[continued from previous message]   
      
   Open-Air Mass took place at the Foro Italico ‘Umberto I’, a large   
   green area that forms one of the promenades of Palermo. The Mass was   
   presided over by Paolo Cardinal Romeo, Metropolitan Archbishop of   
   Palermo, with Salvatore Cardinal de Giorgi, Metropolitan Archbishop   
   Emeritus of Palermo, as the Papal Legate who performed the Rite of   
   Beatification. Estimates state that 50,000 people attended the Mass.   
   During his Angelus address, the following Sunday, 26 May, Pope Francis   
   stated that the newly Beatified Puglisi was first and foremost ‘an   
   exemplary priest and a martyr’, as well as condemning mafia groups.   
      
   “The disciple of Christ is a witness. Christian’s witness can get into   
   difficulties,it can become martyrdom. The step is short, indeed it is   
   martyrdom that gives value to the testimony. Remember Saint Paul:  “I   
   desire to die even to be with Christ.”   
      
   Here, this desire becomes a desire for communion that transcends even life.”   
   Blessed Pino’s home is now a shrine and museum.   
      
   From Anastpaul 2019   
      
      
   Bible Quote:   
    And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the   
   height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge   
   according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear,   
   but the Lord beholdeth the heart.  (1 Samuel 16:7 ) DRB   
      
      
   <><><><>   
   A prayer to our Lord for intercession of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour:   
      
   O Lord, grant unto us Thy grace, we beseech Thee, so as to realize   
   Thine almighty power wrought by the intercession of Our Lady of   
   Perpetual Succour. Thy Spirit surrounds us, Thine all-seeing eyes fix   
   upon us, and Thy Divinely Sacred Heart yearns for us, that we may   
   cease to tremble at the smites of the Godless, and no longer shrink   
   from the ridicule of those who serve the Prince of this world. May we   
   take good courage and perform Thy Will in the work that Thou wouldst   
   give us to do in this life, and may Our Lady of Perpetual Succour's   
   intercession lift us above the sufferings we face, leading us finally   
   into Thy heavenly abode. Grant we may come unto Thee, to rest in the   
   peace only Thou dost give, singing Thy praises, and those of Our Lady,   
   for endless Ages. Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)