“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.” ― St. Antony the Great
No boring Christmas letter. Just a prayer and a hope from my wife, Francoise and me for a blessed and holy Christmastide. Blogging is less now, I've said and written most of it already. More to come, no doubt, but Substack and Podcasts dominate now, and readership is fractured. For those who still stop by, God bless you. Thank you for all your kindness and prayers over the years. To those who have wronged me, you all know who you are, and so do I. I'm still here, you're not, but I forgive you anyway. However, coal is all you will get in your stocking, and that's what you deserve.
To the rest of you, God bless you and Merry Christmas!
Robert Parsons fell into the River Trent and drowned; he was only 37. At this funeral, the eulogy included:
"Qui tantus primo Parsone in flore fuisti, quantus in autumno
in morerer flores."
"You who were so great, Parsons, in life's springtime,
how great you would have been in autumn, had death not intervened."
From the Sermons of St. Jerome, Priest at Bethlehem.
Who and what was the blessed and glorious Mary, always a
Virgin, hath been revealed by God by the message of an Angel, in these words:
Hail, thou that art full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among
women. It was fitting that a fullness of grace should be poured into that
Virgin who hath given to God glory and to man a Saviour, who hath brought peace
to earth, who hath given faith to the Gentiles, who hath killed sin, who hath
given law to life, who hath made the crooked ways straight. Verily, she is full
of grace. To others grace cometh measure by measure; in Mary grace dwelleth at
once in all fullness. Verily, she is full of grace. We believe that the holy
Fathers and Prophets had grace; but they were not full of grace. But into Mary
came a fullness of all the grace, which is in Christ, albeit otherwise than as
it is in Him. Therefore, is it said: Blessed art thou among women, that is,
Blessed art thou above all women. The fulness of blessing in Mary utterly
neutralized in her any effects of the curse of Eve. In her praise Solomon
writeth in the Song of Songs, ii. 10,: Rise up, my dove, my fair one, for the
winter is past, the rain is over and gone. And again: Come from Lebanon, my
Spouse, come, thou shalt be crowned. ~iv. 8.
Not unjustly then is she bidden to come from Lebanon, for
Lebanon is so named on account of its stainless and glistening whiteness. The
earthly Lebanon is white with snow, but the lonely heights of Mary's holiness
are white with purity and grace, brilliantly fair, whiter far than snow,
sparkling with the gifts of the Holy Ghost, she is undefiled like a dove, all
clean, all upright, full of grace and truth. She is full of mercy, and of the
righteousness that hath looked down from heaven and therefore is she without
stain because in her hath never been any corruption. She hath compassed a man
in her womb, saith holy Jeremiah, but she conceived not by the will of fallen
man. The Lord, saith the Prophet, hath created a new thing in the earth; a
woman shall compass a man. xxxi. 22. Verily, it is a new thing. Verily, it was
a new work of power, greater than all other works, when God, Whom the world
cannot bear, and Whom no man shall see and live, entered the lodging of her
womb, breaking not the blissful cloister of her virgin flesh. And in her body,
He was borne, the Infinite enclosed within her womb. And from her womb He came
forth, so that it was fulfilled which was spoken of the Prophet Ezekiel,
saying: This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter
in by it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore
it shall be shut. xliv. 2. Hence also in the Song of Songs it is said of her
iv. 12,: A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse, a garden enclosed, a
fountain sealed, thy perfumes are a garden of delights. Verily a garden of
delights, filled with the perfumes of all flowers, rich with the sweet savour
of grace. And the most holy Virgin herself is a garden enclosed, whereinto sin
and Satan have never entered to sully the blossoms, a fountain sealed, sealed
with the seal of the Trinity.
The bleeding of the Catholic Church in Canada and, in particular, Quebec continues. An utter tragedy and a disgrace. The curse of the "Quiet Revolution," the "bloodless," Christ-hating, tradition-hating Marxist revolution in Quebec continues.
As you now doubt, I am deeply involved in church music. As Director of Music, I have built a choir of 12 and developed a training program for them, even though we come from miles apart. Our sacred music program over the Advent and Christmastide features classic chant hymnody and polyphony by Palestrina, Victoria, Handl, Charpentier, Witt, Gibbons and others as well as medieval folk carols. Our community has grown from about 40 after the lockdown insanity to almost 200 today. Do the math. We have babies galore, so many young families. We would have 16 altar "boys" except we lost 2 in September to a Catholic College in Eastern Ontario. More? How about 2 former young men, a Master of Ceremonies and the one he trained, both now ordained priests and one more in seminary!
