Paulus-året avsluttes i kveld – i Paulus-kirken utenfor muren i Roma
I en høytidelig vesper i kveld vil pave Benedikt offisielt avslutte året som har markert 2000-års-jubileet av den hellige Paulus’ fødsel. Og sist fredag kunne vi lese denne evalueringa av året:
In the Holy See Press Office this morning Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the papal basilica of St. Paul’s Outside-the-Walls in Rome, and Pier Carlo Visconti, delegate for the administration of the same basilica, held a briefing on the closure of the Pauline Year.
The cardinal recalled how the Year came into being as a «thematic year» with two fundamental objectives: «To increase people’s knowledge of, and invite them to meditate upon, the valuable message left to us by the Apostle of the Gentiles in his writings, which are often difficult and little known or poorly interpreted», and «to create various programmes in the ecumenical dimension, which means working to an ever greater degree with non-Catholic Christian communities on various initiatives of prayer, study and culture».
During the course of the Pauline Year, inaugurated by the Pope on 28 June 2008, the basilica welcomed tens of thousands of pilgrims. «On 1 May 2009 alone more than eighteen thousand pilgrims came to the basilica», explained the cardinal, «and over recent weeks we have certainly seen more than ten thousand a day».
Among the ecclesial events of the Pauline Year, the cardinal mentioned «the opening of the Synod of Bishops on the Word of God, which the Pope wished should be inaugurated in the basilica of St. Paul in October 2008, … …
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