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Zasvěcení Ruska a Ukrajiny plánované na 25. března

V úterý 15. března Vatikán oznámil, že Francis zasvětí Rusko a Ukrajinu Neposkvrněnému srdci Panny Marie. Stane se tak při mši ve Svatopetrské bazilice v pátek 25. března v 5 hodin odpoledne. Tentýž akt ve stejný den provede ve Fatimě apoštolský zmocněnec kardinál Krajewski. Ukrajinští biskupi římského ritu žádali o to Vatikán již počátkem března na popeleční středu, kde vyzývají všechny svatyně, uctívající Pannu Marii Fatimskou, aby se sjednotily v modlitbách za obrácení Ruska.

Po prvním setkání Francise s Kirillem na Kubě v roce 2016 bylo plánováno další setkání v Moskvě letos v létě. Jenže teď oba stojí na obrácené straně barikády. Kirill ospravedlňuje invazi jako snahu bránit se proti morálnímu relativismu a dekadenci Západu, a argumentuje, že Ukrajina je součástí "kanonického území" ruské pravoslavné církve. Francis zase odmítá, že by ruská invaze byla nějakou "speciální mírovou operací", ale nazývá ji válkou. Francis pochopil, že se v brzké době pozvání ani od Putina, ani od Kirilla nedočká. Tak se aspoň dohodli na společné videokonferenci, konané dne 16. března. Vedle Kirilla se jí na ruské straně zúčastnili ministr zahraničí ruského pravoslaví metropolita Hilarion a zmocněnec pro mezikřesťanské vztahy Nikolajev, a vedle Francise za Vatikán prefekt kongregace pro jednotu křesťanů kardinál Koch.

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Pope Francis to Consecrate Ukraine and Russia to Immaculate Heart of Mary
Святейший Патриарх Московский и всея Руси Кирилл побеседовал с Папой Римским Франциском / Новости / Патриархия.ru
Pope Francis in video conference with Russian Patriarch Kirill rejects religious defense of invasion

Pope Francis to Consecrate Ukraine and Russia to Immaculate Heart of Mary

Ukraine’s Latin Rite Catholic bishops asked Pope Francis earlier this month to consecrate Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

CNA Staff Vatican March 15, 2022
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Vatican announced on Tuesday.
The Holy See Press Office said on March 15: “On Friday, March 25, during the Celebration of Penance at which he will preside at 5 p.m. in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”
“The same act, on the same day, will be carried out in Fatima by His Eminence Cardinal Krajewski, Apostolic Almoner, as envoy of the Holy Father.”
Ukraine’s Latin Rite Catholic bishops asked Pope Francis earlier this month to consecrate Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
In a letter to the Pope, the Ukrainian bishops said that they were writing “in these hours of immeasurable pain and terrible ordeal for our people” in response to many requests for the consecration.
“Responding to this prayer, we humbly ask Your Holiness to publicly perform the act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Ukraine and Russia, as requested by the Blessed Virgin in Fatima,” said the letter, published on the bishops’ website on Ash Wednesday, March 2.
Following the bishops’ call, Our Lady of Fatima shrines worldwide were invited to unite in prayer for the conversion of Russia.
The appeal was made by Father Andrzej Draws, rector of the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Fatima in Krisovychi, western Ukraine.
He encouraged all shrines in honor of Our Lady of Fatima to unite in prayer for the conversion of Russia on March 13.
Fatima’s second secret was a statement that World War I would end and a prediction of another war that would start during the reign of Pius XI if people continued to offend God and Russia was not consecrated to Mary’s Immaculate Heart.
Sister Lucia, one of the three Fatima visionaries, recalled in her memoirs that Our Lady asked for “the Consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays” to prevent a second world war.
She said that Mary told her: “If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated.”
“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world."
In a letter written in 1989, Sister Lucia confirmed that Pope John Paul II satisfied Our Lady’s request for Russia’s consecration in 1984. Other authorities, including the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, also have affirmed the consecration was completed to Sister Lucia’s satisfaction.