Bishops of Canada! Here me well. The power to fix this lay in your hands!
Sequel of the holy Gospel according to Matthew 24:15-35
When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation,
which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that
readeth let him understand. Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the
mountains: And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take
anything out of his house: And he that is in the field, let him not go back to
take his coat. And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck in those
days. But pray that your flight be not in the winter, or on the Sabbath. For
there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning
of the world until now, neither shall be. And unless those days had been
shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days
shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say to you: Lo here is Christ, or
there, do not believe him. For there shall arise false Christs and false
prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if
possible) even the elect. Behold I have told it to you, beforehand. If
therefore they shall say to you: Behold he is in the desert, go ye not out:
Behold he is in the closets, believe it not. For as lightning cometh out of the
east, and appeareth even into the west: so shall the coming of the Son of man
be. Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered
together. And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be
darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from
heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be moved: And then shall appear the sign
of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all tribes of the earth mourn: and
they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power
and majesty. And he shall send his angels with a trumpet, and a great voice:
and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the farthest
parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them. And from the fig tree learn
a parable: When the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves come forth,
you know that summer is nigh. So you also, when you shall see all these things,
know ye that it is nigh, even at the doors. Amen I say to you, that this
generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. Heaven and earth shall
pass, but my words shall not pass.
Several times, during Advent, we meditated on the
circumstances which are to accompany the Last Coming of Christ our Lord; and,
in a few days, the same great teachings will be again brought before us,
filling our souls with a salutary fear. May we, then, be permitted, on this
last Sunday of our Liturgical Year, to address ourselves, in a prayer of desire
and praise, to our adorable Lord and King, the solemn hour of whose Judgment is
to be the consummation of his work, and the signal of his triumph.
O Jesus! who then art to come to deliver thy Church, and
avenge that God who has so long borne every sort of insult from his creature
man, that day of thy coming will indeed be terrible to the sinner! He will then
understand, how the Lord hath made all things for himself, all, even the
ungodly, who, on the evil day, is to show forth the divine justice. (Proverbs
16:4) The whole world, fighting on his side against the wicked (Wisdom 5:21)
shall then, at last, be avenged for that slavery of sin, which had been forced
upon it. (Romans 8:21) Vainly will the wicked cry out to the rocks to fall upon
them, and hide them from the face of him that will then be seated on his
throne: (Apocalypse 6:16) the abyss will refuse to engulf them: in obedience to
him who holds the keys of death and hell, (Apocalypse 1:18) it will give forth,
to a man, its wretched victims, and set them at the foot of the dread tribunal.
Jesus, how magnificent will not thy power then appear! The heavenly hosts will
also be standing around thee, forming thy brilliant (Apocalypse 19:14) court,
and assembling thy elect from the four quarters of the earth.
For we also, we thy redeemed, who had become thy members by
becoming the members of thy beloved Church, — we are to be there on that day,
and our place, O ineffable mystery! is to be the one thou hast reserved for thy
Bride, — it is to be thy own throne, (Apocalypse 3:21) where seated, we shall
judge the very angels. (1 Corinthians 4:3) Even now, all those blessed of the
Father, (Matthew 25:3) all those elect, whose youth, like that of the eagle,
has been so often renewed by their receiving thy precious Blood, (Psalm 102:5)
have they not had their eyes fitted to gaze, and without being dazzled, on the
Sun of Justice, when he shall appear in the heavens? The tediousness of their
long exile has given such keenness to their hunger, that nothing will have power
to stay their flight, once the sacred prey of thy divine Body shall be shown
them! What hindrance could be strong enough to check the impetuosity of the
love, (Song of Solomon 8:6) which will bring them all together to the banquet
of the eternal Pasch? The trumpet of the Archangel, which will ring through the
graves of the just, is to be a summons calling them, not to death, but to life;
to the sight of the old enemy’s destruction; (1 Corinthians 15:28) to a
redemption, which is to include their very bodies; (Romans 8:23) to the
unimpeded passover to the true Land of promise; in a word, to the Pasch, and,
this time, quite real, and for all, and forever. What will not be the joy of
that true Day of the Lord! (Psalm 117:24) What joy for them that have, by faith,
lived in Christ, and loved him without seeing Him! (1 Peter 1:8) Identifying
themselves with thee, O Jesus, notwithstanding the weakness of the flesh, they
have continued here below, thy life of suffering and humiliation: what a
triumph, when, delivered forever from sin, and vested in their immortal bodies,
they shall be borne aloft before thy face, that they may forever be with thee!
