"Pacte des Catacombes" pour une Eglise servante et pauvre
Le 16 novembre 1965, quelques jours avant la clôture du concile, 40 Pères du Concile ont célébré l'Eucharistie dans les catacombes romaines de Domitille et ont signé le « Pacte des Catacombes ».Dom Helder Camara, dont nous célébrons cette année le centenaire de la naissance, était l'un des animateurs principaux de ce groupe prophétique.
Ce Pacte, dans ses 13 points principaux, insiste sur la pauvreté évangélique de l'Eglise qui devrait être sans titres honorifiques, sans privilèges et sans ostentations mondaines.
Il insiste aussi sur la collégialité et sur la coresponsabilité de l'Eglise comme Peuple de Dieu, sur l'ouverture au monde et sur l'accueil fraternel.
Pacte des catacombes
(Boaventura Kloppenburg, "Pact of the Servant and Poor Church," in Concilio Vaticano II, Petropolis: Vozes, 1966 pp. 526-527).
Puisque cet article nous mène dans les catacombes avec ces évêques qui ensemble s'engagent pour la pauvreté, nous ouvrons nos yeux et découvrons cette fresque représentant un poisson qui visiblement porte une corbeille avec 5 pains...
Aujourd'hui 1° Avril peut être des "poissons" nous feront ils sourire (ou enrager !)
mais surtout que ce mois d'Avril qui verra la fête de Pâques commence pour sous sous le signe du poisson " ἰχθύς "
ἰ : Jésus
χ : Christ
θ : de Dieu
ύ : le Fils
ς : Sauveur
C'est bien lui qui est porteur de la corbeille de la multiplication des pains jamais terminée : l'Eucharistie qui scelle notre salut dans la Charité
voir : Colère, Lucidité, Espérance ! pour un nouveau pacte des catacombes
We, Bishops meeting at Vatican Council II, being aware of the deficiencies of our life of poverty according to the Gospel, encouraged by one another in this initiative in which each one wants to avoid singularity and presumption [that is to say, each one wants to be anonymous], .... commit ourselves to the following:
1. Regarding housing, food and means of transportation and everything concerning these things, we will seek to live in accordance with the common average level of our people.
2. We renounce forever wealth and its appearance, especially in clothing (expensive materials and brilliant colors), and insignia of precious metals (such things should, in effect, be evangelical).
3. We will not possess either movable or immovable properties, or bank accounts in our names. If it is necessary to possess some property we will place it under the name of our diocese or other social or charitable works.
4. Whenever it is possible we will confide the financial and material administration of our diocese to a commission of competent laymen conscious of their apostolic role, given that we should be pastors and apostles rather than administrators.
5. We refuse to be called in speech or writing by names or titles that signify grandeur and power (Your Eminence, Your Excellency, Monsignor ...). We prefer to be called by the evangelical name of Father.
6. In our comportment and social relations, we will avoid everything that can appear to confer privileges, priorities, or even a preference whatsoever to the rich and powerful (for example: banquets given or received, special places in religious services) ....
9. Conscious of the demands of justice and charity and their mutual relations, we will seek to transform the works of "beneficence" into social works based on charity and justice to assist all [that is, not just Catholics] in all their exigencies, as a humble servant of the proper public facilities ....
1. Regarding housing, food and means of transportation and everything concerning these things, we will seek to live in accordance with the common average level of our people.
2. We renounce forever wealth and its appearance, especially in clothing (expensive materials and brilliant colors), and insignia of precious metals (such things should, in effect, be evangelical).
3. We will not possess either movable or immovable properties, or bank accounts in our names. If it is necessary to possess some property we will place it under the name of our diocese or other social or charitable works.
4. Whenever it is possible we will confide the financial and material administration of our diocese to a commission of competent laymen conscious of their apostolic role, given that we should be pastors and apostles rather than administrators.
5. We refuse to be called in speech or writing by names or titles that signify grandeur and power (Your Eminence, Your Excellency, Monsignor ...). We prefer to be called by the evangelical name of Father.
6. In our comportment and social relations, we will avoid everything that can appear to confer privileges, priorities, or even a preference whatsoever to the rich and powerful (for example: banquets given or received, special places in religious services) ....
9. Conscious of the demands of justice and charity and their mutual relations, we will seek to transform the works of "beneficence" into social works based on charity and justice to assist all [that is, not just Catholics] in all their exigencies, as a humble servant of the proper public facilities ....
(Boaventura Kloppenburg, "Pact of the Servant and Poor Church," in Concilio Vaticano II, Petropolis: Vozes, 1966 pp. 526-527).
Puisque cet article nous mène dans les catacombes avec ces évêques qui ensemble s'engagent pour la pauvreté, nous ouvrons nos yeux et découvrons cette fresque représentant un poisson qui visiblement porte une corbeille avec 5 pains...
Aujourd'hui 1° Avril peut être des "poissons" nous feront ils sourire (ou enrager !)
mais surtout que ce mois d'Avril qui verra la fête de Pâques commence pour sous sous le signe du poisson " ἰχθύς "
ἰ : Jésus
χ : Christ
θ : de Dieu
ύ : le Fils
ς : Sauveur
C'est bien lui qui est porteur de la corbeille de la multiplication des pains jamais terminée : l'Eucharistie qui scelle notre salut dans la Charité
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