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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - N° 159
DATE 27-07-2013
Summary:
- ANGELUS: THE FAMILY, THE ELDERLY AND INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE
- BRAVE ARE THE YOUNG WHO BEAR THE CROSS WITHOUT FEAR
- CARDINAL ERDO, PAPAL ENVOY TO 6TH CENTENARY OF BAPTISM OF SAMOGIZIA
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
ANGELUS: THE FAMILY, THE ELDERLY AND INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE
Vatican City, 27 June 2013 (VIS) – On Friday morning the Pope went to
the park “Quinta da Boa Vista”, nineteen kilometres from the
Sumare residence. The park previously belonged to the Society of Jesus, and is
now a municipal park
containing the Zoological Garden and National Museum, the first scientific
institution in the country and considered to be the finest Museum of natural
history and anthropology in Latin America. Throughout the park numerous
confessionals have been
installed to allow the sacrament of confession to be imparted to the young
participants in World Youth Day. One was selected for the Pope to personally
hear the confession of five young people in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Afterwards, he proceeded
by car to the meet with the archbishop of Rio in his residence, a building
constructed in 1918 as the official residence of the first cardinal archbishop
of Rio de Janeiro, Joaquim Arcoverde Cavalcanti de Albuquerque. The work of
the archi
tect
Morales de los Rios, it is characterised by its eclectic style with
architectural references to many historical monuments. During the military
dictatorship, the then Cardinal Archbishop Eugenio Sales offered asylum to the
regime's opponents within the
Palace.
At 11.30 a.m. the Pope met briefly with eight young detainees, six boys and
two girls, who gave the Pope a giant Rosary made of polystyrene. The Cross
bore the words “Calendaria nunca mais” - “Calendaria: never
again”, referring
to the tragic event of 22 July 1993, when a group of armed men assassinated a
group of children and young men at the door of the Church of the Calendaria in
Rio de Janeiro. The names of the many young people killed on that day were
written on the beads
of the Rosary. The Pope prayed with the young people for all those who have
died in violent circumstances and repeated the message “Violencia nunca
mais! No more violence, only love!”
Immediately afterwards, the Pope moved on to the Chapel to greet the Religious
of the Residence. From the central balcony of the Palace, the Pope prayed the
Angelus with the faithful gathered in the square below and in the adjacent
streets.
“I would be happy if my visit to this city were to renew, in each one of
you, your love for Christ and his Church and your joy in being one with him,
belonging to the Church and being committed to offering a living witness to
the faith”, the
Pope began.
He went on to explain the three moments in which the simple prayer of the
Angelus prayer is recited, and emphasised that “it reminds us of a
luminous event which transformed history: the Incarnation, the moment when the
Son of God became man in
Jesus of Nazareth”.
He spoke about Saints Joachim and Anne, the parents of the Virgin Mary, and
commented that Mary grew up in a home in which love for God was transmitted,
expressed in the warmth and love of family life. “How precious is the
family as the privileged
place for transmitting the faith!” he exclaimed, recalling that in many
countries, as the Church celebrates Saints Joachim and Anne, grandparents' day
is also celebrated. “How important grandparents are for family life, for
passing on the
human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and every society!
How important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and dialogue,
especially within the context of the family”.
The Pope mentioned that the Aparecida Document states that children and the
elderly build the future of peoples: “children because they lead history
forward, the elderly because they transmit the experience and wisdom of their
lives. This
relationship and this dialogue between generations is a treasure to be
preserved and strengthened!”.
After the Angelus, the Pope proceeded to the Salon Redondo on the first floor
of the Palace to meet with Archbishop Tempesta and twelve young people of
different nationalities, representing each continent. After lunch, the Holy
Father returned to the
Sumare residence to rest before the beginning of the Via Crucis.
___________________________________________________________
BRAVE ARE THE YOUNG WHO BEAR THE CROSS WITHOUT FEAR
Vatican City, 27 June 2013 (VIS) – Pope Francis arrived at 5.20 p.m.
local time at the beachfront at Copacabana where he greeted the young people
awaiting him from the Popemobile. The Holy Father asked thirty-five unemployed
Argentine
“cartoneros” to join him on the stage, and greeted them warmly.
These men and women had regular jobs prior to the 2001 economic crisis, but
are now forced to live in the “villas miserias”, Argentine
favelas. In Argentina there
are around 100 thousand cartoneros who live by rummaging through refuse in
search of paper, metal and food.