(1 Thessalonians 4:6)
But, their chiefest joy on that great Day, will be to assist
at the glorification of their most dear Lord, by the manifestation of the power
which was given to him over all flesh. (John 17:2) It is to be then, O
Emmanuel! that, crushing the heads of kings, and making thine enemies thy
footstool, (Psalm 109) thou wilt be shown as the one Ruler of all nations.
(Psalm 2) It is to be then, that heaven, and earth, and hell, will bow their
knee (Philippians 2:10) before that Son of Man, who, heretofore, appeared on
earth as a slave, and was judged, and condemned, and put to death between two
thieves; it is to be then, dear Jesus, that thou wilt judge the unjust judges,
to whom, even in the midst of all the humiliations they put on thee, thou didst
foretell this thy Coming on the clouds of heaven. (Matthew 26:64) And when,
after the irrevocable sentence has been passed, the wicked shall go to
everlasting torments, and the just to life eternal, (Matthew 25:46) thy Apostle
tells us, that having conquered thine enemies, and been proclaimed undisputed
King, thou wilt consign to thy eternal Father this thy Kingdom won over death;
it will be the perfect homage of thee, the Head, and of all thy faithful
members. (1 Corinthians 15:24-28) God will thus be all in all. It will be the
perfect accomplishment of that sublime prayer thou taughtest mankind to make,
(Matthew 6:9) which they daily offer up to the Father who is in heaven, and say
to him: Hallowed be thy name! Thy Kingdom come! Thy will be done on earth, as
it is in heaven! O blissfully peaceful Day, when blasphemy is to cease, and
when this poor earth of ours, cleansed by fire from the filth of sin, shall be
turned into a new paradise! Where, then, is the Christian, who would not thrill
with emotion at the thought of that last of all the Days of time, which is to
usher in beautiful Eternity? Who would not despise the agonies of his own last
hour, when he reflects that those sufferings have really only one meaning in
them, that is, as the Gospel words it, that the Son of Man is nigh even at the
very doors!
O sweet Jesus, detach us, every Year, more and more from
this world, whose fashion passeth away, (1 Corinthians 7:31) with its vain
toils, its false glories, and its lying pleasures. It was thine own
foretelling, that, as in the days of Noe, and Sodom, men will go on with their
feasting, and business, and amusements, without giving any more thought to thy
approaching Coming, than their forefathers heeded the threat of the Deluge, or
of the fire, which came upon them and destroyed them. (Luke 17:26-30) Let these
men go on with their merrymaking, and their sending gifts one to the other, as
thine Apocalypse expresses it, because, so they will have it, Christ and his
Church are then to be worn-out ideas! (Apocalypse 9:10) Whilst they are
tyrannizing over thy holy City in a thousand varied ways, and persecuting her
as no past period had ever done, they little think that all this is an
announcement of the Eternal Nuptials, which are nigh at hand. All these trials
were the fresh jewels, which the Bride was to have on her before all her beauty
was complete; and the blood of her last Martyrs was to incarnadine her already
splendid robes with all the richness of royal crimson. As for us, we lend an
ear to the echoes of our home above; and, from the throne of our God, we hear
going forth the voice heard by thy beloved Prophet of Patmos: Give praise unto
our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, little and great! Alleluia!
For the Lord our God the almighty hath reigned! Let us be glad and rejoice, and
give glory unto him; for the Marriage of the Lamb is come, and his Wife hath
prepared herself! (Apocalypse 19:5-7) Yet a little while, till the number of
our brethren be made up; (Apocalypse 6:11) and then, with the Spirit and the
Bride, we will say to thee, in all the ardor of our souls that have long
thirsted after thee: Come, Lord Jesus! (Apocalypse 22:17) Come, and perfect us
in love, by Union eternal, unto the glory of the Father, and of thyself the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost, forever and ever! Dom Prosper Gueranger.
