MESSAGE FOR THE REOPENING OF A CATHEDRAL IN ITALY

VATICAN CITY, NOV 19, 1999 (VIS) - Made public today was a message from the Pope to Archbishop Salvatore Nunnari of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Conza-Nusco-Bisaccia, Italy, for the occasion of tomorrow's inauguration of the newly-restored medieval cathedral of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi.

In his message, which is dated November 1, Solemnity of All Saints, John Paul II expresses his wish "that the celebrations for the reopening of the cathedral may represent for all an occasion for a renewed and generous response to the call of the Lord."

The Holy Father writes: "I wish to encourage the brothers and sisters of this beloved archdiocese to constantly and zealously love and guard their cathedral. For each of them, may it be a house of prayer, a sacred temple, a place of the presence of the living God and of closeness to Him. May it stimulate the entire community to be united in solidarity, so as to be able to foretaste, in the liturgy and in fraternal charity, something of future heavenly bliss."

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