Catching up with the few photo posts available of Benedict XVI in June and July...
Beginning with June 29, which was the 67th anniversary of Joseph
Ratzinger's ordination to the priesthood, and this precious videoclip
showing the highlights of that day in 1951.
How providential it is that this is probably the only film
documentation available so far of the priestly ordination of
a future pope!
This June 29, however, Pope Francis - for the third time in three
consistories - took his new cardinals to pay their respects to
Benedict XVI at Mater Ecclesiae.
Click here for the videoclip: [BTW, how long has the pope walked with that uneven gait?]
www.facebook.com/vaticannews.it/videos/2515532925139189/
The reigning pope appears to have kissed the ring of the Emeritus. Why the sudden impulse?
Let me be a killjoy, but I find this Bergoglio 'ritual' a not-too-subtle way of co-opting Benedict XVI into his choice of new cardinals by busing them to the Emeritus Pope's residence and having them received in the chapel, where the latter was, of course, expected to bless the new cardinals. I don't see any blessing actually given in this videoclip, although it does appear to end with a prayer they all say together.
On July 2, Benedict XVI welcomed a delegation from Brazil led by Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis of Aparecida. With him were Professors Rudy Albino de Assunção (and his family) and Gilcemar Hohemberger, of the Centro Universitario Catolica de Quizada, co-authors of a recent book published in Portuguese, entitled
O Primado do Amor e da Verdade: O Patrimonio spiritual do Joseph Ratzinger/Bento XVI (The Primacy of Love and of Truth: The Spiritual Patrimony of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI).
Assunção has authored 5 other books on Benedict XVI:
O Sacrificio do Palavra: A liturgia da Missa segundo Bento XVI (Sacrifice of words: The liturgy of the Mass according to Benedict XVI);
Bento XVI, a Igreja Catolica, e O 'Espiritu da Modernidade': Un analisi da visao do papa teologo sobre 'o mundo di hoje' (Benedict XVI, the Catholic Church, and the 'spirit of modernity': An analysis of the theologian pope's views on 'the world today"; and a 3-volume set entitled
Ser Cristao na Era Neopaga (Being Christian in the Neo-Pagan Era), which is a translation into Portuguese of the interviews given by Cardinal Ratzinger to the now defunct monthly magazine 30 GIORNI.
Vatican News reported the meeting:
In the late afternoon of July 2, Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis visited Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI in the Vaticna Gardens.
“He welcomed us near the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. He sat on a bench and we sat beside him. He listened to all of us with great patience and paternal affection. The meeting lasted almost half an hour”, Cardinal Assis told Vatican News.
Dom Damasceno was accompanied by Professors Rudy Albino de Assunção (with his family) and Gilcemar Hohemberger – authors of a recent book on the Emeritus Pope – as well as members of the Editora Molokai publishing house, who presented him with a set of books containing his homilies as Pope translated to Portuguese.
On his Facebook Page, Assunção posted the photos of “my entire family photographed with the great, paternal and unforgettable Benedict XVI”.
With Cardinal Damsceno Assis:
Prof. Hohemberger, who also presented the Emeritus with the three volumes of his papal homilies translated to Portuguese:
The new book co-authored/edited by Hohemberger and Assunção:
Prof. Assunção and family with the Holy Father:
An advertisement in Rio de Janeiro for a special 4th of July book sale featuring books by or on Benedict XVI, including those written by Assunção:
BTW, do not under-estimate Catholic book sales in Brazil, which has the world's largest Catholic population, currently estimated at about 137 million, even if they now represent only about 65%
of the country's total population. Even if only 1% buy Catholic books, that's still 1.37 million, which represents a great incentive for Catholic book publishers and authors.
In June, other than the visit of the new cardinals, only these were seen online and captured thanks to Beatrice on her website, which has become my chief
source of B16 photo leads...
Right, a visit on June 1 by the President Minister of Bavaria, Marcus Söder (CSU); left, a visit on June 6 by Mons. Antonio Guido Filipazzi, Apostolic Nuncio
to Nigeria, and another Italian priest not identified in the caption provided. Filipazzi was consecrated archbishop by Benedict XVI in 2011 after he named him
Nuncio to Indonesia. Filipazzi was reasssigned to Nigeria in 2017.
There's a brief YouTube video of Minister Söder"s visit, which also shows his earlier meeting with Pope Francis.
youtu.be/7sRZcsmioTc
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 07/07/2018 21:25]