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♦ NINETEENTH GENERAL CONGREGATION (TUESDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2005 -AFTERNOON)
♦ GIFT FROM THE HOLY FATHER
♦ NOTICES
♦ NINETEENTH GENERAL CONGREGATION (TUESDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2005 - AFTERNOON)
● PRESENTATION OF THE INTEGRATED LIST OF PROPOSITIONS
At 9:00 a.m. today, Tuesday 18 October 2005, feats day of saint Luke the Evangelist, doctor, patron of artists, in the presence of the Holy Father, with the prayer Hour of Terce, the Nineteenth General Congregation began, with the presentation by the Special Secretary His Exc. Most Rev. Msg. Roland MINNERATH, Archbishop of Dijon (France) of the Integrated List of Propositions, the result of the unification of the Propositions prepared by the individual Working Groups, Saturday afternoon, Sunday and Monday 15, 26, and 17 October 2005, by the Relator General together with the Special Secretary and the Relators of the Working Groups.
The President Delegate on duty was His Em. Card. Telesphore Placidus TOPPO, Archbishop of Ranchi (India).
During the closing of this General Congregation, the Secretary General gave the Holy Father the first copy of the first Enchiridion of the Synod of Bishops, containing all the Synodal documents from 1965 until 1988, in Latin and in Italian, made up of 2,800 pages. The Holy Father will give a copy of the volume to all the participants in the XI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.
This General Congregation ended at 10:15 a.m. with the prayer Angelus Domini, and 244 Fathers were present.
♦ GIFT FROM THE HOLY FATHER
At the opening of the Eighteenth General Congregation the Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops His Exc. Most Rev. Msg. Nikola ETEROVIĆ had stated that the Holy Father Benedict XVI had decided to give a special gift to all the Synodal Fathers, distinguished by Episcopal dignity.
The ring has the image of a pelican. This bird, which lives along the shores of lakes and rivers in the warm regions, feeds its little ones with food taken with the beak from the sac of skin on its chest. From this, ancient legends have imagined that the pelican, in cases of extreme needs, nourishes their little ones with its own flesh. Because of this, Christian tradition, from the Middle Ages, began using the pelican as a Eucharistic symbol, seeing in its enlivening blood the redeeming blood of Christ. Saint Augustine writes the following on this: Habeat ergo haec avis, si vere ita est, magnam similitudinem carnis Christi, cuius sanguine vivificati sumus (Enarr, in Ps 101:8; PL 37, 1299). The Eucharistic Christ is called Pie pellicane in the Hymn Adoro te devote, attributed to Saint Thomas Aquinas. Even poets such as Dante, painters such as Giotto and his school, Masolino of Panicale and Il Perugino, iconographers and miniaturists, reproduce the pelican among the Eucharistic symbols.
The ring is made in gold by the Company F.lli Savi (Title 750%, gr. 17,50). The Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI, whose stem is engraved inside the ring, gives it to the Bishops participating in the Synod on the Eucharist (October 2005).
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♦ NOTICES
● SYNOD WORK
● BRIEFINGS FOR THE LANGUAGE GROUPS
● THIRD PRESS CONFERENCE
● BULLETIN
● PRESS OFFICE HOURS
● SYNOD WORK
The Working Groups will meet on Wednesday, 19 October 2005, in the VI and VII Sessions, for the preparation of the Collective Amendments of the Propositions, which then will be given to the Secretary General.
Thursday, 20 October 2005, there will not be any General Congregation, while the General Relator, together with the Special Secretary and the Relators of the Working Groups study the Collective Amendments of the Propositions. This work will continue on Friday morning, 21 October 2005, to prepare the Presentation of the Amended Propositions during the Twenty-first General Congregation in the afternoon and the voting on the propositions for the Elenco Finalis Propositionum (Final List of Propositions) - during the Twenty-second General Congregation on Saturday morning, 22 October 2005.
As mentioned in the Calendar for the Synod Works, the presentation of the vote on the Message will take place during the Twentieth General Congregation, Friday morning, 21 October 2005.
Thursday, 20 October 2005 at 6:00 p.m. in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican City, a Concert will be held in honour of His Holiness Benedict XVI, by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Munich in Bavaria, the Regensburger Domspatzen Choir and the Athestis Chorus. Musical Director: Christian Thielemann. Program: Giovanni Pierluigi of Palestrina, Kyrie from Missa Papae Marcelli; Georg Ratzinger, Sanctus from Missa The Holy Year; Felix Mendelssohn Denn er seinen Englen; Wolfang Amadeus Mozart Ave Verum; Franz Liszt Tu es Petrus, from Christus; Hans Pfitzner of Palestrina Prelude Act I, Prelude Act II; Giuseppe Verdi Te Deum from the Four Sacred Pieces; Richard Wagner Tannhäuser Overture Act I. Speech by the Holy Father.
● BRIEFINGS FOR THE LANGUAGE GROUPS
The briefing for the language groups with the Press Attaches (Don Giorgio COSTANTINO, of the Episcopal Conference of Calabria, for Italian; Father John BARTUNEK, L.C.,for English; Father Pierre GÉRARD, S.I., Centre for Spirituality, for French; Mr. Isidoro CATELA MARCOS, Director of the office for information of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, for Spanish, Don Markus GRAULICH, S.D.B., for German) accompanied by a Synodal Father for each Language Group, will take place on Tuesday, 18 October 2005 at 12:30 (in the briefing locations indicated in Bulletin No. 2).
Below is the list of the Synodal Fathers who will be present for each Language Group.
Italian Language Group
H.Exc. Most Rev. Msg. Tadeusz KONDRUSIEWICZ
English Language Group
H.Em. Card. Peter Kodwo Appiah TURKSON
French Language Group
H.Exc. Most Rev. Msg. Laurent MONSENGWO PASINYA
Spanish Language Group
H.Em. Card. Francisco Javier ERRAZURIZ OSSA
German Language Group
H.Em. Card. Walter KASPER
We would like to remind the audio-visual operators (cameramen and technicians) that they are kindly asked to go to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications for the permit for access (very restricted).
● THIRD PRESS CONFERENCE
We would like to inform the accredited journalists that Saturday 22 October 2005, at 12.15, in the John Paul II Hall of the Holy See Press Office, the Third Press Conference on the work by the XI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (Elenchus finalis) will take place.
● His Em. Card. George PELL
Archbishop of Sydney (Australia)
● His Em. Card. Mark OUELLET, P.S.S.
Archbishop of Quebec (Canada)
● His Exc. Most Rev. Msg. Roland MINNERATH
Archbishop of Dijon (France)
Special Secretary
● His Exc. Most Rev. Msg. Salvatore FISICHELLA
Titular Bishop of Voghenza
Auxiliary of the Vicar of Rome
Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical Lateran University
Simultaneous translations in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German.
● BULLETIN
The next Bulletin No. 25 will be available to the accredited journalists at the end of the Twentieth General Congregation, Friday morning, 21 October 2005.
● PRESS OFFICE HOURS
From Tuesday, 18 October to Saturday, 22 October: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, 23 October: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. |
