SUMMARY:
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LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS TO BE PRESIDED BY POPE: FEBRUARY–MARCH
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PRESENTATION OF PAPAL MESSAGE FOR WORLD DAY OF THE SICK
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VIA CRUCIS: MEDITATIONS TO RECALL MIDDLE EAST
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
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LITURGICAL
CELEBRATIONS TO BE PRESIDED BY POPE: FEBRUARY–MARCH
Vatican
City, 29 January 2013 (VIS) – The Office of Liturgical Celebrations
of the Supreme Pontiff has published the calendar of celebrations
that are due to be presided by the Holy Father in February and March.
FEBRUARY
Saturday
2: Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and the World Day of
Consecrated Life. At 5:30pm in the Vatican Basilica: Mass with
members of institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic
life.
Monday
11: At 11:00am in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic
Palace: Ordinary public consistory for several causes for
canonisation.
Wednesday
13: Ash Wednesday. At 4:30pm in the Basilica of Sant'Anselmo:
"statio" and penitential procession. At 5:00pm in the
Basilica of Santa Sabina: blessing and imposition of ashes.
Sunday
17: First Sunday of Lent. At 6:00pm in the "Redemptoris Mater"
Chapel of the Vatican Apostolic Palace: beginning of the spiritual
exercises of the Roman Curia.
Saturday
23: At 9:00am in the "Redemptoris Mater" Chapel: conclusion
of the spiritual exercises of the Roman Curia.
MARCH
Sunday
24: Palm Sunday and the Passion of the Lord. At 9:30am in St. Peter's
Square: blessing of palms, procession, and Mass.
Thursday
28: Holy Thursday. At 5:30pm in the Basilica of St. John Lateran:
beginning of the Easter Triduum with the Mass of the Last Supper.
Friday
29: Good Friday. At 5:00pm in the Vatican Basilica: celebration of
the Lord's Passion. At 9:15pm at the Colosseum: Way of the Cross.
Saturday
30: Holy Saturday. At 8:30pm in the Vatican Basilica: Easter vigil.
Sunday
31: Easter Sunday. At 10:15am in St. Peter's Square: Mass. At midday,
from the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica: "Urbi et Orbi"
blessing.
PRESENTATION
OF PAPAL MESSAGE FOR WORLD DAY OF THE SICK
Vatican
City, 29 January 2013 (VIS) – This morning, in the John Paul II
Hall of the Holy See Press Office, a press conference was held to
present the Holy Father's message for the 21st World Day of the Sick
(7–11 February) and the celebrations for the Day that will take
place in Altotting, Bavaria, Germany. Participating in the press
conference were: Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, president of the
Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers
along with Msgr. Jean-Marie Mate Musivi Mupendawatu and Fr. Augusto
Chendi, M.I., respectively secretary and under-secretary of that same
dicastery; Msgr. Ludwig Limbrunner, rector of the shrine to Our Lady
of Altotting, Bavaria, Germany; and Rev. Janusz Surzykiewicz,
professor of pastoral theology at the Catholic University of
Eichstatt in Bavaria, Germany. The Message is entitled:"Go and
Do Likewise".
This
Day, Archbishop Zimowski explained, is "a unique moment of
reflection, of renewed attention and commitment, on behalf of
everyone, to all to the problems inherent to caring for life, health,
and suffering. In particular, the Holy Father … emphasizes that its
celebration should be strongly characterized by prayer, sharing, and
offering up suffering for the good of the Church, as well as serving
as a call so that everyone might recognize, in the face of their sick
brother or sister, the face of Christ who, suffering, dying, and
rising, saved humanity."
The
Pope's text challenges us "to let the figure of the Good
Samaritan call to us". It is a Gospel narrative that constitutes
a "parable that is paradigmatic and ever-topical for all of the
Church's action, especially her outreach in the area of health,
disease, and suffering." In the story "Jesus, with his
actions and words, reveals God's deep love for every human being,
above all those suffering illness or pain." The Pope, however,
"puts the emphasis on the end of the parable when Jesus ...
concludes with an urgent mandate: 'Go and do likewise'."
"This
is," the archbishop continued, "an incisive mandate because
with these words Jesus shows us what, even today, the attitude and
behaviour of His disciples with others, especially those in need of
care, must be. Looking to how Christ acted, therefore, we can
understand God's infinite love, can feel ourselves to be part of this
love, and sent to show it with our care and our closeness to all
those in need of help because of being wounded in body and in spirit.
But this capacity to love cannot come solely from our efforts, but
rather is born of our being in constant relationship with Christ
through a life of faith. From this stems the call and the duty of
each Christian to be a 'Good Samaritan', who ... is everyone who
stops at the suffering of another, everyone who is sensitive to the
suffering of others, everyone who is moved by the misfortunes of
others, everyone who wants to try and be 'God's hands'."
"Before
concluding his message, the Holy Father pointed out the Year of Faith
as 'a propitious occasion for rediscovering the Good Samaritan and of
living in imitation of him': in imitation of his knowing how 'to see
with compassion' and love someone who needed care and assistance; in
his knowing how to bend down and pick up the needs of others'.
...This is why it is useful to 'turn our gaze' to the many witnesses
to the faith and their charitable self-giving. It can be said that
the entire history of the Church … is marked by countless
witnesses. The Pope indicates some of those who are closest to us in
time: St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face; the venerable
Luigi Novarese; Raoul Follereau; Blessed Teresa of Calcutta; and St.
Anna Schaffer of Mindelstetten."
"Blessed
John Paul II, in the section of his Apostolic Letter Salvifici
Doloris referencing the Good Samaritan, wrote: 'At one and the same
time Christ has taught man to do good by His suffering and to do good
to those who suffer. In this double aspect He has completely revealed
the meaning of suffering.' In naming five Good Samaritans who are
close to us in history, Benedict XVI takes into consideration both
dimensions: St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face and St.
Anna Schaffer do good out of their own suffering while the other
three witnesses do good for those who are suffering."
VIA
CRUCIS: MEDITATIONS TO RECALL MIDDLE EAST
Vatican
City, 29 January 2013 (VIS) – Recalling his trip to Lebanon and
inviting the whole Church to remember the problems of and the
Christian communities in the Middle East in their prayers, the Holy
Father has invited?through his cardinal secretary of state?His
Beatitude Bechara Boutros Rai, O.M.M., Patriarch of Antioch of the
Maronites, to prepare the texts for the Via Crucis on Good Friday at
the Colosseum. Under the guidance of the Patriarch, the texts will be
prepared by two young Lebanese and will follow the traditional
pattern of the fourteen stations.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 29 January 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father appointed
Bishop Alexander King Sample as archbishop of the archdiocese of
Portland (area 76,937, population 3,296,705, Catholics 412,725,
priests 300, permanent deacons 72, religious 653), Oregon, USA.
Bishop Sample, previously bishop of Marquette, Michigan, USA, was
born in Kalispell, Montana, USA, in 1960, was ordained to the
priesthood in 1990, and received episcopal ordination in 2006. In the
national bishops' conference he currently serves on the Subcommittees
on Native American Catholics and on the Catechism. He is also
vice-postulator for the cause for canonisation of Venerable Frederic
Baraga, first bishop of the Diocese of Marquette. He succeeds
Archbishop John George Vlazny, whose resignation from the pastoral
care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having
reached the age limit.
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