Pope Leo XIV says that unity of the Church nourishes for forgiveness and reciprocal trust

After imposing the Palio to 54 new Metropolitan archbishops, on the occasion of the solemnity of the saints Pedro and Pablo, employers of the city of Rome, Pope Leo XIV said that the unity in the Catholic Church “nourishes itself with forgiveness and reciprocal trust.”

“From our families and our communities. If Jesus trusts us, we can also trust each other, in his name,” said the pontiff who also extended this call to the unity of all Christian confessions.

In this way, the Pope presided over the prayer of the Angelus in the Plaza de San Pedro recalling the testimony of the apostles who were martyred.

“Today is the great feast of the Church of Rome, generated by the testimony of the apostles Peter and Paul and fertilized by their blood and that of many other martyrs,” he said, stressing that also currently “in the world there are Christians that the Gospel makes generous and bold, even at the price of life.”

The Pope also stressed that this shared delivery generates a “deep and invisible unity between the Christian churches”, which he called “blood ecumenism.”

In the Mass that has celebrated this morning the Basilica of San Pedro, also participated the Metropolite Emmanuel de Calcedonia, which presides over the delegation of the ecumenical patriarchy, which has been sent to Rome by Bartolomé I on the occasion of the solemnity of San Pedro and Pablo. A liturgical party that contains a great ecumenical background.

At the end of the celebration, the pontiff descended with him the stairs to the tomb of the apostle Peter, who is located below the altar of the chair, and prayed a few minutes before her.

In the speech he pronounced during the Mariano prayer, he reaffirmed: “‘My episcopal service is a service to the unit, and that the Church of Rome is compromised, by the blood of the saints Pedro and Paul, to serve the communion between all the churches.”

Citing the Gospel, the Pope recalled that “the stone, from which Peter also receives his name, is Christ. A stone discarded by men and that God has made cornerstone.” The basilicas of the saints Pedro and Pablo, he said, are located “out of the walls”, which expresses that “what seems great and glorious to us, was previously discarded and expelled, for being in contrast to the worldly mentality.” In this sense, he invited to travel “the path of bliss”, where the poverty of spirit, meekness, mercy and desire for justice usually find “opposition and even persecution.” However, he said, “the glory of God shines in his friends already along the way he molds them, conversion into conversion.”

On the tombs of the apostles, “ancient pilgrimage goal”, the Pope encouraged everyone to discover that “we can also live with conversion into conversion.” The New Testament, he recalled, does not hide the errors and sins of the apostles, “because their greatness was modeled by forgiveness.” Jesus, he said, “never calls once. That’s why we can always have hope, as the jubilee also reminds us.”

After the Angelus, Pope Leo XIV expressed his proximity to the community of the “Barthélémy Boganda” Lyceum of Bangui, in the Central African Republic, “mourning for the tragic accident that has caused numerous deaths and wounded among students. The Lord Consuele families and the entire community!”

In addition, the Pope expressed “a thought full of affection for the parish priests and all the priests who work in the Roman parishes, with gratitude and encouragement for their service.”

And finally he also recalled that in this party the day of the Obolo of San Pedro is celebrated, “which is a sign of communion with the Pope and of participation in his apostolic ministry”, and thanked from the heart “to whom with his gift they hold my first steps as the successor of Peter.”