The Weekly Benedict: 10 February, 2013

This version of The Weekly Benedict covers material released in the last week from 16 January 2012 – 10 February 2013 (subscribe here; get as an eBook version for your Kindle, iPod, iPad, Nook, or other eBook reader):

Index of Source Links

List of direct document links on Vatican.va used.

Angelus

• 27 January 2013

General Audiences

• 23 January 2013
• 30 January 2013

Homilies

• 2 February 2013 – Celebration of Mass on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and the 17th Day of Consecrated Life

Letters

• 23 January 2013 – Words of condolences for the death of Card. Jozef Glemp
• 1 February 2013 – Letter to the new Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans for the concession of the Ecclesiastica Communio

Motu Proprio

• 16 January 2013 – Apostolic Letter Issued Motu Proprio “Fides per Doctrinam” whereby the Apostolic Constitution “Pastor Bonus” is modified and competence for catechesis is transferred from the Congregation for the Clergy to the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization
• 16 January 2013 – Apostolic Letter issued Motu Proprio “Ministrorum Institutio” whereby the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus is modified and responsibility for seminaries is transferred from the Congregation for Catholic Education to the Congregation for the Clergy

Messages

• 1 February 2013 – Message for Lent 2013

Speeches

• 26 January 2013 – To Prelate Auditors, Officials and Advocates of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota on the occasion of the inauguration of the Judicial Year
• 9 February 2013 – To the members of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Papal Tweets

	Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord’s loving Heart. @pontifex, 30 January 2013
	Today I have a special though for every religious: may they always follow Christ faithfully in poverty, chastity and obedience. @pontifex, 2 February 2013
	Today I have a special thought for every religious: may they always follow Christ faithfully in poverty, chastity and obedience. @pontifex, 2 February 2013
	Let us imitate the Virgin Mary in welcoming and guarding the word of Jesus, in order to recognize him as Lord in our lives @pontifex, 3 February 2013
	Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace. @pontifex, 6 February 2013
	We must trust in the mighty power of God’s mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new. @pontifex, 10 February 2013