Habemus Papam! Francisco I

The format for the announcement when a cardinal is elected Pope is:

Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum:
Habemus Papam!
Eminentissimum ac reverendissimum Dominum Georgium,
Dominum Sanctæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ Cardinalem Bergoglio
Qui sibi nomen imposuit Francisco I.

In English, it reads:

I announce to you a great joy:
We have a Pope!
The most eminent and most reverend Lord Jorge
Lord Bergoglio Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church 

 Who takes for himself the name of Francis I (thanks wiki for formula)

white smoke

back in a moment

and yes, it was two ballots

on the 5th.......................................and the umbrellas are down!

Dolan sends a tweet (joke)

http://www.ipadre.net/2013/03/no-technology-in-conclave-or-is-there/

Seagull is back

The chimney must be the warmest place in the area! More than one and taking terns...........pun..the second one left and now there is another one...these are stress-busting birds.

Watching for smoke

Love it, the media is NOT in control.

And, black umbrellas with white rims are trendy.

From First Things--UN nutsy on women rights

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/03/13/un-commission-on-status-of-women-goes-mad/comment-page-1/#comment-92998

Humor from Rome

Very large seagull on the chimney.

And, here in Surrey

we have snow--more snow!

OH NO...note from America

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/03/democrats-push-hillary-clinton-michelle-obama-2016-dream-ticket/

Horrible Anti-Catholic Report Comparing Vatican to Soviets

http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2013/03/msnbc-analyst-compares-church-to-soviet.html?spref=tw

This is NOT America

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-12/california-seizes-guns-as-owners-lose-right-to-bear-arms.html?cmpid=yhoo

Personal Plea for Prayers

Something has arisen which needs immediate attention in my little old life.

Please pray for a miracle.

Thank you.

Lombardi Press Conference

http://live.lastampa.it/Event/THE_PAPAL_CONCLAVE

And if no white smoke by one tomorrow, Rome time, same press conference.

The chemicals in the smoke are being discussed and may be listed on La Stampa later today.What a great experience to see the secular interest in the Church. I am SO proud to be a Catholic.

Old photo from TimesMalta-Benedict watching television when still Pope

How wonderful that television, the Net, radio and twitter are talking about SMOKE. Love it.

Archbishop George Ganswein has shared that the Pope Emeritus is well and is watching things on television. How amazing!

Just got a view of the ballot.

This press meeting is amazing!

Catholic News Svc ‏@CatholicNewsSvc

Rosica: I lost sleep night before. I had chills up my spine. Looked at cardinals "saw not just them, but their countries"

Of course, Potus has to make news concerning a pope

http://www.lastampa.it/2013/03/13/esteri/obama-credo-che-un-papa-americano-sarebbe-efficace-come-uno-italiano-sFrujgKpYfmz3Jm2iq2kjO/pagina.html

A note on the DoC series

Tomorrow, I shall resume the Doctors of the Church series...In my monastic journal, March 12th was the Feast of St. Gregory the Great, who I just covered, and March 18th is St. Cyril of Jerusalem. I ask their intercession for Cardinal Burke. And, for my adopted Cardinal Alencherry, to hear God's voice.

And, here is an interesting chart for those who want to speculate, from a German blog, in English.

http://centurioweblog.blogspot.ch/2013/03/bold-prediction-and-updated.html

Black Smoke

Gerard O'Connell @gerryorome

Cardinals now celebrating mass. They will start voting in second ballot around 9.45 -10.00a.m. Should have counted votes by 10.45 a.m.

Black smoke at 10:38 and that was two ballots

Ballot Two and Three.

USCCB ‏@USCCB

Three ballots and no pope. Last pope elected on third ballot was Pius XII in 1939. 

A half hour until smoke

Umbrellas up in the Piazza.

Part 80: DoC: John of Damascus

I shall look at Basil, Peter Chrysologus, Gregory Nazianzus, Hilary of Poitiers  Athanasius, the two Cyrils,  and John Damascene, John Chrysostom, and Isidore of Seville before moving on to others closer to our own time. I have written about John of the Cross before, but I shall look at him again in the context of this series. As I have noted before, I shall end the series with a few posts on Garrigou-Lagrange, who started this series.

On this day, when we may have a new pope, I shall start with St. John Damascene, who wrote among other things, a long treatise on the Faith.

Here is the beginning of the book, as a warning for those seeking perfection.

An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith.

————————————

Book I.

Chapter I.—That the Deity is incomprehensible, and that we ought not to pry into and meddle with the things which have not been delivered to us by the holy Prophets, and Apostles, and Evangelists.

No one hath seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him¹⁴⁰⁶. The Deity, therefore, is ineffable and incomprehensible. For no one knoweth the Father, save the Son, nor the Son, save the Father¹⁴⁰⁷. And the Holy Spirit, too, so knows the things of God as the spirit of the man knows the things that are in him¹⁴⁰⁸. Moreover, after the first and blessed nature no one, not of men only, but even of supramundane powers, and the Cherubim, I say, and Seraphim themselves, has ever known God, save he to whom He revealed Himself.

God, however, did not leave us in absolute ignorance. For the knowledge of God’s existence has been implanted by Him in all by nature. This creation, too, and its maintenance, and its government, proclaim the majesty of the Divine nature¹⁴⁰⁹. 

This is natural law.

Moreover, by the Law and the Prophets¹⁴¹⁰ in former times and afterwards by His Only-begotten Son, our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ, He disclosed to us the knowledge of Himself as that was possible for us. All things, therefore, that have been delivered to us by Law and Prophets and Apostles and Evangelists we receive, and know, and honour¹⁴¹¹, seeking for nothing beyond these. For God, being good, is the cause of all good, subject neither to envy nor to any passion¹⁴¹². For envy is far removed from the Divine nature, which is both passionless and only good. As knowing all things, therefore, and providing for what is profitable for each, He revealed that which it was to our profit to know; but what we were unable¹⁴¹³ to bear He kept secret. With these things let us be satisfied, and let us abide by them, not removing everlasting boundaries, nor overpassing the divine tradition¹⁴¹⁴.

And, this means false, private revelations. Those seeking perfection follow the
"divine tradition", which is the Teaching Magisterium of the Catholic Church.

How simple, yet, how difficult, it is for spiritually minded people to be disciplined, even in seeking for the life of prayer and perfection.

It is clear from John of Damascus, that Revelation, that is Scripture, and Tradition, that is the Teaching Magisterium of the Church, are the basis of our belief.

Orthodoxy first, and then the seeking of perfection...to be continued.

This is amazing

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/current-affairs/pope-betting/Next-Pope-4825595.html

Only in England and Ireland.

Look who has odds of 666/1.

A wonderful and real thought

HelpofChristians ‏@MaryOurHelp

"Each time we look at The Most Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever." ~(Revealed by Our Lord to St. Gertrude the Great)