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Papal Audiences
BXVI

St Eusebius of Vercelli

Dear Brothers and Sisters, This morning I invite you to reflect on St Eusebius of Vercelli, the first Bishop of Northern Italy of whom we have reliable information. Born in Sardinia at the beginning of the fourth century, he mo...
by Benedict XVI
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Fathers of the Church
2012-Jan-Eusebius

Letter from prison

Dearly beloved, I know now that you are safe, as I was hoping. When I receive a letter from one of you and see in your writings your goodness and love, joy mingles with tears. Both emotions are inescapable, as they vie with eac...
by Eusebius of Vercelli
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International Eucharistic Congress 2012
2012-Jan-IEC

Union with Christ and with one another

I invite you all to join me in praying for the success of the next International Eucharistic Congress, which will take place in 2012 in the city of Dublin! I take this opportunity to greet warmly the people of Ireland, as they ...
by Donncha Ó hAodha
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January 2012
2012-Jan-MdA

Spontaneous generation

A news item over the Christmas period mentioned the finding of two planets the size of the Earth, rotating around a star like our sun, though a bit older. On reading further, we learned that the planets are much too close to th...
by Michael DeArce
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January 2012
2012-Jan-EuchC

What is a Eucharistic Congress?

1. The shape of Eucharistic Congresses in history and at the present From the time they began in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Eucharistic Congresses have had the scope of ‘making our Lord Jesus Christ in the Bl...
by Piero Marini
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January 2012
2012-Jan-StPaul

The conversion of St Paul

The space of a month There is something about the period of a month that seems to attract the human mind. Our memory can just about cope with that time span – any more and things start to dissolve. Possibly this is because it...
by Eugene O'Neill
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