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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - N° 163
DATE 31-07-2013
Summary:
- THE POPE CELEBRATES MASS WITH JESUITS ON THE FEAST OF ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
- POPE FRANCIS ANNOUNCES THE THEME FOR THE 47th WORLD DAY OF PEACE
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
- PAPAL AND HOLY SEE HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY-JULY 2013
- NOTICE
___________________________________________________________
THE POPE CELEBRATES MASS WITH JESUITS ON THE FEAST OF ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
Vatican City, 31 July 2013 (VIS) – The Pope celebrated Mass at 8.00 a.m.
today, the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus,
the order to which he belongs, with Jesuits in the Roman Church of Jesus,
where the saint's
reliquaries are preserved.
It was a private, like the Mass celebrated each day at the Santa Marta
guesthouse, attended only by priests of the Society of Jesus, friends, and
collaborators. However, the Pope was received by hundreds of people who wished
to greet him and who waited
until the end of the celebration to do so.
Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J., Secretary of the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the Superior General of the Jesuits, Fr.
Adolfo Nicolas, concelebrated with the Pope, as well as members of the Council
and more than two
hundred Jesuits.
In this homily, the Pope proposed a reflection based on three concepts:
putting Christ at the centre of the Church, allowing oneself to be conquered
by Him to serve; and feeling the shame of our limits and sins in order to be
humble before Him and
before our brothers.
“The symbol of the Jesuits is a monogram, the acronym of 'Iesus Hominum
Salvator'”, said Francis. “It reminds us constantly of a fact we
must never forget: the centrality of Christ for each one of us, and for the
entire Society, that
St. Ignatius chose to call 'the Society ofJesus' to indicate its point of
reference. … And this leads us, Jesuits, to be 'decentred', to have
'Deus semper maior' before us … Christ is our life! The centrality of
Christ also corresponds to
the centrality of the Church: they are two flames that cannot be separated. I
cannot follow Christ other than in the Church and with the Church. And also in
this case, we Jesuits and the entire Society are not in the centre; we are, so
to say, removed;
we are in the service of Christ and of the Church. … To be men rooted
and grounded in the Church: this is what Jesus wants. We cannot walk in
parallel or in isolation. Yes, there are paths of research, creative paths,
yes: th
is is
important; to go out to the peripheries … but always in community, in
the Church, with this belonging that gives us the courage to go ahead”.
The path to live this dual centrality is found in “letting oneself be
conquered by Christ. I seek Jesus, I serve Jesus because he sought me first.
… In Spanish there is a very descriptive phrase, which explains this
well: 'El nos primerea',
He is always first before us. … To be conquered by Christ to offer to
this King our entire person, all our effort … to imitate Him also in
withstanding injustice, contempt, poverty”. The Pope recalled the Jesuit
Fr. Paolo dall'Oglio,
missing in Syria for days, and added “being conquered by Christ means
forever striving to reach what is before you, to reach Christ”.
Francis also recalled Jesus' words in the Gospel: “those who want to
save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will
save it. Those who are ashamed of me … will be ashamed when He comes in
His glory” and
compares this with the shame of the Jesuits. “Jesus invites us not to be
ashamed of Him, but to follow Him for ever with total dedication, trusting in
and entrusting ourselves to Him”.
“Looking to Jesus, as St. Ignatius teaches us in the First Week, and
especially looking at Christ crucified, we feel that sentiment, so human and
so noble, that is the shame of not being able to measure up; … and this
leads us always, as
individuals and as a Society, to humility, to living this great virtue.
Humility makes us aware every day that it is not we who build the Kingdom of
God, but rather it is always the grace of the Lord that acts in us; humility
that urges us to give
ourselves not in service to ourselves or our ideas, but in the service of
Christ and the Church, like clay vases – fragile, inadequate,
insufficient, but inside which there is an immense treasure we carry and
communicate.
The Pope confessed that when he thinks of the twilight of a Jesuit's life,
“when a Jesuit finishes his life”, two icons always come to mind:
that of St. Francis Xavier looking to China, and that of Father Arrupe in his
final conversation at
the refugee camp. “It benefits us to look at these two icons, to return
to them, and to ask that our twilight be like theirs”.
Finally, Francis encouraged those present to ask the Virgin “to let us
feel the shame of our inadequacy before the treasure that has been entrusted
to us, to live in humility before the Lord. May the paternal intercession of
St. Ignatius accompany
our path and that of all holy Jesuits, who continue to teach us to do
everything with humility, ad maiorem Dei gloriam”.
___________________________________________________________
POPE FRANCIS ANNOUNCES THE THEME FOR THE 47th WORLD DAY OF PEACE
Vatican City, 31 July 2013 (VIS) - “Fraternity, the foundation and
pathway to peace”: this is the theme of the 47th World Day of Peace, the
first during the pontificate of Pope Francis.
