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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - N° 33
DATE 19-02-2014
Summary:
- GENERAL AUDIENCE: CONFESSION IS FOR THE COURAGEOUS
- APPEAL FOR AN END TO THE VIOLENCE IN UKRAINE
- THE POPE: PRAY FOR THE PETRINE MINISTRY ON THE FEAST OF THE CHAIR OF ST.
PETER
- THE COUNCIL OF CARDINALS WILL CONTINUE TO MEET IN COMING MONTHS
- CONSISTORY AND COURTESY VISITS OF NEW CARDINALS
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
GENERAL AUDIENCE: CONFESSION IS FOR THE COURAGEOUS
Vatican City, 19 February 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father dedicated his
catechesis at this Wednesday's general audience to the Sacrament of penance.
After touring St. Peter's Square in an open car, greeting the thousands of
faithful who applauded as
he passed, the Pope explained that “the forgiveness of our sins is not
something we can offer to ourselves; it is not the result of our efforts, but
rather a gift from the Holy Spirit, which fills us from the wellspring of
mercy and grace that
surges endlessly from the open heart of Christ, crucified and risen again.
… It reminds us that it is only by allowing ourselves to be reconciled
through the Lord Jesus with the Father and with our brothers that we may truly
be at peace”.
Pope Francis explained that the celebration of this Sacrament has transformed
from its previously public nature to the private and reserved form of
Confession. However, “this should not lead to the loss of the
ecclesiastical matrix, which
constitutes its living context. Indeed, the Christian community is the place
in which the presence of the Spirit is felt, which renews hearts in God's love
and brings all brothers together as one, in Jesus Christ”. He continued,
“For this
reason, it is not enough to ask for the Lord's forgiveness in our own minds
and hearts, but rather it is also necessary to humbly and trustfully confess
our sins to a minister of the Church”.
The Bishop of Rome emphasised that the priest does not only represent God, but
rather the community as a whole, and that anyone who seeks to confess only to
God should remember that our sins are also committed against our brothers and
against the
Church, which is why it is necessary to ask forgiveness from them too, and to
be ashamed for what we have done. “Shame can be good”, he
affirmed; “It is good for us to have a certain amount of shame, because
to be ashamed can be
healthy. When someone has no shame, in my country we describe them as
“sin verguenza”, shameless. Shame can be good as it can make us
humble, and the priest receives this confession with love and tenderness, and
forgives in the name of God.
Also from a human point of view, to unburden oneself, it is good to speak with
a brother and to tell the priest those things which lie so heavily upon our
hearts. And one feels unburdened before God, with the Church, and with a
brother. Do not
be
afraid of Confession!”
The Pontiff went on to ask those present when they last confessed, and
strongly urged them not to overlook Confession. “If a long time has
passed, do not waste another day, go, the priest will be good. It is Jesus who
is there, and Jesus is better
than a priest, Jesus will receive you, he will receive you with love. Be
courageous and go to Confession! … Every time we confess, God embraces
us, God celebrates! Let us go ahead on this path. May God bless you!”
___________________________________________________________
APPEAL FOR AN END TO THE VIOLENCE IN UKRAINE
Vatican City, 19 February 2014 (VIS) – Following today's catechesis,
Pope Francis launched an appeal for an end to the violence in Ukraine, in
whose capital Kiev there have been clashes between the forces of order and
anti-government
demonstrators, causing twenty-five deaths last night. “It is with
concern that I follow the events in Kiev during these days. I assure the
Ukrainian people of my closeness and pray for the victims of the violence, for
their families, and for the
injured. I urge all parties to cease every form of violence and to pursue
harmony and peace throughout the country”.
___________________________________________________________
THE POPE: PRAY FOR THE PETRINE MINISTRY ON THE FEAST OF THE CHAIR OF ST. PETER
Vatican City, 19 February 2014 (VIS) – In his greetings in various
languages, the Pope reminded the Polish pilgrims present at today's general
audience that next Saturday will be the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter the
Apostle, “a day of
special communion for believers with Peter's Successor and with the Holy
See”. “I give thanks to you all for your prayers for my Petrine
ministry, and for the witness of life given in Christ for the edification of
the ecclesial community.
