The Institutum Sapientiae (Institute of Wisdom) is an institute of higher learning in philosophy and theology under the direction of the Order of Canons Regular of the Holy Cross in Anápolis, Brazil. According to its statutes, which were definitively approved by the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Institutes on November 16, 2007, the Institute is specifically for the formation of candidates for the priesthood. It can also offer formation for members of religious institutes in classes separate from those given to the seminarians.Go view the presentation in this Year for Priests and pass the link along!
The Institute has been forming priests for the Order of Canons Regular of the Holy Cross, the diocese of Anápolis as well as other religious communities and dioceses of Brazil since 1984 (see attachment 1). Priests who have received formation in the Institute are now serving the Church in countries all over the world, including the United States, Mexico, Columbia, India, the Philippines, Germany, Italy and Austria
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me.
Amen.
O Almighty, Eternal God, look upon the Face of Your Son and for love of Him, who is the Eternal High Priest, have pity on Your priests. Remember, O most compassionate God, that they are but weak and frail human beings. Stir up in them the grace of their vocation which is in them by the imposition of the bishop’s hands. Keep them close to You, lest the enemy prevail against them, so that they may never do anything in the slightest degree unworthy of their sublime vocation.More prayers for priests
O Jesus, I pray for Your faithful and fervent priests; for Your unfaithful and tepid priests; for Your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields; for Your tempted priests; for the lonely and desolate priests; for Your young priests; for Your dying priests; for the souls of Your priests in purgatory.
But above all, I commend to you N. and all the priests dearest to me, the priest who baptized me, the priests who have absolved me from my sins, the priests at whose Masses I have assisted and who have offered me Your Body and Blood in Holy Communion, the priests who have taught and instructed me or helped and encouraged me, and the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way.
O Jesus, keep them all close to Your Heart, and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity. Amen.
Several bishops have been monitoring the situation since news broke in recent weeks about Quinn's volunteer work at a Hinsdale clinic, which was identified in published reports as ACU Health Center. (An administrator there declined to confirm for ChicagoCatholicNews whether Quinn was a volunteer, saying such matters are typically private.)Source: Religious order rebukes Chicago-area nun who volunteers at abortion clinic (Chicago Catholic News)
Cardinal Francis George, Joliet Bishop J. Peter Sartain and Madison, Wisc., Bishop Robert Morlino are expected to talk soon -- if they have not already -- about Quinn, an aide to Morlino told ChicagoCatholicNews.
The reason all three clerics are involved: Quinn's Mother House (shown below) is based in the Diocese of Madison; she reportedly lives within the confines of the Archdiocese of Chicago, which is George's domain; and the abortion clinic she has been affiliated with falls in the Joliet Diocese.
Representatives of the Fr. John A. Hardon S.J., Archive and Guild, located in St. Louis, Missouri, will be holding a meeting on Thursday, November 19 from 7:30 until 9:00pm at St. Cyril Parish. The meeting will begin with the rosary, to be followed by an open forum. Fr. Robert T. McDermott, the Postulator for the Cause, James Maldonado Berry, the Executive Director of the Archive and Guild, and Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, the Notary and Expert, will take questions and discuss the progress of their work in St. Louis. All are welcome to attend.
Monday is All Souls Day. It is the appropriate sequel to All Saints Day in that its focus centers upon those who are in heaven’s antechamber, so to speak, the place of purification and patient waiting of souls to be found worthy of eternal blessedness. What detains them in purgatory is the residue of their sins which must first be cleansed. Unlike ourselves who, living on earth and in time, can do good things to compensate for our past sins, the souls in purgatory have no means of self help. Consequently, they must either bide the time in enduring the sufferings prescribed for their purification, or else be helped from the ‘outside,’ that is, from the Church on earth. It is both a duty and an honor for us to help the needy. In the case of these “poor souls,” our responsibility and charity are called for with greater force. For this reason the Church prays for the dead in the Mass and in the private prayers of individuals; she offers Masses for the dead (the Requiem and funeral Masses), and encourages us to obtain the indulgences for the dead by performing the specified prayers and practices.
