‘We Walk Together’ (Pope’s Words to Evangelical Leaders Gathered for Vigil of Pentecost)

‘We walk together; we help the poor together, charity together, educate together – all together’

June 5, 2017

ZENIT Staff
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At 11:30 am on the morning of Saturday, June 2, 2017, Pope Francis received in audience — in the Hall of the Consistory of the Apostolic Vatican Palace –, the Evangelical leaders gathered for the Vigil of Pentecost.

Here is a translation of the Pope’s off-the-cuff greeting to them.

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Thank you so much for this greeting; also for the trouble you took to greet me. Thank you for what you do, working for Christian unity, all together, as the Lord wishes. We walk together; we help the poor together, charity together, educate together – all together. And may the theologians work on their part and help us. But we always walk, never stop, never stop . . . and together. This is what I wish and I thank you because I know what you do.

I would like to end as brothers praying the Our Father, each one in his own language. Can we do so? [Our Father]

And until later. [Original text: Italian] [Translation by Virginia M. Forrester]


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