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THE GIBBONS MISSION Edition 51 April 2021 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Publisher—Faithful Navigator CARDINAL JAMES GIBBONS 4TH. DEGREE ASSEMBLY—MEETS AT HOLY FAMILY PARISH HALL AT GENDER ROAD & CHESTNUT HILL ROAD NO CALENDARS OF ACTIVITIES DUE TO EFFECTS OF THE VIRUS Producer/Editor—The Captain WHEN MEETINGS WILL AGAIN OCCUR, NOTICE WILL BE GIVEN A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart Delaware Abortion Facts ASSEMBLY 150 S.K. OFFICERS FOR 2020-2021 Delaware is SECOND in the nation in the rate of teen abortion? (47 per 1,000 women) Thomas D. Green Navigator Robert E. Zeigler Captain Delaware is #4 in the nation in the rate of overall abortion Rev. Christopher P. Hanley Friar (28.4 per 1,000 women) Anthony J. Bodonaro Admiral Thomas A. Pollutri Pilot Approximately 4,000 abortions are performed each year in Joseph E. Koskol Scribe Delaware. Almost half of all abortions in Delaware are repeat Lawrence B. Maguire Comptroller Mark A. Kellar Purser abortions. 47% of abortions in Delaware are performed on Gerald Safranski Trustee 3 Yr. black women. Albert J. Ware Trustee 2 Yr. Michael Handlin Trustee 1 Yr. _________________________________________________ John L. McCormick Inner Sentinel The Delaware Right To Life Mission Statement is Edward T. Godsell Outer Sentinel John J. Mayberry** Outer Sentinel reprinted on Page 6. The policy as printed, sounds Albert J. Ware CC Commander stringent. If an unborn child could read it, how would he or she interpret it?... and have no defense from a person Third Degree Affiliated Councils or persons who are about to deny that human a chance 3751 Blessed Sacrament/Corpus Christi for life outside the womb? 4548 St. Michael’s / Holy Family 6768 Coffee Run/St. Mary of the Assumption Medical students, nurses, & doctors attend and view and 11384 San Pablo/St. Paul’s Wilmington learn from surgical procedures every day. These 11469 Our Lady of Fatima surgeries are not experiments, but are performed to save 11796 St. John The Beloved 12104 Holy Angels lives and improve lives of the humans on the table. I 12842 St. David’s / St. Margaret of Scotland have a proposal, and it sounds macabre….invite these ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// medical people who have or will swear the Hippocratic TO ACCESS THE ASSEMBLY WEB SITE, TYPE: Oath, to attend and/or assist in an abortion procedure. Is this a ‘reproductive RIGHT’ ...or medical care? Uknight.org/assembly.asp?A=150 What will they learn in this “medical theater” of the absurd ? Newsletter Feedback to: [email protected] 1 YOUR PRAYERS ARE NEEDED FOR THE ALL BELOW Pope Francis, Bishop Malooly, Priests, Deacons, Brothers, Sisters, lay ministers, and seminarians, all in the Wilmington Diocese and world wide. Those serving in the armed services, veterans, peace officers, EMT’s, firemen & the President, and All K of C members and their families both living and deceased. All the sick and disabled faithful and those affected by the PANDEMIC VIRUS For the special intentions of Diane Lawler & Family, James Gardner, Al Ware and their families Pray for all expectant mothers that they may support the life of their unborn as God’s Creation. Pray for the persecuted Christians in the Mid-East. Pray for peace on our cities. Our Faithful Master & his family SOME CHURCH HISTORY AND MUCH LEARNING St. Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop and Doctor of the Church. Feast Day is April 21. What is a Doctor of the Church? The Universal Church recognizes 36 saints as Doctors of the Church. They are recognized as such because of their singular contributions to theology & doctrine as manifested in their research, studies and publications. Anselm was actually an Italian by birth, from Aosta, Italy. His real name was Anselmo d’Aosta. He was born in AD 1033 and died April 21, 1109 AD. He moved to France to live in a Benedictine monastery. He immersed himself in the Summa Theologica, the favorite of St. Thomas. Anselm first used the term “theology” and this is defined as “faith that is seeking to understand”. He was later named Abbott. The first and best-known “Ontological Argument” was proposed by Anselm in the 11th. Century in his Proslogion, [cur deus homo] and Anselm claimed to derive the existence of God from the concept of a being than which no greater can be conceived ...so a being than which no greater can be conceived, i.e., God exists. Very simplistic! [why God became man] Pope Paschal II appointed Anselm as Archbishop of Canterbury [1093] King William II demanded the sole right to appoint bishops. Anselm was sent into exile. Anselm returned to England after King William died. The new King, Henry I, wanted to control the English church and Anselm was banished again. Anselm came back and he, as Primate, continued to make decisions based on his faith in Christ and Church law. Anselm fought against injustice, opposed slavery and was responsible for laws that forbade the selling of people. He organized efforts to care for the poor. He was a true shepherd of his people, he listened and answered their letters with loving but firm advice. Anselm is buried at Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, UK. He was canonized in 1492 by Pope Alexander VI. Fast Forward to 1535: Henry VIII and subsequent British monarchs claim themselves as Defenders of the Faith and head of the Church [Anglican] in the UK. He was not a martyr, not one of the 14 Holy Helpers. 