HISTORIC MEETING ANGLICAN COMMUNION PRIMATES FROM AROUND THE WORLD: AUDIENCE WITH POPE FRANCIS AT THE VATICAN

In a historic meeting, Anglican Communion primates from around the world have attended an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican, during the morning of May 2.

The Pope shared words of encouragement and affirmation, in conversation with the primates. His address spoke about themes of synodality, church unity and the prioritization of relationships, Christian love and service. 

The Pope said: "Only a love that becomes gratuitous service, only the love that Jesus taught and embodies, will bring separated Christians closer to one another. Only that love, which does not appeal to the past in order to remain aloof or to point a finger, only that love which in God's name puts our brothers and sisters before the ironclad defence of our own religious structures, only that love will unite us. First our brothers and sisters, the structures later."    

Justin Welby, The Archbishop of Canterbury spoke of the Pope’s address and its significance to the Primates and the Anglican Communion, saying it was: “… a most beautiful address around the nature of unity and synodality and of the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of the church – which took our eyes away from ourselves and lifted them to the faithfulness of God in Jesus Christ and the gift of the Spirit."

“This Primates’ Meeting has been wonderful and has now become a moment in history where we have seen the closeness of our relationship with Rome at the pastoral, the missional and the spiritual level, which demonstrates the progress made over the last half century from real antipathy, to deep bonds of friendship all round the world. I am so grateful to God for the gift of the Spirit who worked among us this morning and has been working among us all week.”

This was a significant moment in the Anglican Primates’ Meeting in Rome. They have gathered for pilgrimage, prayer and discussion about joint mission and witness, along with conversation about synodality in the Anglican Communion. 

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Oración, del "peregrino de la esperanza y de la paz", a los pies de la "Señora de la blanca túnica"

El Santo Padre

¡Salve, vida y dulzura,

salve, esperanza nuestra,

Oh Virgen Peregrina, oh Reina Universal!

Desde lo más profundo de tu ser,

desde tu Inmaculado Corazón,

mira los gozos del ser humano

cuando peregrina hacia la Patria Celeste.

Desde lo más profundo de tu ser,

desde tu Inmaculado Corazón,

mira los dolores de la familia humana

que gime y llora en este valle de lágrimas.

Desde lo más íntimo de tu ser,

desde tu Inmaculado Corazón,

adórnanos con el fulgor de las joyas de tu corona

y haznos peregrinos como tú fuiste peregrina.

Con tu sonrisa virginal,

acrecienta la alegría de la Iglesia de Cristo.

Con tu mirada de dulzura,

fortalece la esperanza de los hijos de Dios.

Con tus manos orantes que elevas al Señor,

une a todos en una única familia humana.

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