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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXIII - N° 39
DATE 23-02-2013
Summary:
- POPE CONCLUDES LENTEN RETREAT
- POPE MEETS WITH PRESIDENT NAPOLITANO
- POPE'S LETTER TO CARDINAL GIANFRANCO RAVASI
- SECRETARIAT OF STATE COMMUNIQUE
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
POPE CONCLUDES LENTEN RETREAT
Vatican City, 23 February 2013 (VIS) – At the conclusion of this year's
spiritual exercises, Benedict XVI thanked the members of the Curia who had
accompanied him in these days and Cardinal Gianfranco Ravisi, who led the
retreat. The Pope referred
to his preaching, the theme of which was “The Art of Believing, the Art
of Praying” as “'beautiful' walks through the universe of faith,
and the universe of the Psalms.”
“I was reminded of the fact,” Benedict XVI said, “that the
medieval theologians have translated the word 'logos' not only as 'verbum',
but also as 'ars'. 'Verbum' and 'ars' are interchangeable. Only in the two
together does the entire
meaning of the word 'logos' appear for medieval theologians. The 'Logos' is
not simply a mathematical reasoning, the 'Logos' has a heart. The 'Logos' is
also love. Truth is beautiful. Truth and beauty go together. Beauty is the
seal of truth.”
“And yet you, starting from the Psalms and from our everyday experience,
have also strongly emphasized that the 'very beautiful' of the sixth
day—expressed by the creator—is always challenged in this world by
evil, suffering, and
corruption. It almost seems that evil wants to permanently mar creation, to
contradict God and to make His truth and His beauty unrecognisable. In a world
that is also so marked by evil, the 'Logos', eternal beauty and eternal 'ars',
should appear as
the 'caput cruentatum'. The incarnate Son, the incarnate 'Logos' is crowned
with a crown of thorns and, nevertheless, just that way, in this suffering
figure of the Son of God, we begin to see the most profound beauty of our
Creator and Redeemer. In the
silence of the 'dark night' we can still hear the Word. Believing is nothing
other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God and thus,
in silence, listening to the Word, seeing Love.”
Benedict XVI again thanked Cardinal Ravasi, expressing his wish to “take
other 'walks' in this mysterious universe of the faith and to always be more
capable of praying, proclaiming, and being witnesses to the truth, which is
beauty and which is
love.”
“In conclusion, dear friends,” he finished, “I would like to
thank all of you and not only for this week, but for these past eight years
that you have carried with me—with great skill, affection, love and
faith—the weight
of the Petrine ministry. This gratitude remains with me and, even if this
'exterior', 'visible' communion—as Cardinal Ravasi said—is now
ending, our spiritual closeness remains, the deep communion in prayer. We go
forward with this
certainty, certain of God's victory, certain of the truth of beauty and
love.”
___________________________________________________________
POPE MEETS WITH PRESIDENT NAPOLITANO
Vatican City, 23 February 2013 (VIS) – This morning at 11:30am, the Holy
Father received the president of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano
accompanied by his wife, in a farewell audience. The meeting was particularly
warm and cordial,
given the mutual respect and familiarity of the two eminent men.
President Napolitano expressed, not only the gratitude of the Italian people
for his closeness in so many crucial moments and for his elevated religious
and moral teaching, but also their affection, which will continue to accompany
him in the coming
years.
The Pope, for his part, again expressed his gratitude to the president and his
wife for their friendship and best wishes for the good of Italy, particularly
in these days and at this moment of demanding decisions.
___________________________________________________________
POPE'S LETTER TO CARDINAL GIANFRANCO RAVASI
Vatican City, 23 February 2013 (VIS) – Benedict XVI, in an apostolic
letter, thanked Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical
Council for Culture, for his preaching during the Lenten retreat.
“You have offered us,” the Holy Father writes, “a
fascinating journey through the Psalms, following a double path: ascending and
descending. The Psalms, in fact, are fundamentally oriented toward the face of
God, toward the mystery in
which the human mind gets lost, but the very Word of God allows us to see
according to the different profiles in which God reveals himself. At the same
time, in the light that shine from the face of God, praying the Psalms allows
us to see the face of
humanity, to recognize the truth of human joy and sorrow, human anguish and
hope.”
“In this way, … the Word of God, mediated by the ancient and
ever-new 'ars orandi' of the Jewish people and the Church, has allowed us to
renew the 'ars credendi': a need that is highlighted by the Year of Faith and
is even more necessary
in this particular moment that I, personally, and the Apostolic See are
living. Peter's successor and his collaborators are called to give the Church
and the world a clear testimony of faith, and this is only possible thanks to
a deep and abiding
immersion in dialogue with God. Many today are asking: Who will show us what
is good? We can answer, those who reflect God's light and face with their
lives.”
___________________________________________________________
SECRETARIAT OF STATE COMMUNIQUE
Vatican City, 23 February 2013 (VIS) – The freedom of the College of
Cardinals, which, by law, is responsible for providing for the election of the
Roman Pontiff, has always been strongly defended by the Holy See as the
guarantee of a choice based
solely on deliberations directed toward the good of the Church.
