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“For these reasons, I will make every effort to ordain married men as priests for our diocese by 2028” -- Bishop Bonny Full details below on @PerMariam

Bishop Bonny has declared he aims to ordain married men to the priesthood by 2028. @MLJHaynes ✍️for @PerMariam on the announcement, which would reject centuries of Latin rite Tradition and teaching permariam.com/p/vocal-belgia…

St Joseph’s feast in Rome sees the annual procession with his statue, around the parish territory of the Basilica do San Giuseppe al Trionfale. It is home to relics of St Joseph and Our Lady 🎥@MLJHaynes

JUST IN: Pope Leo XIV pens message to mark 10th anniversary of Amoris Laetitia Calls presidents of bishops conferences to Rome in October to discuss Church's pastoral approach to families in light of Amoris Laetitia & current societal issues Praises text as “a luminous message of hope regarding conjugal love & family life.” Notably silent about controversial passage 305 -- instead he quotes from text to emphasize the beauties of family life, the struggles found within it, & the family’s relation with the Church Full analysis shortly on @PelicanCatholic

O blessed Sleeping Saint Joseph, guardian of silence and hidden miracles, I come to you today with an open heart, burdened by an urgent need that only heaven can resolve. You who, in your rest, receive divine messages and make the impossible possible, hear my plea in this moment of distress. Saint Joseph, loving and protective father, I entrust to you this situation that troubles me, this problem I do not know how to resolve. (Mention your petition) Just as God revealed His will to you in dreams, I ask you to intercede for me and present my need before Him. I place this concern under your care, trusting that even as you rest, heaven is at work on my behalf. May every difficulty be transformed into a solution, may every obstacle be removed, and may peace return to my life. Sleeping Saint Joseph, cover me with your protection, guide my steps, and open paths where I now see only uncertainty. I trust in your silent power, your steadfast faith, and your fatherly care. For I know that what I place in your hands today will, by God’s grace, become a miracle tomorrow. Amen.

Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity St. Joseph, the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the foster-father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Guardian of the Redeemer, and Patron of the Universal Church. St. Joseph was an ordinary manual laborer although descended from the royal house of David. In the designs of Providence he was destined to become the spouse of the Mother of God. His high privilege is expressed in a single phrase, "Foster-father of Jesus." About him Sacred Scripture has little more to say than that he was a just man—an expression which indicates how faithfully he fulfilled his high trust of protecting and guarding God's greatest treasures upon earth, Jesus and Mary. The darkest hours of his life may well have been those when he first learned of Mary's pregnancy; but precisely in this time of trial Joseph showed himself great. His suffering, which likewise formed a part of the work of the redemption, was not without great providential import: Joseph was to be, for all times, the trustworthy witness of the Messiah's virgin birth. After this, he modestly retires into the background of holy Scripture. Of St. Joseph's death the Bible tells us nothing. There are indications, however, that he died before the beginning of Christ's public life. His was the most beautiful death that one could have, in the arms of Jesus and Mary. Humbly and unknown, he passed his years at Nazareth, silent and almost forgotten he remained in the background through centuries of Church history. Only in more recent times has he been accorded greater honor. Liturgical veneration of St. Joseph began in the fifteenth century, fostered by Sts. Brigid of Sweden and Bernadine of Siena. St. Teresa, too, did much to further his cult. At present there are two major feasts in his honor. On March 19 our veneration is directed to him personally and to his part in the work of redemption, while on May 1 we honor him as the patron of workmen throughout the world and as our guide in the difficult matter of establishing equitable norms regarding obligations and rights in the social order. (Excerpted from The Church's Year of Grace, Pius Parsch)

If you celebrate the Feast of Saint Joseph today, March 19, know you do this because of a Habsburg! Deeply devout Emperor Ferdinand II suggested a feast of Saint Joseph to Pope Gregory XV., in 1621 (after the battle of the White Mountain). The Pope set it worldwide in a bull.

