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HOLY LAND SUPPLEMENT THURSDAY, JANUARY 9,1964 PEOPLE AND PRESIDENT Romans Give Their Bishop Triumphant Homecoming ROME (NC)—Rome turned out to give the “Pilgrim Pope“ a hero’s triumphant welcome home after his three-day his toric sojourn in the Holy Land. The white and silver jet air- lindr bearing Pope Paul VI and his suite set down at Rome’s Ciampino West Airfield at 6:21 p.m. f an hour later than sche duled. The field was ablaze with lights and alive with the flutter of the flags of the papal state and of Rome. and adopted, lined the streets and cheered their greetings to the returning Pope. Monuments and buildings, ancient and new, were lighted in Rome’s finest festive manner, and powerful floodlights in many parts of the city sent white spires of light to play across the night sky. At the platform in front of the Colosseum, the Pope alighted to receive from May or Glauco della Porta an ad dress of greeting, expressing the Romans’ sentiments of de votion for their Bishop. A fanfare of trumpets, taken up by the bells of Rome's city hall atop the Capitoline Hill, had announced the P o p e’ s triumphant return through the center o f the city, along va rious avenues and squares, and finally into Vatican City. The sound of bells mingling with the cheering of the faithful greeted the Pope along streets draped with damask and banners. rhLLS OF POPE S PILGRIMAGE. Archbishop Lino Zan* ini. Apostolic Delegate to Jeruselem and Palestine, talks with newsmen about the visit of Pope Paul VI. The Arch bishop stands in front of the Apostolic Delegation, which workmen make ready for the Pontiff’s arrival. The Latin inscription over the door means ’’House of God, Gate of Heaven.”* SPEAKS IN ENGLISH Lauds Armenians JERUSALEM, Jordan Following is the text of the speech made in English by Pope Paul VI to Armenian Orthodox Patriarch Yeghese Derderian of Jerusalem at the Apostolic Delegation (Jan. 4). We are particularly grateful for the kind welcome you have given us during our pilgrimage to this city, hallowed by the great mysteries of the Redemption which Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ worked in it. Our meeting has a particular significance because of the friendly ties which have developed between us ami the Armenian church through the delegated observers who participated in the work of the Second Vatican Council. The spirit of true Christian charity and comprehension which they manifested made us all the more certain of the fraternal welcome we would receive here from you and from your faithful. Our expectations have been more than amply fulfilled, THERE IS a spirit which more and more influences Christian hearts. It is the desire to carry out what the Apostle to the Nations counseledus: To forget what is past and push on to what lies ahead, your eyes fixed upon Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith. 1 his spirit has already been manifested in a concrete way in this holy city, in the efforts being made by all Christians to work in conmon accord for the reverent care and fitting veneration of that hallowed place where our Lord, triumphant on the Cross and victorious over the grave, effected the great mission of re conciliation which He had received from His Father. We salute these experessions of Christian charity which already exist, and we express the earnest desire that they may multiply and expand into every area of our common Christian endeavor. We “have come as a prayerful pilgrim to this holy city. In the prayers which we offer to God, our Father, and to our Saviour Jesus Christ, His Divine Son, we remember you and the flock of which you are the pastor. May His divine graces and favors de scend in abundance upon all of you. POPE PAUL seen in a characteristic pose during his many sreet- ings to the people of the Holy Land. POPE TO PATRIARCH Our Emotion, Profound POPE TELLS ROME Trip ‘Kept Faith With Our Pledge’ THE POPE ON THE VIA DOLOROSA. Jordanian police and soldiers were hard put to make a passage for Pope Paul VI as he walked the Way of the Cross immediately following his arrival in Jerusalem (Jan. 4) on his historic visit to the Holy Land. The Pontiff’s white skull cap may be seen in the upper right portion of the picture. SPEAKS IN FRENCH Pope Emphasizes Unity Among Different Rites ‘Great Is JERUSALEM, Jordan (NC)-- Following is the text of the speech in Latin prepared by Pope Paul VI for delivery at his (Jan. 5) meeting with Or thodox Patriarch Athenagoras I at the Apostolic Delegation here, but which was not given until