"Fraternity, the foundation and pathway to peace". This is the theme of the
47th World Day of Peace, the first during the pontificate of Pope Francis.
The World Day of Peace was an initiative of Pope Paul VI and it is celebrated
on the first day of each year. The Message for the World Day of Peace is sent
to particular churches and chancelleries all around the world, drawing
attention to the essential
value of peace and the need to work tirelessly in order to attain it.
As the theme of his first Message for the World Day of Peace, Pope Francis has
chosen Fraternity. Since the beginning of his Petrine Ministry, the Pope has
stressed the need to combat the “throwaway culture” and to promote
instead a "culture
of encounter", in order to build a more just and peaceful world.
Fraternity is a dowry that every man and every woman brings with himself or
herself as a human being, as a child of the one Father. In the face of the
many tragedies that afflict the family of nations - poverty, hunger,
underdevelopment, conflicts,
migrations, pollution, inequalities, injustice, organized crime,
fundamentalisms - fraternity is the foundation and the pathway to peace.
The culture of personal well-being leads to a loss of the sense of
responsibility and fraternal relationship. Others, rather than being
“like us”, appear more as antagonists or enemies and are often
treated as objects. Not uncommonly, the
poor and needy are regarded as a "burden", a hindrance to development. At
most, they are considered as recipients of aid or compassionate assistance.
They are not seen as brothers and sisters, called to share the gifts of
creation, the goods of progress
and culture, to be partakers at the same table of the fullness of life, to be
protagonists of integral and inclusive development.
Fraternity, a gift and task that comes from God the Father, urges us to be in
solidarity against inequality and poverty that undermine the social fabric, to
take care of every person, especially the weakest and most defenceless, to
love him or her as
oneself, with the very heart of Jesus Christ.
In a world that is constantly growing more interdependent, the good of
fraternity is one that we cannot do without. It serves to defeat the spread of
the globalization of indifference to which Pope Francis has frequently
referred. The globalization of
indifference must give way to a globalization of fraternity.
Fraternity should leave its mark on every aspect of life, including the
economy, finance, civil society, politics, research, development, public and
cultural institutions.
At the start of his ministry, Pope Francis issues a message in continuity with
that of his predecessors, which proposes to everyone the pathway of
fraternity, in order to give the world a more human face.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 31 July 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father:
- accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of
Ljubljana, Slovenia, presented by Archbishop Anton Stres, C.M., in accordance
with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.
- accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of
Maribor, Slovenia, presented by Archbishop Marjan Turnsek, in accordance with
canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.
- appointed Bishop Frank Joseph Caggiano as bishop of Bridgeport (area 1,621,
population 955,000, Catholics 479,000, priests 272, permanent deacons 103,
religious 362), U.S.A. Bishop Caggiano, previously auxiliary of Brooklyn,
U.S.A., was born in
Brooklyn, U.S.A. in 1959, was ordained to the priesthood in 1987, and received
episcopal ordination in 2006.
___________________________________________________________
PAPAL AND HOLY SEE HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY-JULY 2013
Vatican City, 31 July 2013 (VIS) - Following are highlights of the activities
of Pope Benedict XVI and of the Holy See for the months of May to July 2013.
MAY
2: Pope emeritus Benedict XVI returns to the Vatican after a two month stay in
the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo, and takes up permanent residence in
the recently restored “Mater Ecclesiae” convent.
2: The Holy Father receives in audience Aleksander Avdeev, the new ambassador
of the Russian Federation to the Holy See, presenting his credential letters.
3: The Holy Father receives in audience Michel Sleiman, president of the
Republic of Lebanon.
3-5: Pilgrimage of Confraternities to Rome, for the “Days of the
Confraternities and Popular Piety”, an initiative promoted as part of
the Year of Faith.
6: The Holy Father receives in audience Ueli Maurer. president of the Swiss
Confederation.
8: Pope Francis receives the participants in the Plenary Assembly of the
International Union of Superior Generals.
10: Meeting between Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros II, head of the Coptic
Orthodox Church of Egypt.
12: Seventh Sunday of Easter. Canonisation of the Blesseds Antonio Primaldo
and companions; Laura di Santa Caterina da Siena Montoya y Upegui and Maria
Guadalupe García Zavala.
13: The Holy Father receives in audience the president of the Republic of
Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderon.
14: This year, for the first time, the Holy See will participate in the Venice
Bienniale (1 June – 24 November) with a pavilion inspired by the
Biblical story of Genesis, entitled “In the Beginning”.
15: The Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) declares its intention to
open, before the end of the year, a website where it will make public, among
other information, the “Yearly Report” of its activities.
