The Cardinal Newman Society launched an Easter Prayer Campaign for Pope Benedict XVI in response to New York Archbishop Dolan’s call for Catholics to pray for the Holy Father.
CMR is asking anyone who might be inclined to offer their prayers for the Pope by signing the spiritual bouquet located here.
Dear Fellow Catholic,
Urgently, we ask you TODAY to join Catholics nationwide in an Easter Prayer Campaign for Pope Benedict. . . and spread the word!
Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, is suffering “some of the same unjust accusations, shouts of the mob, and scourging at the pillar as did Jesus”!
Those are the words of Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, who on Palm Sunday urged prayers for Pope Benedict as he is viciously and unfairly attacked by the secular media and sadly even many dissident Catholics.
Pope Benedict is being assaulted with “unrelenting insinuations,” said Archbishop Dolan, “. . .as certain sources seem frenzied to implicate the man who, perhaps more than anyone else, has been the leader in purification, reform and renewal that the Church so needs.”
When he was installed as Pope five years ago, the Holy Father himself asked us to help him, saying:
“Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves. Let us pray for one another, that the Lord will carry us and that we will learn to carry one another.”
Pope Benedict has never fled from the wolves, and he remains dedicated to renewing Christ’s Church built on a foundation of strong Catholic identity. It is by his example that The Cardinal Newman Society and so many others are struggling to renew Catholic life in America.
We are assembling an Eastertide spiritual bouquet for the Holy Father and need your prayers for him today!
Head on over to CNS and join your prayers with hundreds of thousands of others. Click here.
April 15, 2010 at 8:35 pm
The Knights of Columbus have a Novena going too for our Holy Father. Keep the prayers coming! He must be on the side of right to get so much animosity from the press and the secular world! As for me and my house, we stand with Christ's Church!
April 15, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Thanks for sharing this. My hubby and I are keeping our Papa in our prayers. I can't imgaine the spiritual turmoil he must go through.
April 15, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Of course! Now and always.
April 15, 2010 at 11:22 pm
His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, is in my prayers throughout each day. Thank the Lord that he has provided the Pope not only with a fine mind and good heart but with a firm and strong spine–the last being somewhat of a rarity in this era of the human invertebrates.
April 16, 2010 at 12:44 am
Novena from the Knights of Columbus for our Holy Father:
http://www.kofc.org/un/eb/en/papalnovena/index.html
April 16, 2010 at 1:37 am
Thank you for posting this and encouraging prayers for our Pope… I am personally struggling with the reason for the current domino effect that caused this most recent attack on the Church. My prayers are with our Pope, and all Catholics, and my hope is that through the persecution, we will all become even stronger in our Faith!
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April 16, 2010 at 2:01 am
As a new Catholic, His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, has only confirmed why I love the Church, by his words and his actions. Praying.
April 16, 2010 at 2:31 pm
The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest is also calling for a Novena and a Spiritual Bouquet (which can be filled out online). Follow this link: http://www.institute-christ-king.org/news/137/92/Spiritual-Bouquet-for-Pope-Benedict-XVI/