{"id":7529,"date":"2011-04-23T16:19:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=7529"},"modified":"2011-04-23T16:22:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:22:49","slug":"pope-speaks-on-tv-of-suffering-resurrection-and-other-themes-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2011\/04\/23\/pope-speaks-on-tv-of-suffering-resurrection-and-other-themes-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Speaks on TV of Suffering, Resurrection and Other Themes of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leonardo Meira<\/p>\n

Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova Newsroom with material from Bulletin from the Press Office of the Holy See. (Translation into Portuguese by Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova, into English from Portuguese by the editor of this blog.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Pope Benedict XVI responded to seven questions in a program from Italian state television RaiUno, Good Friday. The special edition of the program named “The Pope Responds” and was unprecedented in the history of the Papacy.<\/p>\n

First question-children and suffering<\/strong><\/p>\n

was formulated by a 7 year-old Japenese girl, named Elena, \u00a0on the meaning\u00a0of\u00a0pain\u00a0based on the\u00a0life\u00a0and\u00a0teachings\u00a0of\u00a0Jesus, with the\u00a0backdrop of\u00a0the earthquake\u00a0and\u00a0tsunami\u00a0that\u00a0struck\u00a0the Asian\u00a0country. Daughter of an Italian father, Elena was in Japan during the earthquake that killed many children and thus she was shocked. “Why should I have such fear? Why should children have such sadness? I ask the Pope, who speaks with God to explain this to me” she asked.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Pope\u00a0responded\u00a0with\u00a0docility\u00a0to the question\u00a0of the girl,\u00a0saying that\u00a0he also\u00a0asks questions\u00a0like\u00a0this\u00a0and\u00a0we do not\u00a0have\u00a0the answers, “but we know that\u00a0Jesus\u00a0suffered\u00a0like you,\u00a0innocent,\u00a0that the true God\u00a0who shows himself\u00a0in\u00a0Jesus\u00a0is by your\u00a0side.\u00a0That seems\u00a0very\u00a0important,\u00a0yet\u00a0we do not\u00a0have the answers, sadness remains: God\u00a0is on\u00a0your\u00a0side\u00a0be\u00a0confident\u00a0that\u00a0this\u00a0will help you.\u00a0And one day\u00a0we can\u00a0also\u00a0understand why\u00a0it was\u00a0so.\u00a0At this\u00a0point\u00a0it seems important\u00a0to me\u00a0that\u00a0you may know, ‘God\u00a0loves\u00a0me’, it also seems that may not know\u00a0me. But on the contrary,\u00a0he\u00a0loves me, is\u00a0on my side, “he said.<\/p>\n

Benedict\u00a0XVI\u00a0explained\u00a0to\u00a0Elena\u00a0that\u00a0one day it will be\u00a0possible\u00a0to understand\u00a0the\u00a0that\u00a0sufferings were not\u00a0in\u00a0vain, empty,\u00a0but that behind\u00a0them is\u00a0a\u00a0good design of love.\u00a0“Assure\u00a0yourselves\u00a0that\u00a0we’re with you,\u00a0with\u00a0all the\u00a0Japanese children\u00a0who suffer,\u00a0we hope to help you\u00a0with\u00a0prayer,\u00a0with our\u00a0actions\u00a0and be\u00a0assured that\u00a0God will\u00a0help. We pray\u00a0together\u00a0so that,\u00a0upon you, the light may come as quickly as possible. ”<\/p>\n

