Vatican update, 12th September, 2014. The world seen from Rome VATICAN DOSSIER Vatican Announces Feast Days of Newly Canonized Pontiffs St. John XXIII on Oct. 11th, St. John Paul II on Oct. 22nd Preparations for Papal Visit to Turkey Confirmed Precise Date and Duration of the Apostolic Trip Yet to Be Determined Popes Morning Homily: Do Not Take Pleasure in Others Mistakes You Cannot Reprimand a Person Without Love and Charity, Pope Says Pope to DRC Bishops: Work for Society Based on Respect for Human Dignity Shares His Concerns for Congolese Youth, Urges Fidelity to the Gospel in Ad Limina Message Pope: Biblical Interpretation Must Help Faithful to Live Fully in Communion With God Tells Italian Biblical Association Exegesis Requires Guidance From the Holy Spirit and Attitude of Docility Archbishop Tomasi: Human Trafficking Not Confined to Poor Countries Urges Greater Political Will to Ensure More Effective Policies and Increased Public Awareness Catholic-Orthodox Commission to Discuss Synodality and the Primate 15-23 Sept. Meeting in Jordan To Examine Theological and Anthropological Relationship Between Primate and Synodality Pope Appoints New Members to Congregation for Causes of Saints Cardinals Sarah and Piacenza to Join Dicastery as Members IN FOCUS Patriarch Laham: Save the Arab World, Put Out the Fire Greek Melkite Patriarch of the Church of Antioch Reflects on the Situation in the Middle East NEWS BRIEFS U.S. Congressional Hearing Held on Plight of Christians in Iraq and Syria Experts Examine Extent of Genocide and Present Measures to Halt It Thousands of Mourners Celebrate Lives of Slain Missionary Sisters Burial Took Place Thursday in Democratic Republic of Congo Eastern Patriarchs Meet President Obama at the White House First Meeting of Its Kind in History Underlines Critical Moment for Christians in the Middle East Large Turnout for Anglican Ordinariate Exploration Day Events Around Britain Aimed to Increase Understanding of Ordinariates Purpose ROME REPORTS Pope to pray for the victims of all wars in military cemetery (Video) On Saturday September 13, Pope Francis will travel to Fogliano Redipuglia, in northeastern Italy. The aim of this three-hour visit is to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War Pope Francis to marry 20 couples at the Vatican (Video) On September 14th, Pope Francis will marry 20 couples from the diocese of Rome. It is a rare occasion at the Vatican. The last time that a wedding ceremony like this was celebrated was with John Paul II Pope Francis: Dont celebrate the mistakes of others (Video) In his Friday morning Mass, Pope Francis said that celebrating the mistakes of others, moves one away from God. DOCUMENTS Pope Francis Address to Italian Biblical Assocation It is necessary, naturally, that the exegete himself be able to perceive the divine Word in the texts, and this is possible only if his spiritual life is fervid, rich in dialogue with the Lord. Archbishop Tomasis Human Rights Council Intervention on Combating Human Trafficking To counter slavery effectively, the inviolable dignity of every person must be recognized above all. Pope Francis Ad Limina Address to Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo The most effective means to overcome violence, inequality as well as ethnic divisions, is to give the young a critical spirit and to propose a course to allow them to mature in Gospel values. VATICAN DOSSIER Vatican Announces Feast Days of Newly Canonized Pontiffs St. John XXIII on Oct. 11th, St. John Paul II on Oct. 22nd By Staff Reporter VATICAN CITY, September 12, 2014 (Zenit.org) - The Feast Days of Saints John XXIII and John Paul II will be on October 11th and October 22nd respectively, the Vatican has announced. In a decree published in today’s edition of L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican said Pope Francis had approved putting the saints on the Church’s general Roman calendar of feast days in light of countless requests from every part of the world.” The decree, issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, stated they will be optional and not obligatory memorials. Vatican watcher Sandro Magister notes that the saints will join fifteen other popes - in addition to St. Peter - mentioned in the calendar. Only four of these are an obligatory memorial: St. Gregory the Great (Sept. 3), St. Cornelius (Sept. 16) and St. Leo the Great (Nov. 10). The only holy pontiff of the second millennium with a mandatory feast day is St. Pius X (Aug. 21). New norms regarding obligatory and mandatory feast days were implemented in 2007 on account for the relatively large number of saints who are now celebrated in the Church. Read it online | Forward to a Friend | Comment online