He also greeted the participants in the symposium “Sacrosanctum
Concilium, gratitude and commitment, for a great movement of ecclesial
communion”, accompanied by Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, prefect
of the Congregation for Divine
Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, and those attending the Plenary
Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life, which is celebrating the
twentieth anniversary of its foundation; he encouraged them to “continue
in their valuable work in
the service of the Gospel of life”.
___________________________________________________________
THE COUNCIL OF CARDINALS WILL CONTINUE TO MEET IN COMING MONTHS
Vatican City, 19 February 2014 (VIS) – The Council of the eight
cardinals continued its work yesterday afternoon, in a meeting dedicated to
the examination of the information presented to the cardinals yesterday and on
Monday by the Commission for
Reference on the the Organisation of the Economic-Administrative Structure of
the Holy See (COSEA) and the Commission for Reference on the Institute for
Works of Religion (IOR), reported Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J., director of the
Holy See Press Office,
in the third of this week's daily briefings for journalists.
“The cardinals have worked intensively, they have taken a number of
questions into consideration, and have formulated proposals to be presented to
the Holy Father in various fields, those of economic and administrative
structures, which relate to
what we refer to as the economic and financial dicasteries, and on the IOR,
which is a far more specific theme. It will then be up to the Holy Father to
follow or to modify these proposals, but the Council has completed its task.
This morning the dates
of the next meetings were set: from 28 to 30 April, shortly after the
canonisation of John XXIII and John Paul II, and from 1 to 4 July. It is also
confirmed that the cardinals have in no way completed their reviews of the
different dicasteries of the
Holy See.
“This afternoon, the representatives of the Commissions which have
reported to the Council of Cardinals – the so-called C8 – will do
the same with the Council of Fifteen, or rather the cardinals who oversee the
financial statement of
the Holy See and the Governorate of Vatican City State. The C8 cardinals will
also attend the meeting, to take place in the Sala Bologna of the Apostolic
Palace, which is able to accommodate a large group. It will be a very brief
presentation, of about
fifteen minutes for each Commission, of what has been treated more
exhaustively during these days. These presentations will be given by the three
members of the COSEA who attended Monday's meeting, whereas the Commission for
Reference on the IOR will be
represented by Cardinal Raffaele Farina S.D:B., and the coordinator, Bishop
Juan Ignacio Arrieta de Chinchetru. The C15 will hold its ordinary meetings
next Monday and Tuesday, to discuss the matters within its remit. Finally, we c
an say
that this morning and this afternoon's meetings are for communication,
information and co-ordination”.
“Tomorrow the extraordinary consistory for the family will begin, in
which according to the calculations of the dean, Cardinal Angelo Sodano,
around 185 prelates will participate”, continued Fr. Lombardi. Some are
unable to come to Rome for
health reasons or due to the excessive duration of the journey. Work will
begin at 9.30 a.m. with greetings from Cardinal Sodano, and will continue with
an address from the Holy Father. However, we do not know if the Holy Father's
address will be open
to journalists or if the prelates would prefer to continue behind closed doors
following the greetings from the Cardinal Dean. This will be followed by a
lengthy address by Cardinal Kasper, which will be reserved to the participants
in the consistory;
it will not therefore be published in full. We do not yet know whether other
Cardinals will have the opportunity to take the floor, considering the length
of Cardinal Kasper's presentation. Other interventions are planned during the
consistory but in no particular order”.
Finally, the director of the Press Office informed the journalists of the
locations for the courtesy visits to the new cardinals, most of which will
take place in the Paul VI Hall or the Apostolic Palace.
