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BOTH PAPAL SECRETARIES
MARK SILVER JUBILEE
OF THEIR PRIESTHOOD

Translated from
the 6/3 issue of




By a happy coincidence, both of Pope Benedict's private secretaries marked the 25th anniversary of their ordination as priest within a few days of each other - Mons. Alfred Xuereb on May 26 and Mons. Georg Gaenswein on May 30.





It was a 'family celebration' at the Vatican on Monday to mark the silver jubilee of the ordination to priesthood of Mons. Georg Gaenswein, the Pope's private secretary since 2003.

In the late afternoon of Monday, June 1, some 80 persons, including family and friends, attended a votive Mass for the Holy Spirit celebrated by the jubilarian at the Church of St. Stephen of teh Abyssinians inside the Vatican.

Fr. Herman Geissler, of the L'Opera spiritual family, delivered the homily, underscoring the significance of the priestly ministry and of Mons. Gaenswein's particular service.

Along with the Pope's other close aides in the Apostolic Palace, including Mons. Alfred Xuereb, the other papal secretary (named in 2007) and several representatives from the Secretariat of State, the guests included Archbishops James Harvey (prefect of the Pontifical Household) and Rino Fisichella (rector of the Pontifical Lateran University), the Pope's brother Mon. Georg Ratzinger, Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Mons. Guido Marini and Guido Pozzo, Mons. Giuseppe Siacca, the German ambassador to the Holy See, the commanders of the Swiss Guard and the Pope's Gendarmerie, the superintendent of the Pontifical villas, and the editor of the German weekly edition of L'Osservatore Romano.

After the Mass, Benedict XVI arrived to greet the guests and to join a dinner held at the Casina di Pio IV located in the Vatican Gardens.


The Pope and his two secretaries photographed in Kenthurst, Australia in July 2008.



Some background info From ZENIT on the two secretaries:

Mons. Gaenswein was ordained a priest in Freiburg on May 31, 1984. Born July 20, 1956, in Rieden-am-Wald (state of Baden-Wuerttemberg), he obtained his doctorate in Canon Law from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

After working briefly at the Congregation for Divine Worship, he was assigned in 1996 to work with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. During that time, he was also a professor of canon law at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce in Rome.

He became Cardinal Ratzinger's private secretary after his longtime secretary, Mons. Josef Clemens, was promoted to be Secretary of the Congregation for the Laity in 2003.

Mons. Gaenswein chose the motto “Omnia possum in eo, qui me confortat” (I have the strength for everything through him who empowers me) (Phi 4,13).


Mons. Alfred Xuereb was ordained a priest in Gozo, Malta, on May 26, 1984, and was named to be the Pope's second private secretary after the nomination of Mons. Mietek Mocryczki to be Archbishop Coadjutor (now the Archbishop himself) of Lvov in the Ukraine.

For his jubilee motto he chose a line from Benedict XVI's teaching: "I seek not to be understood by the world, but to be with Christ in the truth."


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