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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - N° 28
DATE 12-02-2014
Summary:
- THE EUCHARIST INSPIRES FORGIVENESS AND ENCOUNTER WITH OTHERS
- AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE HOLY SEE AND HUNGARY
- PROGRESS OF THE BILATERAL COMMISSION BETWEEN THE HOLY SEE AND THE STATE OF
ISRAEL
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
THE EUCHARIST INSPIRES FORGIVENESS AND ENCOUNTER WITH OTHERS
Vatican City, 12 February 2014 (VIS) – The Eucharist and its relation to
our life, as Church and as Christians, was the theme of Pope Francis'
catechesis during this Wednesday's general audience in St. Peter's Square.
“How do we live the Eucharist … when we go to Mass on a Sunday?
What is it for us? Is it just an opportunity to celebrate, a consolidated
tradition, a way of getting one's bearings and feeling better, or is it
something more?” asked
the Holy Father, who then went on to indicate three signs for understanding
how we experience this relation.
The first is our way of living with others. “In the Eucharist Christ
renews the gift of Himself that He made on the Cross”, he explained.
“His entire life is an act of the fullest sharing of Himself for love.
This is why He loved to
stay with the disciples and with those He met. For Him, this meant sharing
their yearnings, their problems, that which stirred their soul and their life.
Now, when we participate in the Holy Mass, we find ourselves with many people
… but the
Eucharist that I celebrate, does it lead me to consider them as brothers and
sisters? Does it inspire me to go towards the poor, the sick, the
marginalised? Does it help me to recognise Christ's face in them?”
The grace of being forgiven and willing to forgive is a second sign. “In
reality, those who celebrate the Eucharist do not do so because they believe
themselves to be better, or wish to appear better than others, but because
they are aware that
they are always in need of being accepted and regenerated in God's mercy, made
flesh in Jesus Christ. If anyone among us does not feel in need of God's
mercy, if he does not consider himself to be a sinner, it is better that he
not go to Mass! We go to
Mass because we are sinners and because we wish to receive God's forgiveness,
to participate in Christ's redemption, his forgiveness. That 'I confess' that
we say at the beginning is not merely a 'pro forma', it is a true act of
penance! … In
that bread and that wine we offer and around which we gather, the gift of the
body and blood of Christ for the forgiveness of our sins is renewed every
time. This best summarises the deepest sense of the sacrifice of the Lord
Jesus, and
in
turn it opens our hearts to the forgiveness of our brothers and to
reconciliation”.
The relationship between the Eucharistic celebration and the life of our
Christian communities is the third sign. “It must always be clear that
the Eucharist is not something that we do; it is not our commemoration of what
Jesus said and did. No.
It is an act of Christ! It is a gift from Christ, Who is made present and
gathers us around Him, to nourish us with His Word and His life. This means
that the mission and the very identity of the Church spring from this, from
the Eucharist, and there
they assume their form. … a celebration may prove to be impeccable,
beautiful, from an external point of view, but if it does not lead to an
encounter with Jesus, the risk is that it does not lead to the nourishment of
our hearts and lives.
Through the Eucharist, instead, Christ wishes to enter into our existence and
the permeate it with his grace, so that in every Christian community there is
coherence between liturgy and life”.
The Pope concluded by encouraging us to “live the Eucharist with a
spirit of faith and prayer, of forgiveness, of care for the needs of many of
our brothers and sisters, in the certainty that the Lord will grant that which
he has promised –
eternal life”.
Following the catechesis the Pontiff greeted, among others, a delegation from
the Czech Republic, which included a group of prelates from the Czech Bishops'
Conference on their “ad limina” visit. Pope Francis asked all
those present to pray
for him and blessed the Czech Church and population, along with the crowns for
the Palladium of the Bohemian Lands, an ancient icon of the Virgin Mary with
the child Jesus which is venerated in Stara Boleslav, a few kilometres from
Prague, to which the
people have always appealed in times of war or danger for the country and the
Czech population.