Over the course of the centuries, Cardinals have had to face many forms of
pressures, exerted upon individual electors or upon the College of Cardinals
itself, that sought to influence their decisions, following a political or
worldly logic.
If in the past the so-called powers, i.e., States, sought to influence the
election of the Pope, today there is an attempt to do this through public
opinion, which is often based on judgements that do not capture the typically
spiritual aspect of this
moment that the Church is living.
It is deplorable that, as we draw closer to the moment that the Conclave will
begin and the Cardinal electors will be held—in conscience and before
God—to freely express their choice, there is a widespread distribution
of often unverified,
unverifiable, or even completely false news stories that cause serious damage
to persons and institutions.
Never before as at this moment are Catholics focusing on what is essential:
praying for Pope Benedict, praying that the Holy Spirit might enlighten the
College of Cardinals, and praying for the future Pope, confident that the
future of the barque of
Peter is in God's hands.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 23 February 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father:
- appointed Fr. Pietro Lagnese as bishop of Ischia (area 46, population
58,800, Catholics 55,400, priests 42, permanent deacons 10, religious 46),
Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Vitulazio, Campania, Italy in 1961 and was
ordained a priest in 1986.
Since ordination he has served in several pastoral and administrative roles,
most recently as pastor of Santa Maria dell’Agnena in Vitulazio, Italy.
- appointed Bishop Dagoberto Sosa Arriaga as bishop of Tlapa (area 6,990,
population 506,000, Catholics 473,000, priests 50, religious 77), Mexico.
Bishop Dagoberto, titular of Gummi in Byzacena, was previously auxiliary of
Puebla de los Angeles,
Puebla, Mexico.
- appointed Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., archbishop of Buenos Aires,
Argentina, and Archbishop Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzaran, of Yucatan,
Mexico, as members of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
- appointed as members of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of
the Virtuosi al Pantheon: in the class of architects: Dr. Mario Botta, Dr.
Maria Antonietta Crippa, and Dr. Lorenzo Bartolini Salimbeni; in the class of
painters and
filmmakers: Pedro Cano; in the class of sculptors: Giuseppe Ducrot, Mimmo
Paladino, and Ugo Riva; and in the class of writers and poets: Laura Bosio,
Luca Doninelli, and Vincenzo Cerami.
___________________________________________________________
Per ulteriori informazioni e per la ricerca di documenti consultare il
sito: www.wisnews.org e www.vatican.va
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VISnews130223
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXIII - N° 39 DATE 23-02-2013
Summary: - POPE CONCLUDES LENTEN RETREAT - POPE MEETS WITH
PRESIDENT NAPOLITANO - POPE'S LETTER TO CARDINAL GIANFRANCO RAVASI - SECRETARIAT OF STATE COMMUNIQUE - OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 23 February 2013 (VIS) – At the conclusion of this
year's spiritual exercises, Benedict XVI thanked the members of the Curia who
had accompanied him in these days and Cardinal Gianfranco Ravisi, who led the
retreat. The Pope
referred to his preaching, the theme of which was “The Art of Believing,
the Art of Praying” as “'beautiful' walks through the universe of
faith, and the universe of the Psalms.”
“I was reminded of the fact,” Benedict XVI said, “that
the medieval theologians have translated the word 'logos' not only as
'verbum', but also as 'ars'. 'Verbum' and 'ars' are interchangeable. Only in
the two together does the
entire meaning of the word 'logos' appear for medieval theologians. The
'Logos' is not simply a mathematical reasoning, the 'Logos' has a heart. The
'Logos' is also love. Truth is beautiful. Truth and beauty go together. Beauty
is the seal of
truth.”
“And yet you, starting from the Psalms and from our everyday
experience, have also strongly emphasized that the 'very beautiful' of the
sixth day—expressed by the creator—is always challenged in this
world by evil, suffering, and
corruption. It almost seems that evil wants to permanently mar creation, to
contradict God and to make His truth and His beauty unrecognisable. In a world
that is also so marked by evil, the 'Logos', eternal beauty and eternal 'ars',
should appear as
the 'caput cruentatum'. The incarnate Son, the incarnate 'Logos' is crowned
with a crown of thorns and, nevertheless, just that way, in this suffering
figure of the Son of God, we begin to see the most profound beauty of our
Creator and Redeemer. In the
silence of the 'dark night' we can still hear the Word. Believing is nothing
other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God and thus,
in silence,
listening to the Word, seeing Love.”
Benedict XVI again thanked Cardinal Ravasi, expressing his wish to
“take other 'walks' in this mysterious universe of the faith and to
always be more capable of praying, proclaiming, and being witnesses to the
truth, which is beauty and which
is love.”
“In conclusion, dear friends,” he finished, “I would like
to thank all of you and not only for this week, but for these past eight years
that you have carried with me—with great skill, affection, love and
faith—the
weight of the Petrine ministry. This gratitude remains with me and, even if
this 'exterior', 'visible' communion—as Cardinal Ravasi said—is
now ending, our spiritual closeness remains, the deep communion in prayer. We
go forward with this
certainty, certain of God's victory, certain of the truth of beauty and
love.”