2 In the March Edition, a bio of St. Blaise was printed and in that we referred to the “Fourteen Holy Helpers” and Blaise was one of that group. We also said we would follow-up in future editions by doing a brief bio of the ‘Helpers’ So we commence as follows starting with Saint Barbara St. Barbara is brief. Her Feast Day is December 4. Born in 273 AD, she died in 306 AD. She is invoked during thunderstorms and is the patron of miners and artillerymen. Legends go back to the 7th. Century. She was the daughter of Dioscorus, a pagan Roman. She professed Christianity and refused marriage. Dioscorus became enraged and took her to the Roman Provincial Prefect who ordered her beheaded. Her father performed the execution and on his return home, he was struck by lightning and reduced to ashes. Some accounts say that the Egyptian city of Heliopolis, others say Nicomedia or a town in Tuscany were the scenes of her martyrdom, but Syriac, Latin or Greek versions are extant. Her story is reproduced in detail in Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda aurea [1255-66]; Golden Legend, 1483, taken from the Middle Ages, was popular in the Middle Ages. Too much legend and contradiction caused her to be dropped by the General Roman Calendar in 1969. However, she is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches and the Church of England and Episcopal US Communions. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Saint Giles [is a non-martyr of the Fourteen Holy Helpers] He was born at Athens [Achaea] 650 AD. He died in 710 AD in Septimania, and was known as Giles the Hermit. His Feast Day is September 1. He is buried at Abbatial Saint Giles du Gard, St. Gilles, France. He is the patron of cripples, childhood fears and convulsants. His elevation to Sainthood status was ‘pre-congregation’ and that term was explained in the March Edition. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Uniate and Orthodox Churches and in the Anglican Churches. He is the patron of St. Gile’s Cathedral, Edinburgh Scotland. 19 other cities bear his name. In 1562 his relics were transferred to Toulouse, France, to protect them from the Huguenots and the level of pilgrimages were declining. The restoration of most of his relics to the abbey of Saint –Gilles-du Gard in 1862 and the publicized rediscovery of his former tomb there in 1865 helped pilgrimages. His is a Benedictine and the Order did assimilate his shrines and relics. He was ordained in France and then consecrated an Abbot. [Under certain circumstances, an Abbot can exercise the powers of a Bishop] He has monasteries and churches named after him in Antwerp, Brugge, Tournai, Cologne, Bamberg, Rome, Bologna, Prague, Esternaz, Nuremberg, Osnabruck, Sanki Gilgen, Brunswick, Wollaberg, Tripoli, etc. And finally, a legend??—10th. Century Vitae Sancti Aegidii recounts, As Giles was celebrating Mass to pardon the Emperor Charlemagne’s sins, an angel deposited a letter on the altar that outlined a terrible sin that the Emperor would never confess. Several Latin and French texts, including the Legenda Aurea refer to his hidden “sin of Charlemagne” This ‘legend’ contradicts the well established dates for the life of Charlemagne as 742 AD to 814 AD. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There are times wherein I show historical-geographical terms which are no longer used...and I owe it to the readers to clarify. Example above: Septimania...that is a historical region in modern day southern France. It is referred to the Western part of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis that passed to the control of the Visagoths in 462 AD when Septimania was ceded to their king, Theodoric II. These regions were also known as Gallia, Arbuna or Narbonensis. Theodoric visited Giles and brought the local Bishop to ordain Giles. And the second geopolitical term in the Giles articles: Achaea or the Greek Akhaia, That is the N.W. region of Greece, Peloponnese Peninsula. The capital of this region is Patras. St. Giles birthplace is listed at being Athens, however many dispute that precision, and assign the birthplace as generally the Achaean region. The term UNIATE refers to Churches in communion with the Holy See.