___________________________________________________________
CONSISTORY AND COURTESY VISITS OF NEW CARDINALS
Vatican City, 19 February 2014 (VIS) – In St. Peter's Basilica at 11
a.m. on Saturday 22 February Pope Francis will celebrate an ordinary public
consistory for the creation of eighteen new cardinals during which he will
impose the biretta, consign
the ring and assign them their title or diaconate, according to a communique
released today by the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff.
The same afternoon, from 4.30 to 6.30 p.m., the new cardinals will receive all
those who wish to pay them a courtesy visit, in the following locations in the
Paul VI Hall and Apostolic Palace:
Atrium of the Paul VI Hall: Cardinals Vincent Gerard Nichols, LeopoldoJose
Brenes Solorzano, Gerald Cyprien Lacroix, I.S.P.X., Jean-Pierre Kutwa,
Fernando Sebastian Aguilar, C.M.F. and Kelvin Edward Felix.
Paul VI Hall: Cardinals Andrew Yeom Soo-Jung, Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B.,
Philippe Nakellentuba Ouedraogo, Orlando B. Quevedo, O.M.I., Chibly Langlois,
Orani Joao Tempesta, O. Cist., Gualtiero Bassetti and Mario Aurelio Poli.
Sala Regia of the Apostolic Palace: Cardinals Pietro Parolin and Lorenzo
Baldisseri.
Sala Ducale of the Apostolic Palace: Cardinals Gerhard Ludwig Muller and
Beniamino Stella.
On Sunday 23 February, at 10 a.m. in the Vatican basilica, the Holy Father
will preside at a concelebrated Mass with the new cardinals.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 19 February 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has:
- appointed Msgr. Marcony Vinicius Ferreira as auxiliary of the archdiocese of
Brasilia (area 5,814, population 2,267,000, Catholics 1,555,000, priests 312,
permanent deacons 71, religious 639), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in
Brasilia, Brazil in
1964 and was ordained a priest in 1988. He specialised in liturgical theology
at the St. Anselm Pontifical Athenaeum and the Pontifical University of the
Holy Cross, Rome. He has served in a number of pastoral roles, including:
priest of the parish of
“Nossa Senhora do Rosario de Fatima” and of the Metropolitan
Cathedral of Brasilia; archiepiscopal pastoral coordinator; member of the
presbyteral council and the council of consultors; episcopal vicar for the
vicariate “Centro”,
and secretary general and coordinator of the liturgical team of the 16th
National Eucharistic Congress in 2010. He is currently vicar general for the
archdiocese of Brasilia.
- confirmed Cardinal Leonardo Sandri as prefect of the Congregation for the
Oriental Churches and Msgr. Cyril Vasil as secretary of the same dicastery.
- renewed as members of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches His
Beatitude Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts; and His
Beatitude Louis Raphael I Sako, patriach of Babylon of the Chaldeans;
- nominated the following members of the Congregation for the Oriental
Churches: Cardinal Agostino Vallini, vicar general of His Holiness for the
diocese of Rome; Archbishop William Charles Skurla of Pittsburgh of the
Byzantines; Archbishop Pietro
Parolin, secretary of State; Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller, bishop emeritus
of Regensburg, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith;
Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster; Archbishop Mario Aurelio Poli of
Buenos Aires; Archbishop
Joseph Edward Kurtz of Louisville; Archbishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo of
Belo Horizonte; Archbishop Denis James Hart of Melbourne; Bishop Joseph Werth
of Transfiguration of Novosibirsk.
- confirmed the following members Congregation for the Oriental Churches for a
further five years: Cardinal Christoph Schonborn; Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran;
His Beatitude Fouad Twal, patriarch of Jerusalem; Archbishop Berhaneyesus
Demerew Souraphiel of
Addis Abeba; Archbishop Piero Marini; Archbishop Jan Babjak, metropolitan of
Presov; Bishop Antoine Audo, S.J.; and the following members for the remainder
of their respective mandates: Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., Cardinal
Dionigi Tettamanzi,
Cardinal Angelo Scola, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois,
Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Cardinal Timothy Michael
Dolan, Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Cardinal Francesco Monterisi, Cardinal
Kurt Koch, Cardinal
Fernando Filoni, Cardinal Edwin Frederick O'Brien, and Bishop Peter Burcher of
Reykjavik.
