PDF of Urbi Et Orbi Foundation Private Pilgrimage Book
Moscow, Istanbul, Vienna, and Rome URbi Et Orbi Foundation Private Pilgrimage 2014 Moscow, Istanbul, Vienna, and Rome URbi Et Orbi Foundation Private Pilgrimage 2014 • 1 • • 2 • URbi Et Orbi Foundation Private Pilgrimage 2014 Moscow, Istanbul, Vienna, and Rome Pilgrimage Book A project of Urbi et Orbi Communications • 3 • • 4 • “I N THE O RTH O D O X C HUR C HES THEY have kept that pristine liturgy, so beautiful. We have lost a bit the sense of adoration. They keep, they praise God, they adore God, they sing, time doesn’t count. God is the center... When one reads Dostoyevsky—I believe that for us all he must be an author to read and reread, because he has wisdom—one perceives what the Russian spirit is, the Eastern spirit. It’s something that will do us so much good. We are in need of this renewal, of this fresh air of the East, of this light of the East.” —Pope Francis, on the papal airplane coming back from World Youth Day, July 28, 2013 • 5 • A project of Urbi et Orbi Communications July 3, 2014 Dear Fellow Pilgrims, Greetings! I wish to give a very warm welcome to all of you who are setting out with us on our First Urbi et Orbi Foundation Pilgrimage to Moscow, Istanbul, Vienna and Rome—to the “Three Romes” (Rome, Constantinople and Moscow) and a fourth city (Vienna) which, in some ways, is also a successor of Rome (because for many centuries it was the seat of the Holy Roman Emperor). So, it is a pilgrimage to our origins, and to the political and administrative centers of our Christian faith.
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