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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXIII - N° 103
DATE 08-05-2013
Summary:
- HOLY SPIRIT TEACHES US TO SEE WITH CHRIST'S EYES
- POPE'S GREETINGS DURING THE GENERAL AUDIENCE
- CAREERISTS AND CLIMBERS DOING “GREAT HARM” TO THE CHURCH
- POPE'S NEARNESS TO THOSE AFFECTED BY EXPLOSION IN ECATEPEC, MEXICO
- PATRIARCH OF COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ALEXANDRIA WILL MEET WITH POPE
FRANCIS IN THE VATICAN
- COLLABORATION BETWEEN AIF AND FINCEN AGAINST MONEY LAUNDERING
- CANONIZATIONS ON SUNDAY: ANTONIO PRIMALDO AND COMPANIONS, LAURA OF ST.
CATHERINE OF SIENA, AND MARIA GUADALUPE GARCIA ZAVALA
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
- NOTICE
___________________________________________________________
HOLY SPIRIT TEACHES US TO SEE WITH CHRIST'S EYES
Vatican City, 8 May 2013 (VIS) – Eastertide, which culminates with the
Solemnity of Pentecost when the Church relives the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit, is the perfect time of the Holy Spirit,” the Pope explained to
the 75,000 persons
present in St. Peter's Square to attend his Wednesday general audience.
After winding through the square in the Popemobile, greeting the various
groups of faithful who greeted him as he passed by, the Pope began his
catechesis, which was dedicated to the third Person of the Trinity; the Holy
Spirit.
“In the Creed,” Francis said, “we profess with faith: 'I
believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life'. The first truth that
we adhere to in the Creed is that the Holy Spirit is 'Kyrios', that is, Lord.
This means that He is
truly God as are the Father and the Son … but I want to mainly focus on
the fact that the Holy Spirit is the inexhaustible source of God's life in
us.”
“Men and women of all times and all places desire a full and beautiful
life ... a life that is not threatened by death but that can mature and grow
to its fullness. The human being is like a traveller who, crossing the deserts
of life, is thirsty
for living water, gushing and fresh, capable of deeply quenching that profound
desire for light, love, beauty, and peace. We all feel that desire! And Jesus
gives us this living water. It is the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father
and whom Jesus
pours out into our hearts. 'I have come so that you might have life and have
it more abundantly', Jesus says.”
Jesus has come to give us the living water that is the Holy Spirit “so
that our lives might be guided by God.” That is why, “when we say
that the Christian is a spiritual being we mean precisely this: the Christian
is a person who
thinks and acts in accordance with God, in accordance with the Holy Spirit.
… We know that water is essential to life. Without water we die. It
quenches our thirst, washes us, makes the land fertile. … The 'living
water', the Holy Spirit,
Gift of the Risen One who abides in us, purifies us, enlightens us, renews us,
and transforms us so that we might be made to participate in the very life of
God who is Love.”
Paul the Apostle, the Bishop of Rome noted, affirms that the Christian life
“is enlivened by the Spirit and and by his fruits, which are 'love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and
self-control'. … The
Spirit himself, together with our spirit, attests that we are God's children.
And, if we are children, we are also inheritors, inheritors of God and
co-inheritors with Christ if we truly take part in his suffering so that we
might also be glorified with
him. This is the precious gift that that the Holy Spirit brings to our hearts:
the very life of God, the life of true children, a relationship of confidence,
freedom, and trust in the love and mercy of God, which also has the effect of
a new vision of
others, near and far, seen always as brothers and sisters in Jesus to respect
and to love. The Holy Spirit teaches us to see with Christ's eyes.”
“That is why,” he concluded, “the living water that is the
Holy Spirit quenches the thirst of our lives, because He tells us that we are
loved by God as children, that we can love God as his children, and that, with
his grace, we can
live as children of God, as Jesus does.”