- nominated the following consultors of the Congregation for the Oriental
Churches: Bishop Dimitrios Salachas, Pr. Massimo Pampaloni, S.J., Fr. Philippe
Luisier, S.J., Pr. Michael Kuchera, S.J., Pr. Lorenzo Lorusso, O.P., Pr.
Georges Ruyssen, S.J., Pr.
Thomas Pott, O.S.B., Sac. Pablo Gefaell, Fr. G. Ronald Roberson, C.S.P., Msgr.
Paul Pallath, Fr. Adam Konstanc, O.P., Msgr. Guido Marini, Sac. George Gallaro.
- confirmed the following consultors of the Congregation for the Oriental
Churches: Msgr. Christo Proykov, Hanna G. Alwan, Borys Gudziak, Fr. Michel Van
Parys, O.S.B., Msgr. Michel Berger, Msgr. Osvaldo Raineri, Pr. Archim. Jan
Sergiusz Gajek, M.I.C.,
Msgr. Natale Loda, Archpriest Vasyl Hovera.
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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXII - N° 33 DATE 19-02-2014
Summary: - GENERAL AUDIENCE: CONFESSION IS
FOR THE COURAGEOUS -
APPEAL FOR AN END TO THE VIOLENCE IN UKRAINE - THE POPE: PRAY FOR THE
PETRINE MINISTRY ON THE FEAST OF THE CHAIR OF ST. PETER - THE COUNCIL OF
CARDINALS WILL CONTINUE TO MEET IN COMING MONTHS - CONSISTORY AND
COURTESY VISITS OF NEW
CARDINALS - OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
GENERAL AUDIENCE: CONFESSION IS FOR THE COURAGEOUS
Vatican City, 19 February 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father dedicated his
catechesis at this Wednesday's general audience to the Sacrament of penance.
After touring St. Peter's Square in an open car, greeting the thousands of
faithful who applauded
as he passed, the Pope explained that “the forgiveness of our sins is
not something we can offer to ourselves; it is not the result of our efforts,
but rather a gift from the Holy Spirit, which fills us from the wellspring of
mercy and grace that
surges endlessly from the open heart of Christ, crucified and risen again.
… It reminds us that it is only by allowing ourselves to be reconciled
through the Lord Jesus with the Father and with our brothers that we may truly
be at
peace”.
Pope Francis explained that the celebration of this Sacrament has
transformed from its previously public nature to the private and reserved form
of Confession. However, “this should not lead to the loss of the
ecclesiastical matrix, which
constitutes its living context. Indeed, the Christian community is the place
in which the presence of the Spirit is felt, which renews hearts in God's love
and brings all brothers together as one, in Jesus Christ”. He continued,
“For this
reason, it is not enough to ask for the Lord's forgiveness in our own minds
and hearts, but rather it is also necessary to humbly and trustfully confess
our sins to a minister of the Church”.
The Bishop of Rome emphasised that the priest does not only represent God,
but rather the community as a whole, and that anyone who seeks to confess only
to God should remember that our sins are also committed against our brothers
and against the
Church, which is why it is necessary to ask forgiveness from them too, and to
be ashamed for what we have done. “Shame can be good”, he
affirmed; “It is good for us to have a certain amount of shame, because
to be ashamed can be
healthy. When someone has no shame, in my country we describe them as
“sin verguenza”, shameless. Shame can be good as it can make us
humble, and the priest receives this confession with love and tenderness, and
forgives in the name of God.
Also from a human point of view, to unburden oneself, it is good to speak with
a brother and to tell the priest those things which lie so heavily upon our
hearts. And one feels unburdened before God, with the Church, and with a
brother. Do
not be afraid of Confession!”
