VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXII - # 186   
   DATE 24-10-2014   
      
   Summary:   
   - To the Oriental Lumen Foundation: there is no true ecumenical dialogue   
   without the will for inner renewal   
   - Holy Father's calendar for November 2014   
   - World Meeting of Popular Movements: the excluded are the motor of social   
   change   
   - Audiences   
      
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    To the Oriental Lumen Foundation: there is no true ecumenical dialogue   
   without the will for inner renewal   
    Vatican City, 2014 (VIS) - "Every Christian pilgrimage is not only a   
   geographical journey, but also and above all an opportunity to take a path of   
   inner renewal taking us ever closer to Christ our Lord", said Pope Francis to   
   the members of the Oriental Lumen Foundation in America, who are meeting in   
   Rome in these days as part of an ecumenical pilgrimage.   
    "These dimensions are absolutely essential to proceed along the road that   
   leads us to reconciliation and full communion among all believers in Christ.   
   There is no true ecumenical dialogue without openness to inner renewal and the   
   search for greater fidelity to Christ and to His will".   
    The Holy Father expressed his satisfaction at learning that the pilgrims had   
   decided to honour the memory of Popes St. John XXIII and St. John Paul II,   
   remarking that "this decision underlines their great contribution to the   
   development of ever closer relations between the Catholic Church and the   
   Orthodox Churches. The example of these two saints is without doubt enriching   
   for all of us, since they always bore witness to an ardent passion for   
   Christian unity".   
    The Pope asked those present to pray for him during their pilgrimage to Rome,   
   "so that, with the intercession of these two Saints, my predecessors, I may   
   carry out my ministry as bishop of Rome in the service of the communion and   
   unity of the Church, always following the will of the Lord". With regard to   
   the pilgrims' upcoming meeting with the Ecumenical Patriarch, His Holinesss   
   Bartholomaio I, in Fanar, he remarked that he too will meet with the Patriarch   
   during his apostolic trip to Turkey in November. "I beg you to convey to him   
   my cordial and fraternal greetings, as testimony of my affection and esteem".   
      
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    Holy Father's calendar for November 2014   
    Vatican City, 2014 (VIS) - The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the   
   Supreme Pontiff has published the following calendar of liturgical   
   celebrations at which the Holy Father will preside in November:   
    Saturday, 1: Solemnity of All Saints. At 4 p.m., Holy Mass at the Cemetery of   
   Verano, Rome.   
    Sunday, 2: Solemnity of All Souls. At 6 p.m. in the Vatican Crypts, a moment   
   of prayer for deceased Supreme Pontiffs.   
    Monday,3: At 11.30 a.m., Holy Mass for cardinals and bishops who died during   
   this past year.   
    Sunday, 23: Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. At   
   10.30 a.m. in the Papal Chapel, Holy Mass for the canonisation of Blesseds   
   Giovanni Antonio Farina, Kuriakose Elias Chavara of the Holy Family, Ludovico   
   da Casoria, Nicola da Longobardi, Eufrasia Eluvathingal of the Sacred Heart   
   and Amato Ronconi.   
    Friday 28 to Sunday 30: Apostolic trip to Turkey.   
      
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    World Meeting of Popular Movements: the excluded are the motor of social   
   change   
    Vatican City, 2014 (VIS) - A press conference was held this morning in the   
   Holy See Press Office to present the World Meeting of Popular Movements, to be   
   held in Rome from 27 to 29 October. The event was organised by the Pontifical   
   Council "Justice and Peace", in collaboration with the Pontifical Academy for   
   Social Sciences and the leaders of various movements.   
    The speakers at the conference were Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson,   
   president of "Justice and Peace", Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo,   
   chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences, and Juan Grabois,   
   head of the Confederation of Workers of the Popular Economy, dedicated   
   principally to organisations and movements for the excluded and marginalised.   
    Grabois knew Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, and   
   emphasised that the then-Cardinal Bergoglio sympathised with the struggle of   
   excluded workers in very difficult moments, and accompanied them in the work   
   of assisting the cartoneros, peasants, those forced to live on the streets   
   and, in general, the heirs of a crisis brought on by neoliberal capitalism.   
   "Francis summons us again today, from a universal perspective; he calls to the   
   poor, organised in thousands of popular movements, to fight, without arrogance   
   but with courage, without violence but with tenacity, for this dignity that   
   has been taken from us, and for social justice".   
    "Our encounter responds mainly to concrete and simple objectives we share and   
   want to pass on to our children and grandchildren, but that are increasingly   
   harder for the popular majority to reach: land, housing and work", he   
   continued, also expressing the need to promote the organisation of the poor   
   "to construct from grass-roots level a human alternative to this exclusionary   
   globalisation that has robbed us of our sacred rights to housing, work, land,   
   the environment and peace".   
    The World Meeting of Popular Movements will be attended by the social leaders   
   of the five continents, representing organisations of increasingly excluded   
   social sectors: workers in precarious employment conditions; migrants;   
   temporary workers; the unemployed and those those who are self-employed,   
   without legal protection, labour rights or union recognition; peasants; the   
   landless; indigenous peoples and those at risk of expulsion from the fields as   
   a result of agricultural speculation and violence; and those who live in the   
   peripheries and in temporary settlements, often migrants and displaced   
   peoples, who are marginalised, forgotten, and without adequate urban   
   infrastructure. Alongside them there are trades unions and social, charitable   
   and human rights organisations, who have demonstrated their closeness to these   
   movements and who, it has been suggested, might accompany them, respecting the   
   role of grass-roots movements.   
    "The aims of the meeting include sharing Pope Francis' thought on social   
   matters, debating the causes of growing social inequality and the increase in   
   exclusion throughout the world, reflecting on the organisational experiences   
   of popular movements and the resolution of problems regarding land, housing   
   and work, evaluating the role of movements in the processes of peace-building   
   and care for the environment, especially in regions affected by conflicts and   
   disputes over natural resources, discussing the relationship between popular   
   movements and the Church, and how to go ahead in the creation of joint and   
   permanent collaboration".   
    Grabois emphasised the importance of the two acts with which the meeting will   
   conclude: the publication of a final declaration with the widest consensus   
   possible, and the constitution of a Council of Popular Movements which will   
   work to establish possible cases of global level collaboration.   
    Cardinal Turkson stated that it was essential for both the Church and the   
   world to "listen to the cry for justice" from the excluded; "not only to the   
   sufferings, but also to the expectations, hopes and proposals which the   
   marginalised themselves have. They must be protagonists of their own lives,   
   and not simply passive recipients of the charity or plans of others. They must   
   be protagonists of the needed economic and social, political and cultural   
   changes. ... The Church wants to make its own the needs and aspirations of the   
   popular movements, and to join with those who, by means of different   
   initiatives, are making every effort to stimulate social change towards a more   
   just world".   
      
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    Audiences   
    Vatican City, 2014 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father received in audience:   
    - Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy;   
    - Archbishop Augustine Kasujja, apostolic nuncio in Nigeria, and Holy See   
   permanent observer at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS);   
    - delegation from the World Union of Catholic Teachers.   
      
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