At 6 p.m. the Via Crucis began. It had fourteen stations, thirteen of which
were located in the 900 metres of Viale Atlantico, the beachfront promenade at
Copacabana, and the last is represented on the stage from which the Pope
viewed the entire
procession. The celebration lasted around an hour and a quarter, in which
artists and volunteers participated. The texts of the meditations were
prepared by the Dehonian priests Fr. Zezinho and Fr. Joaozinho, well-known for
their work with young people.
At the end of the Via Crucis, Francis commented that the Way of the Cross was
“one of the most intense moments of World Youth Day” and that
since 1984 the Cross had “travelled to every continent and through a
variety of human
situations. It is … almost “steeped” in the life
experiences of the countless young people who have seen it and carried
it”. At the end of the Year of Redemption, Blessed John Paul II
entrusted the Cross to the young, asking
them to “carry it through the world as a symbol of Christ's love for
humanity, and announce to everyone that only in the death and resurrection of
Christ can we find salvation and redemption”.
“No one can approach and touch the Cross of Jesus without leaving
something of himself or herself there, and without bringing something of the
Cross of Jesus into his or her own life. I have three questions that I hope
will echo in your hearts
this evening as you walk beside Jesus: What have you left on the Cross, dear
young people of Brazil, during these two years that it has been crisscrossing
your great country? What has the Cross of Jesus left for you, in each one of
you? Finally, what
does this Cross teach us?”
The Pope remarked that St. Peter, while leaving Rome to flee persecution, saw
Jesus travelling in the opposite direction, towards the city, and “at
that moment he understood that he had to follow the Lord with courage, to the
very end. But he also
realized that he would never be alone on the journey; Jesus, Who had loved him
even unto death, would always be with him. Jesus, with His Cross, walks with
us and takes upon Himself our fears, our problems, and our sufferings, even
those which are
deepest and most painful. With the Cross, Jesus unites Himself to the silence
of the victims of violence, those who can no longer cry out, especially the
innocent and the defenceless; with the Cross, He is united to families in
trouble, and those who
mourn the tragic loss of their children, as in the case of the 242 young
victims of the fire in the city of Santa Maria at the beginning of this year.
Let us pray for them. On the Cross, Jesus is united with every person who
suffers from
hunger in a world where on the other side we permit ourselves the luxury of
throwing away tons of food each day; on the Cross, Jesus is united with the
many mothers and fathers who suffer, seeing their children become victims of
the artificial paradise
offered by drugs; on the Cross, Jesus is united with those who are persecuted
for their religion, for their beliefs or simply for the colour of their skin;
on the Cross, Jesus is united with so many young people who have lost faith in
political
institutions, because they see in them only selfishness and corruption; he
unites himself with those young people who have lost faith in the Church, or
even in God because of the counter-witness of Christians and ministers of the
Gospel. How Jesus
suffers for our incoherence! The Cross of Christ bears the suffering and the
sin of mankind, including our own. Jesus accepts all this with open arms,
bearing on His shoulders our crosses and saying to us: “Have courage!
You do not carry
your
cross alone! I carry it with you. I have overcome death and I have come to
give you hope, to give you life”.
The Holy Father then considered the second question: “What has the Cross
given to those who have gazed upon it or touched it? What has it left in each
one of us? It gives us a treasure that no one else can give: the certainty of
the unshakable
love which God has for us. A love so great that it enters into our sin and
forgives it, enters into our suffering and gives us the strength to bear it.
It is a love which enters into death to conquer it and to save us. The Cross
of Christ contains all
the love of God, it is His immeasurable mercy. This is a love in which we can
place all our trust, in which we can believe. Dear young people”, he
continued, “let us entrust ourselves to Jesus, let us give ourselves
over to Him, because He
never disappoints! … With Him, evil, suffering, and death do not have
the last word, because He gives us hope and life: He has transformed the Cross
from an instrument of hate, defeat and death into a sign of love, victory,
trium
ph and
life”.
Pope Francis continued, “How many people were with Jesus on the way to
Calvary: Pilate, Simon of Cyrene, Mary, the women… Today I ask you:
which of these people do you want to be like? Do you want to be like Pilate,
who did not have the
courage to go against the tide to save Jesus’ life, and instead washed
his hands. Tell me: are you one of those ewho wash their hands, who play dumb
and turn away? Or are you like Simon of Cyrene, who helped Jesus to carry that
heavy wood, like
Mary and the other women, who were not afraid to accompany Jesus all the way
to the end, with love and tenderness. And you? Which of these do you want to
be like? Like Pilate? Like Simon? Like Mary?” Jesus is watching you now
and He says: do you
want to help me carry the Cross? Brothers and sisters, with your youthful
strength, how will you answer Him?”