Vatican City, 23 February 2013 (VIS) – This morning at 11:30am, the
Holy Father received the president of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano
accompanied by his wife, in a farewell audience. The meeting was particularly
warm and cordial,
given the mutual respect and familiarity of the two eminent men.
President Napolitano expressed, not only the gratitude of the Italian
people for his closeness in so many crucial moments and for his elevated
religious and moral teaching, but also their affection, which will continue to
accompany him in the coming
years.
The Pope, for his part, again expressed his gratitude to the president and
his wife for their friendship and best wishes for the good of Italy,
particularly in these days and at this moment of demanding decisions.
Vatican City, 23 February 2013 (VIS) – Benedict XVI, in an apostolic
letter, thanked Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical
Council for Culture, for his preaching during the Lenten retreat.
“You have offered us,” the Holy Father writes, “a
fascinating journey through the Psalms, following a double path: ascending and
descending. The Psalms, in fact, are fundamentally oriented toward the face of
God, toward the mystery
in which the human mind gets lost, but the very Word of God allows us to see
according to the different profiles in which God reveals himself. At the same
time, in the light that shine from the face of God, praying the Psalms allows
us to see the face
of humanity, to recognize the truth of human joy and sorrow, human anguish and
hope.”
“In this way, … the Word of God, mediated by the ancient and
ever-new 'ars orandi' of the Jewish people and the Church, has allowed us to
renew the 'ars credendi': a need that is highlighted by the Year of Faith and
is even more
necessary in this particular moment that I, personally, and the Apostolic See
are living. Peter's successor and his collaborators are called to give the
Church and the world a clear testimony of faith, and this is only possible
thanks to a deep and
abiding immersion in dialogue with God. Many today are asking: Who will show
us what is good? We can answer, those who reflect God's light and face with
their lives.”
Vatican City, 23 February 2013 (VIS) – The freedom of the College of
Cardinals, which, by law, is responsible for providing for the election of the
Roman Pontiff, has always been strongly defended by the Holy See as the
guarantee of a choice
based solely on deliberations directed toward the good of the Church.
Over the course of the centuries, Cardinals have had to face many forms of
pressures, exerted upon individual electors or upon the College of Cardinals
itself, that sought to influence their decisions, following a political or
worldly logic.
If in the past the so-called powers, i.e., States, sought to influence the
election of the Pope, today there is an attempt to do this through public
opinion, which is often based on judgements that do not capture the typically
spiritual aspect of
this moment that the Church is living.
It is deplorable that, as we draw closer to the moment that the Conclave
will begin and the Cardinal electors will be held—in conscience and
before God—to freely express their choice, there is a widespread
distribution of often
unverified, unverifiable, or even completely false news stories that cause
serious damage to persons and institutions.
Never before as at this moment are Catholics focusing on what is essential:
praying for Pope Benedict, praying that the Holy Spirit might enlighten the
College of Cardinals, and praying for the future Pope, confident that the
future of the barque of
Peter is in God's hands.
Vatican City, 23 February 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father:
- appointed Fr. Pietro Lagnese as bishop of Ischia (area 46, population
58,800, Catholics 55,400, priests 42, permanent deacons 10, religious 46),
Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Vitulazio, Campania, Italy in 1961 and was
ordained a priest in
1986. Since ordination he has served in several pastoral and administrative
roles, most recently as pastor of Santa Maria dell’Agnena in Vitulazio,
Italy.
- appointed Bishop Dagoberto Sosa Arriaga as bishop of Tlapa (area 6,990,
population 506,000, Catholics 473,000, priests 50, religious 77), Mexico.
Bishop Dagoberto, titular of Gummi in Byzacena, was previously auxiliary of
Puebla de los Angeles,
Puebla, Mexico.
- appointed Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., archbishop of Buenos
Aires, Argentina, and Archbishop Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzaran, of Yucatan,
Mexico, as members of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
- appointed as members of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters
of the Virtuosi al Pantheon: in the class of architects: Dr. Mario Botta, Dr.
Maria Antonietta Crippa, and Dr. Lorenzo Bartolini Salimbeni; in the class of
painters and
filmmakers: Pedro Cano; in the class of sculptors: Giuseppe Ducrot, Mimmo
Paladino, and Ugo Riva; and in the class of writers and poets: Laura Bosio,
Luca Doninelli, and Vincenzo Cerami.
Per ulteriori informazioni e per la ricerca di documenti consultare il
sito: www.wisnews.org e www.vatican.va Il servizio del
VIS viene inviato soltanto agli indirizzi di posta elettronica che ne
hanno
fatto richiesta. Se per qualunque motivo non si desidera continuare a
riceverlo, si prega di visitare nostra pagina dinizio: http://212.77.1.245/news_services/press/vi
/italinde.php
Copyright (VIS): Le notizie contenute nei servizi del Vatican
Information Service possono essere riprodotte parzialmente o totalmente
citando la fonte: V.I.S. - Vatican Information Service.
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