VISIT OF POPE FRANCIS IN ISRAEL

Photo by: Avi Ohayon

AT THE WESTERN WALL

PAPA FRANJO U IZRAELUPOPE FRANCIS IN ISRAEL

IZLOŽBA FOTOGRAFIJAEXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS

14. 11. - 7. 12. 2019.

Apostolska nuncijaturaApostolic

Nunciature

Veleposlanstvo Države Izrael

Embassy of the State of Israel

Požeška biskupijaPožega Diocese

DVORANA SV. TEREZIJE AVILSKEPOŽEGA, DRAGUTINA LERMANA 1

ST. THERESA OF AVILA HALLDRAGUTIN LERMAN STR.1, POŽEGA

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25. OBLJETNICA USPOSTAVE DIPLOMATSKIH ODNOSA IZMEĐU SVETE STOLICE I DRŽAVE IZRAEL

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE HOLY SEE

AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL

Respected and dear visitors of the exhibition,

The establishment of the diplo-matic relations between the Holy See and the State of Israel 25 years ago has been of a far reaching meaning for Catholics around the world and in Croatia as well. It is an honour for us in the town of Požega to be able to remember

this anniversary with the exhibition of photographs Pope Francis in Israel organized in the co-operation of the Em-bassy of the State of Israel in the Republic of Croatia, the Apostolic Nunciature in the Republic of Croatia and the Požega Diocese.

A number of photographs in the exhibition document the Pope’s cordial encounters with the President of the State of Israel Shimon Peres and the Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-tanyahu, witnessing their friendly gestures, well-meaning expressions, handshakes, sincerity which exceeded the times of distrust and all that which history has deposited as a bur-den for the relationship between Catholics and Jews. It was a togetherness beyond all differences, an expression of will to serve the precious good of peace so needed to the world, especially to the Near East. In the photographs in the Muse-um of Holocaust – Yad Vashem, in the Pope’s concentration, lowered head, clasped hands one can see his sorrow for the millions of innocent Jewish victims, their crushed dignity, prayer for forgiveness, feeling of mercy which His Holiness witnesses in His own name and in the name of the Church he is leading.

In other photographs we follow the Pope as a pious pil-grim, a man praying on sites of Biblical occurrences from the Temple Mount and the Western Wall (Wailing Wall) to the Room of the Last Supper and the Basilica of the Holy

Sepulchre where History is speaking to us in its mysterious way and lasts even today connecting us with the witnesses in whose lives Heaven and Earth touched, the closeness of God and man, the beyond turned into the Real Presence fill-ing our transience with divine hopes. These hopes can also be clearly seen in the pictures of cordial meetings of Pope Francis face to face with the Jerusalem Rabbis, Imams and the Patriarch of Constantinople stressed by the hugs of the heirs of Abraham’s faith in which they recognize one another as brothers and not rivals or enemies, expressing a profound wish for mutual understanding, respect and reconciliation in differences.

Excellent choice of motifs on the photographs contributes to the persuasiveness of their message. That is why I believe that every visitor will be touched by their dynamism and thus become in a way a participator of the Pope Francis’s visit to the Holy land and of everything which was initiated, especially on the spiritual level, by the establishment of the diplomatic relations between the State of Israel and the Holy See 25 years ago.

Antun ŠkvorčevićBishop of Požega

„Neka bude posvuda priznato da Država Izrael ima pravo na postojanje te da uživa mir i sigurnost

unutar međunarodno priznatih granica.“Papa Franjo

Poštovani i dragi posjetitelji izložbe!

Uspostava diplomatskih odnosa između Svete Stolice i Države Izrael prije 25 godina ima dalekosežno značenje za katolike diljem svijeta, pa tako i u Hrvatskoj. Čast nam je što se u gradu Požegi možemo spomenuti navedene obljet-nice izložbom fotografija Papa Franjo u Izraelu, postavl-jene suradnjom Veleposlanstva Države Izrael u Republici Hrvatskoj, Apostolske nuncijature u Republici Hrvatskoj i Požeške biskupije.

