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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXIII - # 109
DATE 17-05-2013
Summary:
- POPE RECEIVES GENERAL DIRECTORS OF PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY WORKS FOR FIRST
TIME, CONFIRMS THEIR RELEVANCE
- PAPAL CELEBRATIONS FOR MAY, JUNE, JULY
- NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: SEARCH FOR EFFECTIVE ANSWERS
- AUDIENCES
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
POPE RECEIVES GENERAL DIRECTORS OF PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY WORKS FOR FIRST TIME,
CONFIRMS THEIR RELEVANCE
Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) - The Pontifical Missionary Works (POM) are
"entirely relevant, even more, they are still necessary today because there
are so many peoples who have still not known and met Christ and it is urgent
to find new
forms and new ways that God's grace might touch the heart of each man and each
woman and bring them to him." With these words, Pope Francis greeted the
national directors of the POM for the first time, thanking them because they
help him
"keep evangelization, the paradigm of every act of the Church, alive."
The Holy Father noted that the Missionary Works are also called "pontifical"
because "they are at the Bishop of Rome's direct disposal, with the specific
purpose of acting so that the precious gift of the Gospel might be offered to
all." "Certainly," he said, "the mission that awaits us is difficult but, with
the guidance of the Holy Spirit, it becomes an exciting mission. ... This is
what we should always draw courage from: knowing that the strength
of evangelization comes from God, belongs to him. We are called to open
ourselves more and more to the Holy Spirit's work ... to be instruments of
God's mercy, his tenderness, his love for every man and woman, and especially
for the poor, the
excluded and the marginalized. And this holds for every Christian, for the
whole Church. It isn't an optional mission but an essential one."
The Pope repeated the invitation that Paul VI had given them 50 years before:
"to zealously safeguard the universal scope of the Missionary Works" and he
urged them to make sure that they "might continue, in the path of their
centuries-old tradition, to give life and formation to churches, opening them
to the broad dimension of the mission of evangelization." The POM also
properly belong to the concerns of the bishops so that they might be rooted in
the life of the
particular churches. Therefore, "they must truly become the privileged
instrument of education toward a universal missionary spirit and an ever
greater communion between churches to proclaim the Gospel to the world. Faced
with the temptations
communities have to become wrapped up in themselves, worried about their own
problems, your job is to recall the 'missio ad gentes', to prophetically
witness that the life of the Church and the churches is mission, and it is a
universal mission.&r
dquo;
In this context, Francis asked them to give "special attention to the young
churches, which often operate in a climate of difficulty, discrimination, and
persecution, so that they might be sustained and assisted in witnessing the
Gospel in word
and in deed." He concluded his address by encouraging the directors of the POM
to continue their work "so that the local churches might ever more generously
take on their share of responsibility for the Church's universal mission."
___________________________________________________________
PAPAL CELEBRATIONS FOR MAY, JUNE, JULY
Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) - Given below is the calendar of the Holy
Father Francis' liturgical celebrations and activities scheduled for the
months of May, June, and July.
MAY
23 May, Thursday: 6:00pm, Profession of Faith with the Bishops of the Italian
Episcopal Conference.
26 May, Sunday, Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity: Pastoral visit to the
Roman parish of Sts. Elizabeth and Zechariah. 9:30am, Mass.
30 May, Thursday, Solemnity of Corpus Cristi: 7:00pm, Mass in Piazza St. John
Lateran. Procession to St. Mary Major and Eucharistic Blessing.
31 May, Friday: 8:00pm, Pope closes month of May, dedicated to the Virgin,
with the Rosary prayed with the faithful in St. Peter's Square.
JUNE
2 June, 9th Sunday in Ordinary Time: 6:00pm, Worldwide Eucharistic adoration
from Vatican Basilica.
16 June, 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time: 10:30am, Mass for "Evangelium Vitae"
Day in St. Peter's Square.
