Zach 🇻🇦

God bless our Holy Father Pope Leo XIV 🙏

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Faced with the possibility of a tragedy of immense proportions, I make a heartfelt appeal to all the parties involved to assume the moral responsibility of halting the spiral of violence before it becomes an unbridgeable chasm. May diplomacy regain its proper role, and may the well-being of peoples, who yearn for peaceful existence founded on justice, be upheld. And let us continue to pray for peace.

[Catholic News Service @CatholicNewsSvc]

Pope Leo XIV: "Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of God. With this in mind, I encourage you to read and contemplate the inspired word of God daily. May the Word of God nourish our hearts and our minds and lead us to the fullness of life."

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In Mary’s divine motherhood we see the meeting of two immense, “unarmed” realities: that of God, who renounces every privilege of his divinity to be born in the flesh (cf. Phil 2:6-11), and that of a human person who, trustingly and fully, embraces God’s will. In a perfect act of love, she offers him the greatest power she possesses: her freedom.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Marian spirituality is at the service of the Gospel: it reveals its simplicity. Our affection for Mary of Nazareth leads us to join her in becoming disciples of Jesus. It teaches us to return to him and to meditate and ponder the events of our lives in which the Risen One still comes to us and calls us. #Jubilee2025

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Let us look to the Mother of Jesus and the small group of courageous women at the foot of the cross. May we learn from them to stand beside the countless crosses of the world, where Christ is still crucified in his brothers and sisters, in order to bring them comfort, communion and help. #Jubilee2025

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Together with Mary, the Mother of Jesus, let us persevere tirelessly in praying for peace, a God-given gift that we must strive to receive and to which we must make a strong commitment. #PrayTogether #Jubilee2025

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The Church dedicates the coming month of October to the #HolyRosary. I invite everyone to pray the Rosary for #Peace each day of the month—individually, in the family, in community. On Saturday, October 11, at 6:00 PM, we will pray the Rosary together in St. Peter’s Square, during the vigil of the Jubilee of Marian Spirituality, also recalling the anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council.

[Andrew Likoudis @A_lickity_split]

📖✨ It’s here!

Faith in Crisis: Critical Dialogues in Catholic Traditionalism, Church Authority, and Reform is officially released today—on the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.

Providentially, this feast is also the anniversary of my first Marian consecration seven years ago. I only learned two days ago that the release would fall today. I can only receive it as a gift from Our Blessed Mother.

The journey here had its delays—first June, then July, then August—but God’s timing is perfect. On this day, under Our Lady’s mantle, the book has finally arrived.

📑 Official Footnote Count: 1,510 🤓
📕 Paperback available later today.

https://t.co/qqOU71n2KY

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Saints Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis are an invitation to all of us, especially young people, not to squander our lives, but to direct them upwards and make them masterpieces. https://t.co/aXAe9fjN35

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

None of us can be self-sufficient. No-one can save themselves. Life is “fulfilled” not when we are strong, but when we learn how to receive. #GeneralAudience
https://t.co/AgU2frVMYy

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humility is really freedom from ourselves. Those who exalt themselves think that nothing is more interesting than themselves. Yet, those who know they are precious in God’s eyes have greater things of which to boast, and a dignity that shines on its own. #GospelOfTheDay (Lk 14:1,7-14)

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Today, the universal Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of the martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist. His example can help us reflect on the mission of modern evangelizers. The key to every school of evangelization is to bear witness to what we contemplate and our encounter with the God of life.

[Zach 🇻🇦 @ZachCatholic]

@EamonnClark @holysmoke https://t.co/fZQPUPFj91

[CTrefugees @CTrefugees]

I’m going to drive into the ground, using Bouyer’s own memoirs and the liturgical sources, the rumor (born of not reading his memoir or its footnotes) that Louis Bouyer “wrote EP II in a day,” or that his work on the Mass was unreasonably rushed, or that Bouyer demonstrated the entire reform was unreasonably rushed.

No. Being asked to supply eleven words on a deadline, essentially a transitional line drawn from sources he already knew, is not (a) writing the whole anaphora, (b) evidence of an unreasonable rush, or (c) proof that the entire Mass was hurried.

I’ll happily use AI to find this claim every time it pops up on X and swat it until it stays down, because the documents don’t support it. Read the English translation of the memoir: he says he was crafting a transitional bit necessary to fit rewritten material into the standardized structure of the new prayers. Footnotes of the English translation tell you which material he wrote. The text behind EP II (drawn from "The Apostolic Tradition") did not drop neatly into the pre-set format for Eucharistic Prayers. When you adapt a source, you often need new connectors so it flows. Bouyer’s job was tiny: a brief transition into the epiclesis of EP II. Again: eleven words.

