 Two bombs exploded 12 seconds apart near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, 2013, killing three people — one of them an 8-year-old boy — and wounding more than 130 others. Pandemonium erupted as spectators scattered and doctors on hand to treat runners jumped in to help people with battlefield-type injuries, including severed limbs. Nearly two-thirds of the 23,000 competitors had already completed the run, meaning several thousand were still on the course.
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 March edition of NUNTIA – monthly news bulletin of General Curia of the Congregation of the Mission has been released with some delay due to some technical problems. Inside you can read about visitation of Philippines and Papua New Guinea by Fr. Varghese; establishing Panama Region of the CM Eastern Province, reconfiguration of Visitors’ Conference in Latin America, new formation initiative in Brazil, and some more.
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 “The length of our days is seventy years —
or eighty, if we have the strength;
yet their span is but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.” (Psalm 90,10)
On April 6, 2013 in age of 83, 55 years of priesthood, Lt. Colonel Father George Dabrowski, C.M., passed at St. Catherine’s Infirmary, Germantown, Philadephia, PA. He was a long time US Air Force chaplain, pastor and teacher and professor at St. John Kanty Prep, Erie, PA, among others. In recent years he was a resident of St. Catherine’s Infrirmary.
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 On Thursday evening as the sunset Pope Francis crossed the Tiber River bound for the city’s juvenile prison, Casal del Marmo (in English: ‘Marble House’) to begin the Easter Triduum breaking the tradition of celebrating the Lord’s Supper Mass in the Basilica of St. John on the Lateran. In a tiny simple chapel of Merciful Father among the young offenders, he celebrated Mass of Our Lord’s Supper which began the Easter Triduum.
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 “A good priest can be recognized by the way his people are anointed.” Pope Francis said in homily given in the Chrism Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in the morning today. “We need to go out, then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the outskirts where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight, and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters,” the Pope continued with words so familiar to us. And finally shaped what priests, whose day is today, should be: “…shepherds living with the smell of the sheep, shepherds in the midst of their flock, fishers of men.” Read the full text of the homily.
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 This morning Pope Francis celebrated his first Palm Sunday Mass at St. Peter’s Square, Vatican. Thousands of pilgrims filled the Square for the Mass, which marked the beginning of Holy Week. Pope and dozens of Prelates moved through the Square, among the congregation with in a procession with a traditional palm in his hands. Then, he delivered his first Palm Sunday homily which full text follows:
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 March 19, 2013, Feast of St. Joseph, Patron of the Church is the day when Holy Father Francis inaugurated his Petrine Ministry. After traveling around St Peter’s Square with estimated 150,000 people in open papamobile Pope visited the Tomb of St. Peter and next appeared outside the Basilica of St. Peter for the Mass inaugurating hid pontificate.He was bestowed pallium, symbol of bishop’s authority and mission and Fisherman’s Ring, sign of being “Fisher of Men”. Francis delivered very simple, but strong homily in Italian, which translation can be read here:
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 At noon, Sunday, March 17 Holy Father Francis for the very first time appeared in the window of his private apartment as did his predecessors. He showed off right after arrival from the St. Ann church in the Vatican, where he celebrated Sunday Eucharist. Some 200,000 pilgrims filled up the St. Peter’s Square to hear Pope’s prayer. Once again Bishop of Rome delivered an address not reading it from the paper but using only some notes. He was talking about mercy which changes everything, “changes the world”. His address unlike his predecessor did was prior to the Angelus. After the prayer Pope spoke again giving a blessing to all gathered. Read Francis’ address:
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Two bombs exploded 12 seconds apart near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, 2013, killing three people — one of them an 8-year-old boy — and wounding more than 130 others. Pandemonium erupted as spectators scattered and doctors on hand to treat runners jumped in to help people with battlefield-type injuries, including severed limbs. Nearly two-thirds of the 23,000 competitors had already completed the run, meaning several thousand were still on the course. 
