JANUARY 7, 2011
DAILY PRAYER WITH REGNUM CHRISTI
WHEN GOD SO WILLS
January 7, 2011
Friday after Epiphany
Luke 5:12-16
It happened that there was a man full of leprosy in one of the towns
where he was; and when he saw Jesus, he fell prostrate, pleaded with
him, and said, "Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean." Jesus
stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, "I do will it. Be
made clean." And the leprosy left him immediately. Then he ordered
him not to tell anyone, but "Go, show yourself … [Altro]

Since Raymond lived into his hundredth year, he had a chance to do many things. As a member of the Spanish nobility, he had the resources and the education to get a good start in life. By the time he was 20, he was teaching philosophy. In his early 30s he earned a doctorate in both canon and civil law. At 41 he became a Dominican. Pope Gregory IX called him to Rome to work for him and to be his confessor. One of the things the pope asked him to do was to gather together all the decrees of popes … [Altro]

Saint Raymond of Penyafort, O.P. (c. 1175 – 6 January 1275) (Catalan: Sant Ramon de Penyafort, Spanish: San Raimundo de Peñafort ) is a Dominican friar who compiled the Decretals of Gregory IX, a collection of canon laws that remained part of church law until the Code of Canon Law was promulgated in 1917. He is the patron saint of canon lawyers, specifically, and lawyers. Life Raymond of Penyafort was born in Vilafranca del Penedès, a small town near Barcelona, Catalonia, around 1175. He … [Altro]