Subject: VISnews140307
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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - # 46
DATE 07-03-2014
Summary:
- THE POPE TO THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES: TAKE THE PATH TO FULL COMMUNION
WITHOUT FEAR
- THE POPE AND THE ROMAN CURIA BEGIN THEIR SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
- GOOD FRIDAY: COLLECTION FOR THE HOLY LAND
- AUDIENCES
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
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THE POPE TO THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES: TAKE THE PATH TO FULL COMMUNION
WITHOUT FEAR
Vatican City, 7 March 2014 (VIS) -; This morning the Holy Father met with
Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, secretary general of the World Council for Churches,
accompanied by a delegation. The Pope remarked that this encounter
"marks an important chapter in the long and fruitful relationship
between the Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches", and
acknowledged "the service it performs in the cause of unity between
believers in Christ".
"Since its creation, the World Council of Churches has offered a great
contribution to forming the sensibility of all Christians with regard to the
fact that our divisions represent a major obstacle to our witness to the
Gospel in the world. These divisions must not be accepted with resignation, as
if they were simply an inevitable component of the historic experience of the
Church. If Christians ignore the Lord's call to unity, they risk ignoring the
Lord Himself and the salvation He offers through His Body, the Church: 'there
is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name ... by which we
must be saved.'"
"The way to full and visible communion is a path which still proves
today to be arduous and uphill. The Spirit, however, urges us not to be
afraid, to go ahead with trust, and not to content ourselves with the progress
that we have been able to experience in these decades. Prayer is fundamental
on this path. Only in a spirit of humble and persistent prayer can we attain
the necessary farsightedness, discernment and motivations for offering our
service to the human family, in all its weakness and with all its needs, both
spiritual and material".
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THE POPE AND THE ROMAN CURIA BEGIN THEIR SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
Vatican City, 7 March 2014 (VIS) -; On 9 March, the first Sunday of Lent,
the Pope and the Roman Curia will begin their spiritual exercises. The
meditations will be led by Fr. Angelo De Donatis, parish of San Marco
Evangelista in Campidoglio.
This year's spiritual exercises will be based on the theme "the
purification of the heart" and will take place in the Pauline residence,
"Casa del Divin Maestro" in Ariccia, a few kilometres outside
Rome.
The retreat will continue until 14 March and during this period all pontifical
audiences will be suspended, including the general audience of Wednesday 12
March.
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GOOD FRIDAY: COLLECTION FOR THE HOLY LAND
Vatican City, 7 March 2014 (VIS) -; Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of
the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, has addressed a letter to all
bishops worldwide in view of the collection for the Holy Land, which
traditionally takes place on Good Friday. The letter is also signed by
Archbishop Cyril Vasil, S.J., secretary of the same dicastery.
"Every day, Christians in various regions of the Middle East ask
themselves whether to stay there or to emigrate: they live in conditions of
insecurity or suffer violence, at times for the mere fact of professing their,
and our, faith", he says. "Every day there are brothers and
sisters who resist, choosing to remain there where God fulfilled in Christ His
plan for universal reconciliation. From that land there departed those who,
upon Christ's Word, brought the Gospel to the four corners of the world. It is
there that the Church always rediscovers, with her roots, the 'great hope'
that bears Jesus' name, but the current situation is truly delicate: it is
enough to think of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, the evolution
that Egypt is undergoing, and the tragedy in Syria".
Cardinal Sandri continues, "On Good Friday we wish to raise to the
Crucified the cry for peace for Jerusalem so that the world, starting from the
land of Jesus, might become the City of Peace".
A document prepared by the Custodian of the Holy Land details the works
carried out as a result of the 2012-2013 collection.
In addition to providing scholarships to students from different dioceses, the
collection has enabled restoration work to be carried out in various places,
including the Mensa Christi Church, the Cafarnao archaeological site and the
Shrine of Nain. Funds have also been distributed to support parishes,
families, schools, universities and cultural works, through the Custodian of
the Holy Land, such as the Faculty of Biblical Sciences and Archaeology of the
Studium Biblicum Francescanum in Jerusalem, and the Franciscan Media Centre.
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AUDIENCES
Vatican City, 7 March 2014 (VIS) -; Today, the Holy Father received in
audience:
- Archbishop Andres Carrascosa Coso, apostolic nuncio in Panama.
- Archbishop Jean-Abdo Arbach B.C. of Homs of the Greek Melkites, Syria.
- Twelve prelates of the Spanish Episcopal Conference on their "ad
limina" visit:
- Cardinal Lluis Martinez Sistach, archbishop of Barcelona, with his
auxiliary, Bishop Sebastia Taltavull Anglada;
- Bishop Agustin Cortes Soriano of Sant Feliu de Llobregat;
- Bishop Josep Angel Saiz Meneses of Terrassa, with his auxiliary, Bishop
Salvador Christian Coll;
- Archbishop Jaume Pujol Balcells of Tarragona;
- Bishop Francesc Pardo Artigas of Gerona;
- Bishop Joan Piris Frigola of Lleida;
- Bishop Xavier Novell Goma of Solsona;
- Bishop Enrique Benavent Vidal of Tortosa;
- Archbishop Joan Enric Vives Sicilia, bishop of Urgell;
- Bishop Roman Casanova Casanova of Vic.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 7 March 2014 (VIS) -; The Holy Father has appointed Bishop
Cristian Contreras Villarroel, auxiliary of the diocese of Santiago de Chile,
Chile, as bishop of Melipilla (area 6,217, population 523,700, Catholics
418,700, priests 66, permanent deacons 65, religious 138), Chile. He succeeds
Bishop Enrique Troncoso Troncoso, whose resignation upon reaching the age
limit was accepted by the Holy Father.
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