___________________________________________________________
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE HOLY SEE AND HUNGARY
Vatican City, 12 February 2014 (VIS) – On Monday 10 February, at the
seat of the Hungarian parliament in Budapest, Archbishop Alberto Bottari de
Castello, titular of Oderzo and apostolic nuncio to Hungary, and Zoltan Balog,
minister of human
resources in Hungary, exchanged the instruments of ratification of the
“Agreement between the Holy See and Hungary on the amendment of the
Agreement, signed on 20 June 1997, on the financing of public service and
other religious activities
(“of the life of faith”) undertaken in Hungary by the Catholic
Church and on some issues of property ownership, signed in Budapest on 21
October 2013.
The agreement, in conformity with article 7 (2), will enter into force upon
the exchange of the instruments of ratification.
___________________________________________________________
PROGRESS OF THE BILATERAL COMMISSION BETWEEN THE HOLY SEE AND THE STATE OF
ISRAEL
Vatican City, 12 February 2014 (VIS) – On February 11 the Bilateral
Permanent Working Commission between the Holy See and the State of Israel met
in plenary session in the David Citadel Hotel, Jerusalem, to continue
negotiations pursuant to
article 10, paragraph 2 of the “Fundamental Agreement”.
The meeting was chaired by Mr. Ze’ev Elkin, deputy minister of foreign
affairs and by Msgr. Antoine Camilleri, under-secretary for the Holy See's
Relations with States.
The Plenary received a report on the few remaining issues concerning the
Single Document. The Parties took note of the progress achieved, in a
thoughtful and constructive atmosphere, since the last Plenary of June 2013,
and agreed on future steps, in
view of the next Plenary meeting to be held in June 2014 in Vatican City.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 12 February 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has:
- appointed Fr. Antonio Carlos Cruz Santos, M.S.C. as bishop of Caico (area
9,372, population 301,000, Catholics 288,000, priests 89, permanent deacons 9,
religious 104), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in
1961 and was
ordained a priest in 1992. He studied philosophy at the “Paulo VI”
seminary in Nova Iguacu and theology at the Jesuit faculty in Belo Horizonte,
and holds a licentiate in philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University
of Minas Gerais. He
has held a number of pastoral roles, including vicar of the “Pai Eterno
e Sao Jose” parish in Rio de Janeiro, formator of “Juniores”
in Contagem, Belo Horizonte, formator of postulants in Belford Roxo, Nova
Iguacu, and master of
novices in Pirassununga, Limeira. He is currently pro-provincial superior of
the Society of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Niteroi.
- appointed Bishop Nelson Francelino Ferreira as bishop of Valenca (area
3,996, population 380,000, Catholics 275,000, priests 31, religious 91),
Brazil. Bishop Ferreira was previously auxiliary of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de
Janeiro. He succeeds Bishop
Elias James Manning, O.F.M. Conv., whose resignation from the pastoral care of
the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
On Tuesday, 11 February the Holy Father:
- appointed Bishop Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B., as archbishop of
Montevideo
(area 540, population 1,404,000, Catholics 889,000, priests 258, permanent
deacons 40, religious 631), Uruguay. Bishop Sturla Berhouet was previously
auxiliary of the same archdiocese.
- appointed Msgr. Edward Bernard Scharfenberger as bishop of Albany (area
26,975, population 1,374,000, Catholics 337,200, priests 248, permanent
deacons 105, religious 774) U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Brooklyn,
U.S.A. in 1948 and was ordained a
priest in 1973. He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the
“Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception” in Douglaston, a
bachelor's degree in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, a
licentiate in moral theology from
the Alphonsianum Academy, Rome, a licentiate in canon law from the Catholic
University of America in Washington, D.C., and a “Juris Doctor” in
civil law from the Fordham University in the Bronx. He has served in the
following pastoral roles:
vicar in the parish of “St. Stanislaus Kostka” in Maspeth and the
“St. Ephrem” parish in Brooklyn; judicial vicar; priest in the
“St. Matthias” parish, Ridgewood; promoter of justice and episc
opal
vicar for strategic planning. He is currently episcopal vicar for the
territory of Queens. He succeeds Bishop Howard J. Hubbard, whose resignation
from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon
having reached the age limit.
