VATICAN CITY, February 23, 2011 (VIS). Catechesis of Benedict XVI's general audience in Paul VI Hall, focused on St. Robert Bellarmine (1542 - 1621), a leading figure of the Church in a troubled period, when many countries had severed their ties with the headquarters Apostolic. Having received extensive training, he became a Jesuit in 1560 and continued his studies in Rome, Padua and Louvain. He became Cardinal Bishop of Capua performing many missions in the service of the Pope. Member of several Roman congregations, he represented the Holy See in Venice and England. His several books on spirituality resume its annual Retreat. Robert Bellarmine was beatified and canonized by Pius XI, who declared a Doctor of the Church in 1931.
Its Controversies, said Benedict XVI, who remains a reference for the Catholic ecclesiology, "insists on the institutional aspect of the Church, against the errors of the time on this. There emerges aspects invisible to the Church as the Mystical Body by playing on the relationship between body and soul to describe the relationship between the wealth of the Church and making it visible from the outside. In this monumental work, which tries to resolve theological disputes of his time, he refrains from any controversy and hostility towards the positions of the Reformation. Using the arguments of reason and church tradition, he articulates the Catholic doctrine. But his legacy remains in his method of work, major responsibilities who never stopped to stretch every day to holiness in compliance with its obligation to religious, priest and bishop ... His preaching and catechesis reflect the same essential meaning of learned Ignatian education, which concentrates the forces of the soul on the Lord intensely known, loved and imitated ".
In his book Gemitu columbae," where the dove symbolizes the Church, clergy and called Robert Bellarmine loyal to a serious reform of personal life, the teaching of Scripture and the saints ... Himself, by his life example, taught that there can be no real reform without reform of the Church and personal conversion of heart. "He said:" If thou hast wisdom, understand that you were created for the glory of God and your eternal salvation ... Events happy or unhappy, wealth or poverty, health or sickness, honors or contempt, life or death, the wise shall neither seek nor shun them. These things are desirable if they contribute to the glory of God and our eternal happiness. They are bad and they are to escape if they are an obstacle. "These words of St. Robert Bellarmine, found the Holy Father," are not out of fashion. They must think carefully to guide our lives down here, where our way is the Lord ... It is important to have confidence in him, to live in fidelity to the Gospel, to enlighten every moment and every action of our life in the light of faith and prayer. "
Before the hearing, Benedict XVI proceeded with the blessing of a statue of St. Brown, founder of the Maronite Church, placed in a niche outside of the Vatican Basilica. Carrara is a work of more than 5 m tall, sculpted by English Arco Augusto Dueñas. Present at the ceremony, Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, and Michel Sleiman, President of the Lebanese Republic.
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Its Controversies, said Benedict XVI, who remains a reference for the Catholic ecclesiology, "insists on the institutional aspect of the Church, against the errors of the time on this. There emerges aspects invisible to the Church as the Mystical Body by playing on the relationship between body and soul to describe the relationship between the wealth of the Church and making it visible from the outside. In this monumental work, which tries to resolve theological disputes of his time, he refrains from any controversy and hostility towards the positions of the Reformation. Using the arguments of reason and church tradition, he articulates the Catholic doctrine. But his legacy remains in his method of work, major responsibilities who never stopped to stretch every day to holiness in compliance with its obligation to religious, priest and bishop ... His preaching and catechesis reflect the same essential meaning of learned Ignatian education, which concentrates the forces of the soul on the Lord intensely known, loved and imitated ".
In his book Gemitu columbae," where the dove symbolizes the Church, clergy and called Robert Bellarmine loyal to a serious reform of personal life, the teaching of Scripture and the saints ... Himself, by his life example, taught that there can be no real reform without reform of the Church and personal conversion of heart. "He said:" If thou hast wisdom, understand that you were created for the glory of God and your eternal salvation ... Events happy or unhappy, wealth or poverty, health or sickness, honors or contempt, life or death, the wise shall neither seek nor shun them. These things are desirable if they contribute to the glory of God and our eternal happiness. They are bad and they are to escape if they are an obstacle. "These words of St. Robert Bellarmine, found the Holy Father," are not out of fashion. They must think carefully to guide our lives down here, where our way is the Lord ... It is important to have confidence in him, to live in fidelity to the Gospel, to enlighten every moment and every action of our life in the light of faith and prayer. "
Before the hearing, Benedict XVI proceeded with the blessing of a statue of St. Brown, founder of the Maronite Church, placed in a niche outside of the Vatican Basilica. Carrara is a work of more than 5 m tall, sculpted by English Arco Augusto Dueñas. Present at the ceremony, Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, and Michel Sleiman, President of the Lebanese Republic.
AG / SCREW 20110223 (580)
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