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   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTIETH YEAR - N. 213   
   ENGLISH   
   TUESDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2010   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Message to Bartholomew I for the Feast of St. Andrew   
   - Papal Message for the Death of Manuela Campagni   
   - Benedict XVI's Prayer Intentions for December   
   - Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone Visits Kazakhstan   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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   MESSAGE TO BARTHOLOMEW I FOR THE FEAST OF ST. ANDREW   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 30 NOV 2010 (VIS) - As is traditional for the Feast of St.   
   Andrew, a Holy See delegation, led by Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the   
   Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has travelled to Istanbul   
   to participate in the celebrations for the saint, patron of the Ecumenical   
   Patriarchate of Constantinople. Every year the patriarchate sends a   
   delegation to Rome for the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul Apostles, on 29   
   June.   
      
     This morning the Holy See delegation attended a divine liturgy presided by   
   His Holiness Bartholomew I, at the Church of St. George at Fanar. At the end   
   of the ceremony Cardinal Koch delivered a special Message to the patriarch   
   from Benedict XVI.   
      
     "In a world characterised by increasing interdependence and solidarity",   
   the Pope writes, "we are called to proclaim the truth of the Gospel with   
   renewed conviction, and to present the risen Lord as the response to the   
   most profound spiritual questions and aspirations of the men and women of   
   today.   
      
     "In order to carry out this great enterprise", he adds, "we must continue   
   along the path towards full communion, showing that we have already united   
   our strengths for a shared witness of the Gospel before the people of our   
   time. For this reason I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Your   
   Holiness and to the Ecumenical Patriarchate for the generous hospitality you   
   offered to delegates of the European Episcopal Conferences who - on the   
   island of Rhodes in October - met with representatives of the Orthodox   
   Churches of Europe for the Catholic-Orthodox Forum on the theme: 'Relations   
   between Church and State: theological and historical perspectives'".   
      
     Benedict XVI concludes his Message by assuring the patriarch of the   
   interest with which he follows "your wise efforts for the good of Orthodoxy   
   and for the promotion of Christian values in many international contexts".   
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   PAPAL MESSAGE FOR THE DEATH OF MANUELA CAMPAGNI   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 30 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father has sent a message to   
   participants in the funeral of Manuela Campagni, one of the "Memores Domini"   
   who serve in his Vatican apartments, who died in a traffic accident on   
   Wednesday 24 November. The funeral was held yesterday at San Piero in Bagno,   
   Italy, home town of the deceased.   
      
     "Such an abrupt separation, and the way in which she was taken from us,   
   have caused us great suffering which only the faith can console", the Pope   
   writes. "I find much support in thinking of the words which form the name of   
   her community: 'Memores Domini'. Meditating upon these words, upon their   
   significance, I find a sense of peace, because they evoke a profound   
   relationship which is stronger than death. 'Memores Domini' means 'those who   
   remember the Lord'; in other words, people who live in the recollection of   
   God and of Jesus. In this daily recollection, full of faith and love, they   
   find a meaning for all things, for little actions and for great decisions,   
   for work, study and fraternity. ... This is why I find peace in thinking   
   that Manuela is a 'Memor Domini', a person who lives in the recollection of   
   the Lord. This relationship with Him is more profound than the abyss of   
   death. It is a link that nothing can break".   
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   BENEDICT XVI'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR DECEMBER   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 30 NOV 2010 (VIS) - Benedict XVI's general prayer intention   
   for December is: "That our personal experience of suffering may be an   
   occasion for better understanding the situation of unease and pain   
    which is   
   the lot of many people who are alone, sick or aged, and stir us all to give   
   them generous help".   
      
     His mission intention is: "That the peoples of the earth may open their   
   doors to Christ and to His Gospel of peace, brotherhood and justice".   
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   CARDINAL TARCISIO BERTONE VISITS KAZAKHSTAN   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 30 NOV 2010 (VIS) - Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio   
   Bertone S.D.B. is currently heading the Holy See delegation to the summit of   
   heads of State and government of the fifty-six members of the Organisation   
   for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), being held in Astana,   
   Kazakhstan, on 1 and 2 December. The cardinal is being accompanied by   
   Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations with States;   
   Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendia, apostolic nuncio to Kazakhstan, and Msgr.   
   Michael W. Banach, Holy See permanent representative to the OSCE.   
      
     On 3 and 4 December Cardinal Bertone, in the company of Archbishop   
   Mamberti, will make a pastoral visit to Kazakhstan during which he will meet   
   with the governmental and religious authorities of the country.   
      
     This morning, during a liturgical celebration in Astana's Orthodox   
   cathedral of the Assumption to mark today's Feast of St. Andrew, the   
   secretary of State pronounced a homily during which he expressed his joy "at   
   being able to carry out the important task entrusted to me by the Holy   
   Father Benedict XVI of giving you a fragment of the relics of the Apostle   
   St. Andrew, which are venerated in the Italian city of Amalfi.   
      
     "The gift, which I am honoured to be able to place in the hands of His   
   Eminence Metropolitan Alexander, comes in response to the devout request   
   that his predecessor Metropolitan Mefodji and Archbishop Tomash Peta,   
   Catholic metropolitan, jointly made to the Pope. The Pontiff, gladly   
   welcoming this ardent desire, has decided to give their respective Churches   
   two fragments of the precious relics. This is a profoundly significant   
   decision, in that it underlines our shared veneration for the Apostles".   
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   OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 30 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father:   
      
    - Appointed Bishop Stephen Reichert O.F.M. Cap. of Mendi, Papua New Guinea,   
   as archbishop of Madang (area 27,792, population 412,000, Catholics 153,000,   
   priests 39, religious 81), Papua New Guinea. The archbishop-elect was born   
   in Leoville, U.S.A. in 1943, he was ordained a priest in 1969 and   
   consecrated a bishop in 1995. He succeeds Archbishop William Joseph Kurtz   
   S.V.D., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the   
   Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.   
      
    - Appointed Cardinal Paolo Sardi as patron of the Sovereign Military Order   
   of Malta.   
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    - Origin: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede (1:396/3)    
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    * Origin: Sursum Corda! BBS-Meridian, MS-bbs.sursum-corda.com (1:396/45)