Karol Wojtyla Website Launched

If you regularly keep your ear open to Catholic news, this won't be anything new to you. However, the Diocese of Rome has launched a website dedicated to the beatification of Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla). The site will include "information on the life of Karol Wojtyla, his thought and his devotion of Mary,... the process of his canonization cause, and other events linked to the May 1 beatification" (link to the Zenit article).

The website is already becoming a comprehensive website for all things Wojtyla, and should soon include some of his writtings. A fun, though odd, feature is a webcam that provides live feed of Pope John Paul II's tomb.

The beatification of the Servant of G-d Pope John Paul II is set for May 1, 2011 (Divine Mercy Sunday). This was an appropriate choice of a date, because not only does it come after a period of penance (Lent) and celebration (Easter), but it also falls upon the feast of Divine Mercy (instituted for the universal Church by the future Blessed Wojtyla).

Prayer for asking graces through the intercession of the Servant of God the Pope John Paul II

O Blessed Trinity

We thank You for having graced the Church with Pope John Paul II

and for allowing the tenderness of your Fatherly care,

the glory of the cross of Christ,

and the splendor of the Holy Spirit, to shine through him.

Trusting fully in Your infinite mercy

and in the maternal intercession of Mary,

he has given us a living image of Jesus the Good Shepherd,

and has shown us that holiness is the necessary measure of ordinary Christian life and

is the way of achieving eternal communion with you.

Grant us, by his intercession, and according to Your will,

the graces we implore,

hoping that he will soon be numbered among your saints.

Amen

Totus tuus ego sum, et omnia mea tua sunt

I am all yours, and all that I have is yours