For clarity, here’s the likely shape of events:

• EP II had already been drafted or at least schematized over months, probably with Fr. Cipriano Vagaggini leading (additional anaphoras were his wheelhouse) and with substantial consultation from Fr. Botte, the key expert on the sources. Pinpointing Bouyer’s exact line-item in that timeline would take forensic work in the Vatican files and doesn’t really matter.
• In the days before the café session, Bouyer reviewed the sources (e.g., St. James, Mozarabic) and brought the relevant excerpts.
• Those excerpts would have been on note cards or in a couple of volumes. No one hauls a reference library into a café.
• Botte and Bouyer then shaped stylistically and grammatically proper transitions to mesh with the already-existing text they’d been asked to smooth.
• The genuinely new text attributable to Bouyer is about eleven words; the rest follows the standard template used across the Eucharistic Prayers and required minimal effort.

Writing eleven words in a day is not “rushed.” Once you see what the task actually was, the memoir reads like a man grumbling about a deadline. Be serious: how long should it take to draft eleven words when the research is already done? Not eleven pages, not eleven paragraphs: eleven words. In my own areas of expertise, that’s a few hours, maybe a morning. And if someone nudged me to finish, I wouldn’t declare myself “rushed,” much less claim the whole project was. Especially if I knew what was going on. It really does reflect more on Bouyer and his problems then it does on the reform project.

[Zach 🇻🇦 @ZachCatholic]

@PetriOP @holysmoke https://t.co/fZQPUPFj91

[CTrefugees @CTrefugees]

I’m going to drive into the ground, using Bouyer’s own memoirs and the liturgical sources, the rumor (born of not reading his memoir or its footnotes) that Louis Bouyer “wrote EP II in a day,” or that his work on the Mass was unreasonably rushed, or that Bouyer demonstrated the entire reform was unreasonably rushed.

No. Being asked to supply eleven words on a deadline, essentially a transitional line drawn from sources he already knew, is not (a) writing the whole anaphora, (b) evidence of an unreasonable rush, or (c) proof that the entire Mass was hurried.

I’ll happily use AI to find this claim every time it pops up on X and swat it until it stays down, because the documents don’t support it. Read the English translation of the memoir: he says he was crafting a transitional bit necessary to fit rewritten material into the standardized structure of the new prayers. Footnotes of the English translation tell you which material he wrote. The text behind EP II (drawn from "The Apostolic Tradition") did not drop neatly into the pre-set format for Eucharistic Prayers. When you adapt a source, you often need new connectors so it flows. Bouyer’s job was tiny: a brief transition into the epiclesis of EP II. Again: eleven words.

For clarity, here’s the likely shape of events:

• EP II had already been drafted or at least schematized over months, probably with Fr. Cipriano Vagaggini leading (additional anaphoras were his wheelhouse) and with substantial consultation from Fr. Botte, the key expert on the sources. Pinpointing Bouyer’s exact line-item in that timeline would take forensic work in the Vatican files and doesn’t really matter.
• In the days before the café session, Bouyer reviewed the sources (e.g., St. James, Mozarabic) and brought the relevant excerpts.
• Those excerpts would have been on note cards or in a couple of volumes. No one hauls a reference library into a café.
• Botte and Bouyer then shaped stylistically and grammatically proper transitions to mesh with the already-existing text they’d been asked to smooth.
• The genuinely new text attributable to Bouyer is about eleven words; the rest follows the standard template used across the Eucharistic Prayers and required minimal effort.

Writing eleven words in a day is not “rushed.” Once you see what the task actually was, the memoir reads like a man grumbling about a deadline. Be serious: how long should it take to draft eleven words when the research is already done? Not eleven pages, not eleven paragraphs: eleven words. In my own areas of expertise, that’s a few hours, maybe a morning. And if someone nudged me to finish, I wouldn’t declare myself “rushed,” much less claim the whole project was. Especially if I knew what was going on. It really does reflect more on Bouyer and his problems then it does on the reform project.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Today we celebrate the memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven, also invoked as Queen of Peace. Let us fast and pray to implore the Lord for the gift of peace. Let us #PrayTogether that hearts may be freed from hatred, that we may move beyond the logic of division and retaliation, and that a shared vision inspired by the common good may prevail.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Let us pray that efforts to bring wars to an end and to promote peace may bear fruit, and that in negotiations the common good of peoples may always be placed first.