The Weekly Benedict (Nov. 6, 2011)

Pope-benedict-4Here are this week's items for The Weekly Benedict (subscribe here):

ANGELUS: Angelus, 30 October 2011

AUDIENCE: 5 October 2011, Psalm 23

AUDIENCE: 19 October 2011, The Great Hallel, Psalm 136 (135)

AUDIENCE: 26 October 2011, Prayer in preparation of the Meeting in Assisi

A note about the above audiences: There's a longstanding practice at the Holy See's web site where they post a one-paragraph summary of the pope's Wednesday audience and then leave it there for a few weeks until they get a full English translation ready. That slipped my mind when I started doing The Weekley Benedict, so for the first couple of weeks, I accidentally posted links to the one-paragraph summaries of some recent audiences. Now I'm fixing that and linking to the full versions, which are available for October 5, 19, and 26 (though for some reason the audience of Oct. 12 still has the one-paragraph summary; go figure). In the future I will be linking only the most recent full version rather than the temporary, one-paragraph summaries. This will mean that the audience listed will be a little more date-lagged, but that way you won't miss any of the great Benedict audience action.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

5 thoughts on “The Weekly Benedict (Nov. 6, 2011)”

  1. Thanks for that Jimmy. I have been following the catechesis on prayer and have been puzzled by the brevity on the Vatican website – now all is explained and I can go back and get the longer version.

  2. BTW, this is a wee bit dated and off topic, but: Enough will all these “cthulhu” jokes! STOP MAKING FUN OF H P LOVECRAFT.

  4. Sharon: Glad to be of service!
    Antonymous: Don’t follow.
    Rcouch: See my post on the NCRegister Tuesday. (And, hasn’t Pope Benedict not been a bishop in Germany for several decades?)

  5. RANDY: YOU HAVE BEEN HITTING THE SAME NOTE OVER AND OVER, REGARDLESS OF THE TOPIC AT HAND. THIS IS A RULE 1 VIOLATION. YOU HAVE SHOWED YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED IN DISCUSSION OF THE TOPICS BEING POSTED. THEREFORE, YOUR COMMENTS WILL BE DELETED.

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