Tireless pilgrims celebrate Jubilee in St. Peter’s

December 01, 2012: ‘Tireless pilgrims, are gathered here today in St. Peter's Basilica to celebrate your Jubilee days in the Year of Faith. You have come from all over Italy, from different countries of Europe and even the United States of America to show your faith and your love for the Church and the Holy Father’ said Cardinal Antonio Maria Veglio, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People. He was addressing the artists and professional from the world of the travelling show, at St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday evening.

Today's celebration of the Eucharist is our profession of faith, following the teaching of the Church and the Holy Father, which, in this Year of Faith invites all believers to authentic and renewed conversion to Christ, the only Savior of the world. The encounter with Christ is therefore an event that transforms the whole of life, is an invitation to join him and to involve themselves fully in his plan of salvation, added the Archbishop.

Dear artists and showmen, he said, your professions put you in contact with people of different nations, cultures and religions. Your commitment is graceful in leisure and in the feast, also offering compassionate service.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that "faith is a personal act the free human response to the initiative of God who reveals himself". Pope Benedict XVI, deepening this thought explains that faith "is the result of a relationship, a dialogue in which there is a listen, and get an answer is to communicate with Jesus that makes me out of my" I " enclosed in myself to open up to the love of God the Father.

If each becomes a messenger of the Gospel in the world where your business takes you, then the glory of God resound in all corners of the earth and the people shall rejoice in his works, added Cardinal Veglio.