{"id":20204,"date":"2019-01-18T13:21:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T18:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=20204"},"modified":"2019-01-18T13:24:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T18:24:19","slug":"on-sunday-january-20-2019-the-german-cardinal-and-an-u-s-bishop-to-bless-world-with-miraculous-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=20204","title":{"rendered":"On Sunday, January 20, 2019, the German Cardinal and an U.S. Bishop To Bless World With Miraculous Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Holy Face of Jesus, the Volto Santo in\u00a0Manoppello, Italy<\/strong>
\n(Click here<\/strong><\/a> for website)<\/p>\n

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January 17, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) \u2013 A German cardinal and U.S. bishop, who are renowned for their firm and courageous defence of the Catholic Faith, will bless the world on Sunday January 20 with what is considered by many to be a miraculous image of the Holy Face of Jesus, the Volto Santo \u2013 called by Saint Padre Pio \u201cthe greatest miracle we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cardinal Gerhard Muller at a press conference on October 25, 2016 at the Vatican. ALBERTO PIZZOLI\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cardinal Gerhard M\u00fcller and Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will be in Manoppello, Italy, in order to celebrate Mass in the Basilica del Volto Santo and then to bless the Church and the world with the miraculous image of Our Lord’s countenance.<\/p>\n

Paul Badde \u2013 author of severalbooks on the Volto Santo and Rome Correspondent of EWTN \u2013 has just i<\/a>nterviewed Cardinal Gerhard M\u00fcller about this upcoming event. Different websites are announcing the event \u2013 at which Archbishop Bruno Forte, the local bishop of Chieti-Vasto, will also participate. The Jan. 20 event will start with an 11 o’clock Mass in the Basilica and then be followed by a procession and a blessing with the Holy Face relic.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

January 20 is the traditional Omnis Terra Sunday, on which, in 1208, Pope Innocent III for the first time blessed the Church and the world with this relic, which is believed to stem from the tomb of Our Lord, depicting His Face at the moment of His Resurrection.<\/strong> (Please see here<\/a><\/strong> for more information on the Holy Face and its miraculous nature \u2013 there are no paint traces to be found on this picture.) In that year, Innocent III led a solemn procession with the Volto Santo from St. Peter\u2019s to the church of the hospital of S. Spirito, S. Maria in Sassia. The procession was to be observed annually on the second Sunday after the Epiphany.<\/p>\n

When the Holy Face became lost during the Sack of Rome (1527), this tradition stopped, only to be revived in 2016 by Archbishop Georg G\u00e4nswein, the private secretary of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI. G\u00e4nswein then carried a copy of the Volto Santo through the streets of Rome and celebrated a festive Mass in honor of this relic.<\/p>\n

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Pope Benedict XVI looks over a mysterious icon that many believe shows the face of Christ, Manoppello, Sept. 1, 2006. Max ROSSI\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2006 and not long after his election, Pope Benedict himself went to Manoppello, a little village in the Abruzzi mountains, in order to visit the Volto Santo and thus to honor, as Pope, this relic once more .<\/p>\n

Pope Francis, as of today, has never visited the Holy Face, but numerous cardinals have done so, among them Cardinal Joachim Meisner<\/a>, Cardinal Robert Sarah, and Cardinal Kurt Koch. The bishop responsible for this shrine, Archbishop Forte, has given an interview to Paul Badde, in which he has strongly endorsed the authenticity of this sacred relic.<\/p>\n

In his interview with Paul Badde, Cardinal M\u00fcller, who is the former Prefect of the Congregation for Doctrine, explained that he, as bishop and as priest, sees himself as \u201ca defender of the Faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if I may not be anymore the Prefect [of the CDF],\u201d he said, \u201cit is still left to me the mission \u2013 as given to me in my ordination in Christ \u2013 to defend ‘the truth of the Gospels’ (Gal. 2:17).\u201d It is in this light that Cardinal M\u00fcller said he also sees his visit to the Holy Face of Manoppello: \u201cTherefore, it is also his [the priest’s] holy task to bless the faithful with Christ’s image, which he lifts up high. The Most Holy Trinity, the Incarnation, Christ’s Cross and Resurrection are the fundamental truths of the Christian Faith,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

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In light of these holy duties of a priest, Cardinal M\u00fcller said he sees today, however, \u201ca secularized way of thinking, also among the highest authorities.”<\/p>\n

“It is fatal when bishops feel more at ease in being fundraisers, secret diplomats, a darling of the media, and a political confidant,\u201d rather than being \u201chumble servants of the Word (Luke 1:2)\u201d and \u201cexamples for the flock (I Peter 5:3).\u201d In the midst of the people, M\u00fcller continued, the priest \u201clifts up the Body and Blood of Christ during Holy Consecration and presents before Holy Communion the ‘Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world’ (John 1:29).\u201d<\/p>\n

When Paul Badde asked the German prelate about his own seeming fearlessness in the face of resistance and scorn, Cardinal M\u00fcller stated that \u201cscorn and ridicule, intrigues and evil gossip\u201d and other such traits \u201care not the adornment of a true Christian.\u201d He clearly rejected\u00a0forms of \u201cpower politics and intrigues which undermine the credibility of the episcopacy and also of the Vatican.\u201d However, he added, \u201cwe would give a good example to the world if each of us were to follow his conscience, to live according to God’s Commandments of the Decalogue and to the Beatitudes of Jesus at the Sermon of the Mount,\u201d with the help of grace.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo pray together is better than to speak secretly evil things about others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Further commenting on how the Church could come out from under her current crisis, the cardinal pointed\u00a0to the importance of purification and penance. \u201cThat is to say: not to blame others, the Church, one’s predecessors, the clergy for one’s own guilt, but to beat one’s own breast and to pray mea culpa, that would really enhance the atmosphere within the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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