Jednim dijelom izložene fotografije dokumentiraju Papine srdačne susrete s predsjednikom Države Shimonom Peresom i premijerom Benjaminom Netanyahuom, svjedoče njihove prijateljske geste, dobrohotne poglede, izraze lica, stisak ruku, iskrenost koja premošćuje vremena nepovjerenja, i sve ono što je povijest nataložila kao teret u odnosu katolika i Židova, zajedništvo iznad svih razlika, želju za služenjem dragocjenom dobru mira, toliko potrebnog svijetu, napose Bliskom istoku. S fotografija u Muzeju holokausta – Yad Vashemu iz Papine sabranosti, pognute glave, sklopljenih ruku iščitava se duboko žaljenje nedužnih višemilijunskih židovskih žrtava, njihovo pogaženo dostojanstvo, molba za oprost, osjećaj samilosti, koji Njegova Svetost svjedoči uime osobno i Crkve kojoj je na čelu.

Na drugim pak fotografijama slijedimo papu Franju kao pobožnog hodočasnika, molitelja na mjestima biblijskih događaja, od Brda Hrama i Zapadnog zida (Zida plača) do Dvorane posljednje večere i Bazilike Svetoga groba, gdje pro-govara povijest, koja na svoj otajstveni način traje i danas, povezujući nas sa svjedocima u čijim se životima dodirivalo nebo i zemlja, blizina Boga i čovjeka, onostranost postala Prisutnošću, ispunjajući našu prolaznost božanskim nada-ma. Ove nade snažno su očitovane i na fotografijama susreta srdačnosti pape Franje licem u lice, oči u oči s jeruzalemskim rabinima, imamima i s carigradskim patrijarhom, posvje-

dočene zagrljajem radosti baštinika Abrahamovske vjere, u kojoj se prepoznaju kao braća a ne suparnici ili neprijatelji, izražavajući duboku želju za međusobnim razumijevanjem, poštovanjem i pomirenošću u različitosti.

Izvrstan odabir scena na fotografijama pridonosi uvjer-ljivosti njihova govora. Vjerujem stoga da će svaki posje-titelj izložbe biti zahvaćen dinamizmom koji iz njih zrači, postati na svoj način dionikom posjeta pape Franje Svetoj Zemlji i svega onoga što je na više razina, napose na duhov-noj pokrenula i omogućila uspostava diplomatskih odnosa između Države Izrael i Svete Stolice prije 25 godina.

Antun Škvorčević, požeški biskup

“Let it be acknowledged everywhere that the State of Israel has the right to exist and to enjoy peace and secu-

rity within its internationally recognized borders”.Pope Francis

Photo by: Mark Neiman

VISIT OF POPE FRANCIS IN ISRAELPRESIDENT SHIMON PERES AND POPE FRANCIS AT PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE IN JERUSALEM

POSJET PAPE FRANJE IZRAELU / VISIT OF POPE FRANCIS IN ISRAEL

PREDSJEDNIK SHIMON PERES I PAPA FRANJO U PREDSJEDNIČKOJ REZIDENCIJI U JERUZALEMUPRESIDENT SHIMON PERES AND POPE FRANCIS AT THE PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE IN JERUSALEM

25. - 26. SVIBNJA 2014. MAY 25 - 26, 2014

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IZVODI IZ GOVORA PAPE FRANJE ZA VRIJEME PROTOKOLARNOGA POSJETA DVOJICI GLAVNIH IZRAELSKIH RABINA U CENTRU HEICHAL SHLOMO PORED VELIKE JERUZALEMSKE SINAGOGE U

PONEDJELJAK 26. SVIBNJA 2014. GODINE.