The Pope concluded by asking the young to bring their joys, their sufferings
and their failures to Christ's Cross, as “there we will find a Heart
that is open to us and understands us, forgives us, loves us and calls us to
bear this love in our
lives, to love each person, each brother and sister, with the same love.”
___________________________________________________________
CARDINAL ERDO, PAPAL ENVOY TO 6TH CENTENARY OF BAPTISM OF SAMOGIZIA
Vatican City, 27 June 2013 (VIS) – A letter from the Pope was published
today, in Latin, in which he appoints Cardinal Peter Erdo, archbishop of
Esztergom-Budapest, as his special envoy to the celebration of the baptism of
Samogizia (western
region of Lithuania), due to be held in concomitance with the Eucharistic
Congress of Telsiai, from 2 to 4 August 2013.
The mission accompanying the cardinal will be made up of Rev. Darius Trijonis,
assistant general secretary to the Lithuanian Bishops' Conference, and Msgr.
Viktoras Acas, rector of the diocesan seminary of Telsiai.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 27 June 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father:
- accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Saitama,
Japan, presented by Bishop Marcellino Daiji Tani, in accordance with canon 401
para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law. The Holy Father has appointed Archbishop
Peter Takeo Okada of
Tokyo, Japan, as apostolic adminstrator "sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae
Sedis" of the same diocese.
- accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary of the archdiocese of
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, presented by Bishop Joseph Lafontant, upon having
reached the age limit.
- accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Military Ordinariate
of Peru, presented by Bishop Guillermo Martin Abanto Guzman, in accordance
with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.
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VISnews130727
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXII - N° 159DATE 27-07-2013
Summary: - ANGELUS: THE FAMILY, THE ELDERLY
AND INTERGENERATIONAL
DIALOGUE - BRAVE ARE THE YOUNG WHO BEAR THE CROSS WITHOUT FEAR -
CARDINAL ERDO, PAPAL ENVOY TO 6TH CENTENARY OF BAPTISM OF SAMOGIZIA -
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
ANGELUS: THE FAMILY, THE ELDERLY AND INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE
Vatican City, 27 June 2013 (VIS) – On Friday morning the Pope went to
the park “Quinta da Boa Vista”, nineteen kilometres from the
Sumare residence. The park previously belonged to the Society of Jesus, and is
now a municipal park
containing the Zoological Garden and National Museum, the first scientific
institution in the country and considered to be the finest Museum of natural
history and anthropology in Latin America. Throughout the park numerous
confessionals have been
installed to allow the sacrament of confession to be imparted to the young
participants in World Youth Day. One was selected for the Pope to personally
hear the confession of five young people in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Afterwards, he proceeded
by car to the meet with the archbishop of Rio in his residence, a building
constructed in 1918 as the official residence of the first cardinal archbishop
of Rio de Janeiro, Joaquim Arcoverde Cavalcanti de Albuquerque. The work of the
architect Morales de los Rios, it is characterised by its eclectic style with
architectural references to many historical monuments. During the military
dictatorship, the then Cardinal Archbishop Eugenio Sales offered asylum to the
regime's opponents
within the Palace.
At 11.30 a.m. the Pope met briefly with eight young detainees, six boys and
two girls, who gave the Pope a giant Rosary made of polystyrene. The Cross
bore the words “Calendaria nunca mais” - “Calendaria: never
again”,
referring to the tragic event of 22 July 1993, when a group of armed men
assassinated a group of children and young men at the door of the Church of
the Calendaria in Rio de Janeiro. The names of the many young people killed on
that day were written on
the beads of the Rosary. The Pope prayed with the young people for all those
who have died in violent circumstances and repeated the message
ldquo;Violencia nunca mais! No more violence, only love!”
Immediately afterwards, the Pope moved on to the Chapel to greet the
Religious of the Residence. From the central balcony of the Palace, the Pope
prayed the Angelus with the faithful gathered in the square below and in the
adjacent streets.
“I would be happy if my visit to this city were to renew, in each one
of you, your love for Christ and his Church and your joy in being one with
him, belonging to the Church and being committed to offering a living witness
to the faith”,
the Pope began.
He went on to explain the three moments in which the simple prayer of the
Angelus prayer is recited, and emphasised that “it reminds us of a
luminous event which transformed history: the Incarnation, the moment when the
Son of God became man in
Jesus of Nazareth”.
He spoke about Saints Joachim and Anne, the parents of the Virgin Mary, and
commented that Mary grew up in a home in which love for God was transmitted,
expressed in the warmth and love of family life. “How precious is the
family as the
privileged place for transmitting the faith!” he exclaimed, recalling
that in many countries, as the Church celebrates Saints Joachim and Anne,
grandparents' day is also celebrated. “How important grandparents are
for family life, for
passing on the human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and
every society! How important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and
dialogue, especially within the context of the family”.
