Pope Francis' Message for the Feast of Saint Cajetan.
Good afternoon.
As every year, after having gone through the queue, I speak with you. This time I went through the queue with my heart. I’m a bit far away and I can’t share with you this very lovely moment -- this moment in which you are walking towards the image of Saint Cajetan. Why? To meet with him, to meet with Jesus. However today, the motto of this pilgrimage, a motto chosen by you, selected among many possibilities, the motto speaks today of another meeting, and it says: “With Jesus and Saint Cajetan, We Go to Meet Those in Most Need” It speaks of the meeting with people in greater need, those who need us to give them a hand, to look at them with affection, to share their pain and anxieties, their problems. However, what’s important is not to look at them from afar, or to help them from afar. No, No! It’s to go and meet with them. That is what a Christian is! That is what Jesus teaches us: to go and meet with those in most …More