Go to top Preparations for Papal Visit to Turkey Confirmed Precise Date and Duration of the Apostolic Trip Yet to Be Determined By Staff Reporter VATICAN CITY, September 12, 2014 (Zenit.org) - Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi confirmed Pope Francis would be visiting Turkey after the Holy See received an official letter of invitation from the country’s President this morning. In a statement, Father Lombardi said: “This morning the Holy See received a formal letter of invitation to Pope Francis, from the President of Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan, to visit Turkey at the end of November, 2014. He added: Preparations are now underway for that visit but the length and date of the visit has not yet been established. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I also invited the Pope to visit, and to make the trip on Nov. 30th, the feast of St. Andrew. Reports have suggested the Holy Father will also use the apostolic voyage to visit Iraqi refugees on the Turkish border. Read it online | Forward to a Friend | Comment online Go to top Popes Morning Homily: Do Not Take Pleasure in Others Mistakes You Cannot Reprimand a Person Without Love and Charity, Pope Says By Staff Reporter VATICAN CITY, September 12, 2014 (Zenit.org) - True fraternal reprimand is painful because it is done with love, in truth and humility. Moreover it is unchristian to take pleasure when reprimanding someone. This was the focus of Pope Francis homily Friday during Mass in Santa Marta, on the day when the Church celebrates the Feast Day of the Holy Name of Mary. The Pope was reflecting on the Gospel passage where Jesus warns against noticing the splinter in our brother’s eye but failing to see the wooden beam in our own. This inspired him to return to the subject of fraternal reprimand. First, he said, the erring brother should be reprimanded with charity. You cannot reprimand a person without love and charity. [Just like] you cannot perform surgery without anesthesia: you cannot, because the patient will die from the pain. And charity is like an anesthetic that helps you to receive treatment and accept reprimand. Take him to one side and talk to him, with gentleness, with love. Secondly, - he continued - we must speak the truth: Do not say something that is not true. How often in our community are things said about another person that are not true: they are slander. Or if they are true, they destroy the person’s reputation. Gossip - the Pope repeated - hurt; gossip are a slap in the face of a person’s reputation, they are an attack on the heart of a person. Sure - he observed - when they tell you the truth is not nice to hear, but if it is spoken with charity and love, it is easier to accept. Therefore, we must speak of other people’s defects with charity. Thirdly, we must reprimand with humility: If you really need to reprimand a little flaw, stop and remember that you have many more and far bigger! Fraternal reprimand is an act that heals the Body of the Church. Theres a tear, there, in the fabric of the Church that we must mend. And like mothers and grandmothers, who mend so gently, so delicately, we must do likewise when we want to reprimand our brother. If youre not able to do this with love, charity, truth and humility, you will offend, you will destroy the heart of that person, you will add to gossip, that hurts, and you will become a blind hypocrite, just as Jesus says. Hypocrite, first take the wooden beam out of your own eye. .... Hypocrite! Recognize that you are the more sinful than the other, but you, as a brother must help to reprimand the other. A sign that perhaps can help us in this - said the Pope - is when we feel a certain delight when we see something wrong and consider it our job to deliver a reprimand: you have to be careful because that is not coming from the Lord. The Cross, the difficulty of doing a good thing is ever present in the Lord; the love that leads us, the meekness is always of the Lord. Do not judge. We Christians tend to behave like doctors: stand on the sidelines of the game between sin and grace as if we were angels ... No! Paul says: for fear that, after having preached to others, I myself should be disqualified . And a Christian who, in the community, does not do things - even fraternal reprimand - in love, in truth and humility, is disqualified! He has failed to become a mature Christian. May the Lord help us in this fraternal service, which is as beautiful as it is painful, to help our brothers and sisters to be better and help us to always do it with love, in truth and humility. *** Vatican Radio Read it online | Forward to a Friend | Comment onli
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