___________________________________________________________
POPE'S GREETINGS DURING THE GENERAL AUDIENCE
Vatican City, 8 May 2013 (VIS) – After his catechesis, the Pope greeted,
among others, the family members of the new Swiss Guards who swore their oath
on Monday, 6 May. He also welcomed the Polish pilgrims who are celebrating
today the feast of
their patron, St. Stanislaus of Szczepanow. “May his attention for each
human being and for the moral order in society,” the pontiff said,
“serve as an example and inspiration in your commitment to the good of
your brothers and sisters
and your country.”
“This is the day in which we celebrate Our Lady of Lujan, heavenly
Patroness of Argentina. Let's give an applause for the Virgin of Lujan.
Stronger. I can't hear it. Stronger,” he said while the Argentinian
pilgrims broke out clapping.
“I wish to send to all the children of these beloved Argentinian lands
my sincere affection while I place all their joys and worries in the hands of
the Most Holy Virgin.”
Finally, he recalled that today, 8 May, in the Shrine of the Virgin of the
Rosary of Pompei, Italy, the “Supplication to the Madonna of the
Rosary”, composed by Blessed Barolo Longo, will be prayed. “We
join in spirit to this act of
popular piety and devotion so that, through the intercession of Mary, the Lord
may grant mercy and peace to the Church and the entire world.”
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CAREERISTS AND CLIMBERS DOING “GREAT HARM” TO THE CHURCH
Vatican City, 8 May 2013 (VIS) – “The men and women of the Church
who are careerists and social climbers, who 'use' people, the Church, their
brothers and sisters—whom they should be serving—as a springboard
for their own
personal interests and ambitions … are doing great harm to the
Church.” This is what Pope Francis asserted in his address to the
participants in the plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors
General (UISG) whom he received in
audience this morning.
The pontiff spoke to the sisters of obedience, poverty, and chastity:
“Obedience as listening to God's will, in the interior motion of the
Holy Spirit authenticated by the Church, accepting that obedience also passes
through human mediations.
… Poverty, which teaches solidarity, sharing, and charity and which is
also expressed in a soberness and joy of the essential, to put us on guard
against the material idols that obscure the true meaning of life. Poverty,
which is learned with the
humble, the poor, the sick, and all those who are at the existential margins
of life. Theoretical poverty doesn't do anything. Poverty is learned by
touching the flesh of the poor Christ in the humble, the poor, the sick, and
in children.”
“And then chastity, as a precious charism, that enlarges the freedom of
your gift to God and others with Christ's tenderness, mercy, and closeness.
Chastity for the Kingdom of Heaven shows how affection has its place in mature
freedom and becomes
a sign of the future world, to make God's primacy shine forever. But, please,
[make it] a 'fertile' chastity, which generates spiritual children in the
Church. The consecrated are mothers: they must be mothers and not 'spinsters'!
Forgive me if I talk
like this but this maternity of consecrated life, this fruitfulness is
important! May this joy of spiritual fruitfulness animate your existence. Be
mothers, like the images of the Mother Mary and the Mother Church. You cannot
understand Mary without her
motherhood; you cannot understand the Church without her motherhood, and you
are icons of Mary and of the Church.”
Continuing, Pope Francis spoke to the superiors about service. “We must
never forget that true power, at whatever level, is service, which has its
bright summit upon the Cross. … 'You know that the rulers of the
Gentiles lord it over them
... But it shall not be so among you.'—This is precisely the motto of
your assembly, isn't it? It shall not be so among you.—'Rather, whoever
wishes to be great among you shall be your servant; whoever wishes to be first
among you shall be
your slave'.”
“Your vocation is a fundamental charism for the Church's journey and it
isn't possible that a consecrated woman or man might 'feel' themselves not to
be with the Church. A 'feeling' with the Church that has generated us in
Baptism; a 'feeling'
with the Church that finds its filial expression in fidelity to the
Magisterium, in communion with the Bishops and the Successor of Peter, the
Bishop of Rome, a visible sign of that unity,” the pontiff added, citing
Paul VI: “It is an absurd
dichotomy to think of living with Jesus but without the Church, of following
Jesus outside of the Church, of loving Jesus without loving the Church. Feel
the responsibility that you have of caring for the formation of your
Institutes in sound Church
doctrine, in love of the Church, and in an ecclesial spirit.”