"The simple mention of Jesus, Mary and Joseph reminds us that there (in the Holy Family) we find all human history and there we find also the salvation, the grandeur, the beauty, the splendor of the Catholic Church." (St. John XXIII)

What kind of bishop does Leo XIV want? Understanding the man Leo is looking for as a bishop, could be a key aid in understanding the wider scope of this pontificate. permariam.com/p/what-kind-of…

NOVENA TO ST. JOSEPH—DAY SIX In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Saint Joseph, you are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. You know that I have confidence in you and that, after Jesus and Mary, I come to you as an example for holiness, for you are especially close with God. Therefore, I humbly commend myself, with all who are dear to me and all that belong to me, to your intercession. I beg of you, by your love for Jesus and Mary, not to abandon me during life and to assist me at the hour of my death. Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, pray for me to have a pure, humble, charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary. Loving Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, I raise my heart to you to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the Divine Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special grace I now implore: (Mention your request) Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel confident that your prayers on my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God. St. Joseph Most Just, Pray for us! Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Cardinal Merry del Val Biographer Says His Example Challenges Today’s Nationalisms | National Catholic Register At the launch of the English edition of his new book, Professor Roberto de Mattei recalls Pope St. Pius X’s secretary of state who placed truth above party and nation. ncregister.com/news/cardinal-… @NCRegister

@MLJHaynes @HolySeePress Report on @PerMariam here x.com/permariam/stat…

NEW: Pope Leo XIV will “take possession of his apartment in the Apostolic Palace,” this afternoon. @HolySeePress says he will move in with his “closest aides to the quarters previously occupied by his predecessors.” Thus ends a 13-year vacancy since Benedict XVI left

Leo XIV has returned to the Apostolic Palace. For many years the papal apartment has been used but sparingly by a pope for the Sunday Angelus & official meetings For the 1st time since February 2013, it will be home once again to the Roman Pontiff open.substack.com/pub/permariam/…

NOVENA TO ST. JOSEPH—DAY TWO In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Saint Joseph, you are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. You know that I have confidence in you and that, after Jesus and Mary, I come to you as an example for holiness, for you are especially close with God. Therefore, I humbly commend myself, with all who are dear to me and all that belong to me, to your intercession. I beg of you, by your love for Jesus and Mary, not to abandon me during life and to assist me at the hour of my death. Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, pray for me to have a pure, humble, charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary. Loving Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, I raise my heart to you to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the Divine Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special grace I now implore: (Mention your request) Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel confident that your prayers on my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God. St. Joseph Most Just, Pray for us! Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

NEW: Synod office today released full report of Synod Study Group 5 on women's role in the Church Female diaconate has already been ruled out, repeatedly So, the report calls for continued discussion & research on women exercising increased roles in the Church. Appendix V on “Ecclesial Authority” states: “It is therefore up to theology and canon law to deepen the theological and ecclesial status of this auctoritas, its concrete forms of expression, and its possible framework within the juridical order of the Church.”

NOVENA TO ST. JOSEPH—DAY ONE In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Saint Joseph, you are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. You know that I have confidence in you and that, after Jesus and Mary, I come to you as an example for holiness, for you are especially close with God. Therefore, I humbly commend myself, with all who are dear to me and all that belong to me, to your intercession. I beg of you, by your love for Jesus and Mary, not to abandon me during life and to assist me at the hour of my death. Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, pray for me to have a pure, humble, charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary. Loving Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, I raise my heart to you to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the Divine Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special grace I now implore: (Mention your request) Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel confident that your prayers on my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God. St. Joseph Most Just, Pray for us! Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

This is an extraordinary piece. Fernandez will go bananas if he reads it.

Blessed feast of St Frances of Rome! Her relics are displayed for veneration on her feast, and is much beloved as a patroness for many in Rome She died in 1440, after living a life marked by personal loss and given over to caring for the sick and needy

Monsignor Pellizzon is now back at a church in Argentina, after being so central to Pope Francis' & Cardinal Fernández's daily lives in the Vatican since 2023. Never heard of him? Read my @PerMariam report for details and significance