St. Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, in France, converted the Merovingian king Clovis and the Frankish nation. He died in 534.
On the Novus Ordo calendar, today is the feast of St. Therese of Lisieux, principal patroness of our Institute. (Her feast day prior to the post-Vatican II liturgical reform was October 3.) In celebration of which the ITI welcomed this evening Bishop Küng of the diocese of Sankt Pölten (in which we are presently located). The good bishop addressed us on the topic of the married vocation in the spirituality of Opus Dei, of which he is a member. The particular characteristic of Opus Dei, of course, is their emphasis on the universal call to holiness, which was also stressed in the teaching of Vatican II. After the lecture there was of course plenty of meats and cheeses, wines and bread, etc., as well as lots of sweets and baked goods left over from a bake sale which raised some 300 Euro this afternoon toward our coming pilgrimage to Lourdes.
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I guess this St. Polten bishop is an improvement over the previous one. I recall there was some pretty serious scandal at the seminary there a few years back.
Indeed, Msgr. Hogan mentioned very vaguely in his introduction that the bishop had come into a very troubled diocese just a few years ago, etc.
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