Second question-body and soul<\/strong><\/p>\n

Made\u00a0by\u00a0an\u00a0Italian mother\u00a0named\u00a0Maria\u00a0Teresa,\u00a0who since\u00a0Easter 2009,\u00a0cares for a child\u00a0in a vegetative state.\u00a0She asked\u00a0the\u00a0Pope\u00a0if her son’s soul\u00a0left his body,\u00a0since he\u00a0is no longer conscious,\u00a0or\u00a0if it is still\u00a0with him.\u00a0“Surely\u00a0the soul\u00a0is still\u00a0present in the\u00a0body, “replied\u00a0the Pope, making\u00a0a\u00a0metaphor\u00a0with\u00a0a\u00a0guitar\u00a0whose\u00a0strings\u00a0are broken, so\u00a0that\u00a0they cannot \u00a0sound\u00a0–\u00a0the\u00a0same way, the\u00a0instrument’s\u00a0body is\u00a0fragile, vulnerable,\u00a0and the\u00a0soul\u00a0can\u00a0not\u00a0“sound”,\u00a0but\u00a0remains present.<\/p>\n

“I am\u00a0certain\u00a0that\u00a0this hidden soul feels deeply your love,\u00a0that still may not understand\u00a0the details,\u00a0the words\u00a0but\u00a0feels the\u00a0presence of love.\u00a0So\u00a0that\u00a0your presence,\u00a0dear\u00a0parents,\u00a0dear\u00a0mother\u00a0beside\u00a0him,hours\u00a0and hours\u00a0every\u00a0day,\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0true act\u00a0of love\u00a0of great value,\u00a0also\u00a0a testimony\u00a0of\u00a0faith\u00a0in God,\u00a0in man\u00a0of\u00a0commitment\u00a0for life,\u00a0even in\u00a0the saddest situations.\u00a0Therefore, I encourage you\u00a0to\u00a0continue,\u00a0to\u00a0know\u00a0that\u00a0you do a\u00a0great service to\u00a0humanity\u00a0under the sign\u00a0of\u00a0confidence, with\u00a0this love for\u00a0a\u00a0lacerated\u00a0body,\u00a0a\u00a0soul that\u00a0suffers. “<\/div>\n
Spanish version of the Answers from the Pope<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Third question-religious persecution<\/strong><\/p>\n

Came from a\u00a0group\u00a0of seven\u00a0young\u00a0Christian\u00a0students\u00a0from Baghdad,\u00a0Iraq\u00a0– a region\u00a0that\u00a0has suffered\u00a0several\u00a0attacks\u00a0againstChristians\u00a0in recent months\u00a0and\u00a0became\u00a0the land\u00a0of\u00a0martyrdom.”We\u00a0Christians\u00a0of Baghdad,\u00a0persecuted\u00a0like Jesus.\u00a0Holy Father,\u00a0in your view,\u00a0how\u00a0we can\u00a0help\u00a0our\u00a0Christian community to\u00a0reconsider the\u00a0desire\u00a0to\u00a0emigrate to\u00a0other\u00a0countries, persuading\u00a0her\u00a0that to leave\u00a0is not the\u00a0only\u00a0solution?”<\/p>\n

The Holy\u00a0Father\u00a0has revealed\u00a0that\u00a0he prays\u00a0every\u00a0day\u00a0for Christians\u00a0in\u00a0Iraq,\u00a0suffering brothers and sisters\u00a0of all\u00a0the Christians,\u00a0for\u00a0which\u00a0it is necessary to\u00a0do everything\u00a0possible\u00a0to remain\u00a0in their own\u00a0land.\u00a0In this\u00a0context,\u00a0Benedict\u00a0XVI\u00a0stressed\u00a0that people\u00a0and\u00a0institutions that can\u00a0do something for the\u00a0Christians in Iraq\u00a0must do\u00a0so\u00a0in fact,\u00a0citing the\u00a0example\u00a0of the Holy\u00a0See,\u00a0that remains\u00a0in constant dialogue\u00a0not only\u00a0with\u00a0Catholics\u00a0but\u00a0also\u00a0with other Christian communities\u00a0and\u00a0also\u00a0Muslims.\u00a0“We\u00a0do\u00a0work\u00a0for reconciliation, understanding,\u00a0also\u00a0with\u00a0the\u00a0government,\u00a0because the problem\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0society\u00a0deeply\u00a0divided,\u00a0torn.\u00a0One must\u00a0reconstruct\u00a0the awareness that,\u00a0in diversity, everyone\u00a0has\u00a0their own place\u00a0and\u00a0acommon\u00a0history.\u00a0Be aware of our\u00a0prayer. ”<\/p>\n

