ANGELUS POPE FRANCIS
Piazza
Vittorio, Turin/Torino-Italy
Sunday, 21 June 2015
Sunday, 21 June 2015
PASTORAL
VISIT OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
TO TURIN
TO TURIN
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| photo, notizie.tiscali.it |
At the end of this celebration,
our thoughts go to the Virgin Mary, a loving, caring
mother towards all her children, whom Jesus entrusted to her as he offered
Himself on the Cross in the greatest act of love. An icon of this love is the
Shroud, which has again drawn so many people to Turin. The Shroud attracts
people to the face and tortured body of Jesus and, at the same time, urges us
on toward every person who is suffering and unjustly persecuted. It urges us on
in the same direction as Jesus’ gift of love. “The love us Christ urges us on”:
these words of St Paul were the motto of Joseph Benedict Cottolengo.
Recalling the
apostolic fervour of so many holy priests of this region, starting with Don
Bosco, the bicentennial of whose birth we commemorate, with gratitude I greet
you, priests and religious. You dedicate yourselves with commitment to pastoral
work, and you are close to the people and their problems. I encourage you to
carry forward your ministry with joy, always focusing on what is essential to
the proclamation of the Gospel. And as I thank you for your presence, Brother
Bishops of Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta, I urge you to stay close to your priests
with paternal affection and warm closeness.
To the Holy Virgin, I
entrust this city and the surrounding area and those who live therein, that
they may be enabled to live in justice, peace and fraternity. In particular, I
entrust to her the families, young people, elderly, inmates and all those who
suffer, with a special thought for leukaemia patients on today’s National Day
Against Leukaemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma. May Mary the Consolatrix, Queen of
Turin and Piedmont, make firm your faith, make sure your hope, and make
fruitful your charity, that you may be the “salt and light” of this blessed
land, of which I am a grandson.
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