Krakow: Archbishop Piero Marini holds an honorary doctorate from the Pontifical University of John Paul II
The ceremony of awarding the title of doctor honoris causa of values at the Wawel Cathedral. The attendees were, among others Cardinals, Cardinals and Conrad, Archbishop, Archbishop, innovative universities in Poland and Marek J. Rectors of Krakow, corps, and also the academic University of the Pontifical John Paul II in Krakow.
The papal master of ceremonies mentioned in his speech his first meeting with Card. Karol Wojtyła in Krakow in 1973. He recalled the day when the Archbishop of Krakow was elected for an apostolic journey and celebration in the Vatican. He emphasized that the Pope from Poland was a gift for the Church as well as for her life.
– His way of living prayer, his love for the Vatican Council, his investigation of the II experience of voting the Gospel, an invitation that still exists for all believers and non-believers, but above all for me to meet Karol Wojtyła again, to reflect on his life and deeds, to to understand its importance, to re-speak the gestures and events that accompanied his life – Archbishop Marini.
He hierarchy, by “looking again”, how John Paul II lived, as well as admitted his passions and ideals, which he had. – Yes, to mention that St. John Paul II spoke again and ask himself: Who was he? What did he mean to us? What does it teach us today? – he encouraged.
As one of John Paul II’s closest relatives said, everyone must reflect on the values they have “passed on, for which he fought as a man, as a Christian and as a bishop.” – What have we done with the ideals he bequeathed to us? Have we learned a testimony of the love He has bestowed upon us for men and women of all nationalities and classes? Respect for all religions and all cultures? Have we learned to be people who are not afraid of faith because of your simplicity? Can we carry in the security of the future path of everyday life? he asked.
Archbishop Marini emphasized that in St. John Paul II a friend “have a friend again”. – The Pope was for me not only a friend, but another black one. He gave me the opportunity to share my joys, sorrows, difficulties, achievements and hopes with him. It was all a great gift. Over the years, however, when this one became for me, above all, an accomplished – a follower.
– I cannot find the only handshake and the last look that the dying Holy Father gave me two days before his passing. He who cannot speak, face me and take me for me. I have always considered this look and this pressure of the hand as a message of love that John Paul II left me before his passing. The ten gestures are my means of carrying out the same vele, the best of the weak, in the testimony of love that St. John Paul II – confessed the papal master of ceremonies.
The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow granted Archbishop. Piero Marini with an honorary doctorate, incl. for the “exemplary manner of celebrating the wedding ceremony of St. John Paul II “, emphasizing his filial concern for” the apostolic dimension of the universal liturgical ministry of the Holy Pope of Krakow. ” Contemporary people were appreciated along with the papal ceremony for familiarizing themselves with the lit ceremony with a lecture, which was “adapted to the present times, along with social and scientific publication,” and its popularizing activities. The resolution of the UPJPII Senate also states that Archbishop Marini was honored for “loving the Church, in which there is the sacred liturgy, which has served for decades with all dedication”. His kindness for Poland, expressed during his visit on a pilgrimage to his homeland, was also emphasized.
The laudation was delivered by Sr. prof. Adelajda Sielepin, Jadwiżanka Wawel. – We thank God that in this language that we speak, our identity and mission of identity through the prisms of “and” summit “, as well as the liturgy, because it means that we have today
All disciplines that study the ethos of man in the context of history from the liturgy come out and lead to the liturgy as the basis of Christian life and ethics – she said.
– Let this master of papal celebrations, and today our Honorary Master, help us to notice the findings of the university, he lightly established this course, which is the clergyman of the Church, this kind of repair is for what the liturgy is for the papal university for the university. May the example of Your Excellency and – we trust – also prayer help us to live the Gospel with ecumenical empathy of love for ourselves and for the world, emphasized Jadwiżanka.
Archbishop Piero Marini was born in Valverde on January 13, 1942. List of priestly albums on June 27, 1965 We began that same year in the institution of the Holy See, which led the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council. From the end of 1970, he served in liturgical celebrations presided over by the Holy Father. Former papal master of ceremonies and undersecretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship. He participated in events related to events related to the administration: John Paul I, John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
In 1987, John Paul II named himself the Master of Papal Liturgical Ceremonies. Since then, he has accompanied the Holy Father on 50 trips to Italy and on 80 apostolic trips outside Italy, visiting over 100 countries on different continents. On March 19, 1998, he was ordained bishop by John Paul II in the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican. He took special care of the celebration and celebration, tusk was the chairman during the Great Jubilee of 2000. On September 29, 2003, the Holy Father raised him to the dignity of the Archbishop.
One of John Paul II’s closest associates for 27 years was professor of liturgy at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute of Sant’Anselmo in Rome, where they conducted courses in episcopal liturgy and the history of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council.
On October 1, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI appointed the president of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses. Along with the congress in Budapest, after 56 years of service, the work of Archbishop Piero Marini at the Holy See has come to an end.