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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - N° 209
DATE 20-11-2012
Summary:
- THIRD BOOK IN JOSEPH RATZINGER'S TRILOGY: "THE INFANCY NARRATIVES"
- AUDIENCES
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
___________________________________________________________
THIRD BOOK IN JOSEPH RATZINGER'S TRILOGY: "THE INFANCY NARRATIVES"
Vatican City, 20 November 2012 (VIS) - "L'infanzia di Gesu" ("The Infancy
Narratives"), the third volume of Benedict XVI's trilogy dedicated to Jesus of
Nazareth, will be available in Italian bookshops tomorrow, 21 November. The
book, published in Italy
by Rizzoli and the Vatican Publishing House, will be released simultaneously
in several languages (Italian, German, Croatian, French, English, Polish,
Portuguese and Spanish) and in fifty countries; the worldwide print run of the
first edition will be
more than a million copies. In the coming months, the book will be translated
into twenty languages for publication in seventy-two countries.
This morning, in the Vatican's Sala Pio X, the book was presented to the
press. The speakers were Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the
Pontifical Council for Culture; Maria Clara Bingemer, professor of theology at
the Pontifical Catholic
University of Rio de Janeiro; Fr. Giuseppe Costa, director of the Vatican
Publishing House; Paolo Mieli, president of Rizzoli (RCS) Publications, and
Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J., director of the Holy See Press Office.
The book, defined by its author as a "small antechamber" to the trilogy on
Jesus of Nazareth, is 176 pages long and comprises four chapters, an Epilogue
and a brief Foreword. A summary of the book is given below:
"The first chapter is dedicated to the genealogies of the Saviour in the
Gospels of Matthew and Luke, which are very different, although both have the
same theological and symbolic meaning: the placing of Jesus in history and his
true origin as a new
beginning of world history.
"The theme of chapter two is the annunciation of the birth of John the Baptist
and that of Jesus. Rereading the dialogue between Mary and the Archangel
Gabriel in the Gospel of Luke, Joseph Ratzinger explains that, through a
woman, God 'seeks to enter
the world anew'. In order to liberate man from sin, he writes, quoting Bernard
of Clairvaux, God needs 'free obedience' to his will. 'In creating freedom, he
made himself in a certain sense dependent upon man. His power is tied to the
unenforceable yes
of a human being'. Thus, only thanks to Mary's assent can the history of
salvation begin.
"Chapter three is centred on the event in Bethlehem and the historical context
of the birth of Jesus, the Roman Empire under Augustus, which extends from
East to West and whose universal dimension allows for the entry into the world
of 'a universal
Saviour'; 'it is indeed the fullness of time'. The single elements of the
story of the birth are dense with meaning: the poverty in which 'he who is
truly the first-born of all that is' chooses to reveal himself, and therefore
'the cosmic glory' that
envelopes the manger; God's special love for the poor, which manifests itself
in the annunciation to the shepherds; and the words of the Gloria, whose
translation is controversial.
"The fourth chapter is dedicated to the three Magi, who saw the star of the
'King of the Jews' and who had come to adore the child, and to the flight into
Egypt. Here the figures of the 'magoi', reconstructed through a rich range of
historical,
linguistic and scientific information, are outlined as a fascinating emblem of
the inner unrest and search for truth of the human spirit.
"Finally, the Epilogue, with the story - according to the Gospel of Luke - of
the last episode in the childhood of Jesus, the last account we have of him
before the beginning of his public ministry with his baptism in the Jordan. It
is the episode of
the three days during the Passover pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem, in
which twelve-year-old Jesus leaves Mary and Joseph and stays in the Temple to
discuss with the rabbis. Jesus, who was growing 'in wisdom and in stature, and
in favour with God
and man', manifests himself in his nature as true God and, at the same time,
true man, who 'thought and learned in human fashion'".
___________________________________________________________
AUDIENCES
Vatican City, 20 November 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in
audience staff of the publishers of the book "L'infanzia di Gesu" bu Joseph
Ratzinger - -Benedict XVI.
___________________________________________________________
OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican City, 20 November 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:
- Msgr. Gonzalo Alonso Calzada Guerrero, rector of the major seminary of
Celaya, Mexico as auxiliary bishop of Antequera (area 33,648, population
1,477,000, Catholics 1,180,000, priests 183, permanent deacons 24, religious
258), Mexico. The bishop-elect
was born in San Luis de la Paz, Mexico in 1964 and ordained a priest in 1989.
He studied Holy Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and has
served in numerous pastoral roles.
- Bishop Marian Chovanec, auxiliary of Nitra, Slovakia as bishop of Banska
Bystrica (area 6,750, population 614,800, Catholics 400,500, priests 172,
permanent deacons 2, religious 406), Slovakia.
