POPE FRANCIS writes about Migrant and Refugee Sunday
In the Encyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti I expressed a concern and a desire, which still occupy an important place in my heart: Once this health crisis passes, our worst response would be to plunge even more deeply into feverish consumerism and new forms of egotistic selfpreservation. God willing, after all this, we will think no longer in terms of “them” and “those”, but only “us”. (Fratelli tutti, 35). That is why I decided to title my message for the 107th World Migrant and Refugee Day “Towards an ever wider we”, wishing in this way to indicate a clear horizon for our common journey in this world. God created us male and female, different and complementary beings to conform an us destined to become greater and greater with the multiplication of generations. God created us in His image, in the image of the Trinity, three persons and one nature, communion in diversity. And when, because of his disobedience, the human being turned away from God, He, in His mercy, wanted to offer a path of reconciliation not to an individual, but to a people, to an us chosen and preordained to include the whole human family, all peoples.




