Historic Image

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It is a gift that this image is not simply of two Popes standing together looking at the photographer but rather two pontiffs contemplating a window to Heaven, the ikon of the Madonna of Humility which had been given to Pope Francis by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church through Metropolitan Hilarion, Foreign Minister of the Russian Church.

Pope Francis I with the Pontiff Emeritus Benedict

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The Triumph of the Church

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Sister Marie Marthe Chambon (+ 1907) taught us: 

"The triumph of the Church 

will be hastened 

by devotion to the Five Wounds 

and the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ."

It is suggested that the Chaplet (Rosary) of the Holy Wounds 
may be prayed during the Offertory of the Holy Mass.

Kyrie eleison imas.