“The centrality of Christ and his Gospel, authority as a service of
love, and 'feeling' in and with the Mother Church: [these are] three
suggestions that I wish to leave you, to which I again add my gratitude for
your work, which is not always
easy. What would the Church be without you? She would be missing maternity,
affection, tenderness! A Mother's intuition.”
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POPE'S NEARNESS TO THOSE AFFECTED BY EXPLOSION IN ECATEPEC, MEXICO
Vatican City, 8 May 2013 (VIS) – Below is the complete text of the
telegram that Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., sent, on
behalf of the Holy Father, to Bishop Oscar Roberto Dominguez Couttolenc, M.G.,
of Ecatepec, Mexico
because of an explosion of a gas truck in the city's suburbs that has, to
date, resulted in 21 deaths and numerous wounded.
“The Holy Father was saddened to receive news of the serious accent that
occurred in the municipality of Ecatepec, which has caused numerous victims
and serious wounded as well as much damage. I ask your excellency the kindness
of expressing his
spiritual nearness to all those who are affected by this tragedy. At the same
time he offers prayers asking God for the eternal rest of those who lost their
lives in this terrible accident.”
“Likewise, His Holiness Pope Francis wishes to send, through your
excellency, his condolences to the families of the dead, together with
expressions of consolation and affection for all the wounded, with the strong
desire for their quick and
complete recovery.”
“With these sentiments, the supreme pontiff, while calling upon the
sweet name of Our Lady of Guadalupe, wholeheartedly imparts to all the comfort
of the apostolic blessing as a sign of hope in the Risen Christ.”
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PATRIARCH OF COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ALEXANDRIA WILL MEET WITH POPE FRANCIS
IN THE VATICAN
Vatican City, 8 May 2013 (VIS) - From 9 to 13 May, His Holiness Pope Tawadros
II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, head of the
Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, will come to Rome to meet with His Holiness
Pope Francis.
The Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt has about ten million faithful. This large
membership makes the Coptic Church one of the most important elements in the
ecclesial landscape of the Middle East where, in recent times, Christian
communities are having
to deal with very difficult situations.
Pope Tawadros’ predecessor, Pope Shenouda III, met with Pope Paul VI in
the Vatican 40 years ago in May of 1973. On that occasion, the Pope and the
Coptic Orthodox Patriarch signed an important Christological Declaration in
common and initiated
bilateral ecumenical dialogue between the two Churches.
Since the election of Pope Tawadros II as the new Coptic Orthodox Patriarch,
there has been a growing rapprochement between the Christian communities in
Egypt. This has led to the establishment of a council of Christian Churches in
Egypt.
Pope Tawadros, as well as having an audience and a shared prayer with the Holy
Father on Friday, 10 May, will be received at the Pontifical Council for
Promoting Christian Unity and other dicasteries of the Roman Curia. He will
visit the tombs of the
Apostles Peter and Paul and will meet with the faithful of the Coptic
community resident in Rome.
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COLLABORATION BETWEEN AIF AND FINCEN AGAINST MONEY LAUNDERING
Vatican City, 8 May 2013 (VIS) – The Holy See Press Office issued a
press release yesterday with the information that the Financial Intelligence
Authority of the Holy See and Vatican City State (“Autorita di
Informazione Finanziaria”,
AIF), signed a Memorandum of Understanding that day, 7 May, in Washington,
D.C., USA. The memorandum's cosignatory was the Financial Crimes Enforcement
Network (FinCEN), its United States counterpart at the US Department of
Treasury. The purpose of the
collaboration is to strengthen efforts to fight money laundering and the
global financing of terrorism.