Fourth question-Jesus teacher of peace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bintu,\u00a0a\u00a0Muslim woman\u00a0from the\u00a0Ivory Coast, a country\u00a0at war, tellsthe Pope\u00a0that\u00a0Christians\u00a0and\u00a0Muslims\u00a0have always lived\u00a0in\u00a0harmony in\u00a0their\u00a0country,\u00a0but\u00a0the\u00a0current political scene\u00a0sows\u00a0division\u00a0anddiscord.\u00a0“Jesus\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0man of\u00a0peace.\u00a0You,\u00a0as\u00a0an ambassador\u00a0ofJesus, what would you advise\u00a0for our\u00a0country?”<\/p>\n

The Bishop of Rome said having received many letters that show the suffering of the people of the Ivory Coast and that he remains sad for being able to do so little. “However, we can do one thing always: to be in prayer with yoiu and whenever possible, works of charity and overall help according to our possibilities, political contacts. . .” The pope remember that for Bint\u00f9, a Moslem, Jesus is a prophet and always a man of peace: if one could hopt that when God comes to earth he may be a man of great strength to destroy the adverse forces. However, he came broken, only with the force of love, totally without violence to giving himself on the cross.<\/div>\n

“This shows the true face of God, that violence never comes from God, it never helps to produce good things, but is is a destructive mode and is not the road to exit from difficulties. Therefore, God is a strong voice against all types of violence. And this dear Lady, is the true message of Jesus: seek peace with the media of peace and let of go of violence,” he stressed.<\/p>\n

Fifth question-resurrection<\/strong><\/p>\n

An Italian man asked the Pope what happened to Jesus in the space of time between the death and Resurrection. “Once the the prayer of the Creed said that Jesus after death, descended into Hell, also can one think that something like this will happen also to us after death and before going to Heaven?”<\/p>\n

In accord with the Successor of Peter, one should not interpret the descent of\"\"<\/a> Jesus to Hell as a geographical journey, as from one continent to the other. Before all it is a journey of the soul. Even the that the sould of Jesus corresponds itself always to the Father, it may be always in contact with the Father, at the same time this human soul extends itself to the ultimate confines of the human being. The Lord goes to encounter the lost, those that already ended their Earthly journey.<\/p>\n

“The efficacy of the Redemption does not being in the year zero or 30, but goes also to the past, embraces the past, all men of all times. The man by himself cannot arrive at the stature of God. Therefore, the descent into Hell is an essential part of the mission of Jesus, of his Redemptive mission and does not apply to us. Our life is different, we are already redeemed by the Lord and we will arrive at the face of the judge after death, under the gaze of Jesus and this gaze through one side will be purificator and on the other, will make us capable of living with God, of living with the Saints, of living in communion with our loved ones that preceded us,” responded the Pope.<\/p>\n

Sixth question-glorious body<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another Italian man asked the Pope on the significance that the resurrected body of Jesus did not have the same characteristics of the one before. “What exactly is the significance of the glorified body? And the resurrection, for us will it be also like this?<\/p>\n

The Pontiff made clear that one cannot define the glorified body because it is beyond our experience. However, the signs can be remembered that Jesus gave on this theme: The first is that the tomb is empty. In this sense Jesus does not allow his body to corrupt, showing that also the material is destined to eternity and assumes a new condition of life. The second point, therefore, is that Jesus does not die again, he is beyond the laws of biology, of physics, because the dead submit to these. Then it is a new condition, a great promise for all of us that there will be a new world, a new life, the path to which we are walking.<\/p>\n

