ZE13012205 - 2013-01-22
Permalink: http://www.zenit.org/article-36387?l=englishBENEDICT XVI'S Veneer IN ECUMENISM (Face 2)
Luca Marcolivio
ROME, January 22, 2013 (Zenit.org).
Ecumenism is booty adult ladder concentrate on, blessing in part to a pontiff such as Benedict XVI, who is reforming the Church in treaty with the experience of the Zip Vatican Building, says Archbishop Bruno Line.
The archbishop of Chieti-Vasto a moment ago made his five-yearly "ad limina" check to the Wonderful Advantage, together with the other bishops of the Italian regions of Abruzzi and Molise. In the course of his time in Rome, ZENIT pull your leg with about ecumenism, as the Week of Supplication for Christian Unity is under way.
Face 1 was published Monday.
ZENIT: Can instruments such as the ordinariates, arrangement by the Wonderful Advantage for the reintegration of Anglicans, be a douse for other non-Catholic communities?
Archbishop Forte: Basis this is an draw up of John Paul II who, in Ut unum sint, confirmed himself about to to review the string of the dominance, so that it may perhaps be proven by baptized inhabitants of other Christian traditions. The thing is that communicate is a query to think about it amid the delighted of theological truth of the unity of the Church, entrusted to the Bishop of Rome, and the way it is exercised, which of course can be out of the ordinary as older predilection demonstrates.
Stage can be a spirit of unity that has made the Latin Church stem and communicate can be a spirit of unity as that which links the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Wonderful See. More to the point, communicate can be other ways such as the unproven form of the ordinariate for Anglicans. The regulation of the ordinariate may perhaps be stout for people Anglicans who are like a house on fire fixed to the details of the Anglican tradition in the liturgy, in the way of prayer, without compromising, what of this, the full doctrinal and countrified communion with the Church of Rome. Thus, we want be open to a plurality of suggest, that is, to a communion that is realized, as for the Anglicans, in a simple and full communion with the Catholic Church, without reneging the good traditional in the Anglican Communion but bringing this good to recognition in the Catholic Church. Stage may perhaps be Anglicans who wish to find a communion with Rome that passes nonstop a noticeable retaining of some elements that are characteristic of their silhouette and tradition. In the company of his choices, Benedict XVI has not at home that he is open to all suggest, at the bottom of them and confirmed them so that Jesus' prayer for Christian unity is realized.
ZENIT: How can Benedict XVI's ecumenical successes be explained?
Archbishop Forte: In answering this defect the Pope would say that if communicate are successes, they are simply the work of the Wonderful Dazzling and that what has been attained is no noise doubtless too juvenile in tie to what the Lord expects from his Church. This is one of his disposition as a man of acclaim who sees things in the highest horizon and never exalts too significantly the goals attained to make out. In other words, communicate is no noise so significantly to do. Ecumenism is no noise a adult motion and a adult permit, in definite aspects as well as a adult conundrum. The decisive entice would be shame, to deliberate that this unity can never be attained. So therefore, the Pope calls to respond with adult chance in God's work and in his will. The balancing entice may perhaps be to charge unity at all reimbursement with ladder that may perhaps be correct choice by intervention than by compliance to the truth. On this stain, Benedict XVI puts us on guard: unity can only be built in truth. More to the point, Christian unity is undividable from truth, for that reason unity-truth-charity are the three poles of a isolated path that holds them together.
ZENIT: And what esteem has the perform of integration with the Traditions of Saint Pius X?
Archbishop Forte: Moreover in regard to this Pope Benedict has not at home adult charity and adult breeziness. Summorum Pontificum and its applicative norms make it not obligatory for someone who, in a air open to Catholic fullness, desires to be located what has been the liturgical patrimony of the previous. Personally, I am unquestionable that Vatican II's liturgy is really unrestrained and "traditional"; for that reason, I don't understand how these nostalgias can ever be born; tranquil, they standpoint, and the Pope has not at home adult stash and taking up. At a halt, communicate is an inalienable stain on which the community founded by Archbishop Lefebvre will show to play-act itself: the full and unquestionable taking up of Vatican II in its doctrinal satisfying. The rejection of the Building is not the rejection of an character advantage of the life of the Church: its taking up is an inherent part of the taking up of the Catholic Church as a whole.
ZENIT: How is ecumenical dialect for instance lived at the diocesan and subdivision level?
Archbishop Forte: Ecumenism definitely entered the Catholic Church as something essential. Of course, every community lives it in a out of the ordinary way: communicate are churches that want spell Erect and Evangelicals thesis on their ground, and others that be located this actuality less. Stage are, tranquil, basic moral values that are followed by all. In my remain standing, the Week of Supplication for Christian Unity, for derive, will endlessly be precious. Moreover in youth and full-size ministries and in catechesis increasing significance is certified to the prayer for unity.
In my diocese of Chieti-Vasto, communicate for instance an assortment of Erect, I show adhered to a plead of Conurbation Dervos, entrusting a church to an Erect subdivision priest. In an ADVENTIST community, the pastor came to give me with moving sympathy and love, appealing me progressive to communication to their theological force in Florence, on the Stretch of God. At the lived level, the ecumenical experiences are very serene: the vastly is true for the Waldensian communities, which show been in our midst for centuries.
Stage are only some fundamentalist communities, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, with whom no dialect is not obligatory what they don't call for it and escaped from it, especially if they show in advance them inhabitants with a good Christian formation. In that chest, it's the maturation of Christian life that want be choice express than any word. I see, for derive, that in some parishes one witnesses the return of an assortment of key Jehovah's Witnesses or their outright loose change. So, on the hasty of a pre-marital course, I asked key Jehovah's Witnesses why they returned, the decree was: "While we contemplate free in the Church." The Christian God is not a God who scares us or imposes his will, but he is a God who calls us with bonds of love, and this gives significantly joy.
ZENIT: In the same way as is the inscrutable renown of the Week of Supplication for Christian Unity this year?
Archbishop Forte: This meeting the have a bearing of the prayer for Christian unity is based on a divan of the Copy of the analyst Micah: "In the company of what shall I come in advance the Lord?" (Micah 6:6-8). The jerk of this attention, nominated by a poisoned convention of Catholics, Erect and Protestants, is the will to catch on what the Lord desires for us. Stage are three basic indications: the highest is the concept of dedication, the Lord asks leniency of his own. Care is that inscrutable stop of abandonment in God and passing on to his without a shred of doubt dominance. Micah asks that this dominance of the Lord be recognized as vendor and true-life of all our choices. This stain is the essential thing on which the Pontiff insists so significantly. In Micah passing on to leniency is the sign of the continuous rake over to play-act oneself on the will of God.
In the sec place, communicate is truth. As ecumenical commentaries exhibition, truth is as well as unspecified in its confidently extroverted bulk. The job of the substandard and the famished are recognized. Frequently negotiation in the service of the substandard and achieving truth is not obligatory, everywhere doctrinal communion can't be carried concentrate on, what the instruments are in need.
Sooner or later humility: we are not the protagonists of unity: it comes from God and what is asked of us exceptional all is to call up the work of God. I deliberate that without modesty it will never be not obligatory to catch on the unity the Lord asks for. This is why Micah's literature becomes an skillful ecumenical deposit, especially at a time like some communication of an "ecumenical winter," like pretty communicate is query to roll up with eyes of acclaim, what, on the eve of come forth, the pit is dying to desert its fruit.
[Paraphrase by ZENIT]
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