The Memorandum, signed by Rene Brulhart, director of AIF, and Jennifer Shasky
Calvery, director of FinCEN, will foster bi-lateral cooperation in the
exchange of financial information. “This is a clear indication that the
Holy See and the Vatican
City State take international responsibilities to combat money laundering and
the financing of terrorism very seriously, and that we are cooperating at the
highest levels”, said Brulhart. “The Vatican has shown that it is
a credible partner
internationally and has made a clear commitment in the exchange of information
in this fight.”
The AIF was established in 2010 and became operational in April of 2011. It is
the competent authority of the Holy See and Vatican City State for financial
intelligence and for supervision and regulation in the prevention and
countering of money
laundering and financing of terrorism.
The press release also includes a background note that the AIF is currently in
discussions with various Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) of other
countries and jurisdictions, including European countries, about entering into
Memorandums of
Understanding (MoUs) to strengthen bilateral cooperation to fight Money
Laundering and Terrorism Financing. So far, the AIF has already signed MoUs
with the FIUs of Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, and now the United States, which
plays a leading role in
combating money laundering. The AIF is currently in discussions with more than
20 other FIUs, and expects several MoUs to be signed in the course of the year.
___________________________________________________________
CANONIZATIONS ON SUNDAY: ANTONIO PRIMALDO AND COMPANIONS, LAURA OF ST.
CATHERINE OF SIENA, AND MARIA GUADALUPE GARCIA ZAVALA
Vatican City, 8 May 2013 (VIS) – At 9:30am this Sunday, 12 May, in St.
Peter's Square, the Holy Father will celebrate Mass during which he will
canonize: Blessed Antonio Primaldo and Companions (martyrs, 1480); Blessed
Laura of Saint Catherine of
Siena (nee Maria Laura De Jesus Montoya Upegui, 1874–1949), virgin,
foundress of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Mary Immaculate and St
Catherine of Siena; and Blessed Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala (1
78–1963), co-foundress of the
Congregation of the Handmaids of St Margaret Mary (Alacoque) and the Poor.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 8 May 2013 (VIS) – Today the Holy Father:
- appointed Fr. Luiz Antonio Cipolini as bishop of Marilia (area 11,958,
population 711,000, Catholics 568,000, priests 91, permanent deacons 1,
religious 163), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Caconde, Sao Paulo,
Brazil in 1962
and was ordained a priest in 1986. Since ordination he has served in several
pastoral and academic roles, most recently, since 2006, as rector and
professor of the diocesan Institute of Philosophy and as pastor of
“Nossa Senhora de Fatima”
parish in Sao Joao da Boa Vista. He succeeds Bishop Osvaldo Giuntini, whose
resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father
accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
- appointed Msgr. Benno Elbs as bishop of Feldkirch (area 2,601, population
393,600, Catholics 258,000, priests 208, permanent deacons 23, religious 407),
Austria. The bishop-elect, previously administrator of the same diocese since
November of 2011, was born in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria and was ordained a
priest in 1986. After ordination he was appointed spiritual director and
successively rector of the Marianum in Bregenz and as director of the diocesan
Pastoral Office and
member of the college of consultors as well as the diocesan Financial Council.
- appointed Msgr. Jose Aparecido Goncalves de Almeida as auxiliary of the
Archdiocese of Brasilia (area 5,814, population 2,246,000, Catholics
1,541,000, priests 320, permanent deacons 69, religious 674), Brazil. The
bishop-elect was
born in Ourinhos, Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1960 and was ordained a priest in 1986.
Since ordination he has served several pastoral and administrative roles, most
recently as Undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
where he has worked
since 1994.
- appointed Archbishop Martin Krebs as apostolic nuncio to New Zealand, the
Cook Islands, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and apostolic delegate
to the Pacific Ocean. Archbishop Krebs, titular of Taborenta, was previously
apostolic nuncio to Guinea and Mali.
___________________________________________________________
NOTICE
Vatican City, 8 May 2013 (VIS) – We inform our readers that tomorrow,
Thursday 9 May, the Solemnity of the Lord's Ascension, which is a feastday in
the Vatican, no VIS bulletin will be transmitted. Service will be resumed on
Friday, 10 May.
