Angelus News | October 25, 2019 | Vol. 4 No. 36

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FOLLOW US ANGELUS October 25, 2019 | Vol. 4 • No. 36 3424 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90010-2241 (213) 637-7360 • FAX (213) 637-6360 — Published by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles by The Tidings (a corporation), established 1895. Publisher ARCHBISHOP JOSÉ H. GOMEZ Vice Chancellor for Communications DAVID SCOTT Editor-in-Chief PABLO KAY pkay@angelusnews.com Multimedia Editor TAMARA LONG-GARCÍA Features Editor R.W. DELLINGER Photo Editor VICTOR ALEMÁN Managing Editor RICHARD G. BEEMER Assistant Editor HANNAH SWENSON Circulation CHRIS KRAUSE Advertising Manager JIM GARCIA jagarcia@angelusnews.com www.angelusnews.com www.la-archdiocese.org facebook.com/AngelusNews info@angelusnews.com AngelusNews @AngelusNews @AngelusNews ANGELUS is published weekly except at Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas and semiweekly in July and August by The Tidings (a corporation), established 1895. Periodicals postage paid at Los Angeles, California. One-year subscriptions (44 issues), $30.00; single copies, $1.00 © 2019 ANGELUS (2473-2699). No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher. Events and products advertised in ANGELUS do not carry the implicit endorsement of The Tidings Corporation or the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: ANGELUS, PO Box 306, Congers, NY 10920-0306. For Subscription and Delivery information, please call (844) 245-6630 (Mon - Fri, 7 am-4 pm PT). POPE WATCH Supreme creativity The following is adapted from the Holy Father’s catechesis at the morning General Audience in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 16. The journey of the gospel in the world, which St. Luke recounts in the Acts of the Apostles, is accompanied by the supreme creativity of God, who manifests himself in a surprising way. He wants his children to overcome all “particularism” in order to be open to the universality of salvation. This is the aim: to overcome particularism and open oneself to the universality of salvation, because God wants to save everyone. Those who are reborn by water and the Spirit — the baptized — are called to come out of themselves and open themselves up to others. The witness of this process of “fraternization” that the Spirit wants to trigger in history is St. Peter, protagonist in the Acts of the Apostles together with Paul. Peter lives an event that marks a decisive turning point for his existence. While he is praying, he receives a vision that acts as a divine “provocation,” to provoke a change of mentality in him. He sees a large cloth descending from above, holding various animals ... and he hears a voice inviting him to eat their flesh. As a good Jew, he reacted by saying that he had never eaten anything impure, as required by the Law of the Lord (cf. Leviticus 11). Then the voice forcefully repeats: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean” (Acts 10: 15). With this fact, the Lord wants Peter no longer to evaluate events and people according to the categories of the pure and the impure, but to learn to go beyond, to look at the person and the intentions of his heart. What makes man impure, in fact, does not come from outside but only from within, from the heart (cf. Mark 7: 21). Jesus said this clearly. After that vision, God sends Peter to the home of an uncircumcised stranger, Cornelius, who was not Jewish. In that pagan household, Peter preaches the crucified and risen Christ and the forgiveness of sins to whoever believes in him. And while Peter speaks, the Holy Spirit is poured over Cornelius and his family. And Peter baptizes him in the name of Jesus Christ (cf. Acts 10: 48). This extraordinary fact becomes known in Jerusalem, where the brothers, scandalized by Peter’s behavior, harshly reproach him (cf. Acts 11: 1–3). But after the encounter with Cornelius, Peter is more free from himself and more in communion with God and with others, because he has seen God’s will in action in the Holy Spirit. He can therefore understand that the election of Israel is not the reward for merits, but the sign of the gratuitous call to mediate the divine blessing among pagan peoples. From the Prince of the Apostles we learn that an evangelizer cannot be an impediment to the creative work of God ... but one that fosters the encounter of hearts with the Lord. And how do we behave with our brothers and sisters, especially those who are not Christians? Are we impediments to the encounter with God? Today we ask for the grace to allow ourselves to be astonished by God’s surprises, not to hinder his creativity, but to recognize and encourage the ever new ways in which the Risen One pours out his Spirit into the world and attracts hearts. Papal Prayer Intention for October: That the breath of the Holy Spirit engender a new missionary “spring” in the Church. 2 • ANGELUS • October 25, 2019
