Subject: VISnews 110927
Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede
From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 164
ENGLISH
TUESDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 2011
SUMMARY:
- Pastoral Visit to Lamezia Terme and Serra San Bruno
- Celebrations to Be Presided by Pope: October-November
- The Seminary: a Place for Discernment and Study
- Other Pontifical Acts
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PASTORAL VISIT TO LAMEZIA TERME AND SERRA SAN BRUNO
VATICAN CITY, 27 SEP 2011 (VIS) - Made public today was the programme of the
pastoral visit which Benedict XVI is due to make on Sunday 9 October to the
Italian towns of Lamezia Terme and Serra San Bruno.
The Pope will depart from Ciampino airport in Rome at 8.30 a.m., landing
at 9.15 a.m. at the airport of Lamezia Terme. At 10 a.m. he will celebrate
Mass in an industrial area on the outskirts of the town.
Following lunch with bishops at 1.30 p.m. in the episcopal residence of
Lamezia Terme, at 4.30 p.m. the Holy Father will greet the organisers of his
visit. At 4.45 p.m. he is due to travel by helicopter from the "Guido
d'Ippolito" stadium to Serra San Bruno where, at 5.30 p.m., he will meet
with local people at the sports ground.
At 6 p.m. the Pope Benedict will celebrate Vespers and deliver a homily in
the church of the Carthusian monastery of Serra San Bruno, after which he
will meet the monastic community and visit a cell and the infirmary of the
monastery.
He is scheduled to return to Lamezia Terme by helicopter at 7.30 p.m., and
to depart from there by plane to Rome at 8 p.m.
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CELEBRATIONS TO BE PRESIDED BY POPE: OCTOBER-NOVEMBER
VATICAN CITY, 27 SEP 2011 (VIS) - The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of
the Supreme Pontiff today published the calendar of celebrations to be
presided by the Holy Father in the months of October and November:
OCTOBER
- Sunday 9: 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Pastoral visit to Lamezia Terme
and Serra San Bruno, Italy.
- Sunday 16: 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time. At 9.30 a.m. in the Vatican
Basilica, Mass for the New Evangelisation.
- Sunday 23: 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time. At 10 a.m. in St. Peter's
Square, canonisation of the following blesseds: Guido Maria Conforti, Luigi
Guanella, Bonifacia Rodriguez de Castro.
- Wednesday 26: At 10.30 a.m. in St. Peter's Square, prayer in preparation
for the Meeting for Peace in Assisi.
NOVEMBER
- Wednesday 2: All Souls Day. At 6 p.m. in the Vatican Grottoes, a moment
of prayer for deceased Popes.
- Thursday 3: At 11.30 a.m. at the altar of the Cathedra in the Vatican
Basilica, Mass for cardinals and bishops who died over the course of the
year.
- Friday 4: At 5.30 p.m. in the Vatican Basilica. Vespers for the beginning
of the academic year in the Pontifical Universities.
- Friday 18 - Sunday 20: Apostolic trip to Benin.
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THE SEMINARY: A PLACE FOR DISCERNMENT AND STUDY
VATICAN CITY, 27 SEP 2011 (VIS) - On Saturday 24 September, during the
course of his apostolic visit to Germany, the Holy Father met with
seminarians in the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, whom he addressed
off-the-cuff in German. Extracts of his remarks are given below.
The Pope dwelt upon the significance of the years spent in the seminary,
and he reflected on the passage from the Gospel of St. Mark which narrates
the foundation of the community of the Apostles: "The Lord appoints twelve",
said the Holy Father. "He makes something, He does something, it is a
creative act. He makes them, 'to be with Him, and to be sent out to preach'.
... They have to be with Him in order to come to know Him, ... but at the
same time they have to be envoys who go out, who take with them what they
have learnt, who bring it to others, ... even into places far removed from
Him. ... This combination of, on the one hand, going out on mission, and on
the other hand being with Him, remaining with Him, is - I believe -
precisely what we have to learn in the seminary".
"The seminary is therefore a time for training. Also, of course, it is a
time for discernment, for learning. ... The mission must be tested, and this
includes being in community with others and also, of course, speaking with
your spiritual directors". It involves "learning to trust: if He truly wants
this, then I may entrust myself to Him. In today's world ... in which
everything is in a constant state of flux, in which human ties are breaking
down, ... it is becoming more and more difficult to believe that I will hold
firm for the whole of my life". But, "if He wants me, then He will also hold
me, He will be there in the hour of temptation, in the hour of need, and He
will send people to me, He will show me the path. ... Faithfulness is
possible, because He is always there, because He exists yesterday, today and
tomorrow".
Apart from being a time for discernment, learning and vocation, the
seminary is also a time for prayer, "for listening to Him", said Benedict
XVI, "listening, truly learning to listen to Him - in the word of Sacred
Scripture, in the faith of the Church, in the liturgy of the Church - and
learning to understand the present time in His word. In exegesis we learn
much about the past: what happened, what sources there are, what communities
there were, and so on. This is also important. But more important still is
that from the past we should learn about the present, we should learn that
He is speaking these words now, and that they all carry their present within
them, and that over and above the historical circumstances in which they
arose, they contain a fullness which speaks to all times".
"Faith comes from hearing", said the Holy Father referring to the words of
St. Paul. That is to say, faith needs "the living word, addressed to me by
the other, whom I can hear, addressed to me by the Church throughout the
ages" by "priests, bishops and my fellow believers. Faith must include a
'you' and it must include a 'we'".
In this context the Pope highlighted the importance of accepting other
people in their individuality, while remaining aware that they too must
accept us in our individuality. Only in this way, he explained, can the
community of faithful become a "'we', journeying together towards the living
God. ... The 'we' is the whole community of believers, today and in all
times and places. ... We are Church: let us be Church, let us be Church
precisely by opening ourselves and stepping outside ourselves and being
Church with others".
In closing, Benedict XVI reminded the seminarians of the importance of
study. "We all know that St. Peter said: 'Always be prepared to make a
defence to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you'.
Our world today is a rationalist and thoroughly scientific world, albeit
often somewhat pseudo-scientific. ... The faith is not a parallel world of
feelings that we can still afford to hold on to, rather it is the key that
encompasses everything, gives it meaning, interprets it and also provides
its inner ethical orientation: making clear that it is to be understood and
lived as tending towards God and proceeding from God. Therefore it is
important to be informed and to understand, to have an open mind, to learn.
... Study is essential: only thus can we stand firm in these times and
proclaim within them the reason for our faith".
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
VATICAN CITY, 27 SEP 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Cardinal Walter
Kasper, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian
Unity, as his special envoy to celebrations marking the 950th anniversary of
the dedication of Speyer Cathedral in Germany, due to take place on 2
October.
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