Kao što znate, u vrijeme dok sam bio nadbiskup u Buenos Airesu, imao sam mnogo Židova među svojim prijateljima. Danas su ovdje među nama dvojica prijatelja koji su rabini. Zajedno smo organizirali plodonosne susrete i razgovore. S njima sam iskusio značajne trenutke na duhovnoj razini.Ovo putovanje prijateljstva je jedan od plodova Drugoga vatikanskog koncila i naročito enciklike Nostra Aetate koja se pokazala tako utjecajnom i čiju ćemo pedesetu obljet-nicu proslaviti sljedeće godine. Uvjeren sam da je napre-dak u odnosima između Židova i katolika koji se dogodio posljednjih desetljeća pravi dar Božji, jedan od onih poslo-va zbog kojih smo pozvani da blagoslovimo Njegovo sveto ime: „Hvalite Gospodara nad gospodarima: vječna je ljubav njegova! Jedini on učini čuda velika: vječna je ljubav njegova! (Ps 135/136, 3-4).Dar Božji, da, ali njega ne bi bilo bez nastojanja tolikih hrabrih i velikodušnih ljudi, podjednako Židova i kršćana. Ovdje bih želio posebno spomenuti rastuću važnost dijaloga između Glavnoga izraelskog rabinata i Komisije Svete stolice za međureligijske odnose sa Židovima. Nadahnut posjetom pape Ivana Pavla II Svetoj zemlji, taj je dijalog započeo 2002. godine i već je ušao u svoju dvanaestu godinu.Moramo učiniti više od pukih uzajamnih odnosa poštovanja na ljudskoj razini: kao Židovi i kršćani također smo pozvani da duboko razmislimo o duhovnoj važnosti veza koje postoje među nama.U katolika postoji jasna namjera da duboko razmisle o značenju židovskih korijena u našoj vlastitoj vjeri. Siguran

sam da će, uz vašu pomoć, i u Židova porasti trajno zaniman-je za kršćanstvo i u ovoj Svetoj zemlji u kojoj kršćani imaju korijene.Zajedničko razumijevanje naše duhovne baštine, cijenjen-je onoga što nam je zajedničko i poštovanje prema onome oko čega se ne slažemo – sve to može pomoći da nas povede do bližih odnosa, cilj koji stavljamo u Božje ruke. Zajedno možemo dati veliki doprinos miru. Zajedno se možemo čvrs-to oduprijeti antisemitizmu i svim drugim oblicima diskrim-inacije. Neka nam Bog pomogne da krenemo s povjerenjem i snagom njegovim putem. Šalom!

“Moramo vjerovati da, kao što je dignut kamen s groba, tako mogu biti uklonjene sve zapreke koje još uvijek priječe potpuno jedinstvo među nama. Bit će to milost uskrsnuća

čiji predokus možemo već danas imati.”Papa Franjo

“Nasilje se ne pobjeđuje nasiljem! Nasilje se pobjeđuje mirom!”

Papa Franjo

EXCERPTS FROM THE ADDRESS OF POPE FRANCIS DURING THE COURTESY VISIT

TO THE TWO CHIEF RABBIS OF ISRAEL AT HEICHAL SHLOMO CENTER NEXT TO THE

JERUSALEM GREAT SYNAGOGUE (JERUSALEM) ON MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014

As you know, from the time I was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, I have counted many Jews among my friends. Today two friends who are rabbis are here with us. Together we organized rewarding occasions of encounter and dialogue; with them I also experienced significant moments of shar-ing on a spiritual level. This journey of friendship represents one of the fruits of the Second Vatican Council, and particularly of the Declaration Nostra Aetate, which proved so influential and whose fifti-eth anniversary we will celebrate next year. I am convinced that the progress which has been made in recent decades in the relationship between Jews and Catholics has been a genuine gift of God, one of those great works for which we are called to bless his holy name: “Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his love endures forever; who alone has wrought marvelous works, for his love endures forever” (Ps 135/136:3-4).A gift of God, yes, but one which would not have come about without the efforts of so many courageous and gen-erous people, Jews and Christians alike. Here I would like to mention in particular the growing importance of the di-alogue between the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. In-spired by the visit of Pope John Paul II to the Holy Land, this dialogue was inaugurated in 2002 and is already in its twelfth year. We need to do more than simply establish reciprocal and respectful relations on a human level: we are also called, as

