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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXIII - N° 44
DATE 28-02-2013
Summary:
- POPE TO COLLEGE OF CARDINALS: “I WILL BE NEAR TO YOU”
- TELEGRAM ON THE DEATH OF CARDINAL HONORE
- BENEDICT XVI'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR MARCH
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
POPE TO COLLEGE OF CARDINALS: “I WILL BE NEAR TO YOU”
Vatican City, 28 February 2013 (VIS) – At 11:00am in the Clementine
Hall, Benedict XVI greeted the College of Cardinals, whose dean, Cardinal
Angelo Sodano, addressed a short farewell to the Pope on behalf of all those
present.
“It is with great emotion,” he said, “that the Cardinal
Fathers present in Rome gather around you today, to once again express to you
their deep affection and heartfelt gratitude for your selfless witness of
apostolic service, for the
good of Christ's Church and of all humanity.”
The cardinal recalled the words that, last Saturday at the end of the Lenten
Retreat, the Pope addressed to his collaborators in the Roman Curia: “I
would like to thank all of you and not only for this week, but for these past
eight years that you
have borne with me—with great skill, affection, love, and
aith—the weight of the Petrine ministry.”
“Beloved and revered Successor of Peter,” the cardinal exclaimed,
“we are the ones who must thank you for the example you have given us in
these eight years of your Pontificate. On 19 April, 2005, you joined the long
line of successors
of the Apostle Peter and today, 28 February, 2013, you are about to leave us,
awaiting that the helm of Peter's Barque be transferred to other hands. Thus
the apostolic succession, which the Lord promised to His Holy Church, will
continue until the
voice of the Angel of the Apocalypse is heard on earth, proclaiming 'Tempus
non erit amplius ... consummabitur mysterium Dei' 'There shall be no more
delay. ... The mysterious plan of God shall be fulfilled!' Thus will end the
history of the Church,
together with the history of the world, with the coming of a new heaven and a
new earth.”
The dean of the College of Cardinals emphasized the “deep love”
with which the cardinals have tried to accompany the Pope in his journey, and
how the journey was a “reliving of the experience of the disciples of
Emmaus who, after
walking with Jesus for a good stretch of road, said to one another: 'Were not
our hearts burning [within us] while he spoke to us on the way?'”
“Yes, Holy Father, know that our hearts were also burning when we were
walking with you in these past eight years. Today we want to once again
express to you our gratitude. We repeat together a typical expression of your
dear native land:
'Vergelt's Gott', may God reward you!”
For his part, the Holy Father addressed the cardinals, returning to the
reference of the disciples' experience on the way to Emmaus, saying:
“For me as well, it has been a joy walking with you these past eight
years in the light of the Risen
Lord's presence. As I said yesterday, in front of the thousands of faithful
who filled St. Peter's Square, your nearness and your advice have been a great
help to me in my ministry. In these eight years we have faithfully lived
beautiful moments of
radiant light along the Church's journey along with times when clouds gathered
in the skies. We have tried to serve Christ and His Church with a deep and
total love, which is the soul of our ministry. We have given the hope that
comes to us from Christ
and that alone can light the way. Together we can thank the Lord, who has made
us to grow in communion. Together we can ask Him to help you grow more in this
deep unity, so that the College of Cardinals might be like an orchestra, where
diversity, the expression of the universal Church, always contributes to
greater and concordant harmony.”
He added: “I would like to leave you with a simple thought that is close
to my heart: a thought regarding the Church and her mystery, which constitutes
for all us, we can say, the reason and the passion of life. I will rely for
help on an
expression by Romano Guardini, written in the same year when the Fathers of
the Second Vatican Council approved the Constitution 'Lumen Gentium'. It is
from his final book, which he also personally dedicated for me. The words of
this book, therefore,
are particularly dear to me. Guardini says: 'The Church is not an institution
devised and built by human beings ... but a living reality. ... It lives still
throughout the course of time. Like all living realities it develops, it
changes ... and yet in
the very depths of its being it remains the same: its inmost nucleus is
Christ.'“
“Our experience yesterday in the square thus seemed to me: seeing that
the Church is a living body, animated by the Holy Spirit and truly alive by
the power of God. It is in the world but not of the world: it is of God, of
Christ, and of the
Spirit. We saw this yesterday. This is why Guardini's other famous expression
is true and eloquent: 'The Church is awakening within souls.' The Church
lives, grows, and awakens in souls that—like the Virgin Ma
y—embrace the Word of God and
conceive of it as the work of the Holy Spirit. The offer God their very flesh
and, precisely in their poverty and humility, become capable of generating
Christ today in the world. Through the Church, the Mystery of the Incarnation
remains present
forever. Christ continues to walk through all ages and places.”
“Let us remain united in this mystery, dear brothers; in prayer and
especially in daily Eucharist, so that we might thus serve the Church and all
of humanity. This is our joy, which no one can take from us.”
“Before greeting you personally I would like to tell you all that I will
continue to be near to you in prayer, especially in the coming days, so that
you may be fully docile to the Holy Spirit's action in electing the new Pope.