"The reason the Church’s leaders persecute the most
faithful Catholics is that, broadly speaking, the leadership of the Catholic
Church on earth at this time is dominated by a network of active homosexuals
and theological modernists."
I heard a voice coming from heaven: come all wisest virgins; fill your vessels with oil, for the bridegroom is coming. In the middle of the night there was a cry: behold the bridegroom comes
September 17. Come on, you little coward, where are you? You won’t comment on this, you won’t disclose your real name. You little incel? An unmarried, sissy man, the very antithesis of Charles Kirk.
What kind of disgusting cretin leaves a comment such
as this? Never did I think the hatred of the late assassinated Charlie Kirk
would enter this combox (one post below). As for the personal comments about me, they reveal a great deal about the writer. A coward and a hypocrite and a liar. You present Marxist tropes, just as those who show bloodlust over his murder. You're a disgusting cretin. Get off my blog.
I am sorry that you have taken this position. You only show yourself to be an
angry petty llittle man who goes on the attack if/when someone takes a diffent
line than you. First, my last post was not even directed at you, it was
addressed to Evangeline to clarify my position. As to Kirk and right-wing
ideologies, he was a racist, an anti-semite, a mysoginist, and anti immigrant.
So, definitely not a hero. I will still for the repose of his soul, but
moreover I will pray for those known and unkown who have been harmed by his
words. Btw, say hello to the Oratorians if they are willing to let you back in
to their parish.
Only 4 days after the Trump and Putin meeting in Alaska and on the very day that the European globalist Heads of State are meeting at the feet of Donald John Trump, who is demanding an end to the killing, the irrelevant Catholic Register of Toronto writes this headline.
LifeShiteNews has fired its co-founder, John-Henry Westen. Steve Jalsevac engineered the coup d'etat. In a now-deleted post on X, Jalsevac gives some history.
JH certainly went off the deep end. As a Latin Mass promotor, cantor and choir director and head of an Una Voce chapter in Canada, I was happy to see his promotion of the Mass. What disturbed me about JH over the last couple of years was an almost obsessive dalliance with mystics and alleged prophets. He chased after them continuously, and for me, it was a major reason I stopped reading. That turned people off, Steve, not the Latin Mass.
What you, dear reader, don't know is that this writer was a source for many, many articles on LifeShiteNews. I did them many favours. My reward was when I called out Jalsevac for his grotesque anti-semitism and his ignoring of the events of October 7, 2023, he blocked me on the webpage, and mocked me, attacked me and made up lies, -- outright calumny in emails to a priest friend. When called out on it, he refused multiple times to apologize. He even wrote they they, LifeShitNews, were doing "God's work." Such hubris! Since when did fabrication and calumny become God's work? Blasphemous.
Jalsevac, like many other Catholics, have given the impression that the only way to be a good Catholic is to hate Jews. It seems deeply embedded in their psyche. It is grotesque.
Unlike Steve's view, I do see this as the end of LifeShiteNews. JH had a cult-following that will now close its wallets. In this day of splintered social media and Substack articles and as a blogger, I see the change in views and comments; there is too much information and not enough people prepared to fork over funds in a tough economy.
LifeShiteNews did good work for some time. Lately, it has reaped what it has sown, and the sacking of JH will only hasten its demise.
Steve Jalsevac @jalsevacs
That is just what John-Henry may have wanted many to believe. It is completely false.
LifeSiteNews has been a close team of many talented persons who created what was an incredibly successful, international pro-life, pro-family news service. None of that could have happened without all those people and their valuable contributions to what, for the first 12 years, was a project of and within Canada’s national pro-life organization that dealt with many international developments related to the culture of death vs. the culture of life.
It was founded, funded, encouraged and guided by CLC and especially by its leader Jim Hughes who was the visionary who saw the great need for the pro-life movement to have its own international news service to counter the lies, manipulations and ignoring of many important developments within the international pro-life movement.
CLC gave us its large email list to begin the incredible growth of LifeSite. LifeSite would never have existed without CLC.
Jim Hughes assumed we would continue to grow and continue as the pro-life, pro-family news agency that it was founded to be and which CLC gave so much to from its own resources.
