2023-08-09 08:28:00
At the end of the general audience, Francis invoked the intercession of Saint Teresa Benedicta de la Cruz, co-patron of Europe, for the population of the tormented country: “May her testimony stimulate commitment once morest all forms of violence and discrimination.” Appeal to the Polish faithful on pilgrimage to the Marian shrines: “Ask Our Lady for the inestimable gift of peace, especially for beloved Ukraine”. I greet the participants in the Brazilian Summit on the Amazon.
Salvatore Cernuzio – Vatican City
He invoked from her, Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, the gift of peace for Europe of which she is co-patron. “To his intercession we entrust the beloved people of Ukraine, so that they may soon find peace once more,” Pope Francis said at the end of the general audience in the Paul VI Hall, recalling Edith Stein, the Carmelite nun who was a victim of the Shoah, whose liturgical memory the Church celebrates today, August 9.
“May their testimony stimulate the commitment in favor of dialogue and brotherhood between peoples and once morest all forms of violence and discrimination.”
Edith Stein’s Intercession
Philosopher of Jewish origin, converted to Christianity in her youth and later admitted to the Order of Discalced Carmelites, she was captured with her sister in the convent of Echt, Holland, and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. There she found her death in a gas chamber on August 9, 1942. Fifty-seven years later, on October 1, 1999, John Paul II wanted to proclaim her co-patron of Europe to raise, he said, “on the horizon of the old continent a banner of respect, tolerance, welcome” and “form a truly fraternal society”.
Today once more a Pope, Francis, entrusts himself to her to rediscover peace in a Europe that seems to have lost the path of dialogue and fraternity. The same Europe that the Pontiff, during the catechesis, said he had entrusted to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, renewing the consecration. Il dono inestimabile della pace
The priceless gift of peace
And once once more regarding peace, with a special thought for Ukraine, the Pope spoke during his greeting to the Polish faithful present at the general audience. Addressing those who make pilgrimages these days to Jasna Góra and other Marian sanctuaries, Francis – recalling his own words at the concluding Angelus of WYD in Lisbon – wanted to share “a desire that I carry in my heart, the desire for peace throughout the world”. .
“Present it to Her, who is the Queen of Peace. Ask her for this priceless gift, especially for the beloved and martyred Ukraine.”
Renew the commitment to care for Creation
Broadening the gaze, the thought of the Bishop of Rome reached Brazil, where, in Belém do Pará, the summit between the member countries of the Organization of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (Otca), an organization created in 1995 by the nations that house the pluvial forest in their territories: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. “I assure my prayers for the success of the meeting,” said Pope Francis, expressing a concrete wish:
“Let everyone’s commitment to care for Creation and sustainable development be renewed.”
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