May the Lord show
you what He wills. Among you, among the College of Cardinals, is also the
future Pope, to whom I already today promise my unconditioned reverence and
obedience.”
On finishing his address, Benedict XVI greeted all the 144 cardinals and the
other members of the Roman Curia present personally.
___________________________________________________________
TELEGRAM ON THE DEATH OF CARDINAL HONORE
Vatican City, 28 February 2013 (VIS) – The Holy Father has sent a
telegram to Archbishop Bernard-Nicolas Aubertin, O. Cist., of Tours, France,
on receiving news of the death today of Cardinal Jean Marcel Honore,
archbishop emeritus of that
archdiocese. The cardinal was 92 years old. The Pope asked the Lord to
“welcome this pastor who has served the Church with devotion in Catholic
education and catechesis into His peace and His true light.” The
cardinal was also “a
skilled and passionate crafter in editing the Catechism of the Catholic
Church, who always had the desire to proclaim the Gospel to the entire world
of today.”
___________________________________________________________
BENEDICT XVI'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR MARCH
Vatican City, 28 February 2013 (VIS) – Pope Benedict's general prayer
intention for March is: "That respect for nature may grow with the awareness
that all creation is God's work entrusted to human responsibility."
His mission intention is: "That bishops, priests, and deacons may be tireless
messengers of the Gospel to the ends of the earth."
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 28 February 2013 (VIS) – Today the Holy Father:
- appointed Fr. Samuel Jofre as bishop of Villa Maria (area 28,000, population
386,000, Catholics 308,000, priests 69, religious 32), Argentina. The
bishop-elect was born in Cordoba, Spain in 1957 and was ordained a priest in
1983. Since ordination, he
has served in several pastoral and judicial roles, most recently as judge on
the inter-diocesanal tribunal of Cordoba and pastor of Santo Cristo Parish. He
succeeds Bishop Jose Angel Roval, whose resignation from the pastoral care of
the Diocese of
Villa Maria the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
- appointed Msgr. Joseph Dinh Duc Dao as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of
Xuan Loc (area 5,955, population 2,458,000, Catholics 873,440, priests 405,
religious 2314), Vietnam. The bishop-elect was born in Thuc Hoa, Nam Dinh,
Vietnam, in 1945 and was
ordained a priest in 1971. Since ordination, he has served in several
pastoral, academic, and administrative roles, most recently as consultor of
the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and rector of the Major
Seminary of Xuan Loc. The Holy
Father has assigned him the Titular See of Gadiaufala.
___________________________________________________________
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VISnews130228
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXIII - N° 44 DATE 28-02-2013
Summary: - POPE TO COLLEGE OF CARDINALS:
“I WILL BE NEAR TO
YOU” - TELEGRAM ON THE DEATH OF CARDINAL HONORE - BENEDICT
XVI'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR MARCH - OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
POPE TO COLLEGE OF CARDINALS: “I WILL BE NEAR TO YOU”
Vatican City, 28 February 2013 (VIS) – At 11:00am in the Clementine
Hall, Benedict XVI greeted the College of Cardinals, whose dean, Cardinal
Angelo Sodano, addressed a short farewell to the Pope on behalf of all those
present.
“It is with great emotion,” he said, “that the Cardinal
Fathers present in Rome gather around you today, to once again express to you
their deep affection and heartfelt gratitude for your selfless witness of
apostolic service, for
the good of Christ's Church and of all humanity.”
The cardinal recalled the words that, last Saturday at the end of the
Lenten Retreat, the Pope addressed to his collaborators in the Roman Curia:
“I would like to thank all of you and not only for this week, but for
these past eight years that
you have borne with me—with great skill, affection, love, and
faith—the weight of the Petrine ministry.”
“Beloved and revered Successor of Peter,” the cardinal
exclaimed, “we are the ones who must thank you for the example you have
given us in these eight years of your Pontificate. On 19 April, 2005, you
joined the long line of
successors of the Apostle Peter and today, 28 February, 2013, you are about to
leave us, awaiting that the helm of Peter's Barque be transferred to other
hands. Thus the apostolic succession, which the Lord promised to His Holy
Church, will continue
until the voice of the Angel of the Apocalypse is heard on earth, proclaiming
'Tempus non erit amplius ... consummabitur mysterium Dei' 'There shall be no
more delay. ... The mysterious plan of God shall be fulfilled!' Thus will end
the history of the
Church, together with the history of the world, with the coming of a new
heaven and a new earth.”
The dean of the College of Cardinals emphasized the “deep love”
with which the cardinals have tried to accompany the Pope in his journey, and
how the journey was a “reliving of the experience of the disciples of
Emmaus who, after
walking with Jesus for a good stretch of road, said to one another: 'Were not
our hearts burning [within us] while he spoke to us on the way?'”
“Yes, Holy Father, know that our hearts were also burning when we
were walking with you in these past eight years. Today we want to once again
express to you our gratitude. We repeat together a typical expression of your
dear native land:
'Vergelt's Gott', may God reward you!”
