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Leo XIV Papal Coat of Arms | Official and Various Renderings From Around The Web

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It hasn't taken long for visual artists to run with the script provided by the Holy See. The following are a few of the first renderings found among the digital pages of the internet.
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LEO XIV | What's In A Name? What's In A Speech?

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When Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope, this blogger, like many, wept for joy. When Pope Benedict XVI resigned, this blogger, confused and disappointed, wept in sorrow. Yesterday morning I woke up to the news that Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Prevost, had been elected by his fellow cardinals to the Office of Peter. The video that popped up on the phone captured His Holiness visibly emotional. A man in his position unmoved by the moment would be suspect of pride. Instead, it was not pride but utter sincerity on display, a sincerity of heart born by a man appreciating the profundity of the moment and the intensity of the crowd gathered to acknowledge God's gift to the Church: the ministry of Peter. Projection One's predisposition toward a conclave can say much more about us as individuals than about the man now occupying the Office of Peter. Thankfully, the distraction of personal goings on has provided this blogger with a useful dissociative state that is helping him to avoid gravitat...
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TRUE PARTICIPATION IN THE MASS

"I was gathered into the offering of the Son to the Father. I participated in the self-offering of God today."

FEATURED SCRIPTURE | Revelation 7:9-12

AFTER this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.”

THE GOLDEN ARROW

May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen.

FEATURED QUOTE

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. ― Thomas Sowell