Pontiff Ordains 5 Bishops

Urges Priests to Be Faithful, Prudent, Good Servants

(Zenit.org).- On Saturday, Benedict XVI ordained five Italian bishops in St. Peter's Basilica, and urged them to be servants that exemplify fidelity, prudence and goodness.
The Pope had been working with three of the new prelates in the Secretariat of State, and now will be sending them as his representatives to various countries.
Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia was appointed apostolic nuncio to Lebanon in July. Archbishop Franco Coppola will represent the Pontiff in Burundi, and Archbishop Pietro Parolin will be nuncio in Venezuela.
Bishop Raffaello Martinelli, a close collaborator with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was ordained by the Pontiff to lead the Diocese of Frascati, close to Rome.
The fifth newly ordained prelate, Bishop Giorgio Corbellini, who served for some time as the vice secretary-general of the Governor's Office for Vatican City State, was appointed in July as president of the Central Labor Office of the Holy See.
Priestly essence
In the homily of the ordination Mass, the Holy Father underlined the role of the bishop, and all priests, as "servant."
It is the "most profound nucleus of Jesus Christ's mission" and the "true essence of his priesthood," he said, to serve and "give yourselves" for God.
Benedict XVI pointed out that Christ has "made the term 'servant' his highest title of honor," thereby giving us "a new image of God and of man."
The Pope urged the bishops to be servants who exemplify three characteristics: fidelity, prudence and goodness.
Regarding the first of these, the Pontiff explained that the servant "is entrusted with a great good that does not belong to him."
He continued: "The Church is not 'our' Church, but his Church, God's Church.
"The servant must give an account of the way that he has taken care of the goods that have been entrusted to him. We do not bind men to us; we do not seek power, prestige, esteem for ourselves.
"We lead men to Jesus Christ and so to the living God."
"Fidelity is not fear," the Holy Father clarified, "but it is inspired by love and its dynamism."
Truly reasonable
Speaking about the second characteristic, Benedict XVI explained, "Prudence means engaging in the pursuit of truth and acting in a way that conforms to it."
He exhorted his listeners to become "truly reasonable men, who judge on the basis of the whole and not according to accidental details."
"We do not let ourselves be guided by the little window of our personal cleverness," the Pope affirmed, "but by the big window that Christ has opened up to the whole truth for us." In this way "we look upon the world and men" and from this perspective "see what truly counts in life."
The third characteristic that Jesus lauds in a servant, the Pontiff stated, is goodness.
He affirmed that God "is the Good, the Good par excellence, Goodness in person."
The Holy Father continued: "In a creature -- in man -- being good is therefore necessarily based on a deep interior orientation to God. Goodness grows with interior unification with the living God."
This was the second episcopal ordination celebrated by Benedict XVI, the first having taken place on Sept. 29, 2007.
The Pope's secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, also took part in the ordination, along with the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal William Joseph Levada.

DI BINTISINKU DJADUMINGU SIKLO B

Promé Lektura : Sabiduria 2, 12. 17-20
Salmo : Salmo 54, 1-4. 6
Di dos Lektura : Hakobo 3, 16-4,3
Evangelio : Marko 9, 30-37