29 Saturday, Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul: 9:30am, Mass and imposition of
the pallium upon new metropolitans in the papal chapel.
JULY
7 July, 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time: 9:30am, Mass with seminarians and
novices in the Vatican Basilica.
22-29 July: apostolic trip to Brazil for the 28th World Youth Day.
___________________________________________________________
NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: SEARCH FOR EFFECTIVE ANSWERS
Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) - Yesterday, Thursday 16 May, in the Domus
Sanctae Marthae chapel, there was a meeting on new religious movements
organized by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue that, together
with the Congregation
for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Pontifical Councils for Promoting
Christian Unity and for Culture, have been studying these phenomena for some
time.
In 1986, for the first time, a brief provisional report was published
entitled: "The Phenomenon of Sects and the New Religious Movements: Pastoral
Challenge", the result of a questionnaire sent out to the Episcopal
Conferences two years
prior. Since that time, the aforementioned dicasteries have continued their
task of reflection, publishing an anthology of texts entitled: "Sects and New
Religious Movements: Texts of the Catholic Church (1986-1994)".
In 2003, "Jesus Christ, Bearer of Living Water. A Christian Reflection on the
'New Age'," was published by the Pontifical Councils for Culture and for
Interreligious Dialogue following an International Conference on the New Age.
Yesterday's meeting, attended by around 40 representatives from various
Vatican dicasteries, pontifical universities, the Italian Episcopal
Conference, and the Vicariate of Rome, is a step further along the path of
reflection, study, and the search for
effective pastoral responses.
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for
Interreligious Dialogue, opened and closed the meeting while Fr. Miguel Angel
Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.I., secretary of the same dicastery, acted as moderator.
Some of the themes covered
include: New Religious Movements and the New Evangelization; New Frontiers of
the Sacred; Dialogue and Comparison between Faith and Credulity; Catholics and
Pentecostals-Identity, Ties, and Perspectives; and New Age, Analysis of the
Cultural
Context.
Speakers included: Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical
Council for Promoting the New Evangelization; Fr. Michael Fuss and Fr. Michael
P. Gallagher, S.J., professors at the Pontifical Gregorian University; Msgr.
Juan Usma Gomez,
office director of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; and
Fr. Alessandro Olivieri Pennesi, director of the Vicariate of Rome's Office
for New Worship.
___________________________________________________________
AUDIENCES
Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) - This morning the Holy Father received in
separate audiences:
nine prelates from the Sardegna Region of the Italian Episcopal Conference on
their "ad limina" visit:
- Archbishop Arrigo Miglio of Cagliari,
- Archbishop Paolo Mario Virgilio Atzei, O.F.M. Conv., of Sassari,
- Archbishop Ignazio Sanna of Oristano,
- Bishop Antioco Piseddu of Lanusei,
- Bishop Sebastiano Sanguinetti of Tempio-Ampurias,
- Bishop Giovanni Dettori of Ales-Terralba,
- Bishop Mose Marcia of Nuoro,
- Bishop Giovanni Paolo Zedda of Iglesias, and
- Bishop Mauro Maria Morfino, S.D.B., of Alghero-Bosa.
- and Cardinal Domenico Calcagno, president of the Administration of the
Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA).
This afternoon he is scheduled to receive Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S.,
prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father appointed Bishop
Enrique Benavent Vidal as bishop of Tortosa (area 6,450, population 294,000,
Catholics 261,000, priests 132, permanent deacons 2, religious 256), Spain.
Bishop Benavent,
previously auxiliary of Valencia and titular of Rotdon, was born in
Quatretonda, Valencia, Spain in 1959, was ordained to the priesthood in 1982,
and received episcopal ordination in 2005. On the Spanish Episcopal Conference
he is a member of the
Commissions for the Doctrine of the Faith and for Seminaries and Universities.
