Subject: VISnews 110210
Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede
From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 28
ENGLISH
THURSDAY, 10 FEBRUARY 2011
SUMMARY:
- Papal Message: Proposing Vocations in the Local Church
- Press Conference to Assess Results of the Pauline Year
- Note on Appointment of Apostolic Delegate to Kosovo
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
- Notice
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PAPAL MESSAGE: PROPOSING VOCATIONS IN THE LOCAL CHURCH
VATICAN CITY, 10 FEB 2011 (VIS) - "Proposing Vocations in the Local Church"
is the theme of the Pope's Message for the forth-eighth World Day of Prayer
for Vocations, which is to be celebrated on 15 May, fourth Sunday of Easter.
Ample extracts of the English-language version of the document are given
below:
"The work of carefully encouraging and supporting vocations finds a
radiant source of inspiration in those places in the Gospel where Jesus
calls His disciples to follow Him and trains them with love and care. ...
Before calling them, Jesus spent the night alone in prayer, listening to the
will of the Father. ... Vocations to the ministerial priesthood and to the
consecrated life are first and foremost the fruit of constant contact with
the living God and insistent prayer lifted up to the 'Lord of the harvest',
whether in parish communities, in Christian families or in groups
specifically devoted to prayer for vocations.
"At the beginning of His public life, the Lord called some fishermen on
the shore of the Sea of Galilee: 'Follow me and I will make you fishers of
men'. ... It is a challenging and uplifting invitation that Jesus addresses
to those to Whom He says: 'Follow me!'. He invites them to become His
friends, to listen attentively to His word and to live with Him. He teaches
them complete commitment to God and to the extension of His kingdom in
accordance with the law of the Gospel. ... He invites them to leave behind
their own narrow agenda and their notions of self-fulfilment in order to
immerse themselves in another will, the will of God, and to be guided by it.
He gives them an experience of fraternity, one born of that total openness
to God which becomes the hallmark of the community of Jesus".
"It is no less challenging to follow Christ today. It means learning to
keep our gaze fixed on Jesus, growing close to Him, listening to His word
and encountering Him in the Sacraments; it means learning to conform our
will to His. This requires a genuine school of formation for all those who
would prepare themselves for the ministerial priesthood or the consecrated
life under the guidance of the competent ecclesial authorities. The Lord
does not fail to call people at every stage of life to share in His mission
and to serve the Church in the ordained ministry and in the consecrated
life".
"Particularly in these times, when the voice of the Lord seems to be
drowned out by 'other voices' and His invitation to follow Him by the gift
of one's own life may seem too difficult, every Christian community, every
member of the Church, needs consciously to feel responsibility for promoting
vocations. It is important to encourage and support those who show clear
signs of a call to priestly life and religious consecration, and to enable
them to feel the warmth of the whole community as they respond 'yes' to God
and the Church. I encourage them, in the same words which I addressed to
those who have already chosen to enter the seminary".
"It is essential that every local Church become more sensitive and
attentive to the pastoral care of vocations, helping children and young
people in particular at every level of family, parish and associations - as
Jesus did with His disciples - to grow into a genuine and affectionate
friendship with the Lord, cultivated through personal and liturgical prayer;
to grow in familiarity with the sacred Scriptures and thus to listen
attentively and fruitfully to the word of God; to understand that entering
into God's will does not crush or destroy a person, but instead leads to the
discovery of the deepest truth about ourselves; and finally to be generous
and fraternal in relationships with others, since it is only in being open
to the love of God that we discover true joy and the fulfilment of our
aspirations".
"I address a particular word to you, my dear brother bishops. ... The Lord
needs you to co-operate with Him in ensuring that His call reaches the
hearts of those whom He has chosen. Choose carefully those who work in the
diocesan vocations office. ... Your openness to the needs of dioceses
experiencing a dearth of vocations will become a blessing from God for your
communities and a sign to the faithful of a priestly service that generously
considers the needs of the entire Church".
