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By Junno Arocho Esteves

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With his visit to World Youth Day only a few days away, Pope Francis asked young pilgrims to accompany his visit to Krakow, Poland, with prayers.

Leaving for Poland July 27 "to meet up with these young men and women and celebrate with them and for them the Jubilee of Mercy, with the intercession of St. John Paul II, I ask you to accompany me with prayer," the pope said July 24 during his Angelus address.

The pope thanked the volunteers, bishops, priests and men and women religious "who are working to welcome these young pilgrims."

In a message for youths unable to make it to the event, he said, "A special word to the many youth of their same age who, unable to be present personally, will follow the event through the media: We are all united in prayer!"

Prayer was the main theme of the pope's reflection prior to reciting the Angelus with thousands of visitors in St. Peter's Square.

Recalling the day's Gospel reading, in which Jesus teaches his disciples the Lord's prayer, the pope said the word 'father' is the secret to Jesus' prayer.

That word, the pope said, "is the key that he himself gives us so that we can also enter into this relationship of trusting dialogue with the father who has accompanied and sustained his life."

Pope Francis explained that prayer is the primary "work tool in our hands" and that to insist on something with God is not meant to "convince him, but rather to strengthen our faith and our patience, that is, our capacity to fight beside God for the things that are truly important and necessary."

"In prayer we are a pair: God and me, fighting together for what is important. Among these, there is one, the great important thing, which Jesus tells us today in the Gospel, but which we hardly ever consider, and it is the Holy Spirit: 'Grant to me the Holy Spirit!'" he said.

In asking for the Holy Spirit, he concluded, Christians can live their lives with "wisdom, with love, doing the will of God," like Mary.

"The Virgin Mary shows us this with her existence, wholly animated by the Spirit of God. She helps us to pray to the father united to Jesus, so as to live not in a worldly way, but in accordance with the Gospel, guided by the Holy Spirit," the pope said.

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(Vatican Radio) The Holy Father on Monday appointed Bishop José Colin Mendoza Bagaforo, until now titular Bishop of Vazari Didda and Auxiliary of Cotabato, in the Philippines, as the new Bishop for Kidapawan diocese.

Msgr. Jose Colin Mendoza Bagaforo was born in Cotabato on January 30 1954. He studied philosophy at Notre Dame Seminary in Cotabato, and theology at St. Francis Xavier Regional Major Seminary in Davao. He was ordained a priest on March 25, 1980, for the Archdiocese of Cotabato.

After two years as assistant priest in Tacurong City, he was Superintendent of the archdiocesan schools until 1990 and at the same time spiritual director at Notre Dame Seminary in Cotabato for two years.

Dal 1990 al 1991 ha seguito studi teologici alla Weston School of Theology a Cambridge, negli U.S.A., conseguendo una specializzazione. L'esperienza si è ripetuta nel 1994 alla Xavier University di Cagayan de Oro e nel 2003 all'Asian Institute Management di Makati City, in entrambi i casi con specializzazioni in campo pedagogico.

From 1990 to 1991 he pursued theological studies at the Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, in the U.S.A., attaining a specialization. This experience was repeated in 1994 at the Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro and in 2003 at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati City, in both cases with a specialization in field of pedagogy.

From 1991 to 1997 he was parish priest of Cotabato Cathedral, 1997-1999 Pastor in Tacurong City, and from 1999 to 2001 Pastor in Maguindanao. From 2001 to 2002 he served as Treasurer of the Archdiocese. Since 2002 he has been President of the Notre Dame of Tacurong College. In 2004 he was appointed Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Cotabato. On 2 February 2006 he was appointed Titular Bishop of Vazari Didda and Auxiliary of Cotabato. He was consecrated bishop on 25 April, the same year.

 

 

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