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VISnews130508
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXIII - N° 103DATE 08-05-2013
Summary: - HOLY SPIRIT TEACHES US TO SEE
WITH CHRIST'S EYES -
POPE'S GREETINGS DURING THE GENERAL AUDIENCE - CAREERISTS AND CLIMBERS
DOING “GREAT HARM” TO THE CHURCH - POPE'S NEARNESS TO THOSE
AFFECTED BY EXPLOSION IN ECATEPEC, MEXICO - PATRIARCH OF COPTIC ORTHODOX
CHURCH OF
ALEXANDRIA WILL MEET WITH POPE FRANCIS IN THE VATICAN - COLLABORATION
BETWEEN AIF AND FINCEN AGAINST MONEY LAUNDERING - CANONIZATIONS ON
SUNDAY: ANTONIO PRIMALDO AND COMPANIONS, LAURA OF ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA, AND
MARIA GUADALUPE GARCIA
ZAVALA - OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS - NOTICE ___________________________________________________________
HOLY SPIRIT TEACHES US TO SEE WITH CHRIST'S EYES
Vatican City, 8 May 2013 (VIS) – Eastertide, which culminates with
the Solemnity of Pentecost when the Church relives the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit, is the perfect time of the Holy Spirit,” the Pope explained to
the 75,000 persons
present in St. Peter's Square to attend his Wednesday general audience.
After winding through the square in the Popemobile, greeting the various
groups of faithful who greeted him as he passed by, the Pope began his
catechesis, which was dedicated to the third Person of the Trinity; the Holy
Spirit.
“In the Creed,” Francis said, “we profess with faith: 'I
believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life'. The first truth that
we adhere to in the Creed is that the Holy Spirit is 'Kyrios', that is, Lord.
This means that He
is truly God as are the Father and the Son … but I want to mainly focus
on the fact that the Holy Spirit is the inexhaustible source of God's life in
us.”
“Men and women of all times and all places desire a full and
beautiful life ... a life that is not threatened by death but that can mature
and grow to its fullness. The human being is like a traveller who, crossing
the deserts of life, is
thirsty for living water, gushing and fresh, capable of deeply quenching that
profound desire for light, love, beauty, and peace. We all feel that desire!
And Jesus gives us this living water. It is the Holy Spirit who proceeds from
the Father and whom
Jesus pours out into our hearts. 'I have come so that you might have life and
have it more abundantly', Jesus says.”
Jesus has come to give us the living water that is the Holy Spirit
“so that our lives might be guided by God.” That is why,
“when we say that the Christian is a spiritual being we mean precisely
this: the Christian is a person who
thinks and acts in accordance with God, in accordance with the Holy Spirit.
… We know that water is essential to life. Without water we die. It
quenches our thirst, washes us, makes the land fertile. … The 'living
water', the Holy Spirit,
Gift of the Risen One who abides in us, purifies us, enlightens us, renews us,
and transforms us so that we might be made to participate in the very life of
God who is Love.”
Paul the Apostle, the Bishop of Rome noted, affirms that the Christian life
“is enlivened by the Spirit and and by his fruits, which are 'love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and
self-control'. …
The Spirit himself, together with our spirit, attests that we are God's
children. And, if we are children, we are also inheritors, inheritors of God
and co-inheritors with Christ if we truly take part in his suffering so that
we might also be glorified
with him. This is the precious gift that that the Holy Spirit brings to our
hearts: the very life of God, the life of true children, a relationship of
confidence, freedom, and trust in the love and mercy of God, which also has
the effect of a new vision
of others, near and far, seen always as brothers and sisters in Jesus to
respect and to love. The Holy Spirit teaches us to see with Christ's
eyes.”
“That is why,” he concluded, “the living water that is
the Holy Spirit quenches the thirst of our lives, because He tells us that we
are loved by God as children, that we can love God as his children, and that,
with his grace, we
can live as children of God, as Jesus does.”
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