E Evangelio di awe ta pone nos dilanti di reflekshon riba dos tema masha importante den bida kristian: humildat i sirbishi.
Hesus ta aparesé kombersando ku su disipelnan ku no ta kaba di komprondé loke E ta bisando nan tokante Yu di hende. Nan no ta komprondé i tin miedu di hasi pregunta. Nan tabata pensa riba e reino di kua Hesus tabata papia ku nan den término simplemente humano. Señor ta tuma inisiativa i ta kontestá nan tokante nan preokupashonnan.
E promé kontesta ku Kristu ta duna ta referí na humildat.
Segun siglonan ta pasa por ta e loke ta nifiká ser humilde a kambia di su realidat original.
Asina nan tabata yama esun ku kompleho humilde, esun sin karakter, esun ku no a kaba di klara su mes interiormente, i tabata hasi referensia poniendo esaki kontra di esun ku tabatin su mes forma di ser i di pensa. Santa Teresa di Hesus tabata bisa ku "humildat ta e bèrdat", òf sea, ser humilde ta rekonosé nos mes dilanti Dios, dilanti nos mes i dilanti di otronan, tal manera nos ta, ku nos tragedia i miserianan, ku nos karisma i kualidatnan. Ken por duda ku San Pedro i San Pablo, personalidatnan mas ku fuerte, tabata personanan humilde? Sigur nan tabata pasobra nan a pone nan mes dilanti Dios tal i manera nan tabata i Dios a duna nan kontesta pa nan bida, transformando nan for di paden.
E disipelnan ei tabata programando nan futuro ambishonando puestonan haltu den e reino ei ku Hesus lo a trese, pero awor e Maestro ta plantea na nan otro tipo di ambishon. Na lugá di ambishon di ku lo hasi tur kos pa nan E ta eksponé na nan e ambishon pa hasi kos pa otro. Loke e disipelnan tabata deseá, na lugá di ser un medio pa gana preferensia den su reino, únikamente tabata sirbi pa e reino aki lo no yega.
E mundu ku ta toka nos na biba riba dje no ta lugá kaminda ta defendé humildat; lo bisa todo lo kontrario, djei un di e konfliktonan permanente ku e tipo aki di sosiedat kaminda esnan mas debil i esnan mas humilde ta esnan marginá. Nos komo kristian den e mundu di awe mester ta e mihó defensornan di esnan mas debil i indefenso, sin kere ku nos ta salbadó di ningun hende sino purbando ku di bèrdat tur hende ta konosé e úniko Salbador.
Kreyentenan den Hesus ta yamá pa ser humilde pa por sirbi. Ora komo kristian ta papia di "opshon preferensial pa esnan pober" nos no ta propagando literatura barata, sino nos ta konstatando presensia di Señor den esnan mas débil i sin poseshon.
E di dos yamada ku Hesus ta hasi na nos ta sirbishi na otro. Sirbishi desinteresá na otro,spesial pa esnan mas débil i pober di nos mundu. Nos tin ku siña laga nos egoismo i ambishonnan chikitu lòs pa komprendé e misterio di Kristu. E disipelnan tabata ke prestigio, rekonosementu humano i hasi karera, no sirbishi na otro.
Algun hende lo por bisa ku sierto rason ku "hende no meresé nada..." "... total... pa loke nan lo bai gradisíbo..." I por ta ku e afirmashonnan aki ta enserá algu di bèrdat, pero e kristian sa kiko e ta hasi i pakiko e ta hasié, i den e akshon aki e ta deskubrí boluntat i e amor di Dios den su bida.
E reino di Dios ta un reino di sirbidónan na otro. Kuantu bia den nos komunidatnan nos ta mira rumannan ku ta buskando rekonosementu humano pa nan tarea! Nan ta keda frustrá ora nan tuma nota ku dediká bida na otro no ta pa rekonosementu humano sino e profundidat dibino ku ta loke lo tin komo rekompensa.
Iglesia no mester parse strukturanan sivil, si e hasié anto e lo alehá e modelo di Kristu di su ser komunidat konvoká i yamamentu huntu di Hesus. Bèrdat ta ku den Iglesia lo mester tin un outoridat i un organisashon, pero e komportashon lo mester ta masha diferente na e outoridat mundano. Den e mundu di fe outoridat ta sirbishi.
Sirbi pa ser esun mas grandi, esaki ta un di e mensahenan mas importante ku Hesus a laga pa nos. Su ehèmpel a bai mas ayá, E no a hasi únikamente bon obra sino ku El a entregá su mes den e akshon mas grandi di sirbishi na otro i den su entrega nos ta alkansá salbashon.
Humildat i sirbishi, dos aspekto di amor na kua Dios ta kombidá nos. Komprondé den forma bibu e dos proposishonnan aki ta nifiká ku nos mester tin otro mirada pa mundu i pa nos. Mundu no por kambia e kristian. Únikamente Kristu ta esun ku por transformá nos .Kiko lo bo gana ku esaki ? No hopi kos material, ni prestigio, ni poder ni plaka, únikamente na final, den e último aeropuerto di bo bida, dos ruman mayó lo ta sperando bo... i Dios... lo demas lo no tin kasi ningun importansia...