the Pope and Patriarch met again (Jan. 6) at the sum mer residence of Orthodox Pa triarch Benedictus: Great ia our emotion and pro found our joy in this truly histo ric tour, when, after centuries of silence and expectation, the Catholic Church and the Patri archate of Constantinople meet once again iX the persons of their highest representatives. GREAT and profound also Is our gratitude to you, who have kindly left temporarily your patriarchal See in order to come here to meet us. it is, however, first of all toward God, the Lord of the Church, that the words of our humble thanksgiv ing ascend. An ancient Christian tradi tion lovingly sees as the center of th e world that place upon which the glorious cross of the Saviour was erected, and whit her, “being raised up from the earth," He draws “all things unto himself.” It was fitting, then, and Pro vidence has permitted it, that it should be in this place—this forever blessed and sacred place—that, as pilgrims from Rome and from Constantinople, we should be able to meet and be united in a common prayer. YOU HAVE desired this meeting ever since the time of our unforgettable predecessor John, for whom you did not conceal your esteem and af fection and to whom with strik ing intuition, you applied the AFTER th e plane rolled to a stop on the runway, the Pope appeared alone at the top of the gangway, both waving at people and blessing them. Fatigue showed on his face but he des cended from the plane briskly and was greeted at the bottom of the gangway by President Antonio Segnl and then Defense Minister Giulio Andreotti, who accompanied the Pope in re view of the honor guard, then to a plataform to greet diplomats and civil and ecclesiastical au thorities. In a brief exchange of greetings President Segni expressed the joy of Italy in the Pope’s return and pledged in behalf of Italians every effort to confirm the elements of peace and good will the Pope had sown by his pilgrimage. The Pope replied: “We re turn with a heart full of intense emotion, carrying engraved in our memory forever the ra diant and moving images of the holy places.” HE SAID it was the purpose of his journey to Palestine that it should “assume the signifi cance of a special fervent meet ing with Christ, to proclaim loudly before the world sublime reality and universality of the Redemption". “We can say we have fulfill ed our pledge," he continued, “today’s liturgy of the Feast of the Epiphany speaks of great spendor spreading out from Je rusalem to the world. In this di vine light we have accomplish ed our journey of prayer and penitence. We have prayed that it may shine more brightly up on the world, whose anxieties and uncertainties and fearsome upheavals spring from having rejected and suffocated that light of salvation. “Only in the Blessed Lord Jesus Christ is salvation. In His message of truth, goodness and love is the answer to all the uncertainties ahead. In His will, freely accepted, lies the peace of the world.” “This is what we have pray ed for, prostrate upon the stone of the Holy Sepulcher, on Cal vary, at Gethsemane, in the Cenacle and at Nazareth,” the Pope concluded. The papal motorcade moved along some of the historic roads of Rome as it re-entered the city and arrived at the Colos seum, where the City of Rome had prepared a solemn civic reception for its returning Bis hop. BANNERS and torches lined the Pope’s path and evoked memories of the tales of An cient Rome as Romans, native words of the Evangelist: “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John." He too yearn ed for this meeting, as you well know, but his early death pre vented him from realizing this desire of his heart. The words of Christ “that they may be one" (ut unum sint), repeated frequently by the dying Pope, leave no doubt as to one of his most cherished inten tions, those for which he offer ed God his long agony and valu able life. Doubtless, on the one side and on the other, the roads which lead to union may belong and sown with difficulties. But these two paths converge toward one another and eventually reach the source of the Gos pel. Is it not then a happy au gury that today's meeting takes place in that land where Christ founded His Church and shed His blood for her? It is in any case an eloquent manifestation of the great good ROME (NC)—Following is the text of the speech made in Ita lian by Pope Paul VI at the air port in Rome on his return from the Holy Land (Jan. 6): We return with a heart full of intense emotions, carrying for ever engraved in our memory the radiant and moving images of the