In these conditions, Jesus let’s himself touch, eats with his own, but this is beyond the biological conditions of life. He is not a ghost, but a true man, that lives a true life, but a new life. “In the Eucharist, the Lord gives us his glorified body, he does not give us flesh to eat in the biological sense, he gives Himself, ,this newness that He is, enters in our being, in our person, and touches us interiorly with his being, of whatever for that we can allow ourselves to penetrate by his presence, transforming through is presence. It is an important point, because thus we are already in \u00a0contact with this new life, this new type of life. I think that this aspect of promise, of reality that He gives himself to me amd bring me outside of me, up high, is the most important point: One does not treat as memories things that one cannot understand, but to be on route to the newness that begins always anew in the Eucharist.<\/p>\n

Seventh question-Mary<\/strong><\/p>\n

The last question, made by the presenter of the program, Rosario Carello, the Holy Father speaks on the dialogue between Mary, John and Jesus on the cross. Carello asked how to understand the words “This is your son” and “This is your Mother.” What is the meaning of having been pronounced in that moment and what is the meaning also today. After this, the presentor questioned if the Pope felt in his heart the desire to renew a consecration to the Virgin in the beginning of the new millenium.<\/p>\n

Benedict XVI stressed that the words of Jesus are over all a very human act. In the East at that time, a woman alone was an unthinkable situation. Later, Jesus trusted his mother to John in order that she may be sure. “This appears to me very beautiful, very important, that before all of the theology we may see in this the true humanity, the true humanism of Jesus, ” he said. However, such gesture is not said in respect only to that moment, but all of history. In John, Jesus trust the Church and its members to his Mother and at the same time, the Mother to us. Throughout history this was concretizing each time again with the depth of conscience of which Mary is a true mother for all Christians, as the spread of shrines show and the devotion disseminated in all the world.<\/p>\n

For those that defend the “lack of biblical foundation” for the Marian devotion, the Pope said” “Here I will respond with St. Gregory the Great: with a growing reading of the words of Scripture’ this is developed into reality, growing and always more in history this word develops. And we can with great confidence see this Mother. On the other side, it is worth stressing also that the Mother expresses also the Church. We cannot be Christians alone, with a Christiantiy constructed according to my idea. The Mother is the image of the Church, of the Mother Church, and trusting ourselves to Mary we should trust ourselves also to the Church living the Church being Church with Mary.”<\/p>\n

With relation to the renewal of the consecration of the world to the Virgin in the beginning of the new\u00a0millennium, the Holy Father remembers that the Popes such as Pius XII, Paul VI, John Paul II made a great Act of Trust to Our Lady, very important before humanity and Mary herself. “I think that now it would be important to interiorize this act, of allowing ourselves to penetrate of realizing it in ourselves. I think that the great public act was made. Perhaps one day it may be necessary to repeat it, but in the moment it appears to me more important to live it, realize it, enter in this trust, in order that it may be really ourss. The common trust in Mary, the allowing her to penetrate for this presence and to form, to enter into communion with Mary, makes us Church, makes us together with Mary truly this spouse of Christ. Therefore, in the moment there will not have the intention of a new public Act of Confidence, but I would like to invite to enter in the trust already proclaimed, in order that it may be really lived by us each day and thus grows a Church really\u00a0Marian\u00a0that is Mother, Spouse and Daughter of Jesus.”<\/p>\n

The Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pope response, was a special edition of the program “His Image-Question on Jesus” in which the Pontiff clarified the questions formulated by persons in general, not necessarily Christians, on the Catholic faith and the figure of Christ-to which the Pope already dedicated two recent works of the series Jesus of Nazareth <\/em>and a third is in preparation-Good with some theses of human life in the actual world, affected by natural disasters and religious persecutions.<\/p>\n

The question were formulated to the Holy Father through a video message that was retransmitted in a monitor installed in his Library of the Apostolic Palace, where the taping of the interview on Wednesday April 20 took place. The transmission through RaiUno began at 14h10( Rome time\u20149h10 Brasilia Time.)<\/p>\n

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