21 March 2015 | Meeting

MEETING WITH THE PEOPLE AND VARIOUS SOCIAL CATEGORIES OF THE SCAMPIA NEIGHBOURHOOD ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER

Piazza Giovanni Paolo II, Naples

[…] We must make our immigrant brothers and sisters feel that they are citizens, that they are like us, children of God, that they are immigrants like us, because we are all immigrants moving toward another homeland, and perhaps we will all arrive there. And no one will get lost on the way! We are all immigrants, children of God who has placed us all on a journey. It cannot be said: “But immigrants are like this…. We are…”. No! We are all immigrants, we are all on a journey. And this word that we are all immigrants is not written in a book, it is written in our flesh, in our journey of life, which assures us that in Jesus we are all children of God, beloved children, wanted children, saved children. Let us consider this: we are all immigrants on the journey of life, none of us has a fixed abode in this land, we all must go.[…]