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Without entering into the merit of specific technical solutions, the Church is nonetheless concerned, as an “expert in humanity,” to call attention to the relationship between the Creator, human beings and the created order... Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change, desertification, the deterioration and loss of productivity in vast agricultural areas, the pollution of rivers and aquifers, the loss of biodiversity, the increase of natural catastrophes and the deforestation of equatorial and tropical regions? Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of “environmental refugees,” people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake it... +>>>
New Translation of Divine Office for Africa
The new edition of the Divine Office began four years ago and was completed in 2009. It is being launched in the context of the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, which is in progress till Oct. 25 2009.
The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments encouraged the project and asked the Kenyan episcopal conference to approve the new liturgical texts and propose them to the Vatican for the "confirmatio."
There are a number of revisions in the new edition: Sunday Lauds and Vespers have been enriched by new antiphons for the "Benedictus" and "Magnificat."
New saints and feasts now on the General Roman Calendar have been included, for example, the Most Holy Name of Jesus and St. Josephine Bakhita (herself an African), and Padre Pio.
The complete edition is a four-volume set and follows the layout and style of the Latin edition.
A shorter two-volume version has also been prepared, particularly for seminarians and the laity.
For more information and to purchase:
www.paulinesafrica.org/catalogue2/new
Theme for World Communications Day 2010
For World Communications Day 2010, Pope Benedict XVI has chosen the theme
“The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word.”
The Pope “wants to invite priests in a special way, during this Year for Priests, to recognize the enormous potential
of the new media in their ministry at the service of the Word. He also wants to encourage them to face the challenges springing from the new digital culture.”
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