡Dios ha muerto! ¡Y nosotros le hemos matado!". Esta
famosa expresión, si se analiza bien, es tomada casi al pie de la letra,
por la tradición cristiana, con frecuencia la repetimos en el Vía Crucis,
quizá sin darnos cuenta plenamente de lo que decimos. Después de las
dos guerras mundiales, de los lagers y de los gulags, de Hiroshima y
Nagasaki, nuestra época se ha convertido cada vez más en un Sábado
Santo: la oscuridad de este día interpela a todos los que reflexionan
sobre la vida, de manera particular nos interpela a nosotros, creyentes.
También nosotros tenemos que vérnoslas con esta oscuridad.
Y, sin embargo, la muerte del Hijo de Dios, de Jesús de Nazaret, tiene
un aspecto opuesto, totalmente positivo, fuente de consuelo y de
esperanza. Y esto me hace pensar en el hecho de que la Sábana Santa se
comporta como un documento "fotográfico", dotado de un "positivo" y
de un "negativo". De hecho, es precisamente así: el misterio más oscuro
de la fe es al mismo tiempo el signo más luminoso de una esperanza
que no tiene confines. El Sábado Santo es la "tierra de nadie" entre la
muerte y la resurrección, pero en esta "tierra de nadie" ha entrado Uno,
el Único, que la ha recorrido con los signos de su Pasión por el hombre:
"Passio Christi. Passio hominis". Y la Sábana Santa nos habla
exactamente de ese momento, es testigo precisamente de ese intervalo
único e irrepetible en la historia de la humanidad y del universo, en el
que Dios, en Jesucristo, ha compartido no sólo nuestro morir, sino
también nuestra permanencia en la muerte. La solidaridad más radical.
En ese "tiempo-más-allá-del-tiempo", Jesucristo "descendió a los
infiernos". ¿Qué significa esta expresión? Quiere decir que Dios, hecho
hombre, ha llegado hasta el punto de entrar en la soledad máxima y
absoluta del hombre, donde no llega ningún rayo de amor, donde reina
el abandono total sin ninguna palabra de consuelo: "los infiernos".
Jesucristo, permaneciendo en la muerte, cruzó la puerta de esta soledad
última para guiarnos también a nosotros y atravesarla con él.
Todos hemos experimentado alguna vez una sensación aterradora de
abandono, y lo que más miedo nos da de la muerte es precisamente eso,
como niños que tenemos miedo de estar solos en la oscuridad y sólo la
presencia de una personas que nos ama nos puede tranquilizar. Esto es
precisamente lo que sucedió en el Sábado Santo: en el reino de la
muerte resonó la voz de Dios. Sucedió lo impensable: es decir, el Amor
penetró "en los infiernos"; incluso en la oscuridad máxima de la
soledad humana más absoluta podemos escuchar una voz que nos llama
y encontrar una mano que nos saca afuera. El ser humano vive por el
hecho de que es amado y puede amar; y si incluso en el espacio de la
muerte ha llegado a penetrar el amor, entonces incluso allí ha llegado la
vida. En la hora de la máxima soledad nunca estaremos solos: "Passio
Christi. Passio hominis".
¡Este es el misterio de Sábado Santo! Precisamente desde allí, desde la
oscuridad de la muerte del Hijo de Dios, ha surgido la luz de una nueva
esperanza: la luz de la Resurrección. Me parece que al contemplar esta
sagrada tela con los ojos de la fe se percibe algo de esa luz. La Sábana
Santa ha quedado sumergida en esa oscuridad profunda, pero es al
mismo tiempo luminosa; y yo pienso que si miles y miles de personas
vienen a venerarla, sin contar a quienes la contemplan a través de las
imágenes, es porque en ella no sólo ven la oscuridad, sino también la
luz; más que la derrota de la vida y del amor, ven la victoria, la victoria
de la vida sobre la muerte, del amor sobre el odio; ciertamente ven la
muerte de Jesús, pero entrevén su Resurrección; en el seno de la muerte
ahora palpita la vida, pues en ella mora el amor. Este es el poder de la
Sábana Santa: del rostro de este "varón de dolores", que carga con la
pasión del hombre de todo tiempo y lugar, incluso con nuestras
pasiones, nuestros sufrimientos, nuestras dificultades, nuestros pecados
--"Passio Christi. Passio hominis"-- emana una solemne majestad, un
señorío paradójico. Este rostro, estas manos y estos pies, este costado,
todo este cuerpo habla, es en sí mismo una palabra que podemos
escuchar en silencio ¿Cómo habla la Sábana Santa? ¡Habla con la
sangre, y la sangre es la vida! La Sábana Santa es un icono escrito con
sangre; sangre de un hombre flagelado, coronado de espinas,
crucificado y herido en el costado derecho. La imagen impresa en la
Sábana Santa es la de un muerto, pero la sangre habla de su vida. Cada
traza de sangre habla de amor y de vida. Especialmente esa gran
mancha cercana al costado, hecha de la sangre y del agua manados
copiosamente de una gran herida provocada por una lanza romana, esa
sangre y ese agua hablan de vida. Es como un manantial que murmura
en el silencio y nosotros podemos oírlo, podemos escucharlo, en el
silencio del Sábado Santo.
Queridos amigos, alabemos siempre al Señor por su amor fiel y
misericordioso. Al salir de este lugar santo, nos llevamos en los ojos la
imagen de la Sábana Santa, llevamos en el corazón esta palabra de
amor, y alabamos a Dios con una vida llena de fe, de esperanza y de
caridad.
Gracias.
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St. Francis Chapel
Prudential Center, Boston
Oblates of the Virgin Mary—USA
The Oblates of the Virgin Mary is an international religious
community of priests and brothers serving in Italy, France,
Austria, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Nigeria, the United States
and the Philippines. The Oblates are involved in retreat and
parish missions, spiritual direction, parish work, the mass
media, clergy formation, and the foreign missions.
Fr. Bruno
Lanteri
(1759-1830)
The Founder
of the
Oblates of the Virgin Mary.
Declared “Venerable” the first step to
Sainthood.
ST. PETER CHANEL PARISH
Hawaiian Gardens, CA
The US Province of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary is
dedicated to St. Ignatius of Loyola, and includes
communities in Massachusetts, Illinois, Colorado,
California and the Philippines.
ST. CLEMENT EUCHARISTIC SHRINE & ST FRANCIS CHAPEL, Boston. MA
ST. JOSEPH HOUSE, Milton, MA
ST. MARY PARISH
Alton, IL
OMV FORMATION CENTER
Cebu City, Philippines
HOLY GHOST PARISH
& LANTERI CENTER
FOR IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY
Denver, CO
The OMV motto,
“MARIAM COGITA, MARIAM
INVOCA”
“THINK OF MARY, CALL ON
MARY”
is taken from a homily by St.
Bernard
on the Blessed Virgin.