The Holy Father comments that "the renewal brought by Vatican Council II   
   opened up the way, and it is a special joy that the canonisation of Pope   
   Roncalli should take place alongside that of Blessed John Paul II, who   
   continued this renewal during his long pontificate". He expresses his hope   
   that "civil society too may always draw inspiration from the life of Bergamo's   
   Pope and from the environment that he generated, searching new ways, adapted   
   to the times, of building co-existence based on the perennial values of   
   fraternity and solidarity".   
      
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    THE POPE RECALLS THE INFECTIOUS JOY OF ST. JOSE DE ANCHIETA   
    Vatican City, 25 April 2014 (VIS) - Yesterday afternoon celebrated Mass in   
   the Roman church of St. Ignatius of Loyola to give thanks for the canonisation   
   of the Jesuit father St. Jose de Anchieta S.J. (1534-1597), evangeliser of   
   Brazil, linguist, dramatist and founder of the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de   
   Janeiro. Beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1980, Pope Francis extended his   
   liturgical cult to the universal Church on 3 April, a process equivalent to   
   canonisation.   
    In his homily, the Pope commented on the Gospel story of the disciples of   
   Emmaus who relate their experience to Peter, who has also seen the Risen   
   Christ; then shortly after Christ Himself appears in the room. "The disciples   
   cannot believe their joy; they cannot believe because of their joy", he said.   
   "It is a moment of wonder, of encounter with Jesus Christ, in which there   
   seems to be too much joy to be true; indeed, to assume the joy and wonder of   
   that moment seems risky to us and we are tempted to take refuge in scepticism,   
   in 'not exaggerating'. It is easier to believe in a spirit than in the living   
   Christ! It is easier to go to a necromancer who predicts the future, who reads   
   cards, than to trust in the hope of a triumphant Christ, a Christ who   
   vanquishes death! An idea or imagination is easier to believe than the   
   docility of this Lord who rises again from death, and what he invites us to!   
   This process of relativising faith ends up distancing us from the encounter,   
   distancing us from God's caress. It is as if we 'distilled' the reality of the   
   encounter with Jesus Christ in the still of fear, in the still of excessive   
   security, of wanting to control the encounter ourselves. The disciples were   
   afraid of joy ... and so are we".   
    He went on to speak about the reading from the Acts of the Apostles which   
   narrates the healing of the paralytic, prostrate at the door of the Temple,   
   begging. Peter and John were unable to give him anything he sought: neither   
   gold nor silver, but they cure him by offering him what they have: the name of   
   Jesus. The crippled man's joy is contagious and, in the midst of the hubbub   
   Peter announces the message. "The joy of the encounter with Jesus Christ,   
   which it is so frightening for us to accept, is infectious and cries out the   
   message: and this is how the Church grows! The paralytic believes, because   
   'the Church does not grow by proselytism, but by attraction'; the testimonial   
   attraction of this joy that proclaims Jesus Christ. It is a witness born of   
   joy, accepted and then transformed into proclamation. It is the foundational   
   joy ... without this joy, a Church cannot be founded! A Christian community   
   cannot be established! It is an apostolic joy that irradiates and expands".   
    Also St. Jose de Anchieta knew how to communicate what he had experienced   
   with the Lord, what he had seen and heard from Him ... and, along with   
   Nobrega, he was the first Jesuit Ignatius send to America. He was a boy aged   
   nineteen. He had so much joy that he was able to found a nation: he put in   
   place the cultural foundations of a nation, in Jesus Christ. He had not   
   studied theology, and he had not studied philosophy; he was a boy! But he had   
   felt the gaze of Jesus Christ, and he had let himself be filled with joy, and   
   chose light. This was and is his holiness. He was not afraid of joy".   
    The Bishop of Rome concluded by mentioning that St. Jose de Anchieta had a   
   beautiful hymn to the Virgin Mary, to whom he compared the message of peace,   
   that proclaims the joy of the Good News. "May she, who in that Sunday dawn,   
   sleepless with hope, was not afraid of joy, accompany us on our pilgrimage,   
   inviting us all to rise, to set our paralyses aside, to enter together into   
   the peace and joy that Jesus, the Risen Lord, promises us".   
      
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    AUDIENCES   
    Vatican City, 25 April 2014 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father received in   
   audience:   
    - Thirteen prelates of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference:   
    - Bishop Xolelo Thaddeus Kumalo of Eshowe;   
    - Bishop Zolile Peter Mpambani of Kokstad;   
    - Bishop Pius Mlungisi Dlungwane of Mariannhill;   
    - Bishop Stanis?aw Jan Dziuba of Umzimkulu;   
    - Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale of Johannesburg, apostolic administrator   
   "Sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of Klerksdorp;   
    - Bishop Jose Luis Gerardo Ponce de Leon of Manzini, Swaziland, apostolic   
   administrator "Sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of the apostolic   
   vicariate of Ingwavuma;   
    - Bishop Giuseppe Sandri of Witbank;   
    - Archbishop William Matthew Slattery of Pretoria, military ordinary for   
   South Africa;   
    - Bishop Valentine Tsama Seane of Gaborone, Botswana;   
    - Bishop Jeremiah Madimetja Masela of Polokwane;   
    - Bishop Kevin Dowling of Rustenburg;   
    - Bishop Joao Noe Rodrigues of Tzaneen;   
    - Bishop Frank Atese Nubuasah of Pauzera, apostolic vicar of Francistown,   
   Botswana.   
    - Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.   
    - Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.   
      
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    OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
    Vatican City, 25 April 2014 (VIS) - The Holy Father has:   
    - appointed Rev. Paul Simick as apostolic vicar of Nepal (area 147,180,   
   population 28,610,000, Catholics 7,950, priests 71, religious 170). The   
   bishop-elect was born in Gitdubling, India in 1963 and was ordained a priest   
   in 1992. He holds a licentiate and a doctorate in biblical theology from the   
   Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome, and has served in a number of pastoral   
   roles, including priest of the "Christ the King" parish, Pakyong, India; dean   
   of the East Sikkim Deanery; bursar and subsequently deputy head of St.   
   Xavier's School, Pakyong. He succeeds Bishop Anthony Francis Sharma, S.J.,   
   whose resignation upon reaching the age limit was accepted by the Holy Father.   
    - appointed Archbishop Anselmo Guido Pecorari, formerly apostolic nuncio in   
   Uruguay, as apostolic nuncio in Bulgaria.   
      
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    NOTICE   
    Vatican City, 25 April 2014 (VIS) - We inform our readers that, due to the   
   canonisation of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II this coming Sunday, the   
   Vatican Information Service will transmit special editions of its daily   
   bulletin on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 April.   
      
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