![]() ![]() “Thus, on that eve of my ordination, a deep impression was left on my soul of what it means to be ordained a priest, beyond all the ceremonial aspects: it means that we must continually be purified and overcome by Christ so that He is the one who speaks and acts in us, and less and less we ourselves. The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places: for my inheritance is goodly to me” (Ps. ![]() Thus, I could consider that the words of this Psalm applied to all my destiny: “The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me. ![]() I suddenly understood what the Lord expected of me at this time: He wanted to have my life entirely at His disposal, and, at the same time, He trusted entirely in me. From the Depths of Our Hearts consists of an introduction (Of What Are You Afraid?) and a conclusion (In the shadow of the Cross), inside of which is the part written by the Pope-emeritus (The Catholic Priesthood) and another by the Guinean prelate (Love Until the End).īenedict XVI, by evoking his reception of tonsure and his priestly ordination, at the beginning and at the end of his seminary years, reminds us that the priest’s gift to God is total: “I keep alive in my memory the memory of the day when, the eve of the reception of the tonsure, I meditated on this verse of Psalm 16. Without waiting for the response that Pope Francis will give to the demands of the Synod in his next apostolic exhortation, the two authors declare, following St. However, as the Vaticanist Sandro Magister reminds us, “this synod was precisely imagined and organized with one main objective: to open to ordination the viri probati in the Amazon, and then to extend this novelty to the whole Church.” In Response to the Synod on the Amazon 111, is stated: “In this regard (the ordination of married men), some (synod fathers) were in favor of a more universal approach to the subject,”-universal, that is, not strictly Amazonian. The two authors strongly oppose the priestly ordination of married men, presented in No.111 of the Final Document of the Synod on the Amazon in these terms: “we propose,” wrote the synod fathers, “that criteria and dispositions be established by the competent authority, within the framework of Lumen Gentium 26, to ordain as priests suitable and respected men of the community with a legitimately constituted and stable family, who have had a fruitful permanent diaconate and received an adequate formation for the priesthood, in order to sustain the life of the Christian community through the preaching of the Word and the celebration of the Sacraments in the most remote areas of the Amazon region.”Īnd at the end of this No. (See the links below for FSSPX.News's two articles on this subject.) While Pope Francis in the near future must make his apostolic exhortation public, concluding the work of the Synod on the Amazon (October 6-27, 2019), Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, on January 15, 2020, “with the contribution of Benedict XVI,” published a book in French entitled Des Profondeurs de nos Cœurs (From the Depths of Our Hearts).Īnnounced on January 13 by Le Figaro as a book co-written by the Pope Emeritus and the Guinean cardinal, the work has been the subject of intense criticism and various pressures. ![]()
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