Christians and Jews, to reflect deeply on the spiritual signif-icance of the bond existing between us. On the part of Catholics, there is a clear intention to re-flect deeply on the significance of the Jewish roots of our own faith. I trust that, with your help, on the part of Jews too, there will be a continued and even growing interest in knowledge of Christianity, also in this Holy land to which Christians trace their origins. Mutual understanding of our spiritual heritage, appreciation for what we have in common and respect in matters on which we disagree: all these can help to guide us to a closer relation-ship, an intention which we put in God’s hands. Together, we can make a great contribution to the cause of peace; togeth-er, we can firmly oppose every form of anti-Semitism and all other forms of discrimination. May the Lord help us to walk with confidence and strength in his ways. Shalom!

Photo by: Avi Ohayon

VISIT OF POPE FRANCIS IN ISRAELTHE POPE AT THE MEMORIAL TO VICTIMS OF TERRORISM, ON MT. HERZL, JERUSALEM

Photo by: Amos Ben Gershom

VISIT OF POPE FRANCIS IN ISRAELPOPE FRANCIS AND THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE BARTHOLOMEW I AT THE STONE OF THE ANOINTING IN THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE

Dear friends,

This year, 2019, marks the 25th anniversary of the establish-ment of the diplomatic relations between the State of Israel and the Holy See, which are based on mutual respect and dialogue, and are closely connected with the development of the relations between the Jewish People and the Catholic Church.

One of the most important milestones in these relations was the visit of Pope Francis to Israel in May 2014, where His Holiness was welcomed and greeted with great enthusiasm by the whole Israeli population, regardless of religious affil-iation.

It was Pope Francis’ first visit outside Italy chosen by His Holiness and the decision to place a wreath on the grave of the founder of Zionism Theodor Herzl was a gesture that carried major symbolical and political value, a further rec-ognition of the bond between the Jewish People and the Land of Israel. This important visit has contributed to the strengthening of the dialogue between Christianity, Juda-ism and Islam.

The late President Peres said: “The State of Israel greets Pope Francis with love and appreciation as a Pope who  builds bridges of peace and brotherhood between all religionss;.This exhibition presents some of the highlights of the Pope’s visit, a visit to be remembered!Enjoy the exhibition!

Ilan MorAmbassador of the State of Israel

to the Republic of Croatia

Dragi prijatelji,

Ove godine, 2019., obilježava se 25. obljetnica uspostave diplo-matskih odnosa između Države Izrael i Svete stolice, što je zas-novano na uzajamnom pošto-vanju i dijalogu i usko je pov-ezano s razvojem odnosa između židovskoga naroda i katoličke

Crkve. Jedan od najvažnijih miljokaza ovih odnosa je bio posjet pape Franje Izraelu u svibnju 2014. godine gdje je njegovoj Svetosti zaželjena dobrodošlica i gdje je pozdravljen s velikim entuzijazmom cijeloga izraelskog stanovništva bez obzira na vjersku pripadnost.

Bilo je to prvo putovanje pape Franje izvan Italije po njegov-om vlastitom izboru a odluka da položi vijenac na grob osnivača cionizma Theodora Herzla je bila potez od ve-like simbolične i političke važnosti, daljnje prepoznavanje veze između židovskoga naroda i izraelske zemlje. Taj važni posjet je pridonio jačanju dijaloga između kršćanstva, judaizma i islama.

Pokojni predsjednik Peres je rekao: „Država Izrael pozdravlja papu Franju s ljubavi i poštovanjem kao papu koji gradi mostove mira i bratstva među svim vjerama.“Ova izložba prikazuje neke trenutke papina posjeta, posjeta koji će se pamtiti!Uživajte u izložbi!

Ilan MorVeleposlanik Države Izrael u Republici Hrvatskoj

“We must believe that, as the stone was lifted from the tomb all the obstacles which are preventing complete unity between us can be removed. It will be a mercy of resurrec-

tion whose arrival we can sense even today”.Pope Francis

Violence is not conquered with violence! Violence is conquered with peace!”

Pope Francis

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