In recent years, John-Henry worked and insisted that we change the highly successful LifeSiteNews mission to become a dramatically different one of a traditional, Latin Mass Catholic evangelizing, religious organization to draw readers into the Catholic Church according to the teachings of the Council of Trent.
Founding board members Jim Hughes, myself and others strongly opposed this change which we believed would tremendously confuse our loyal readers and subscribers and most new people as to what LifeSiteNews really was because of the schizophrenic messaging that the new mission statement presented.
A large majority of subscribers and readers were not traditional Latin Mass Catholics or not Catholic at all, and the changed LifeSiteNews would appeal to a far narrower audience since the target audience that John-Henry insisted on preaching to were only a tiny fraction of Catholics and violated our founding purpose.
Sadly, John-Henry was able to arrange a board vote that outnumbered those who never thought they would have to vote on such a dramatic change, including other board memberss who were removed prior to the vote for poor behaviours because they were so intensely opposed to the change in what they had given so much of themselves to for a number of years.
One of those board members was wholly responsible for encouraging and paying for LifeSiteNews to incorporate in the United States and was a very generous donor and constantly active supporter in many other ways. The other removed board member was also a major donor and played a large role in our highly successful sustainers program
LifeSite will not die because it has always had a strong appeal to international pro-life Catholics/Christians amd others of goodwill and has never been dependent on any one person.
Our fears about the dangers of the dramatic mission change have proven to have been valid. Readership has plummeted, many have been dismayed by the change, LifeSite has been widely viewed as a sedavacatist website and donations have dramatically declined this past campaign.
Without major needed change LifeSiteNews cannot survive. With common sense return to the incredibly successful founding mission and a return to collaborative management, rather than top-down, one person control, it stands a very good chance of tremendous renewal for the good of all.
We will still always been based on traditional Catholic/Christian moral principles in all we do, as we always have been. 2:33 PM · Jul 9, 2025
Steve Jalsevac's letter to a priest committing calumny against this writer. We had not conversations where I influenced him. We were sympatico and as for the priest, nobody tells him what to think!
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On 2024-11-22 11:33 p.m., Steve Jalsevac wrote:
Father,
Please don’t force us
to ban you from commenting. On many issues your comments have been good and
appreciated, although you do tend at times to be overly harsh and condemning
rather than providing thoughtful, helpful comments. However, on Israel you have
been irrational, making totally false accusations and revealing that you have a
poor knowledge about the history and actions of the Zionist state.
Several of our top journalists have been intensely researching and writing on
the issue. We have learned a great deal that we were previously not aware of
and have been humble enough to admit that in the face of irrefutable facts
discovered. We, like most Westerners, had a false, poorly informed
understanding about the history and actions of the Zionists who are NOT
authentic, believing Jews although there are a good number of authentic
religious Jews in Isreal who are being badly mistreated now over their
objections to being forced to be conscripted into the IDF and kill
Palestinians, Lebanese and Syrians in violation of their religious beliefs.
We have reported and proven that there are at least a few million Jews who are
very critical and condemning of Israel and its antisemitic nature that is
harmful to all Jews in the world. Those are their words, not ours. Most of what
we have written has especially been based on the writings, comments, talks and
even first-hand communications with Christian leaders in the Middle East and an
even larger number of Jewish persons, including a substantial number of Jewish
rabbis.
LifeSite has
frequently quoted and shown many Jewish individuals, and quite a few Rabbis,
who expressed valid reasons for their grave concerns about the alleged state of
the Jews, Israel, which they consider to NOT authentically represent the Jews
of the world, and which was founded by atheistic, non-religious and even
Marxist Jews.
In their own writings, the Zionists reveal that they chose Palestine for their
new nation, not because it was the Holy Land, but because it was the most
marketable location for their non-religious project and racist-supremacist
ideology. Again, we learned that from orthodox religious rabbis and Middle East
Catholic and other Christian leaders. They have been telling us that and they
have greatly appreciated that the truth about the Zionists is finally getting
out to the world.
Your harsh, condemning comments in response to our article today by the
distinguished, faithful Catholic, Hugh Owen, whom you don’t seem to know
anything about, are disturbing to have come from someone who is supposed to be
a faithful Catholic priest and whom we thought was a dear friend.