___________________________________________________________
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VATICAN
INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXIII - # 109DATE 17-05-2013Summary: - POPE RECEIVES
GENERAL DIRECTORS OF PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY
WORKS FOR FIRST TIME, CONFIRMS THEIR RELEVANCE - PAPAL CELEBRATIONS FOR MAY,
JUNE, JULY - NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: SEARCH FOR EFFECTIVE ANSWERS - AUDIENCES
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS___________________________________________________________
POPE RECEIVES GENERAL DIRECTORS OF PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY WORKS FOR FIRST
TIME, CONFIRMS THEIR RELEVANCE
Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) - The Pontifical Missionary Works (POM) are
"entirely relevant, even more, they are still necessary today because there
are so many peoples who have still not known and met Christ and it is urgent
to find
new forms and new ways that God's grace might touch the heart of each man and
each woman and bring them to him." With these words, Pope Francis greeted the
national directors of the POM for the first time, thanking them because they
help him
"keep evangelization, the paradigm of every act of the Church, alive."
The Holy Father noted that the Missionary Works are also called "pontifical"
because "they are at the Bishop of Rome's direct disposal, with the specific
purpose of acting so that the precious gift of the Gospel might be offered to
all." "Certainly," he said, "the mission that awaits us is difficult but, with
the guidance of the Holy Spirit, it becomes an exciting mission. ... This is
what we should always draw courage from: knowing that the strength
of evangelization comes from God, belongs to him. We are called to open
ourselves more and more to the Holy Spirit's work ... to be instruments of
God's mercy, his tenderness, his love for every man and woman, and especially
for the poor, the
excluded and the marginalized. And this holds for every Christian, for the
whole Church. It isn't an optional mission but an essential one."
The Pope repeated the invitation that Paul VI had given them 50 years before:
"to zealously safeguard the universal scope of the Missionary Works" and he
urged them to make sure that they "might continue, in the path of their
centuries-old tradition, to give life and formation to churches, opening them
to the broad dimension of the mission of evangelization." The POM also
properly belong to the concerns of the bishops so that they might be rooted in
the life of the
particular churches. Therefore, "they must truly become the privileged
instrument of education toward a universal missionary spirit and an ever
greater communion between churches to proclaim the Gospel to the world. Faced
with the temptations
communities have to become wrapped up in themselves, worried about their own
problems, your job is to recall the 'missio ad gentes', to prophetically
witness that the life of the Church and the churches is mission, and it is a
universal mission."
In this context, Francis asked them to give "special attention to the young
churches, which often operate in a climate of difficulty, discrimination, and
persecution, so that they might be sustained and assisted in witnessing the
Gospel in word
and in deed." He concluded his address by encouraging the directors of the POM
to continue their work "so that the local churches might ever more generously
take on their share of responsibility for the Church's universal mission."
___________________________________________________________
PAPAL CELEBRATIONS FOR MAY, JUNE, JULY
Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) - Given below is the calendar of the Holy
Father Francis' liturgical celebrations and activities scheduled for the
months of May, June, and July.
MAY
23 May, Thursday: 6:00pm, Profession of Faith with the Bishops of the Italian
Episcopal Conference.
26 May, Sunday, Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity: Pastoral visit to the
Roman parish of Sts. Elizabeth and Zechariah. 9:30am, Mass.
30 May, Thursday, Solemnity of Corpus Cristi: 7:00pm, Mass in Piazza St. John
Lateran. Procession to St. Mary Major and Eucharistic Blessing.
31 May, Friday: 8:00pm, Pope closes month of May, dedicated to the Virgin,
with the Rosary prayed with the faithful in St. Peter's Square.
JUNE
2 June, 9th Sunday in Ordinary Time: 6:00pm, Worldwide Eucharistic adoration
from Vatican Basilica.
16 June, 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time: 10:30am, Mass for "Evangelium Vitae"
Day in St. Peter's Square.
29 Saturday, Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul: 9:30am, Mass and imposition of
the pallium upon new metropolitans in the papal chapel.
