"In this Holy Week in which the devil violently lashes out against His Holiness, spreading slander and lies, I want to get my full and total commitment, internal and external to all the Magisterium and pastoral guidelines," said Monsignor Rinaldo Fidel Bredice, Bishop Emeritus of Santa Rosa, in a letter to Pope Benedict XVI.
The prelate asked the Lord and invited the faithful to pray for His Holiness, to "protect him from enemies and strengthen you in the performance of his ministry for the good of the whole Church. "
"Holiness, I ask your blessing for this simple Bishop Emeritus of Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina, to continue to assist the priests in the ministry of reconciliation," he said.
He called that "the Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, who won all the mistakes and always accompanied protect him."
Franciscans pray for the Pope
14 years ago, with diocesan approval, the Capuchins Recoletos, an association of clerics faithful common life which professed the Rule of St. Francis of Assisi, was dedicated in their convents of La Pampa and La Plata to pray for the intentions of the Roman Pontiff, the bishops and priests, Eucharistic reparation.
Before the attacks on the person of Benedict XVI, who consider him "a secular spirit attack against Christianity in the visible head of the Church, the community sent" their expression of filial communion and affection ", and invited faithful to pray "full of confidence for the Pope and the Church."
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