___________________________________________________________
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VISnews121120
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE YEAR XXII - N° 209DATE 20-11-2012
Summary: - THIRD BOOK IN JOSEPH RATZINGER'S
TRILOGY: "THE INFANCY
NARRATIVES" - AUDIENCES - OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS ___________________________________________________________
THIRD BOOK IN JOSEPH RATZINGER'S TRILOGY: "THE INFANCY NARRATIVES"
Vatican City, 20 November 2012 (VIS) - "L'infanzia di Gesu" ("The Infancy
Narratives"), the third volume of Benedict XVI's trilogy dedicated to Jesus of
Nazareth, will be available in Italian bookshops tomorrow, 21 November. The
book, published in
Italy by Rizzoli and the Vatican Publishing House, will be released
simultaneously in several languages (Italian, German, Croatian, French,
English, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish) and in fifty countries; the worldwide
print run of the first edition
will be more than a million copies. In the coming months, the book will be
translated into twenty languages for publication in seventy-two countries.
This morning, in the Vatican's Sala Pio X, the book was presented to the
press. The speakers were Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the
Pontifical Council for Culture; Maria Clara Bingemer, professor of theology at
the Pontifical Catholic
University of Rio de Janeiro; Fr. Giuseppe Costa, director of the Vatican
Publishing House; Paolo Mieli, president of Rizzoli (RCS) Publications, and
Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J., director of the Holy See Press Office.
The book, defined by its author as a "small antechamber" to the trilogy on
Jesus of Nazareth, is 176 pages long and comprises four chapters, an Epilogue
and a brief Foreword. A summary of the book is given below:
"The first chapter is dedicated to the genealogies of the Saviour in the
Gospels of Matthew and Luke, which are very different, although both have the
same theological and symbolic meaning: the placing of Jesus in history and his
true origin as a new
beginning of world history.
"The theme of chapter two is the annunciation of the birth of John the
Baptist and that of Jesus. Rereading the dialogue between Mary and the
Archangel Gabriel in the Gospel of Luke, Joseph Ratzinger explains that,
through a woman, God 'seeks to
enter the world anew'. In order to liberate man from sin, he writes, quoting
Bernard of Clairvaux, God needs 'free obedience' to his will. 'In creating
freedom, he made himself in a certain sense dependent upon man. His power is
tied to the
unenforceable yes of a human being'. Thus, only thanks to Mary's assent can
the history of salvation begin.
"Chapter three is centred on the event in Bethlehem and the historical
context of the birth of Jesus, the Roman Empire under Augustus, which extends
from East to West and whose universal dimension allows for the entry into the
world of 'a universal
Saviour'; 'it is indeed the fullness of time'. The single elements of the
story of the birth are dense with meaning: the poverty in which 'he who is
truly the first-born of all that is' chooses to reveal himself, and therefore
'the cosmic glory' that
envelopes the manger; God's special love for the poor, which manifests itself
in the annunciation to the shepherds; and the words of the Gloria, whose
translation is controversial.
"The fourth chapter is dedicated to the three Magi, who saw the star of the
'King of the Jews' and who had come to adore the child, and to the flight into
Egypt. Here the figures of the 'magoi', reconstructed through a rich range of
historical,
linguistic and scientific information, are outlined as a fascinating emblem of
the inner unrest and search for truth of the human spirit.
"Finally, the Epilogue, with the story - according to the Gospel of Luke -
of the last episode in the childhood of Jesus, the last account we have of him
before the beginning of his public ministry with his baptism in the Jordan. It
is the episode of
the three days during the Passover pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem, in
which twelve-year-old Jesus leaves Mary and Joseph and stays in the Temple to
discuss with the rabbis. Jesus, who was growing 'in wisdom and in stature, and
in favour with God
and man', manifests himself in his nature as true God and, at the same time,
true man, who 'thought and learned in human fashion'".
Vatican City, 20 November 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in
audience staff of the publishers of the book "L'infanzia di Gesu" bu Joseph
Ratzinger - -Benedict XVI.
Vatican City, 20 November 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:
- Msgr. Gonzalo Alonso Calzada Guerrero, rector of the major seminary of
Celaya, Mexico as auxiliary bishop of Antequera (area 33,648, population
1,477,000, Catholics 1,180,000, priests 183, permanent deacons 24, religious
258), Mexico. The
bishop-elect was born in San Luis de la Paz, Mexico in 1964 and ordained a
priest in 1989. He studied Holy Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute
in Rome and has served in numerous pastoral roles.
- Bishop Marian Chovanec, auxiliary of Nitra, Slovakia as bishop of Banska
Bystrica (area 6,750, population 614,800, Catholics 400,500, priests 172,
permanent deacons 2, religious 406), Slovakia.
Per ulteriori informazioni e per la ricerca di documenti consultare il
sito: www.wisnews.org e www.vatican.va Il servizio del
VIS viene inviato soltanto agli indirizzi di posta elettronica che ne
hanno
fatto richiesta. Se per qualunque motivo non si desidera continuare a
riceverlo, si prega di visitare nostra pagina dinizio: http://212.77.1.245/news_services/press/vi
/italinde.php
Copyright (VIS): Le notizie contenute nei servizi del Vatican
Information Service possono essere riprodotte parzialmente o totalmente
citando la fonte: V.I.S. - Vatican Information Service.
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