VATICAN CITY, SEP 16, 2000 (VIS) - This morning in St. Peter's Square, John Paul II received in audience various groups of pilgrims who have come to Rome for the Jubilee.
The Pope indicated that the Jubilee "stands out as a year of grace and mercy for all believers, who are called to express their recognition and praise to God for His gifts. It is also a propitious time to practice the Sacraments with greater awareness. ... The Eucharist in particular holds within itself the greatest of the mysteries of redemption."
"By celebration of the Eucharist, may your diocesan communities draw the interior conviction and the spiritual strength to grow in charity and to open to other Churches that are poorer and more in need of support in the field of evangelization and missionary cooperation."
The Holy Father addressed a special greeting to members of the Paul VI Institute of Brescia, Italy, and to the 'Studium' publishing house of Rome, thanking them for the gift of the recent publication on Pope Paul VI.
Continuing in English, the Pope addressed participants in the Second International Congress of the Central European Vascular Forum, "gathered in Rome to discuss different vascular pathologies and new techniques to treat them. May these deliberations serve to strengthen the international resolve to put medical knowledge and expertise at the service of all people without distinction, and to use advances in medical science to safeguard and defend human life at every stage of its existence."
John Paul II concluded by speaking in Ukrainian to greet a group of Basilian Fathers, Sisters Handmaidens of Mary Immaculate and lay people of the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church who have come to Rome from the archdiocese of Lviv.
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