NEW WORLD OF FAITH BY ARCHBISHOP JOSÉ H. GOMEZ The rosary is a prayer of the heart We are concluding this month that the Church dedicates to the holy rosary, and I want to encourage all of us to go deeper in our practice of this holy devotion. We all need to pray more urgently, with greater intensity. It is the only path to take if we want to grow in our relationship with God. For me, praying the rosary every day has become a part of my own life and it is a powerful help in my own efforts to follow Jesus. We live in a noisy, crowded world, constantly confronted by sounds and images, impressions, and sensations. Our technologies and our way of life make it hard for us to carve out time and space just to be quiet and reflect, to be alone with our thoughts and go “inside ourselves.” That is why we need the rosary. It is a prayer of the heart, a way of contemplation. In the rhythms and repetitions of the rosary, we enter into a space of silence in which we open our hearts in the presence of God. We enter this silence aware of our failings and sins, bringing with us our concerns for the world, all the burdens of our lives. It is beautiful how the repetitions of this prayer correspond with the rhythms of our breathing and the beating of our hearts. Some people find the repetitions of the rosary to be annoying or just routine. But if we pray with true piety, with true love in our hearts for Jesus and Mary, then these patterns of repeated words, all of them words from the sacred Scriptures, will lead us into the presence of God and into the contemplation of his mysteries. At the center of the Hail Mary that we repeat is the name of Jesus, the name in which we have salvation — “Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.” It is a good habit to pray the rosary with the Gospels. St. John Paul II recommended that we announce each mystery and read the related Gospel passage, contemplating the face of Christ in the mystery and then listening for the “word” that he wants to speak to us through this mystery. The mysteries of his life are the great truths of our faith — the joy of his incarnation, as he is “born of the Virgin “The rosary is the prayer of the saints, part of the secret of their sanctity.” Mary”; the light that he brings with his life “for us men and for our salvation”; the sorrow of his passion, as “he suffered under Pontius Pilate”; the glory of his resurrection “on the third day”; and his promise that “he will come again.” Our newest saint, St. John Henry Newman, said, “The greater power of the rosary lies in this, that it makes the Creed into a prayer [and] gives us the great truths of his life and death to meditate upon, and brings them nearer to our hearts.” The rosary is the prayer of the saints, it is part of the secret of their sanctity, their closeness to Christ. With Mary, we remember his presence among us, we ponder his words, his actions. Meditating on these mysteries, we enter day by day into his life and gradually his life comes to penetrate our lives. And as Mary did, we open our lives to live in response to his saving word: “May it be done to me according to your word.” The reality of our Christian lives is that Jesus wants to be born in each of us. He wants his life to become our life, and he wants our life to become his life. The rosary is a prayer that leads to this transformation. When we pray with devotion, when we order our lives to God’s will, we allow him to shape us and form us in the image of his Son. Through this prayer, the mysteries of his life continue to unfold in our lives, as God works out his loving plan for our salvation. The key is to pray as children, letting our mother lead us, learning to see her Son through her eyes. When we do this, when the rosary becomes a habit with us, we find that the spirit of this prayer carries over into our daily life and our duties at home, at work or at school, making us contemplatives in the world. Pray the rosary with confidence and you will feel peace, and begin to have more of a supernatural outlook on the things going on in the world and in your life, and you will sense God’s presence more and his Providence. Pray for me this week, and I will be praying for you. And let us ask the Blessed Virgin Mary to intercede for us and to inspire in each of us a new experience of the beauty and the power of the rosary. To read more columns by Archbishop José H. Gomez or to subscribe, visit www.angelusnews.com. October 25, 2019 • ANGELUS • 3
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