Giacomo Bini
Giacomo Bini | |
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Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor | |
Installed | 1997 |
Term ended | 2003 |
Predecessor | Hermann Schalück |
Successor | José Rodríguez Carballo |
Orders | |
Ordination | 14 March 1964 |
Personal details | |
Born | Giacomo Bini 23 August 1938 |
Died | 9 May 2014 Rome | (aged 75)
Nationality | Italian |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Alma mater |
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Giacomo Bini (23 August 1938 – 9 May 2014) was a
Early life
Bini was born in Ostra Vetere, Ancona in 1938.[2] He entered a seminary at an early age, where he received his secondary education, and entered the Franciscan order on 18 September 1956, at the age of 18. He made his
Rwanda mission
In 1982, after expressing a wish to participate in the Africa project of his order, he was incardinated the Vice Province of St. Francis of Africa and Madagascar to establish the Rwanda Order of Friars Minor. Bini's functions were those of Definitor and Vicar Provincial. The project envisaged three principles:[4]
- Living as a Franciscan fraternity dedicated to listening and service for reciprocal conversion;
- To embody the charismatic ideal of Franciscan poverty and service to the poor, while maintaining close communion with the local Church.
- To live in a small parish in a poor area.
Bini, together with
The new community kept close communion with the Poor Clares, who had established a mission in Kamonyi in 1982, and some years later (1986) with a Belgian order, the Franciscan Sisters of the Kingdom of Jesus, who were based in Zaire. Bini superintended vocational training for several years, both in Rwanda and Tanzania.[3] Among 100 young Rwandans desiring to entering the novitiate, just five were selected for postulancy, the first group on 29 September 1985.[4] From 1993 to 1997 he served as Provincial Minister of the Vice Province of St. Francis of Africa and Madagascar in Nairobi.[7] Shortly after his appointment, in 1994
No one takes [my life] from me; I lay it down of my own free will.[9]
Minister General
On 14 May 1997, at the General Chapter meeting at
As head of the Franciscan Order, which is the official Catholic
He was present at Subsequently, on the occasion of the General Chapter Meeting of 2003, the Pope addressed Bini and his order in an extended letter covering their functions and mission.[14]2003–2014
In 2007, Bini established a European Missionary Fraternity in
Bini was also active in advocating the development of a renewed relationship, based on 'theocentric complementarity', between the Franciscan order and the Sisters of St Claire. Both orders, he argued, from their common roots are "ecstatic", in a nomadic pursuit of a humble, theocentric lifestyle based on "expropriation", by which he means a mode of humble existence "sine proprio" (void of all personal attachments). The ascetic discipline conjoins self-impoverishment with an itinerary of seeking a flourishing matrix of relationships with others in a charismatic fraternity. This was the original legacy bequeathed by St. Francis and St. Claire, one that the world easily depauperates, but which, in his vision, the orders have jealously guarded for eight centuries. He admits however, that his own order has, in the past, neglected this foundational tradition of formative dialogue with its sister order. An 'intrusive "masculism" or exaggerated feminism may have facilitated this separation' in the past, and Bini argues for the urgency of renovating the relationship between a feminine order that undertook a vow of obedience to St. Francis, and the Franciscan order which assumed the responsibility to care for the sisters of the poor. Both orders began by a reciprocal trust which, while subordinating itself to the primary loyalty of the Church, "instilled in her a seed of gospel folly", an evangelical folly which has played an important role on several occasions in refreshing the vigour of the wider Catholic order. In a return to their complementarity, Bini sees an important resource for the evangelical renewal of the Church itself.[16]
He died, after a brief illness, on 9 May 2014.[17] After a funeral mass celebrated by the present Minister General of the Order, Fr. Michael Perry, on 12 May at the Church of the Franciscan Sisters Missionaries of Mary in Grottaferrata, he was buried in the family tomb at Marino.[18]
See also
- List of ministers general of the Order of Friars Minor
Bibliography
- Bini, Giacomo (2005). Audite, sorelle: Un itinerario per rifondare la vita consacrata (2nd ed.). Padova: Memoria e Profezia. ISBN 978-88-250-1274-3.
- Bini, Giacomo (2010). Ritorno alla intuizione evangelica francescana. collana Presenza di S. Francesco. Biblioteca Francescana Edizioni.
- Bini, Giacomo (2011a). Un'esistenza unificata e pacifista in Dio: Sentieri di vita francescana oggi. Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana.
- Bini, Giacomo (2011b). "Foundation of Blessed Egidio of Assisi. European Missionary Fraternity in Palestrina (RM)". Rome: Vidimus Dominum.
- Bini, Giacomo (11 February 2012). "Reciprocity and relationship between the OFM and OSC". Ordo Fratrum Minorum. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b Christus Rex 2000.
- ^ a b OFM.org 1997.
- ^ a b Bini 2005.
- ^ a b c d e Rwanda Order of Friars Minor.
- ^ a b Ngomanzungu 2010.
- ^ Perić.
- ^ a b American Catholic 1997.
- ^ OFM 1998.
- ^ Order of Friars Minor 1998.
- ^ John Paul II Foundation 2000.
- ^ Zenit News Agency 2002.
- ^ BBC News 2002.
- ^ Klenicki 2000.
- ^ Message of John Paul II to the Minister General.
- ^ Bini 2011b.
- ^ Bini 2012.
- ^ Ordo Fratrum Minorum 2014a.
- ^ Ordo Fratrum Minorum 2014b.
Sources
- "Br. Giacomo Bini, OFM passed away". Ordo Fratrum Minorum. 9 May 2014a. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015.
- "Congratulations to the new Franciscan Minister General". American Catholic. 1997.
- "Fr. Giacomo Bini, OFM: "La vita continua"". Ordo Fratrum Minorum. 12 May 2014b. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
- "Franciscan Friar Assassinated in Rwanda". OFM. 1 February 1998. Archived from the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- "Franciscan proposal to end the siege of the basiica in Bethlehem". Zenit News Agency. 11 April 2002.
- "In Memory of Fr Vijeko Curic OFM - the funeral ceremony at Kivumu". Order of Friars Minor. 6 February 1998. Archived from the original on 5 December 1998. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- Klenicki, Leon (2000). "Pope John Paul II: Visit to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, a pilgrimage of prayer, hope and reconciliation" (PDF). Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
- "Letter to Father Giacomo Bini". John Paul II Foundation. 11 July 2000. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- "Message of John Paul II to the Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor".
- "The Minister General Friar Giacomo Bini OFM: Curriculum Vitae". OFM.org. 31 December 1997. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015.
- "Minister General of the Franciscans arrive for Papal visit". Christus Rex. 19 March 2000.
- "Monks urge end to Bethlehem siege". BBC News. 12 April 2002.
- Ngomanzungu, fra Kizito (27 April 2010). "The Journey of my Vocation with the Friars". Vjeka-rwanda.
- Perić, Fra Ivica. "History of Friars in Rwanda".
- "Rwanda Order of Friars Minor". Province of St. Francis in Africa, Madagascar & Mauritius. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
External links
- Giacomo Bini, 'Lectio:Comment on Chapter 1 of the Rule of the Minor Friars' Video on YouTube, 1 June 2009
- Giacomo Bini, 'Capitolo delle Stuoie - part 3' on YouTube, General Chapter talk, 2009.