16: The Holy Father receives the credential letters of four new ambassadors to
the Holy See: Bolot Iskovich Otunbaev from Kyrgyzstan, David Shoul from
Antigua and Barbuda, Jean-Paul Senninger from Luxembourg and Lameck Nthekela
from Botswana.
18: The Holy Father receives in audience Angela Merkel, chancellor of the
Federal Republic of Germany, and entourage.
18-19: "Day of Ecclesial Movements, New Communities and Lay Asso
iations” on the Solemnity of Pentecost and the fiftieth anniversary of
the beginning of the Ecumenical Council.
19: Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, major archbishop of Trivandrum of
the Syro-Malankars, India, takes possession of the title of St. Gregory VII al
Gelsomino on Via del Cottolegno, 4.
22: Pope Francis visits the “Gift of Mary” House of Hospitality
located within Vatican City, just outside St. Peter's Square, near the Palazzo
del Sant'Uffizio.
22: The Holy Father receives in audience Thomas Boni Yayi, president of the
Republic of Benin.
23: The Holy Father receives in audience Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena,
president of the Republic of El Salvador.
23: The Pontifical Lateran University dedicates a chair in “Political
Socialization in Africa” to Cardinal Bernardin Gantin.
26: Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, pastoral visit to the Roman parish of
“Sts. Elizabeth and Zechariah” in Valle Muricana, Prima Porta.
26: Cardinal James Michael Harvey, archpriest of the Basilica of St. Paul
Outside-the-Walls, takes possession of the diaconate of St. Pius V at Villa
Carpegna in Largo San Pio V, 3.
31: The Holy Father receives in audience the president for the 67th session of
the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Vuk Jeremic.
JUNE
1: The Holy Father receives in audience Jose Mujica Cordano, president of the
Oriental Republic of Uruguay.
2: On the Solemnity of Corpus Domini and as part of the Year of Faith, the
Holy Father presides as a solemn Worldwide Eucharistic Adoration in St.
Peter's Basilica, in communion with cathedrals and parishes all over the world.
3: The Holy Father receives in audience Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca,
president of the Republic of Cape Verde, and entourage.
5: Death of Cardinal Stanislaw Nagy, S.C.I., cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria
della Scala, at the age of 91.
6: The Holy Father receives in audience Mohamed Taher Rabbani, ambassador of
the Islamic Republic of Iran, presenting his credential letters.
7: The Holy Father receives in audience Mikayel Minasyan, ambassador of
Armenia, presenting his credential letters.
8: The Holy Father receives in an official visit the president of the Republic
of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano.
10: The Holy Father receives in audience Mariano Palacios Alcocer, new
ambassador of Mexico, presenting his credential letters
13: The Holy Father receives in audience Alenka Bratusek, prime minister of
the Republic of Slovenia.
14: Visit of the archbishop of Canterbury, His Grace Justin Welby.
15: Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, archbishop of Manila, Philippines, takes
possession of the title of San Felice da Cantalice a Centocelle in Piazza San
Felice da Cantalice, 20, Rome.
15: The Holy Father receives in audience José Manuel Durão
Barroso, president of the European Commission.
17: The Holy Father receives in audience Nicolas Maduro Moro, president of the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
24: The Holy Father receives in audience Joseph Muscat, prime minister of the
Republic of Malta.
24: The Holy Father establishes a Pontifical Commission for Reference on the
Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) by chirograph dated 24 June 2013.
JULY
4: The Holy Father receives in a private visit Enrico Letta, prime minister of
the Republic of Italy.
4: The Financial Intelligence Authority of the Holy See and Vatican City State
(AIF) is admitted to the Egmont Group, a global network of Financial
Intelligence Units.
4-7: “Day for seminarians, novices, and all those who have taken the
path of vocation”, with the theme “I trust in you”, as part
of the Year of Faith.
5: Publication of Pope Francis' first encyclical, entitled "Lumen fidei".
6: The Holy Father receives in audience Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona,
president of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, with his wife and entourage.
8: The Holy Father visits the island of Lampedusa.
22-29: Apostolic trip to Brazil for the 28th World Youth Day.
26: The Financial Intelligence Authority (AIF) of the Holy See and Vatican
City State signs a Memorandum of Understanding with its Italian counterpart,
the Unità di Informazione Finanziaria (UIF) of the Bank of Italy.
28: Death of Cardinal Ersilio Tonini, archbishop emeritus of Ravenna-Cervia,
Italy, at the age of 99.
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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXII - N° 163 DATE 31-07-2013
Summary: - THE POPE CELEBRATES MASS WITH
JESUITS ON THE FEAST OF ST.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA - POPE FRANCIS ANNOUNCES THE THEME FOR THE 47th WORLD
DAY OF PEACE - OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS - PAPAL AND HOLY SEE
HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY-JULY 2013 - NOTICE
THE POPE CELEBRATES MASS WITH JESUITS ON THE FEAST OF ST. IGNATIUS OF
LOYOLA
Vatican City, 31 July 2013 (VIS) – The Pope celebrated Mass at 8.00
a.m. today, the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of
Jesus, the order to which he belongs, with Jesuits in the Roman Church of
Jesus, where the saint's
reliquaries are preserved.
