Subject: VISnews 110913   
   Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 152   
   ENGLISH   
   TUESDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Exhibition of Works by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI   
   - European Heritage Days: 25 September   
   - Eucharistic Congresses: a Woman's Intuition   
      
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   EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY JOSEPH RATZINGER/BENEDICT XVI   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 13 SEP 2011 (VIS) - During the Pope's forthcoming apostolic   
   trip to Germany, the German publisher Herder and the Vatican Publishing   
   House will organise an exhibition of the various language editions of the   
   works of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, according to a communique made   
   public today.   
      
     "The exhibition is unique of its kind", reads the communique. "It will   
   first be set up at Castelgandolfo for the Holy Father himself, then at the   
   Teutonic Cemetery inside the Vatican, and finally at Herder's head office in   
   Freiburg, and will include some 600 volumes from more than twenty-five   
   countries. For the first time it will be possible to see a Romanian edition   
   of 'Salt of the Earth' alongside a Chinese version of 'God and the World',   
   as well as the great monographs of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI".   
      
     The exhibition will open at the Teutonic Cemetery on 16 September and at   
   Freiburg on 24 September where it will be presented during the course of a   
   press conference organised for the papal visit.   
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   EUROPEAN HERITAGE DAYS: 25 SEPTEMBER   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 13 SEP 2011 (VIS) - The Holy See will once again participate   
   in the celebration of European Heritage Days, an initiative of the Council   
   of Europe in which more than fifty countries on the continent participate.   
   The celebrations this year will take place on Sunday 25 September and have   
   as their theme: "Life beyond Life".   
      
     A communique made public today explains that the Pontifical Commission for   
   the Cultural Patrimony of the Church, the Vatican Museums and the Pontifical   
   Commission for Sacred Archaeology are all collaborating in the event.   
      
     On 25 September visitors will be able to enter the Vatican Museums free of   
   charge. Entrance to all catacombs in Rome that are normally open to the   
   public (San Callisto, Domitilla, Priscilla, St. Agnes and St. Sebastian)   
   will also be free.   
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   EUCHARISTIC CONGRESSES: A WOMAN'S INTUITION   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 13 SEP 2011 (VIS) - Given below are excerpts taken from the   
   article "A woman's intuition" by Lucetta Scaraffia, published recently by   
   "L'Osservatore Romano" to coincide with the Pope's visit to Ancona for the   
   closure of the twenty-fifth Italian National Eucharistic Congress.   
      
     "The first Eucharistic congress was held in the French city of Lille in   
   1881 under the emblematic title of 'The Eucharist saves the world'. That was   
   the starting point for a whole series of national, diocesan and   
   international Eucharistic congresses which have punctuated the history of   
   modern Catholicism, until the most recent in Ancona.   
      
     "It is not widely known that the idea to hold these congresses came from a   
   woman, a French woman called Emilie-Marie Tamisier, one of the many lay   
   people to dedicate their lives to the defence of the Church at a time in   
   which anti-Catholic polemics were particularly fierce. Tamisier, who had   
   shown particular devotion to the Eucharist since her earliest childhood, had   
   the idea of organising religious revival activities focused on Eucharistic   
   worship, in an increasingly secularised world.   
      
     "The inspiration came to her while attending Mass for the consecration of   
   France to the Sacred Heart in the chapel of the Visitation of   
   Paray-le-Monial, the same place where Marguerite-Marie Alacoque had had the   
   visions which gave rise to modern devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The   
   link between these two forms of devotion is evident: they are both   
   associated with the Body of Christ. ... Both of them present a sacred   
   nucleus towards which we can orient our faith, a clear and universally   
   understandable symbol in a world beset by many distractions, proposals and   
   ideologies which tend to obfuscate the search for truth".   
      
     "At Tamisier's own request the first congress was due to be held at Liege   
   in Belgium, the town of Julienne de Cornillon who had promoted the Feast of   
   Corpus Domini, but for political reasons it was decided to hold it in   
   France. Perhaps Tamisier wished to underline, if only implicitly, the fact   
   that the idea for new forms of devotion, new feasts and new ways to   
   encounter Christ had, on three occasions, come from a woman, a woman capable   
   of imagining which model of religious life was most appropriate for   
   rekindling the faith in moments of crisis".   
      
     "Tamisier felt that Eucharistic congresses were a modern way to involve a   
   large public, to redirect attention to religious culture and its proposals   
   for solving the problems of the time. The congresses were different from   
   other gatherings in that they concentrated participants' attention not only   
   on speeches and lectures, but above all on the Eucharist, celebrated with   
   particular solemnity and intensity.   
      
     "However Tamisier had to work hard before seeing her project fulfilled. At   
   first, in a period lasting some ten years, she limited herself to organising   
   pilgrimages to French shrines that conserved traces of Eucharistic miracles.   
   ... Only later, with the support and advice of certain prelates, did she   
   manage to convince Pope Leo XIII of the importance of her project. She   
   spared no efforts to this end, making journeys, collecting funds and   
   dedicating her entire life to the promotion of what she saw as a new and   
   effective way to draw public attention to the Church. Her efforts were   
   tenacious and successful, but hidden (her name was never officially   
   mentioned) and therefore largely forgotten, as has often been the case of   
   work done by women in the Church".   
   LOR/                                                                    VIS   
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