Vatican City, 30 October 2015 (VIS) –
To commemorate 60 years of the Latin American Episcopal Council
(CELAM), the Pope has written a message to the president Cardinal
Ruben Salazar Gomez in which he expresses his gratitude for all the
good the Lord has gradually sown there, and that has borne fruit
through the service of God's Church in Latin America.
“I hope that CELAM, making pastoral
and missionary conversion its priority, may increasingly participate
in, support and give momentum to this evangelising movement towards
all environments and all frontiers. It is important that our
communities are a 'home and school of communion', which attract by a
surprising fraternity based on the recognition of the common father,
and help always to keep alive in the Church in Latin America the
passion for our peoples, the bearing of our sufferings and the
capacity for Christian discernment of the vicissitudes of their
recent history, to open up paths of greater equality, peace and
justice”.
He also emphasises that the upcoming
opening of the extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy “will be an event of
grace in which CELAM must provide a fundamental service of
inspiration, exchange and celebration”.
Finally, the Pope imparts his apostolic
blessing to all members of CELAM, their collaborators, and the
episcopate of Latin America and the Caribbean, placing all these
intentions under the protection of the mantle of Our Lady of
Guadalupe, patron of America, so that by her intercession “Our Lord
Jesus Christ may inspire new and holier missionary disciples in our
Churches, and more courageous builders of peace and justice in our
nations”.
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