- appointed Fr. John Joale Tlhomola, S.C.P., as bishop of Mohale's Hoek (area
5,799, population 691,000, Catholics 416,200, priests 16, religious 94)
Lesotho. The bishop-elect was born in Pulane Ha Mosiuoa, Lesotho in 1966, gave
his solemn vows in 1995
and was ordained a priest in 1998. He has served in the following pastoral
roles: parish vicar and subsequently priest-in-charge in the cathedral of
Maseru; priest of the Christ the Priest Mission, Motsekuoa; and bursar of the
St. Augustine major
seminary and lecturer in liturgy and spirituality in the preparatory seminary,
Lesotho. He is currently director general of the Servants of Christ the Priest
in Hammanskraal, Pretoria, South Africa. He succeeds Bishop Sebastian Koto
Khoarai, O.M.I.,
whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese upon having
reached the age limit was accepted by the Holy Father.
- appointed Msgr. Andrzej Jerzy Zglejszewski as auxiliary of the diocese of
Rockville Centre (area 3,164, population 3,529,000, Catholics 1,738,000,
priests 463, permanent deacons 276, religious 1,250), U.S.A. The bishop-elect
was born in Bialystok,
Poland in 1961 and was ordained a priest in 1990. He holds a master's degree
in theology from the seminary of the Immaculate Conception, Huntingdon. He has
served in a number of pastoral roles, including deputy priest of the “St.
Christopher” parish, Baldwin, the “St. Thomas the Apostle”
parish in West Hempstead, and the “St. Rose of Lima” parish,
Massapequa, and adjunct professor at the seminary of the Immaculate
Conception, Huntingdon. He has been
director of the diocesan office of worship since 2007 and co-chancellor of the
diocese of Rockville Centre since 2012. He was named Chaplain of His Holiness
in 2010.
___________________________________________________________
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VISnews140212
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXII - N° 28DATE 12-02-2014
Summary: - THE EUCHARIST INSPIRES
FORGIVENESS AND ENCOUNTER WITH
OTHERS - AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE HOLY SEE AND HUNGARY - PROGRESS OF
THE BILATERAL COMMISSION BETWEEN THE HOLY SEE AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL -
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
THE EUCHARIST INSPIRES FORGIVENESS AND ENCOUNTER WITH OTHERS
Vatican City, 12 February 2014 (VIS) – The Eucharist and its relation
to our life, as Church and as Christians, was the theme of Pope Francis'
catechesis during this Wednesday's general audience in St. Peter's Square.
“How do we live the Eucharist … when we go to Mass on a
Sunday? What is it for us? Is it just an opportunity to celebrate, a
consolidated tradition, a way of getting one's bearings and feeling better, or
is it something more?”
asked the Holy Father, who then went on to indicate three signs for
understanding how we experience this relation.
The first is our way of living with others. “In the Eucharist Christ
renews the gift of Himself that He made on the Cross”, he explained.
“His entire life is an act of the fullest sharing of Himself for love.
This is why He loved to
stay with the disciples and with those He met. For Him, this meant sharing
their yearnings, their problems, that which stirred their soul and their life.
Now, when we participate in the Holy Mass, we find ourselves with many people
… but the
Eucharist that I celebrate, does it lead me to consider them as brothers and
sisters? Does it inspire me to go towards the poor, the sick, the
marginalised? Does it help me to recognise Christ's face in them?”
The grace of being forgiven and willing to forgive is a second sign.