For his part, the Holy Father addressed the cardinals, returning to the
reference of the disciples' experience on the way to Emmaus, saying:
“For me as well, it has been a joy walking with you these past eight
years in the light of the Risen
Lord's presence. As I said yesterday, in front of the thousands of faithful
who filled St. Peter's Square, your nearness and your advice have been a great
help to me in my ministry. In these eight years we have faithfully lived
beautiful moments of
radiant light along the Church's journey along with times when clouds gathered
in the skies. We have tried to serve Christ and His Church with a deep and
total love, which is the soul of our ministry. We have given the hope that
comes to us from Christ
and that alone can light the way. Together we can thank the Lord, who has made
us to grow in communion. Together we can ask Him to help you grow more in this
deep unity, so that the College of Cardinals might be like
an orchestra, where diversity, the expression of the universal Church, always
contributes to greater and concordant harmony.”
He added: “I would like to leave you with a simple thought that is
close to my heart: a thought regarding the Church and her mystery, which
constitutes for all us, we can say, the reason and the passion of life. I will
rely for help on an
expression by Romano Guardini, written in the same year when the Fathers of
the Second Vatican Council approved the Constitution 'Lumen Gentium'. It is
from his final book, which he also personally dedicated for me. The words of
this book, therefore,
are particularly dear to me. Guardini says: 'The Church is not an institution
devised and built by human beings ... but a living reality. ... It lives still
throughout the course of time. Like all living realities it develops, it
changes ... and yet in
the very depths of its being it remains the same: its inmost nucleus is
Christ.'“
“Our experience yesterday in the square thus seemed to me: seeing
that the Church is a living body, animated by the Holy Spirit and truly alive
by the power of God. It is in the world but not of the world: it is of God, of
Christ, and of the
Spirit. We saw this yesterday. This is why Guardini's other famous expression
is true and eloquent: 'The Church is awakening within souls.' The Church
lives, grows, and awakens in souls that—like the Virgin Ma
y—embrace the Word of God and
conceive of it as the work of the Holy Spirit. The offer God their very flesh
and, precisely in their poverty and humility, become capable of generating
Christ today in the world. Through the Church, the Mystery of the Incarnation
remains present
forever. Christ continues to walk through all ages and places.”
“Let us remain united in this mystery, dear brothers; in prayer and
especially in daily Eucharist, so that we might thus serve the Church and all
of humanity. This is our joy, which no one can take from us.”
“Before greeting you personally I would like to tell you all that I
will continue to be near to you in prayer, especially in the coming days, so
that you may be fully docile to the Holy Spirit's action in electing the new
Pope. May the Lord
show you what He wills. Among you, among the College of Cardinals, is also the
future Pope, to whom I already today promise my unconditioned reverence and
obedience.”
On finishing his address, Benedict XVI greeted all the 144 cardinals and
the other members of the Roman Curia present personally.
Vatican City, 28 February 2013 (VIS) – The Holy Father has sent a
telegram to Archbishop Bernard-Nicolas Aubertin, O. Cist., of Tours, France,
on receiving news of the death today of Cardinal Jean Marcel Honore,
archbishop emeritus of that
archdiocese. The cardinal was 92 years old. The Pope asked the Lord to
“welcome this pastor who has served the Church with devotion in Catholic
education and catechesis into His peace and His true light.” The
cardinal was also “a
skilled and passionate crafter in editing the Catechism of the Catholic
Church, who always had the desire to proclaim the Gospel to the entire world
of today.”
Vatican City, 28 February 2013 (VIS) – Pope Benedict's general prayer
intention for March is: "That respect for nature may grow with the awareness
that all creation is God's work entrusted to human responsibility."
His mission intention is: "That bishops, priests, and deacons may be
tireless messengers of the Gospel to the ends of the earth."
Vatican City, 28 February 2013 (VIS) – Today the Holy Father:
- appointed Fr. Samuel Jofre as bishop of Villa Maria (area 28,000,
population 386,000, Catholics 308,000, priests 69, religious 32), Argentina.
The bishop-elect was born in Cordoba, Spain in 1957 and was ordained a priest
in 1983. Since ordination,
he has served in several pastoral and judicial roles, most recently as judge
on the inter-diocesanal tribunal of Cordoba and pastor of Santo Cristo Parish.
He succeeds Bishop Jose Angel Roval, whose resignation from the pastoral care
of the Diocese of
Villa Maria the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
- appointed Msgr. Joseph Dinh Duc Dao as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of
Xuan Loc (area 5,955, population 2,458,000, Catholics 873,440, priests 405,
religious 2314), Vietnam. The bishop-elect was born in Thuc Hoa, Nam Dinh,
Vietnam, in 1945 and
was ordained a priest in 1971. Since ordination, he has served in several
pastoral, academic, and administrative roles, most recently as consultor of
the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and rector of the Major
Seminary of Xuan Loc. The
Holy Father has assigned him the Titular See of Gadiaufala.
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
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