"I turn to those who can offer a specific contribution to the pastoral
care of vocations: to priests, families, catechists and leaders of parish
groups. I ask priests to testify to their communion with their bishop and
their fellow priests, and thus to provide a rich soil for the seeds of a
priestly vocation. May families be 'animated by the spirit of faith and love
and by the sense of duty' which is capable of helping children to welcome
generously the call to priesthood and to religious life. May catechists and
leaders of Catholic groups and ecclesial movements, convinced of their
educational mission, seek to 'guide the young people entrusted to them so
that these will recognise and freely accept a divine vocation'.
"Dear brothers and sisters, your commitment to the promotion and care of
vocations becomes most significant and pastorally effective when carried out
in the unity of the Church and in the service of communion".
"The ability to foster vocations is a hallmark of the vitality of a local
Church. With trust and perseverance let us invoke the aid of the Virgin
Mary, that by the example of her own acceptance of God's saving plan and her
powerful intercession, every community will be more and more open to saying
'yes' to the Lord Who is constantly calling new labourers to His harvest".
MESS/ VIS
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PRESS CONFERENCE TO ASSESS RESULTS OF THE PAULINE YEAR
VATICAN CITY, 10 FEB 2011 (VIS) - At 11 a.m. on Thursday 17 February in the
Holy See Press Office, a conference will be held to present an assessment of
the Pauline Year (which took place from 28 June 2008 to 29 June 2009). The
occasion will also be used to present the book "L'Anno Paolino" by Graziano
Motta.
The conference will be presented by Cardinal Francesco Monterisi and
Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, respectively archpriest and
archpriest emeritus of the papal basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls;
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for
Promoting New Evangelisation, and Gianfranco Morelli, vice director and
editor-in-chief for Rome of the Italian newspaper "Avvenire".
OP/ VIS
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NOTE ON APPOINTMENT OF APOSTOLIC DELEGATE TO KOSOVO
VATICAN CITY, 10 FEB 2011 (VIS) - Given below is the text of a note released
by the Holy See Press Office this morning, concerning today's appointment of
the new nuncio to Slovenia, who also exercises the function of apostolic
delegate to Kosovo:
"It should be pointed out", the note reads, "that the appointment of an
apostolic delegate falls within the organisational functions of the
structure of the Catholic Church and hence has a purely intra-ecclesial
character, being completely distinct from considerations regarding juridical
and territorial situations or any other question inherent to the diplomatic
activity of the Holy See. The mission of an apostolic delegate is not of a
diplomatic nature but responds to the requirement to meet in an adequate way
the pastoral needs of the Catholic faithful".
OP/ VIS
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AUDIENCES
VATICAN CITY, 10 FEB 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate
audiences:
- Four prelates from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines on
their "ad limina" visit:
- Archbishop Jose S. Palma of Cebu, apostolic administrator of Palo.
- Bishop Emmanuel S. Trance of Catarman.
- Bishop Jose Corazon T. Tala-oc of Romblon.
- Fr. Ulysses A. Dalida, diocesan administrator of Kalibo.
- Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio S.J., archbishop of Buenos Aires,
Argentina and president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference, accompanied
by Archbishop Luis Hector Villalba of Tucuman and Archbishop Jose Maria
Arancedo of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, vice presidents, and by Bishop Enrique
Eguia Segui, auxiliary of Buenos Aires, secretary general.
- Cardinal John Patrick Foley, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the
Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
AL:AP/ VIS 20110210
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
VATICAN CITY, 10 FEB 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Accepted the resignation from the office of major archbishop of
Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine, presented by Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, in accordance with
canon 126 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Canons of the Eastern Churches. The
administrator of the major archiepiscopal Church will be Archbishop Igor
Vozniak C.SS.R. of Lviv of the Ukrainians, whose duty it will be to call a
synod of bishops of the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church to elect the new
major archbishop.
- Appointed Archbishop Juliusz Janusz, apostolic nuncio to Hungary, as
apostolic nuncio to Slovenia, with the role of apostolic delegate to Kosovo.
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NOTICE
VATICAN CITY, 10 FEB 2011 (VIS) - No edition of VIS will be issued tomorrow
11 February, eighty-second anniversary of the institution of Vatican City
State with the signing of the Lateran Pacts. Service will resume on Monday
14 February.
.../ VIS
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