“In reality, those who celebrate the Eucharist do not do so because they
believe themselves to be better, or wish to appear better than others, but
because they are aware that
they are always in need of being accepted and regenerated in God's mercy, made
flesh in Jesus Christ. If anyone among us does not feel in need of God's
mercy, if he does not consider himself to be a sinner, it is better that he
not go to Mass! We go to
Mass because we are sinners and because we wish to receive God's forgiveness,
to participate in Christ's redemption, his forgiveness. That 'I confess' that
we say at the beginning is not merely a 'pro forma', it is a true act of
penance! … In
that bread and that wine we offer and around which we gather, the gift of the
body and blood of Christ for the forgiveness of our sins is renewed every
time. This best summarises the deepest
sense of the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus, and in turn it opens our hearts to
the forgiveness of our brothers and to reconciliation”.
The relationship between the Eucharistic celebration and the life of our
Christian communities is the third sign. “It must always be clear that
the Eucharist is not something that we do; it is not our commemoration of what
Jesus said and did.
No. It is an act of Christ! It is a gift from Christ, Who is made present and
gathers us around Him, to nourish us with His Word and His life. This means
that the mission and the very identity of the Church spring from this, from
the Eucharist, and
there they assume their form. … a celebration may prove to be
impeccable, beautiful, from an external point of view, but if it does not lead
to an encounter with Jesus, the risk is that it does not lead to the
nourishment of our hearts and lives.
Through the Eucharist, instead, Christ wishes to enter into our existence and
the permeate it with his grace, so that in every Christian community there is
coherence between liturgy and life”.
The Pope concluded by encouraging us to “live the Eucharist with a
spirit of faith and prayer, of forgiveness, of care for the needs of many of
our brothers and sisters, in the certainty that the Lord will grant that which
he has promised
– eternal life”.
Following the catechesis the Pontiff greeted, among others, a delegation
from the Czech Republic, which included a group of prelates from the Czech
Bishops' Conference on their “ad limina” visit. Pope Francis asked
all those present to
pray for him and blessed the Czech Church and population, along with the
crowns for the Palladium of the Bohemian Lands, an ancient icon of the Virgin
Mary with the child Jesus which is venerated in Stara Boleslav, a few
kilometres from Prague, to which
the people have always appealed in times of war or danger for the country and
the Czech population.
Vatican City, 12 February 2014 (VIS) – On Monday 10 February, at the
seat of the Hungarian parliament in Budapest, Archbishop Alberto Bottari de
Castello, titular of Oderzo and apostolic nuncio to Hungary, and Zoltan Balog,
minister of human
resources in Hungary, exchanged the instruments of ratification of the
“Agreement between the Holy See and Hungary on the amendment of the
Agreement, signed on 20 June 1997, on the financing of public service and
other religious activities
(“of the life of faith”) undertaken in Hungary by the Catholic
Church and on some issues of property ownership, signed in Budapest on 21
October 2013.
The agreement, in conformity with article 7 (2), will enter into force upon
the exchange of the instruments of ratification.
PROGRESS OF THE BILATERAL COMMISSION BETWEEN THE HOLY SEE AND THE STATE OF
ISRAEL
Vatican City, 12 February 2014 (VIS) – On February 11 the Bilateral
Permanent Working Commission between the Holy See and the State of Israel met
in plenary session in the David Citadel Hotel, Jerusalem, to continue
negotiations pursuant to
article 10, paragraph 2 of the “Fundamental Agreement”.
The meeting was chaired by Mr. Ze’ev Elkin, deputy minister of
foreign affairs and by Msgr. Antoine Camilleri, under-secretary for the Holy
See's Relations with States.
The Plenary received a report on the few remaining issues concerning the
Single Document. The Parties took note of the progress achieved, in a
thoughtful and constructive atmosphere, since the last Plenary of June 2013,
and agreed on future steps, in
view of the next Plenary meeting to be held in June 2014 in Vatican City.
