Fr. Stefano Penna 🇺🇦🇻🇦

Priest, Pastor, Raconteur, Professor, Canadian, Zio, Friend

[Fr. Stefano Penna 🇺🇦🇻🇦 @frspenna]

A man of massive strength, piercing eyes, and confident holiness.Pope of my youth, St. John Paul II, pray for us.

[Fr. Stefano Penna 🇺🇦🇻🇦 @frspenna]

@bishop_conley @catholicthing I do not know why the brother priest who wrote this chose to remain anonymous for this is a reflection redolent with wisdom and humility. Having taught sacraments and liturgy and now serving as pastor, I see how the holy heart & mind of Pope Benedict has opened the Lord’s beauty

[Fr. Stefano Penna 🇺🇦🇻🇦 @frspenna]

@FrHarrison Ruhe in Frieden

[Fr. Stefano Penna 🇺🇦🇻🇦 @frspenna]

@EdwardPentin Possa la sua voce eloquente e forte unirsi ai cori dei Santi nel glorificare Dio.

[Fr. Stefano Penna 🇺🇦🇻🇦 @frspenna]

@holysmoke Terrible translation. The word literally means they’re creating a week “big butts” this, “brown nosers” or “big a—-es”

[Fr. Stefano Penna 🇺🇦🇻🇦 @frspenna]

@thefrancotv Hear our prayers O Lord.

[Fr. Stefano Penna 🇺🇦🇻🇦 @frspenna]

@FatherChrisVor1 Rest in the loving alarms of our God and our Lady of the Annunciation

[Fr. Stefano Penna 🇺🇦🇻🇦 @frspenna]

@NickMaz05 How close Our Lord is holding you. I shall keep you in prayer at the Altar.

[Fr. Stefano Penna 🇺🇦🇻🇦 @frspenna]

Pray for the persecuted Church in Nicaragua

[Ines San Martin @inesanma]

More worrying news from #Nicaragua: the regime has detained 80-year-old Father Frutos Constantino Valle Salomon, apostolic administrator of Esteli, in the absence of the actual apostolic administrator, Bishop Alvarez, who's in exile.
The priest is detained in the Managua seminary

[Fr. Stefano Penna 🇺🇦🇻🇦 @frspenna]

@frdarryl Ad multos annos!

[Fr. Stefano Penna 🇺🇦🇻🇦 @frspenna]

@briankeepsworth “They have mouths, but do not speak;
eyes, but do not see. …
Those who make them are like them;
so are all who trust in them.” Psalm 115

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24 04 21 Good Shepherd Sunday - Our call to be Shepherds with thanks to ... https://t.co/Hv6zTn4JeR via @YouTube

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The Easter Sacrament: CONFESSION! (Fr. Penna's homily) 24_04_ 14
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Attention - Challenging Content ahead - Repent and Believe in the Good N... https://t.co/vHyGbBA08i via @YouTube

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@sarneckid Nothing more beautiful!

[Fr. Stefano Penna 🇺🇦🇻🇦 @frspenna]

@EdmCathSchools It’s the beginning of Lent - the holiest penitential season - what is the connection between this and fasting, prayer, and almsgiving ? There is a link … help us find it

[Father V @father_rmv]

Did you know that the pretzel has a deep spiritual meaning for Lent? In fact, it was the ancient Christian Lenten bread as far back as the fourth century. In the old Roman Empire, the faithful kept a very strict fast all through Lent: no milk, no butter, no cheese, no eggs, no cream and no meat. They made small breads of water, flour and salt, to remind themselves that Lent was a time of prayer. They shaped these breads in the form of crossed arms for in those days they crossed their arms over the breast while praying. Therefore they called the breads "little arms" (bracellae). From this Latin word, the Germanic people later coined the term "pretzel."

Thus the pretzel is the most appropriate food symbol in Lent. It still shows the form of arms crossed in prayer, reminding us that Lent is a time of prayer. It consists only of water and flour, thus proclaiming Lent as a time of fasting. The earliest picture and description of a pretzel (from the fifth century) may be found in the manuscript-codex No. 3867, Vatican Library.

That many people eat pretzels today all through the year, that they take them together with beer in taverns and restaurants, is only an accidental habit. In many places of Europe, pretzels are served only from Ash Wednesday to Easter, thus keeping the ancient symbolism alive.

There seems to be no reason why our Christian families should not return to this beautiful custom of our ancient Roman fellow-Christian, especially since we still have these breads everywhere. The children will be delighted and greatly impressed when they hear the true story of the pretzel

From The Year of the Lord in the Christian Home by Rev. Francis X. Weiser, S.J. (Collegeville, Minnesota, The Liturgical Press, ©1964) p. 89, pp. 93-94.

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@FatherHogman Presume deviltry

[Archbishop Miller @archbmiller]

#InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay is January 27.

[Heather Chapman @PatientFactor]

@mark_joubert Will continue to pray. @frspenna can you please pass on the Word. Baby Gus and parents need our prayers!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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