The Pope mentioned that the Aparecida Document states that children and the
elderly build the future of peoples: “children because they lead history
forward, the elderly because they transmit the experience and wisdom of their
lives. This
relationship and this dialogue between generations is a treasure to be
preserved and strengthened!”.
After the Angelus, the Pope proceeded to the Salon Redondo on the first
floor of the Palace to meet with Archbishop Tempesta and twelve young people
of different nationalities, representing each continent. After lunch, the Holy
Father returned to the
Sumare residence to rest before the beginning of the Via Crucis.
BRAVE ARE THE YOUNG WHO BEAR THE CROSS WITHOUT FEAR
Vatican City, 27 June 2013 (VIS) – Pope Francis arrived at 5.20 p.m.
local time at the beachfront at Copacabana where he greeted the young people
awaiting him from the Popemobile. The Holy Father asked thirty-five unemployed
Argentine
“cartoneros” to join him on the stage, and greeted them warmly.
These men and women had regular jobs prior to the 2001 economic crisis, but
are now forced to live in the “villas miserias”, Argentine
favelas. In Argentina there
are around 100 thousand cartoneros who live by rummaging through refuse in
search of paper, metal and food.
At 6 p.m. the Via Crucis began. It had fourteen stations, thirteen of which
were located in the 900 metres of Viale Atlantico, the beachfront promenade at
Copacabana, and the last is represented on the stage from which the Pope
viewed the entire
procession. The celebration lasted around an hour and a quarter, in which
artists and volunteers participated. The texts of the meditations were
prepared by the Dehonian priests Fr. Zezinho and Fr. Joaozinho, well-known for
their work with young people.
At the end of the Via Crucis, Francis commented that the Way of the Cross
was “one of the most intense moments of World Youth Day” and that
since 1984 the Cross had “travelled to every continent and through a
variety of human
situations. It is … almost “steeped” in the life
experiences of the countless young people who have seen it and carried
it”. At the end of the Year of Redemption, Blessed John Paul II
entrusted the Cross to the young, asking
them to “carry it through the world as a symbol of Christ's love for
humanity, and announce to everyone that only in the death and resurrection of
Christ can we find salvation and redemption”.
“No one can approach and touch the Cross of Jesus without leaving
something of himself or herself there, and without bringing something of the
Cross of Jesus into his or her own life. I have three questions that I hope
will echo in your hearts
this evening as you walk beside Jesus: What have you left on the Cross, dear
young people of Brazil, during these two years that it has been crisscrossing
your great country? What has the Cross of Jesus left for you, in each one of
you? Finally, what
does this Cross teach us?”
The Pope remarked that St. Peter, while leaving Rome to flee persecution,
saw Jesus travelling in the opposite direction, towards the city, and
“at that moment he understood that he had to follow the Lord with
courage, to the very end. But he
also realized that he would never be alone on the journey; Jesus, Who had
loved him even unto death, would always be with him. Jesus, with His Cross,
walks with us and takes upon Himself our fears, our problems, and our
sufferings, even those which are
deepest and most painful. With the Cross, Jesus unites Himself to the silence
of the victims of violence, those who can no longer cry out, especially the
innocent and the defenceless; with the Cross, He is united to families in
trouble, and those who
mourn the tragic loss of their children, as in the case of the 242 young
victims of the fire in the city of Santa Maria at the beginning of this year.
Let us pray for them. On the Cross, Jesus is united with every person who
suffers
from hunger in a world where on the other side we permit ourselves the luxury
of throwing away tons of food each day; on the Cross, Jesus is united with the
many mothers and fathers who suffer, seeing their children become victims of
the artificial
paradise offered by drugs; on the Cross, Jesus is united with those who are
persecuted for their religion, for their beliefs or simply for the colour of
their skin; on the Cross, Jesus is united with so many young people who have
lost faith in political
institutions, because they see in them only selfishness and corruption; he
unites himself with those young people who have lost faith in the Church, or
even in God because of the counter-witness of Christians and ministers of the
Gospel. How Jesus
suffers for our incoherence! The Cross of Christ bears the suffering and the
sin of mankind, including our own. Jesus accepts all this with open arms,
bearing on His shoulders our crosses and saying to us: “Have courage!
You do not c
arry
your cross alone! I carry it with you. I have overcome death and I have come
to give you hope, to give you life”.
The Holy Father then considered the second question: “What has the
Cross given to those who have gazed upon it or touched it? What has it left in
each one of us? It gives us a treasure that no one else can give: the
certainty of the unshakable
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