Subject: VISnews 110901
Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede
From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 143
ENGLISH
THURSDAY, 1 SEPTEMBER 2011
SUMMARY:
- Pope Attends a Concert Organised by Cardinal Bartolucci
- Benedict XVI's Prayer Intentions For September
- Audiences
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POPE ATTENDS A CONCERT ORGANISED BY CARDINAL BARTOLUCCI
VATICAN CITY, 1 SEP 2011 (VIS) - Yesterday evening in the internal courtyard
of the Apostolic Palace at Castelgandolfo, the Holy Father attended a
concert in his honour organised by Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci, former
director of the Choir of the Sistine Chapel.
The programme included four pieces composed by Cardinal Bartolucci
himself: the poem "Benedictus", specially written for this occasion, for
soprano, choir and three equal voices; the "Ave Maria" from the opera "Il
Brunellesco" for soprano, choir and three equal voices; the sacred poem
"Baptisma" for soprano, baritone, female choir and small orchestra, and the
motet "Christus circumdedit me" for soprano, choir and orchestra.
The soloists, sopranos Enrica Fabbri and Lykke Anholm and baritone Michele
Govi, as well as the Rossini Chamber Choir of Pesaro and the Philharmonic
Orchestra of the Marches "FORM" were conducted by Simone Baiocchi.
At the end of the performance the Pope made some brief remarks. "For you",
he said in his thanks to Cardinal Bartolucci, "music is a special language
with which to communicate the faith of the Church and to help those who hear
your works along their own journey of faith".
"This evening" Benedict XVI concluded, "you caused us to turn our hearts
to Mary in prayer, the most beloved prayer of Christian tradition. Yet you
also led us back to the beginning of our journey of faith, to the liturgy of
Baptism, the moment in which we became Christian: an invitation always to
drink from the only water that can quench our thirst - the living God - and
to commit ourselves day after to day to rejecting evil and to renewing our
faith with the affirmation 'I believe!'"
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BENEDICT XVI'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR SEPTEMBER
VATICAN CITY, 1 SEP 2011 (VIS) - Pope Benedict's general prayer intention
for September is: "That all teachers may know how to communicate love of the
truth and instil authentic moral and spiritual values".
His mission intention is: "That the Christian communities of Asia may
proclaim the Gospel with fervour, witnessing to its beauty with the joy of
faith".
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AUDIENCES
VATICAN CITY, 1 SEP 2011 (VIS) - Holy Father today received in separate
audiences:
- Archbishop Ivo Scapolo, apostolic nuncio to Chile.
- Seven prelates of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India, on their
"ad limina" visit:
- Cardinal Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Bombay, accompanied by
Auxiliary Bishop Agnelo Rufino Gracias.
- Archbishop Abraham Viruthakulangara of Nagpur.
- Archbishop Filipe Neri Antonio Sebastiao do Rosario Ferrao of Goa and
Damao, patriarch of the East Indies, accompanied by Archbishop and Patriarch
emeritus Nicolau Gonsalves.
- Archbishop Stanislaus Fernandes S.J. of Gandhinagar.
- Archbishop Bernard Blasius Moras of Bangalore.
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