Vatican City, 12 February 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father has:
- appointed Fr. Antonio Carlos Cruz Santos, M.S.C. as bishop of Caico (area
9,372, population 301,000, Catholics 288,000, priests 89, permanent deacons 9,
religious 104), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in
1961 and was
ordained a priest in 1992. He studied philosophy at the “Paulo VI”
seminary in Nova Iguacu and theology at the Jesuit faculty in Belo Horizonte,
and holds a licentiate in philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University
of Minas Gerais. He
has held a number of pastoral roles, including vicar of the “Pai Eterno
e Sao Jose” parish in Rio de Janeiro, formator of “Juniores”
in Contagem, Belo Horizonte, formator of postulants in Belford Roxo, Nova
Iguacu, and master of
novices in Pirassununga, Limeira. He is currently pro-provincial superior of
the Society of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Niteroi.
- appointed Bishop Nelson Francelino Ferreira as bishop of Valenca (area
3,996, population 380,000, Catholics 275,000, priests 31, religious 91),
Brazil. Bishop Ferreira was previously auxiliary of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de
Janeiro. He succeeds Bishop
Elias James Manning, O.F.M. Conv., whose resignation from the pastoral care of
the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age
limit.
On Tuesday, 11 February the Holy Father:
- appointed Bishop Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B., as archbishop
of Montevideo
(area 540, population 1,404,000, Catholics 889,000, priests 258, permanent
deacons 40, religious 631), Uruguay. Bishop Sturla Berhouet was previously
auxiliary of the same archdiocese.
- appointed Msgr. Edward Bernard Scharfenberger as bishop of Albany (area
26,975, population 1,374,000, Catholics 337,200, priests 248, permanent
deacons 105, religious 774) U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Brooklyn,
U.S.A. in 1948 and was
ordained a priest in 1973. He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the
“Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception” in Douglaston, a
bachelor's degree in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, a
licentiate in moral
theology from the Alphonsianum Academy, Rome, a licentiate in canon law from
the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a “Juris
Doctor” in civil law from the Fordham University in the Bronx. He has
served in the following
pastoral roles: vicar in the parish of “St. Stanislaus Kostka” in
Maspeth and the “St. Ephrem” parish in Brooklyn; judicial vicar;
priest in the “St. Matthias” parish, Ridgewood; promoter of
justice and episcopal vicar for strategic planning. He is currently episcopal
vicar for the territory of Queens. He succeeds Bishop Howard J. Hubbard, whose
resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father
accepted, upon having
reached the age limit.
- appointed Fr. John Joale Tlhomola, S.C.P., as bishop of Mohale's Hoek
(area 5,799, population 691,000, Catholics 416,200, priests 16, religious 94)
Lesotho. The bishop-elect was born in Pulane Ha Mosiuoa, Lesotho in 1966, gave
his solemn vows in
1995 and was ordained a priest in 1998. He has served in the following
pastoral roles: parish vicar and subsequently priest-in-charge in the
cathedral of Maseru; priest of the Christ the Priest Mission, Motsekuoa; and
bursar of the St. Augustine major
seminary and lecturer in liturgy and spirituality in the preparatory seminary,
Lesotho. He is currently director general of the Servants of Christ the Priest
in Hammanskraal, Pretoria, South Africa. He succeeds Bishop Sebastian Koto
Khoarai, O.M.I.,
whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese upon having
reached the age limit was accepted by the Holy Father.
- appointed Msgr. Andrzej Jerzy Zglejszewski as auxiliary of the diocese of
Rockville Centre (area 3,164, population 3,529,000, Catholics 1,738,000,
priests 463, permanent deacons 276, religious 1,250), U.S.A. The bishop-elect
was born in Bialystok,
Poland in 1961 and was ordained a priest in 1990. He holds a master's degree
in theology from the seminary of the Immaculate Conception, Huntingdon. He has
served in a number of pastoral roles, including deputy priest of the “St.
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