JULY
7 July, 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time: 9:30am, Mass with seminarians and
novices in the Vatican Basilica.
22-29 July: apostolic trip to Brazil for the 28th World Youth Day.
___________________________________________________________
NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: SEARCH FOR EFFECTIVE ANSWERS
Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) - Yesterday, Thursday 16 May, in the Domus
Sanctae Marthae chapel, there was a meeting on new religious movements
organized by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue that, together
with the
Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Pontifical Councils for
Promoting Christian Unity and for Culture, have been studying these phenomena
for some time.
In 1986, for the first time, a brief provisional report was published
entitled: "The Phenomenon of Sects and the New Religious Movements: Pastoral
Challenge", the result of a questionnaire sent out to the Episcopal
Conferences two years
prior. Since that time, the aforementioned dicasteries have continued their
task of reflection, publishing an anthology of texts entitled: "Sects and New
Religious Movements: Texts of the Catholic Church (1986-1994)".
In 2003, "Jesus Christ, Bearer of Living Water. A Christian Reflection on the
'New Age'," was published by the Pontifical Councils for Culture and for
Interreligious Dialogue following an International Conference on the New Age.
Yesterday's meeting, attended by around 40 representatives from various
Vatican dicasteries, pontifical universities, the Italian Episcopal
Conference, and the Vicariate of Rome, is a step further along the path of
reflection, study, and the search
for effective pastoral responses.
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for
Interreligious Dialogue, opened and closed the meeting while Fr. Miguel Angel
Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.I., secretary of the same dicastery, acted as moderator.
Some of the themes covered
include: New Religious Movements and the New Evangelization; New Frontiers of
the Sacred; Dialogue and Comparison between Faith and Credulity; Catholics and
Pentecostals-Identity, Ties, and Perspectives; and New Age, Analysis of the
Cultural
Context.
Speakers included: Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical
Council for Promoting the New Evangelization; Fr. Michael Fuss and Fr. Michael
P. Gallagher, S.J., professors at the Pontifical Gregorian University; Msgr.
Juan Usma Gomez,
office director of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; and
Fr. Alessandro Olivieri Pennesi, director of the Vicariate of Rome's Office
for New Worship.
___________________________________________________________
AUDIENCES
Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) - This morning the Holy Father received in
separate audiences:
nine prelates from the Sardegna Region of the Italian Episcopal Conference on
their "ad limina" visit:
- Archbishop Arrigo Miglio of Cagliari,
- Archbishop Paolo Mario Virgilio Atzei, O.F.M. Conv., of Sassari,
- Archbishop Ignazio Sanna of Oristano,
- Bishop Antioco Piseddu of Lanusei,
- Bishop Sebastiano Sanguinetti of Tempio-Ampurias,
- Bishop Giovanni Dettori of Ales-Terralba,
- Bishop Mose Marcia of Nuoro,
- Bishop Giovanni Paolo Zedda of Iglesias, and
- Bishop Mauro Maria Morfino, S.D.B., of Alghero-Bosa.
- and Cardinal Domenico Calcagno, president of the Administration of the
Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA).
This afternoon he is scheduled to receive Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S.,
prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father appointed Bishop
Enrique Benavent Vidal as bishop of Tortosa (area 6,450, population 294,000,
Catholics 261,000, priests 132, permanent deacons 2, religious 256), Spain.
Bishop Benavent,
previously auxiliary of Valencia and titular of Rotdon, was born in
Quatretonda, Valencia, Spain in 1959, was ordained to the priesthood in 1982,
and received episcopal ordination in 2005. On the Spanish Episcopal Conference
he is a member of the
Commissions for the Doctrine of the Faith and for Seminaries and Universities.
___________________________________________________________ Per ulteriori
informazioni e per la ricerca di documenti consultare il sito: www.wisnews.org e www.vatican.va Il servizio del VIS viene
inviato soltanto agli indirizzi di posta elettronica che ne hanno
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