Regarding Masses, we will have Requiem Masses prayed on Monday at 6:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m: seven Masses total. This is not only for the priest who is permitted to celebrate three Masses on this day, according to the traditional allowance of the Church, but for the people as well. You may assist at as many Masses as you find it in your heart to be present for. As for Holy Communion, however, the usual rule still applies: one may receive it only twice on a given day.
Regarding indulgences, all partial indulgences can be applied to the dead. For the plenary indulgence proper to All Souls Day, the following applies. One must visit a church on this day and spend some time (unspecified) praying for the dead. One must also add Lord’s Prayer and the Creed (Apostle’s Creed of the Sunday Mass creed). The other ‘usual conditions’ (see below) must also be present. If there is something unfulfilled in these conditions, the indulgence granted will be only partial.
Also, from November 1st through the 8th one may gain a plenary indulgence for the dead by visiting a cemetery (such as ours) and, while there, praying for the faithful departed. Again, there are no specified prayers to be said, except for those outlined in the ‘usual conditions,’ provided that one says, even only mentally, some prayers for the dead.
The ‘usual conditions’ are these: the one performing the work to gain the indulgence must be free from all sins, mortal and venial (venial sins can be remitted by an act of contrition, which is a good way to begin a work to gain an indulgence); one must receive the sacraments of Confession and Holy Communion: the Confession may be some days before or even after the day of the indulgenced work; the Communion preferably on the same day; one must add some prayers for the Pope (many different ones are possible, but the Lord’s Prayer and Hail Mary are sufficient).
Final word on indulgences for today: a plenary indulgence frees one from all the temporal punishment due to sins; a partial frees one from some of it. A plenary indulgence may be gained only once on any day.
Why should our praise and glorification, or even the celebration of this feast day mean anything to the saints? What do they care about earthly honours when their heavenly Father honours them by fulfilling the faithful promise of the Son? What does our commendation mean to them? The saints have no need of honour from us; neither does our devotion add the slightest thing to what is theirs. Clearly, if we venerate their memory, it serves us, not them. But I tell you, when I think of them, I feel myself inflamed by a tremendous yearning.
Calling the saints to mind inspires, or rather arouses in us, above all else, a longing to enjoy their company, so desirable in itself. We long to share in the citizenship of heaven, to dwell with the spirits of the blessed, to join the assembly of patriarchs, the ranks of the prophets, the council of apostles, the great host of martyrs, the noble company of confessors and the choir of virgins. In short, we long to be united in happiness with all the saints. But our dispositions change. The Church of all the first followers of Christ awaits us, but we do nothing about it. The saints want us to be with them, and we are indifferent. The souls of the just await us, and we ignore them.
Come, brothers, let us at length spur ourselves on. We must rise again with Christ, we must seek the world which is above and set our mind on the things of heaven. Let us long for those who are longing for us, hasten to those who are waiting for us, and ask those who look for our coming to intercede for us. We should not only want to be with the saints, we should also hope to possess their happiness. While we desire to be in their company, we must also earnestly seek to share in their glory. Do not imagine that there is anything harmful in such an ambition as this; there is no danger in setting our hearts on such glory.
When we commemorate the saints we are inflamed with another yearning: that Christ our life may also appear to us as he appeared to them and that we may one day share in his glory. Until then we see him, not as he is, but as he became for our sake. He is our head, crowned, not with glory, but with the thorns of our sins. As members of that head, crowned with thorns, we should be ashamed to live in luxury; his purple robes are a mockery rather than an honour. When Christ comes again, his death shall no longer be proclaimed, and we shall know that we also have died, and that our life is hidden with him. The glorious head of the Church will appear and his glorified members will shine in splendour with him, when he forms this lowly body anew into such glory as belongs to himself, its head.
Therefore, we should aim at attaining this glory with a wholehearted and prudent desire. That we may rightly hope and strive for such blessedness, we must above all seek the prayers of the saints. Thus, what is beyond our own powers to obtain will be granted through their intercession.
