Subject: VISnews 110905
Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede
From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 146
ENGLISH
MONDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER 2011
SUMMARY: 3 - 5 SEPTEMBER
- Telegram For a Plane Crash in the Juan Fernandez Islands
- The Lord Is Present in Communities Which Pray Together
- Cardinal Deskur Dies at the Age of 87
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TELEGRAM FOR A PLANE CRASH IN THE JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLANDS
VATICAN CITY, 3 SEP 2011 (VIS) - Given below is the text of a telegram sent
in the Holy Father's name by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone
S.D.B. to Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati Andrello S.D.B. of Santiago de Chile,
president of the Episcopal Conference of Chile, for a plane crash in the
Juan Fernandez Islands yesterday which caused the deaths of 21 people.
"His Holiness Benedict XVI, profoundly saddened on hearing the distressing
news of the crash of a Chilean Air Force aeroplane, which came down near the
Juan Fernandez Islands with many victims, offers fervent prayers for the
eternal response of the deceased.
"I would ask Your Excellency to express the Pope's heartfelt condolences,
his closeness and his consolation, to the families who have suffered such a
terrible loss, asking the Lord to pour upon them gifts of spiritual serenity
and Christian hope, in sign of which he imparts the comfort of an apostolic
blessing".
TGR/ VIS
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THE LORD IS PRESENT IN COMMUNITIES WHICH PRAY TOGETHER
VATICAN CITY, 4 SEP 2011 (VIS) - In remarks before praying the Angelus
today, the Holy Father spoke to faithful gathered in the internal courtyard
of the Apostolic Palace of Castelgandolfo about the readings of the Sunday
liturgy, which focused on fraternal charity.
Fraternal love, said Benedict XVI, "involves a feeling of mutual
responsibility according to which, if my brother sins against me, I must be
charitable towards him and speak to him directly to help him understand that
what he has done is wrong". Loving our brother does not only mean accepting
him in his hour of need, "sometimes it means saying a word of correction. If
a brother sins, we do not cease to love him by inviting him to return to the
straight path. ... In the course of Christian life each of us, aware of our
own limits and defects, is called both to accept fraternal correction from
others and to offer the same service to them".
Another of the fruits of charity in the community is joint prayer, the
Pope explained. "Individual prayer is certainly indispensable, but the Lord
gives assurances of His presence in communities which, even if very small,
remain united and speak with one voice, because they reflect the reality of
God Himself, One and Triune, perfect communion of love".
In closing the Holy Father exhorted the faithful "to pray, and to correct
one another as brethren, something which requires great humility and
simplicity of heart, in order that our prayers might be raised to God from a
community truly united in Christ".
Following the Angelus, the Pope mentioned today's opening of the
twenty-fifth Italian National Eucharistic Congress in Ancona, the closure of
which he will preside in a week's time, and greeted groups of pilgrims from
various countries.
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CARDINAL DESKUR DIES AT THE AGE OF 87
VATICAN CITY, 4 SEP 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father has sent a telegram to
Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, archbishop of Krakow, Poland, for the death of
Cardinal Andrzej Maria Deskur, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council
for Social Communications. Cardinal Deskur died yesterday at the age of 87.
The Pope expresses his condolences to the relatives of the late cardinal,
whom he describes as "one of the most illustrious sons" of the diocesan
community of Krakow, recalling his "valuable collaboration with the Holy See
over many decades at the service of six Popes, especially ... in the field
of the communications media".
Cardinal Deskur, "linked by profound ties of friendship to Blessed John
Paul II, leaves us the memory of a life spend in coherent and generous
dedication to his vocation as a pious and zealous priest, who enriched his
ministry by accepting illness with evangelical resignation.
"I pray that, through the intercession of Mary Immaculate whom he so
greatly venerated, the Lord may welcome this faithful pastor of the Gospel
and the Church into His Kingdom of eternal joy and peace", the Pope
concludes.
Cardinal Deskur's funeral, presided by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the
College of Cardinals, will be held in St. Peter's Basilica at 11.30 a.m. on
6 September.
TGR/ VIS
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