Святейший Патриарх Московский и всея Руси Кирилл побеседовал с Папой Римским Франциском

16 марта 2022 г. 17:28
16 марта 2022 года при помощи средств удаленной связи состоялась беседа Святейшего Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла с Папой Римским Франциском.
Со стороны Русской Православной Церкви в разговоре принял участие председатель Отдела внешних церковных связей митрополит Волоколамский Иларион.
От Римско-Католической Церкви присутствовал глава Папского совета по содействию христианскому единству кардинал Курт Кох.
Его Святейшество сердечно приветствовал Предстоятеля Римско-Католической Церкви, выразив удовлетворение в связи с возможностью организации разговора.
Далее состоялось детальное обсуждение ситуации на украинской земле. Особое внимание было уделено гуманитарным аспектам текущего кризиса и действиям Русской Православной Церкви и Римско-Католической Церкви по преодолению его последствий. Стороны подчеркнули исключительное значение продолжающегося переговорного процесса, выразив надежду на скорейшее достижение справедливого мира.
Папа Франциск и Святейший Патриарх Кирилл также обсудили ряд текущих вопросов двустороннего взаимодействия.

Pope Francis in video conference with Russian Patriarch Kirill rejects religious defense of invasion
Mar 16, 2022
by Christopher White
Vatican

This article appears in the War in Ukraine feature series. View the full series.

Rome — Pope Francis on March 16 spoke by video conference with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a key backer of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine. In the call, the two religious leaders pledged their respective commitments to securing peace.
A Vatican communique stated that Francis rejected the justifications for the invasion as a "holy war," saying "today we cannot speak like this."
"Christian awareness of the importance of peace has developed," said Francis. In recent weeks, Kirill has previously used religious language to justify his support for Russia's military aggression.
According to the Vatican statement, the conversation focused "on the war in Ukraine and the role of Christians and their pastors in doing everything possible for peace to prevail."
"We are pastors of the same Holy People who believe in God, in the Holy Trinity, in the Holy Mother of God: for this we must unite in the effort to help peace, to help those who suffer, to seek ways of peace, to stop the fire," Francis told the Russian patriarch, according to the Vatican statement.
"Those who pay the bill for the war are the people, it is the Russian soldiers and it is the people who are bombed and die," the pope continued. "The Church must not use the language of politics, but the language of Jesus."
“Wars are always unjust. Because the one who pays is the people of God," Francis continued. "Our hearts cannot help but cry in front of the children, the women killed, all the victims of the war. War is never the way. The Spirit that unites us asks us as pastors to help the peoples who suffer from war."
An earlier statement from the Russian Orthodox Church said that the two parties had a "detailed discussion" of the situation in Ukraine.
"Particular attention was paid to the humanitarian aspects of the current crisis and the actions of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church to overcome its consequences," it continued. "The parties stressed the exceptional importance of the ongoing negotiation process, expressing their hope for the soonest achievement of a just peace."
Russian Orthodox foreign minister, Metropolitan Hilarion, and an official from the Russian Orthodox's inter-Christian relations, I.A. Nikolaev, joined Kirill for the call in Moscow. At the Vatican, Francis was accompanied by Cardinal Kurt Koch, head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and Fr. Jaromir Zadrapa, an official from Koch's office.

During a March 15 discussion at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Metropolitan-Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, indicated that Francis' outreach to Kirill since the outbreak of the war had not been reciprocated.
Guziak had hinted this could possibly change soon.
The March 16 video conference between Francis and Kirill marked their first face-to-face reunion since the two men met in Havana, Cuba, in 2016.
That encounter, which was the first ever meeting between a Roman Catholic pontiff and the Russian Orthodox patriarch, seemed to signal a historic breakthrough in Catholic-Russian Orthodox relations and plans were underway for the two to meet in person again this summer.
Kirill's support for Putin's invasion has not only created new ecunenical tensions but led to an unraveling among Russian Orthodox churches around the world.
The Russian patriarch has sought to portray the invasion as an effort to defend against the moral relativism and decadence of the West and argued that Ukraine is part of the "canonical territory" of the Russian Orthodox Church. To date, at least 160 Orthodox parishes in a dozen countries have sought to join other communions since the outbreak of the war.
While Kirill has since expressed his desire for an end to the conflict, he has refused to denounce Putin or Russia's actions against Ukraine, despite pleas from religious leaders from around the globe.
Later in the day on March 16, the Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, celebrated a Mass for peace in St. Peter's Basilica in the presence of the Vatican's diplomatic corps.
With both Russia's Vatican ambassador, Aleksandr Avdeyev, and Ukraine's Vatican ambassador, Andrii Yurash, in attendance, Parolin repeated the words of Pope Francis from his March 6 homily earlier this month.
"This is not just a military operation but a war," said Parolin, again offering an explicit rejection from the Vatican of the Russian government's repeated descriptions of their military activities as a "special military operation."
"Don't you think that if we listened more to our Lord's words, weapons would be silent, indeed they would not even be produced and built?" said Parolin during his homily.
"We turn to God with a heart broken for what is happening in Ukraine," he said. "Save this land from destruction and widespread death."