The Pontiff went on to ask those present when they last confessed, and
strongly urged them not to overlook Confession. “If a long time has
passed, do not waste another day, go, the priest will be good. It is Jesus who
is there, and Jesus is
better than a priest, Jesus will receive you, he will receive you with love.
Be courageous and go to Confession! … Every time we confess, God
embraces us, God celebrates! Let us go ahead on this path. May God bless
you!”
Vatican City, 19 February 2014 (VIS) – Following today's catechesis,
Pope Francis launched an appeal for an end to the violence in Ukraine, in
whose capital Kiev there have been clashes between the forces of order and
anti-government
demonstrators, causing twenty-five deaths last night. “It is with
concern that I follow the events in Kiev during these days. I assure the
Ukrainian people of my closeness and pray for the victims of the violence, for
their families, and for the
injured. I urge all parties to cease every form of violence and to pursue
harmony and peace throughout the country”.
THE POPE: PRAY FOR THE PETRINE MINISTRY ON THE FEAST OF THE CHAIR OF ST.
PETER
Vatican City, 19 February 2014 (VIS) – In his greetings in various
languages, the Pope reminded the Polish pilgrims present at today's general
audience that next Saturday will be the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter the
Apostle, “a day of
special communion for believers with Peter's Successor and with the Holy
See”. “I give thanks to you all for your prayers for my Petrine
ministry, and for the witness of life given in Christ for the edification of
the ecclesial community.
He also greeted the participants in the symposium “Sacrosanctum
Concilium, gratitude and commitment, for a great movement of ecclesial
communion”, accompanied by Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, prefect
of the Congregation for Divine
Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, and those attending the Plenary
Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life, which is celebrating the
twentieth anniversary of its foundation; he encouraged them to “continue
in their valuable work in
the service of the Gospel of life”.
THE COUNCIL OF CARDINALS WILL CONTINUE TO MEET IN COMING MONTHS
Vatican City, 19 February 2014 (VIS) – The Council of the eight
cardinals continued its work yesterday afternoon, in a meeting dedicated to
the examination of the information presented to the cardinals yesterday and on
Monday by the Commission
for Reference on the the Organisation of the Economic-Administrative Structure
of the Holy See (COSEA) and the Commission for Reference on the Institute for
Works of Religion (IOR), reported Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J., director of the
Holy See Press
Office, in the third of this week's daily briefings for journalists.
“The cardinals have worked intensively, they have taken a number of
questions into consideration, and have formulated proposals to be presented to
the Holy Father in various fields, those of economic and administrative
structures, which relate
to what we refer to as the economic and financial dicasteries, and on the IOR,
which is a far more specific theme. It will then be up to the Holy Father to
follow or to modify these proposals, but the Council has completed its task.
This morning the
dates of the next meetings were set: from 28 to 30 April, shortly after the
canonisation of John XXIII and John Paul II, and from 1 to 4 July. It is also
confirmed that the cardinals have in no way completed their reviews of the
different dicasteries of
the Holy See.
“This afternoon, the representatives of the Commissions which have
reported to the Council of Cardinals – the so-called C8 – will do
the same with the Council of Fifteen, or rather the cardinals who oversee the
financial statement
of the Holy See and the Governorate of Vatican City State. The C8 cardinals
will also attend the meeting, to take place in the Sala Bologna of the
Apostolic Palace, which is able to accommodate a large group. It will be a
very brief presentation, of
about fifteen minutes for each Commission, of what has been treated more
exhaustively during these days. These presentations will be given by the three
members of the COSEA who attended Monday's meeting, whereas the Commission for
Reference on the IOR
will be represented by Cardinal Raffaele Farina S.D:B., and the coordinator,
Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta de Chinchetru. The C15 will hold its ordinary
meetings next Monday and Tuesday, to discuss the matters within its remit.
Finally, we can say that this morning and this afternoon's meetings are for
communication, information and co-ordination”.
