A Pilgrim Pope by Pope John Paul II

Author:Pope John Paul II
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0-7407-0045-6
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Published: 1999-04-13T04:00:00+00:00

ZIMBABWE 1988

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ON 10 SEPTEMBER 1988, Pope John Paul concluded his summer vacation at Castel Gondolfo and traveled immediately to Zimbabwe to begin a nine-day tour of Southern Africa, where he would visit five countries. On 11 September, the Pope celebrated Mass in Harare and delivered a homily on baptism and reconciliation. There he gave a brief description of his own role as Bishop of Rome, Successor to Peter.

Today, I stand in your midst as the Bishop of Rome and I make this joyful proclamation: “The Lord is my Shepherd.”

I make it together with you, with the whole Church, and with all the People of God who dwell in your country, Zimbabwe.

“The Lord is my Shepherd.”

I come to you as a pastor. I come in the name of the Lord who is our Shepherd. I come in the name of Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, the Eternal Pastor of our souls. And in his name I extend most cordial greetings to all those who constitute the Church in Zimbabwe.

At your invitation I have willingly come to Zimbabwe. I have come as the Successor of Peter and Bishop of Rome, who has inherited a particular mission and responsibility, linked with the witness of the Apostles Peter and Paul. For Peter and Paul strengthened the very foundation of the Church by their apostolic service, and above all by their death as martyrs, giving their lives for Christ, for the truth which is Christ himself. This truth they have faithfully handed on to all generations of the Church. This same truth I come to proclaim to you, as the Successor of Peter in the last part of the twentieth century. Ever since the time of the Apostles, the Church has built on this truth, not only in Rome but throughout the entire world. In your country, too, the Church of Christ builds on this truth, in communion with the Apostolic See of Rome.

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