associations like yours, has grown over these years. It is my hope therefore
that the study of relations with Judaism may continue to flourish in
seminaries and in centres of formation for lay Catholics, as I am similarly
hopeful that a desire for an
understanding of Christianity may grow among young Rabbis and the Jewish
community”.
“Dear friends”, concluded the Holy Father, “in a few
months I will have the joy of visiting Jerusalem, where – as the Psalm
says – we are all born and where all peoples will one day
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meet. Accompany me with your prayers,
so that this pilgrimage may bring forth the fruits of communion, hope and
peace. Shalom!”
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CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES MUST NOT BE ISOLATED AND MUST ENGAGE IN
DIALOGUE WITH CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
Vatican City, 13 February 2014 (VIS) – “Catholic education is
one of the most important challenges for the Church, currently committed to
new evangelisation in an historical and cultural context that is undergoing
constant
transformation”, remarked the Holy Father in his address to participants
in the plenary session of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for
Educational Institutions), whom he received in audience in the Sala Clementina
this morning.
The agenda of the plenary session, the Pope commented, includes themes of
primary importance such as the implementation of the Apostolic Constitution
“Sapientia Christiana”, the consolidation of the identity of
Catholic universities, and
the preparations for the events which will fall in 2015: the fiftieth
anniversary of the Conciliar Declaration “Gravissimum educationis”
and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Apostolic Constitution “Ex Corde
Ecclesiae”.
Pope Francis proposed three aspects for consideration by the participants:
the value of dialogue in education, the qualified preparation of formators and
the responsibility of educational institutions to express the living presence
of the Gospel in
the fields of education, science and culture.
Referring to the first of these points, he said, “Effectively,
Catholic schools and universities are attended by many students who are not
Christian or do not believe. Catholic educational institutions offer to all an
approach to education that
has as its aim the full development of the person, which responds to the right
of every person to access to knowledge. However, they are also called upon to
offer, with full respect for the freedom of each person and using the methods
appropriate to the
scholastic environment, the Christian belief, that is, to present Jesus Christ
as the meaning of life, the cosmos and history. Jesus began to proclaim the
good news of the 'Galilee of the people', a crossroads of people, diverse in
terms of race,
culture and religion. This context resembles today's world, in certain
respects. The profound changes that have led to the ever wider diffusion of
multicultural societies require those who work in the school or
university sector to be involved in educational itineraries involving
comparison and dialogue, with a courageous and innovative fidelity that
enables Catholic identity to encounter the various 'souls' of multicultural
society”.
With regard to the second aspect, the Pope remarked that during his meeting
with the Superior Generals, he had emphasised that education in our times
“is guided by a changing generation, and that, therefore, every educator
– and the
Church as a whole is an educating mother – is required to change, in the
sense of knowing how to communicate with the young”.
In relation to the responsibility of educational institutions to
“express the living presence of the Gospel in the field of education,
science and culture”, Pope Francis reiterated the need for Catholic
academic institutions to avoid
“isolating themselves in the world”, and instead to “know
how to enter, with courage, into the Areopagus of contemporary cultures and to
initiate dialogue, aware of the gift they are able to offer to all”.
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FIFTY YEARS AFTER SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM: THE CHALLENGE OF LITURGICAL
RENOVATION AND DEEPENING
Vatican City, 13 February 2014 (VIS) – This morning a press
conference was held in the Holy See Press Office to present the Symposium
“Sacrosanctum Concilium. Gratitude and commitment for a great ecclesial
movement”, organised by
the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. The
congress, organised in collaboration with the Pontifical Lateran University
and scheduled to take place from 18 to 20 February, will commemorate the 50th
anniversary of the
Council Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, promulgated by Pope Paul VI on 4
December 1963.
The speakers at the conference were Archbishop Arthur Roche, secretary of
the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments,
Msgr. Juan Miguel Ferrer Grenesche, under-secretary of the same Congregation,
and Philippe Chenaux,
professor of modern and contemporary history of the Church at the Pontifical
Lateran University and director of the “Vatican Council II” Centre
for Study and Research.
In addition, a text prepared by Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, prefect
of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
was read by Msgr. Juan Miguel Ferrer Grenesche, and a text by Bishop Enrico
dal Covolo, S.D.B.,
rector of the Pontifical Lateran University, was read by Professor Philippe
Chenaux.
Cardinal Canizares commented that the Council was “an invitation to
the Church to be herself, as God wished her to be and created her, and to act
in a manner coherent with her vocation and with the mission that God Himself
has given her.
… With this beginning, which focuses on the theme of the Liturgy, the
emphasis is unequivocally placed on the primacy of God in the Church; God
first of all. … When God is not in first place, everything else loses
its way”.
The Vatican Council II Fathers demonstrated this priority first by
approving the Constitution “Sacrosanctum Concilium”, clarifying
that “worship comes first; God comes first. Therefore, beginning with
the theme of the Liturgy, the
Council explicitly turned attention to God's primacy and at the same time
indicated it as a sure point of orientation for the path to be followed in the
future”.
With regard to “gratitude” and “commitment”, the
prelate added, “We must, indeed, thank God for this first fruit of the
Council … not only for the Constitution itself, but also for the
renewing dynamism of the
Church that it has given rise to, and continues to provide. At the same time,
urgent commitment on our part to the continuation and deepening of the
liturgical renewal hoped for by the Vatican Council II is now called for. It
is true that much has been
done, but there remains much still to do”.
The Symposium will include a component dedicated to theological and
pastoral reflection, and will offer important opportunities for celebrations
and time for prayer; ample space will also be dedicated to the beauty of art
in the service of liturgy,
represented by concerts and exhibitions. The participants will meet with the
Holy Father on Wednesday 19 February during the general audience.
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AUDIENCES
Vatican City, 13 February 2014 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father
received in audience:
- Three prelates of the Episcopal Conference of Bulgaria on their “ad
limina” visit:
- Bishop Petko Jordanov Christov of Nicopoli;
- Bishop Gheorghi Ivanov Jovcek of Sofia and Plovdiv;
- Bishop Christo Proykov, apostolic esarch of Sofia for Catholics of
Byzantine-Slavic rite resident in Bulgaria.
Yesterday the Holy Father received in audience Bishop Nunzio Galantino of
Cassano all'Jonio, secretary general “ad interim” of the Italian
Episcopal Conference.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 13 February 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has:
- confirmed the erection of the archiepiscopal esarchate of Krym of the
Ukrainians, Ukraine by the Synod of the Greek Catholic Church, with territory
from the current archiepiscopal esarchate of Odessa-Krym;
- confirmed the transfer of Bishop Vasyl Ivasyuk from the office of
archiepiscopal esarch of Odessa-Krym to the eparchy of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi of
the Ukrainians.
- given his assent to the canonical election by the Synod of the Greek
Catholic Church of Pr. Mykhaylo Bubniy, C.SS.R., as first bishop of the
archiepiscopal eparchy of Krym, Ukraine. The bishop-elect was born in
Khlivchany, Ukraine in 1970, took his
religious vows in 1996 and was ordained a priest in 1977. He holds a
licentiate in canon law from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. He has
served in pastoral roles in Novoiavorivsk, Kokhavino and Lviv, and is
currently superior of the Community
of Redemptorist Fathers in Ivano-Frankivsk and priest in the parish of
“Our Lady of Perpetual Help” in the same city.
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