Pope greets Pontifical Roman College on 80th
anniversary
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday greeted members of
the Pontifical Romanian College or Collegio Pio Romeno on the occasion of its
80th anniversary.
This Roman Pontifical College has been training seminarians
from all over the world for eight decades in the Eternal City and on Friday the
Pope on this auspicious occasion had two wishes for those present.
The first was to preserve memory and the second, to
cultivate hope.
Speaking about the former, the Holy Father said that by
tuning into ones ecclesial memory which he added, lives through the events that
each era presents us with, “you will be helped to overcome dangerous
temptations that may arise, such as settling for mediocrity, settling for a
normal life; where one jealously guards their own time and their own
well-being.
The Pope described their College as a place where
seminarians train as if they were “in a gym” in order to give their lives for
the good of others.
On the theme of cultivating hope, Pope Francis said that
there was, “so much need to nourish Christian hope, that hope that gives a new
outlook, capable of discovering and seeing good, even when it is obscured by
evil”.
Concluding his address the Pope had a special greeting for
those present from the Pontifical College of St. Ephrem, which provides
lodgings for those student priests of the Arabic language from all of the
Oriental Catholic Churches and who are welcomed by the Pontifical Romanian
College (Pio Romeno).
The Pope said that, “by meeting you I think of the situation
in which there are so many faithful in your lands, many families who are forced
to leave their homes in the face of waves of violence and suffering. I want to
embrace these brothers and sisters in a special way, together with their
Patriarchs and Bishops.”
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