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Kalookan Bishop Pablo Virgilio ‘Ambo’ David joins the School of Cardinals together with 20 others in a consistory led by Pope Francis
MANILA, Philippines – Kalookan Bishop Pablo Virgilio “Ambo” David took his oath because the tenth Filipino cardinal on Saturday, December 7, becoming a member of an elite group of Catholic clergymen tasked to advise the Pope and elect his successor.
Pope Francis led the Vatican ceremony, referred to as an peculiar public consistory, that formally made them cardinals of the Catholic Church. The consistory started at 4 pm in Rome (11 pm in Manila) on Saturday and lasted for greater than an hour.
David and 20 different new cardinals, who hail from totally different components of the globe, wore purple vestments and obtained their purple hats from Pope Francis, symbolizing their willingness to die for the religion.
The oath taken by the brand new cardinals features a promise “to stay devoted to Christ and his Gospel,” to obey the Pope and to “cooperate extra straight” with him, and “all the time to stay in communion with the Catholic Church” of their phrases and actions.
David, 65, identified the importance of the colour purple in a Fb put up hours earlier than the consistory on Saturday. He reposted his November 2020 homily for Crimson Wednesday to mark “this ‘purple day’ of my life and ministry as a bishop.”
Crimson, David mentioned, “is a harmful colour.” However “it’s not proper to equate purple with simply struggling and demise” as this “tends to be too morbid and pessimistic.”
“Crimson can also be the colour of Valentine’s Day, is it not? And so it’s also the colour of affection, of God’s eternal love, the love that binds all disciples collectively in communion, within the one physique of Christ,” David mentioned.
“Crimson is about being prepared for the results of loving as Jesus has beloved us, together with struggling and demise, if vital,” the Filipino bishop added.
David is the tenth Filipino cardinal for the reason that first one, Cardinal Rufino Santos, was named in 1960.
Born in Betis, Guagua, Pampanga, David is an internationally educated Bible scholar who is thought for his protection of human rights within the Philippines, particularly throughout the Duterte struggle on medication. He obtained his doctorate in theology from the Catholic College of Louvain, Belgium, and attended the Jesuit-run San Jose Seminary primarily based in Ateneo de Manila College, Quezon Metropolis.
He’s now considered one of three energetic Filipino cardinals, or those that are under the age of 80 and might take part in a papal election referred to as a conclave. The 2 different energetic Filipino cardinals are Luis Antonio Tagle, pro-prefect of the Dicastery of Evangelization on the Vatican, and Jose Advincula, who changed Tagle as archbishop of Manila.
Cardinal electors like David are, in concept, additionally candidates to change into the following pope. – Rappler.com
