On the day the jubilee of missions and migrants, Pope Leo XIV, the missionary Pope is celebrated, reasoned in the homily of how the mission is declined in this historical moment: «If for a long time the mission we associated the leaving, going to distant lands that had not known the Gospel or poured in situations of poverty, today the frontiers of the mission are no longer the geographical ones because poverty the suffering and desire for greater hope are they to come towards noI, the story of many of our migrant brothers, testifies to us, the violence, the suffering that accompanies them, the fear of not making it, the risk of dangerous crossings along the coasts of the sea, their cry of pain and despair. Brothers and sisters those boats that hope to spot a safe harbor in which to stop and those eyes full of anguish and hope that seek a firm land in which to land, cannot and must not find the fraddezza of indifference or the stigma of discrimination. It is not a question of starting what, however, of remaining to announce Christ through welcome, compassion and solidarity ».
It is Leone to “remain without taking refuge in the comfort of our individualism; Stay to look in the face of those who come from distant and battered lands; stay to open their arms and heart; welcome them as brothers; be for them a presence of consolation and hope ».
“There are many missionaries the missionaries”, the Pope continues, “but also the believers and people of good will who work at the service of migrants and to promote a new culture of fraternity on the theme of migration beyond stereotypes and prejudices, but this precious service interpelas each of us in the small of their own possibilities: this is the time, as Pope Francis said, (and the third quotation of a predecessor, before. XVI and Paolo VI ed) ».
«I ask you to promote a renewed missionary cooperation Among the churches in the communities of ancient Christian tradition such as the western ones: the presence of many brothers and sisters of the South of the world must be seized as an opportunity for an exchange that renews the face of the Church and arouses a more alive and more dynamic Christianity. At the same time, every missionary who leaves for other lands is called to live the cultures that he meets with sacred respect by directing to good all that I find of good and noble and bringing you the prophecy of the Gospel. Then I would like to remember the beauty and importance of missionary vocations, I turn in particular to the European Church today there is a new missionary momentum of laity religious and presbyters (…) to migrants instead I say: be the welcome, the seas and the deserts that you have crossed, in writing are places of salvation in which God has made themselves in mind to save his people I wish you to find this face of God in the missionaries and in the missionaries and in the missionaries missionaries you will meet ».
