Subject: VISnews 110519
Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede
From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 94
ENGLISH
THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
SUMMARY:
- "Teresianum" of Rome Celebrates 75th Anniversary
- Youth, Protagonists of 45th World Day of Peace
- Cardinal Sardi to take Possession of Diaconate Church
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts
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"TERESIANUM" OF ROME CELEBRATES 75TH ANNIVERSARY
VATICAN CITY, 19 MAY 2011 (VIS) - This afternoon the Holy Father received
students of the "Teresianum" Pontifical Theology Faculty of Rome on the
occasion of the 75th anniversary of the foundation of their faculty.
Referring to the academic institution's Carmelite spirituality, the Pope
highlighted the "vast movement of renewal that began in the Church as the
fruit of the witness of St. Teresa of Jesus and St. John of the Cross. It
aroused that resurgence of ideals and fervor of contemplative life that in
the 1500s enflamed, so to speak, Europe and the entire world".
Addressing the students, Benedict XVI emphasized that "your work of
anthropological and theological research is also situated in the wake of
this influence, the task of penetrating the mystery of Christ, with
intelligence of the heart, which is in turn a knowing and a loving. This
demands that Jesus be located at the center of everything, of your feelings
and thoughts, of your prayer, study, and work, of your entire life".
"Be aware", he continued, "that these years of study are a precious gift
of Divine Providence, a gift that should be embraced with faith and
diligently lived as an unrepeatable opportunity to grow in the knowledge of
the mystery of Christ".
The Pope noted that "in today's context, an in-depth study of Christian
spirituality is very important upon which to base your anthropological
presuppositions. The specific preparation that it provides is certainly
important because it makes one adapt for and capable of teaching this
discipline, but it is an even greater grace for the wise cultural background
that it brings with it for the delicate task of spiritual direction".
While recalling that "the Church continues to recommend the practice of
spiritual direction", the Holy Father asserted that "each person, and in
particular those who have welcomed God's call to follow Him more closely,
need to be personally accompanied by a guide who is sure in the doctrine and
expert in the things of God; a guide who can help protect against simple
subjectivism, making available their own wealth of knowledge and lived
experience in following Jesus".
The Holy Father asked the students to make the most of what they have
learned in these years of study "to accompany those whom Divine Providence
entrusts to you, helping them discern the spirits and follow the movements
of the Holy Spirit, with the goal of leading them to the fullness of grace".
Commenting on the fact of their meeting in Rome, Benedict XVI encouraged
the students "to open yourselves to the universal dimension of the Church,
... to 'sentire cum Ecclesia', in profound harmony with the Successor of
Peter" and urged them "to love and serve the Church every day with a greater
and more passionate ability".
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YOUTH, PROTAGONISTS OF 45TH WORLD DAY OF PEACE
VATICAN CITY, 19 MAY 2011 (VIS) - According to a communique issued today by
the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, "Educating Young People in
Justice and Peace" is the theme that Benedict XVI has chosen for the 45th
World Day of Peace this coming 1 January, 2012.
"The theme", reads the text, "engages an urgent need in the world today:
to listen to and enhance the important role of new generations in the
realization of the common good, and in the affirmation of a just and
peaceful social order where fundamental human rights can be fully expressed
and realized".
"In fact, there is a duty incumbent upon the present generation to prepare
future ones, and creating for them the conditions that will allow these
future generations to express freely and responsibly the urgency for a 'new
world'. The Church welcomes young people and sees them as the sign of an
ever promising springtime, and holds out Jesus to them as the model of love
who 'makes all things new'".
"Those responsible for public policy are called to work for the creation
of institutions, laws, and environments of life that are permeated by a
transcendent humanism that offers new generations opportunities to fully
realize themselves (e.g. decent job, education etc.) and to build a
civilization of fraternal love directed toward a more profound awareness of
truth, freedom, of love, and of justice for all persons".
"This, then, is the prophetic dimension of the theme chosen by the Holy
Father in the path of the 'pedagogy of peace' indicated by John Paul II in
1985 ('Peace and Youth Go Forward Together'), in 1979 ('To Reach Peace,
Teach Peace'), and in 2004 ('An Ever Timely Commitment: Teaching Peace')".
"Young persons must labor for justice and peace in a complex and
globalized world. It is therefore necessary to establish a new 'pedagogical
alliance' among all those responsible for the education and formation of
young people. The theme indicates an important area of concern in the
teaching of Benedict XVI in his Messages for the Celebration of the World
Day of Peace, beginning with the need for the truth (2006: 'In Truth,
Peace'), followed with the reflections on human dignity (2007: 'The Human
Person: The Heart of Peace'), on the human family (2008: The Human Family: A
Community of Peace'), on poverty (2009: 'Fighting Poverty to Build Peace'),
on the care for creation (2010: 'If You Want to Cultivate Peace, Protect
Creation'), on religious freedom (2011: 'Religious Freedom: The Path to
Peace), and now talking to the minds and beating hearts of young people:
'Educating Young People in Justice and Peace'".
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CARDINAL SARDI TO TAKE POSSESSION OF DIACONATE CHURCH
VATICAN CITY, 19 MAY 2011 (VIS) - Today the Office of Liturgical
Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff announced that on Tuesday, 24 May, at
6:15pm, Cardinal Paolo Sardi, patron of the Sovereign Military Order of
Malta, will take possession of the diaconate of Santa Maria Ausiliatrice in
Via Tuscolana at Piazza di Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, 54.
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AUDIENCES
VATICAN CITY, 19 MAY 2011 (VIS) - Today, in separate audiences, the Holy
Father received eight prelates from the Bishops' Conference of India on
their ad limina visit:
- Cardinal Telesphore Placidus Toppo, archbishop of Ranchi, India with
Auxiliary Bishop Binay Kandulna,
- Bishop William D'Souza of Patna,
- Bishop Gabriel Kujur of Daltonganj,
- Bishop Julius Marandi of Dumka,
- Bishop Paul Alois Lakra of Gumla,
- Bishop Charles Soreng of Hazaribag, and
- Bishop Felix Toppo of Jamshedpur.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
VATICAN CITY, 19 MAY 2011 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father appointed as
consultors of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization: Msgr.
Fernando Ocariz, vicar general of Opus Dei; Fr. Pascual Chavez Villanueva,
rector major of the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco and president of the
Union of Superiors General; Fr. Julian Carron, president of the Fraternity
of Communion and Liberation and ecclesiastical assistant to the Association
"Memores Domini"; Fr. Francois-Xavier Dumortier, S.J., rector of the
Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome; Fr. Pierangelo Sequeri, vice rector
and professor of Fundamental Theology at the Theological Faculty of Northern
Italy and lecturer in Aesthetics of the Holy at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Brera, Milan; Sr. Sara Butler, M.S.B.T., professor of dogmatic theology at
St. Joseph's Seminary in New York; Sr. Mary Lou Wirtz, F.C.J.M., general
superior of the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and
president of the Union of Superior Generals (UISG); Dr. Chiara Amirante,
founder and president of the New Horizons Association of the diocese of
Anagni-Alatri, Italy; Mr. Kiko Arguello, a co-initiator of the
Neo-Catechumenal Way; Prof. Lucetta Scaraffia, professor of contemporary
history in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at "La Sapienza" University
in Rome.
Today the Holy Father appointed Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich
and Freising, Germany, as special envoy to the celebrations for the 350th
anniversary of the Marian Sanctuary in Werl (Archdiocese of Paderborn) that
will take place on 2 July 2011.
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