I am suspecting that David Domet has been negatively influencing you since we
received similar hostile, off-the-wall comments from him today. David is known
for having a self-defeating quick temper and angry disposition although he does
have some valid reasons for demanding justice from the Church that seems to
have unjustly caused him harm. We have tried to be of help to him, but he has a
strange way of alienating true friends.
In his article today on LifeSite, Hugh Owen is NOT inciting “more hatred
against the Jewish People” with his article and your claim related to the
article that “it would be more than shameful if the biased, dangerous and
irresponsible reporting against the people of Israel resulted in more
bloodshed” only reveals your shocking mistrust, ignorance and unwillingness to
consider all that we have worked very hard to accurately report on the
Israel/Palestinian situation.
I could go on and on, but all of this has already been written and
explained in our many articles.
Don’t let David Domet
take you down to his frequently too bitter and emotional level. Please trust
that we really do know what we are doing. We understand that our reports can be
a shock to those who have never been exposed to this information before, as it
has also been to us, but PLEASE trust that we are indeed doing the will of God
on this. That is the only reason why we all work in this mission.
The reality is that when you condemn our reporting, you are in effect also
condemning all the Christian and Jewish leaders from whom we have learned the
information we have reported. That is condemning at least several million
people of good heart who love and serve God or who are otherwise good,
trustworthy and principled persons who have a true heart for the downtrodden
suffering injustice. We would not trust them if they were not those types of
persons.
Zionism is what we are writing about, not Jews and Judaism. They are not the
same. The conflict in Israel is NOT as we have been told again and again by
Jewish and Christian sources, a religious one of Muslims vs Jews. It is one
between Zionists vs Palestinians, Christians and others in the region whose
homes and lands of many generations have been stolen from them and forced to
live in what are essentially open-air prisons and subjected to constant
surveillance, frequent, unjust arrests, unjust killings, torture in prisons and
now starvation and no food, water, power or medical care. They are living under
horrific conditions.
If you open your mind and heart and read our many articles with a different,
prayerful disposition, I am sure you will develop a very different response to
these articles. No one in LifeSiteNews is antisemitic. We are faithful
Catholics, and we realize antisemitism is a sin, but valid criticisms of the
actions and ideology of the state of Isreal is NOT antisemitism. Israel itself
is antisemitic – as repeatedly explained to us by orthodox religious rabbis.
Diana Montagna has done great work exposing what we all suspected. Bergoglio lied and promulgated punitive "law" that indicated that the majority of the bishops wanted an end to Summorum Pontificum and the suppression of the traditional Roman Rite liturgy.
Unlike 2013, I had no chills and did not feel the urge to vomit, which is a good thing because I was dining with friends at a churrasqueira. As the curtains opened, I first said, "Let's see how he's dressed." He vested as a pope should vest. He also did not say, "good evening," nor did he ask that we bless him because we cannot bless him, we have no authority over him, and he blessed us. That says a lot, as does his name. But, an American? For what it's worth, notwithstanding some of his various X reposts, it also appears that he's a registered Republican!
He also chose a rather interesting name. It recalls strength, doctrinal clarity, as well as Catholic social teaching.
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V.
Oremus pro Pontifice nostro Leo.
R.
Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciat eum in terra, et non
tradat eum in animam inimicorum eius. [Ps 40:3]
Deus,
omnium fidelium pastor et rector, famulum tuum Leo, quem pastorem Ecclesiae tuae
praeesse voluisti, propitius respice: da ei, quaesumus, verbo et exemplo,
quibus praeest, proficere: ut ad vitam, una cum grege sibi credito, perveniat
sempiternam. Per Christum, Dominum nostrum. Amen.
Pater
Noster, Ave Maria.
V.
Let us pray for Leo, our Pope.
R.
May the Lord preserve him, and give him life, and make him blessed upon the
earth, and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies. [Ps 40:3]
Our
Father, Hail Mary.
O
God, Shepherd and Ruler of all Thy faithful people, look mercifully upon Thy
servant Leo, whom Thou hast chosen as shepherd to preside over Thy Church. Grant
him, we beseech Thee, that by his word and example, he may edify those over
whom he hath charge, so that together with the flock committed to him, he may attain everlasting life. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
