Due to the holidays, I didn't do The Weekly Benedict last week, so here's another double-dose of our awesome pope! (In fact, it's an unusually large double-dose, because the pope is especially active this time of year–so pray for his health and rest–and because the Vatican web site guys got their hinders in gear and delivered a whole month's worth of speeches in English at once.)
Here are this week's items for The Weekly Benedict (subscribe here):
ANGELUS: Angelus, 18 December 2011
ANGELUS: Angelus, 26 December 2011, Feast of Saint Stephen
AUDIENCE: 14 December 2011
AUDIENCE: 21 December 2011
MESSAGE: "Urbi et Orbi" – Christmas Day 2011
HOMILY: 11 December 2011: Pastoral Visit to the Roman parish of "Santa Maria delle Grazie" at Casal Boccone
HOMILY: 12 December 2011: Holy Mass for Latin AmericaHOMILY:
HOMILY: 15 December 2011: Vespers with the University students of the Rome
HOMILY: 24 December 2011: Midnight Mass
HOMILY:31 December 2011: Vespers and Te Deum
MESSAGE:Message to Card. Gianfranco Ravasi on the occasion of the 16th Public Session of the Pontifical Academies (November 30, 2011)
SPEECH: To participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family (December 1, 2011)
SPEECH: To members of the International Theological Commission (December 2, 2011)
SPEECH: To participants in the Third World Congress for the Pastoral Care of Foreign Students promoted by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (December 2, 2011)
SPEECH: "Christmas Oratorio from the Alps" and projection of the film "From Heaven to Earth – Advent and Christmas in the Bavarian Alps", offered to the Holy Father by theBayerischer Rundfunk (December 2, 2011)
SPEECH: Lighting via video link of the Christmas Tree, decorated with hundreds of lights, in the Italian town of Gubbio (Perugia) (December 7, 2011) SPEECH:
SPEECH: Act of Veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the occasion of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8, 2011)
SPEECH: Pastoral Visit to the Roman Parish of "Santa Maria delle Grazie" in Casal Boccone (December 11, 2011)
SPEECH: To the new Ambassadors accredited to the Holy See on the occasion of the presentation of the Letters of Credence (December 15, 2011)
SPEECH: To a delegation from Ukraine who donated the Christmas tree for St Peter's Square (December 16, 2011)
SPEECH: To the Bishops of the Episcopal Conferences of the Pacific and of New Zealand on their ad Limina visit (December 17, 2011)
SPEECH: Pastoral Visit to Rebibbia Prison – Rome (December 18, 2011)
SPEECH: Responses to the questions posed by the inmates (New Prison of Rebibbia – Rome, 18 December 2011)
SPEECH: Christmas greetings to Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops and Directors of the Governorate of Vatican City State (December 22, 2011)
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."
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