It was a private, like the Mass celebrated each day at the Santa Marta
guesthouse, attended only by priests of the Society of Jesus, friends, and
collaborators. However, the Pope was received by hundreds of people who wished
to greet him and who
waited until the end of the celebration to do so.
Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J., Secretary of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the Superior General of the
Jesuits, Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, concelebrated with the Pope, as well as members
of the Council and more than two
hundred Jesuits.
In this homily, the Pope proposed a reflection based on three concepts:
putting Christ at the centre of the Church, allowing oneself to be conquered
by Him to serve; and feeling the shame of our limits and sins in order to be
humble before Him and
before our brothers.
“The symbol of the Jesuits is a monogram, the acronym of 'Iesus
Hominum Salvator'”, said Francis. “It reminds us constantly of a
fact we must never forget: the centrality of Christ for each one of us, and
for the entire Society,
that St. Ignatius chose to call 'the Society ofJesus' to indicate its point of
reference. … And this leads us, Jesuits, to be 'decentred', to have
'Deus semper maior' before us … Christ is our life! The centrality of
Christ also
corresponds to the centrality of the Church: they are two flames that cannot
be separated. I cannot follow Christ other than in the Church and with the
Church. And also in this case, we Jesuits and the entire Society are not in
the centre; we are, so to
say, removed; we are in the service of Christ and of the Church. … To
be men rooted and grounded in the Church: this is what Jesus wants. We cannot
walk in parallel or in isolation. Yes, there are
paths of research, creative paths, yes: this is important; to go out to the
peripheries … but always in community, in the Church, with this
belonging that gives us the courage to go ahead”.
The path to live this dual centrality is found in “letting oneself be
conquered by Christ. I seek Jesus, I serve Jesus because he sought me first.
… In Spanish there is a very descriptive phrase, which explains this
well: 'El nos
primerea', He is always first before us. … To be conquered by Christ to
offer to this King our entire person, all our effort … to imitate Him
also in withstanding injustice, contempt, poverty”. The Pope recalled
the Jesuit Fr. Paolo
dall'Oglio, missing in Syria for days, and added “being conquered by
Christ means forever striving to reach what is before you, to reach
Christ”.
Francis also recalled Jesus' words in the Gospel: “those who want to
save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will
save it. Those who are ashamed of me … will be ashamed when He comes in
His glory”
and compares this with the shame of the Jesuits. “Jesus invites us not
to be ashamed of Him, but to follow Him for ever with total dedication,
trusting in and entrusting ourselves to Him”.
“Looking to Jesus, as St. Ignatius teaches us in the First Week, and
especially looking at Christ crucified, we feel that sentiment, so human and
so noble, that is the shame of not being able to measure up; … and this
leads us always, as
individuals and as a Society, to humility, to living this great virtue.
Humility makes us aware every day that it is not we who build the Kingdom of
God, but rather it is always the grace of the Lord that acts in us; humility
that urges us to give
ourselves not in service to ourselves or our ideas, but in the service of
Christ and the Church, like clay vases – fragile, inadequate,
insufficient, but inside which there is an immense treasure we carry and
communicate.
The Pope confessed that when he thinks of the twilight of a Jesuit's life,
“when a Jesuit finishes his life”, two icons always come to mind:
that of St. Francis Xavier looking to China, and that of Father Arrupe in his
final conversation
at the refugee camp. “It benefits us to look at these two icons, to
return to them, and to ask that our twilight be like theirs”.
Finally, Francis encouraged those present to ask the Virgin “to let
us feel the shame of our inadequacy before the treasure that has been
entrusted to us, to live in humility before the Lord. May the paternal
intercession of St. Ignatius
accompany our path and that of all holy Jesuits, who continue to teach us to
do everything with humility, ad maiorem Dei gloriam”.
POPE FRANCIS ANNOUNCES THE THEME FOR THE 47th WORLD DAY OF PEACE
Vatican City, 31 July 2013 (VIS) - “Fraternity, the foundation and
pathway to peace”: this is the theme of the 47th World Day of Peace, the
first during the pontificate of Pope Francis.
"Fraternity, the foundation and pathway to peace". This is the theme of the
47th World Day of Peace, the first during the pontificate of Pope Francis.
The World Day of Peace was an initiative of Pope Paul VI and it is
celebrated on the first day of each year. The Message for the World Day of
Peace is sent to particular churches and chancelleries all around the world,
drawing attention to the
essential value of peace and the need to work tirelessly in order to attain
it.
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