Pope at Audience: Walking
together in the richness of diversity
Pope Francis reflects on his recent Apostolic Visit to
Romania during his Wednesday General Audience, saying it was a joy to be able
to walk as a pilgrim among the Romanian people.
During his Catechesis at the Wednesday General Audience,
Pope Francis recalled his recent visit to Romania following in the footsteps of
Saint John Paul II.
The motto of the visit was "Let’s walk together"
and the Pope expressed his joy at being able to walk as a pilgrim among the
Romanian people.
The Pontiff said that the various meetings whilst there
“highlighted the value and the need to walk together both among Christians, on
the level of faith and charity, and among citizens, on the level of civil
commitment.”
Walking together towards full unity
Pope Francis expressed his deep gratitude as he recalled his
warm meeting with Patriarch Daniel and the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox
Church, in which he renewed the Catholic Church’s commitment to walking
together towards full unity.
He added, that this important ecumenical dimension of the
journey culminated in the solemn Prayer of the Our Father in the new Orthodox
Cathedral in Bucharest.
“This was a moment of great symbolic value”, the Pope said,
“because the Lord's Prayer is the Christian prayer par excellence, the common
heritage of all the baptized.”
Pope Francis also looked back on the three celebrations of
Holy Mass and the Beatification of seven Greek-Catholic bishops.
Each of these martyrs bore witness to the freedom and mercy
brought by the Gospel, he
said.
Richness of diversity
The Pope commented that the meeting with young people and
families, held in Iaşi, was particularly intense and festive.
It is a place, he remarked, “that invites us to open roads
on which to walk together, in the richness of diversity.”
Pope Francis went on to say that “this meeting also had a
Marian dimension and ended with the young people and families being entrusted
to the Holy Mother of God.”
The last stage of the Pope’s journey was a visit to the Roma
community in the city of Blaj.
Pope Francis underlined how important it was for him to
greet them and renew his appeal against all forms of discrimination and for
respect for people of all ethnicity, languages and religions.
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