holy places, which speak with bare eloquence of the life of Jesus Christ, of His suffer ings, of His love. We desired our journey to Palestine to take on the mean ing of a particular, fervent, ardent meeting with Christ, a proclamation— clear to all the world—of the sublime reality and universality of the redemp tion which the Divine Saviour continues to work by means of His Church. AND NOW, AGAIN setting foot on the soil of Italy, where once Peter landed with his noble and regenerating mission, we can say that we have kept faith with our pledge. The liturgy of today’s Feast of the Epiphany speaks of a greatsplendorwhich from Jerusalem shines upon the world and conquers its dark ness: "Arise, be enlightened, 0 Jerusalem: For thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and a mist the people: But the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall walk in thy light, and kings in the brightness of thy rising.” In this divine light, we have accomplished our journey of prayer and penance. And we have prayed that it may shine more brightly upon the world, whose anxieties and uncertain ties, whose fearful convulsions arise from his having rejected and suffocated this light. ONLY IN BLESSED Jesus, we repeat, is salvation. In His message of truth, goodness, (and) love is the answer to all the unknowns which present themselves. In His will, freely accepted, is the peace of the world. This we have invoked, kneeling on the bare rock of the sepulcher, at Calvary, at Geth semane, in the Cenacle and at Nazareth. And at the grotto of the Nativity of Bethlehem we have begged for all men of good will the gift of a true and lasting peace. will which, thanks be to God, animates ever more all Chris tians truly worthy of that name; the will, that is, to work to sur mount disunity, to break down barriers; the will to engage re solutely upon the path which leads to reconciliation. Divergencies of a doctrinal, liturgical and disciplinary na ture will have to be examined, at the proper time and place, in a spirity of fidelity to truth and to understanding in charity. WHAT CAN and must now commence to develop is that fraternal charity which is in genious in finding out new ways of showing itself; which, taking its lessons from the past, is ready to pardon, more ready to believe well than evil. Careful above all to conform itself to the Divine Master and to allow itself to be drawn and trans formed by Him. Of such chari ty the symbol and example May the Lord fulfill our wish es and fructify the journey of His humble vicar with fruits of holiness, justice, truth; “to give to His people knowledge of sal vation...to guide -our feet into the way of peace.” OUR THOUGHTS now turn with benevolent remembrance to the authorities of those places who made our journey so easy and convenient, expending every effort to render our brief stay in the Holy Land more pleasant; to the flourishing Catholic com munities we have met and en couraged there, of the Latin, Melkite, Maronite and Armen ian patriarchates; to the sons of St. Francis, so well deserv ing by their presence through the centuries in the Land of Jesus; and to all our brothers in Christ, particularly beloved and dear, whose presence in the holy places sharpens for us the desire of the hoped for reunion. We thank also the Italian au thorities who, as they offered their greeting at the departure, now make us feel more inten sely the joy of return by bring ing us the affection of our be loved sons of Italy and of Rome. IT GIVES US pleasure also to express our lively satisfaction to the directors, to the pilots, to the personnel of the airline company which has done so much for the perfect success of our flight. As a sign of the sentiments of our heart at this moment, we embrace with paternal bene volence all the peoples we have met and those who followed us in thought and prayer, while, in pledge of every desirable hea venly grace, from our heart, we impart once again to the en tire human family our aposto lic benediction. ENTERING JORDAN AMMAN, Jordan (NC)—Fol lowing is the (Jan. 4.) speech of Pope Paul VI to King Hussein of Jordan: We are most appreciative of your kindness in coming to wel- Our Joy’ should be the kiss of peace which Our Lord has permitted us to exchange in this holy land and the prayer which Jesus Christ taught us and which we shall shortly recite together. We cannot express how touch ed we are by this, your gesture. Nor are we alone in this. The Church of Rome, and the ecu menical council, will learn with deep joy of this historic event. As for us, we raise toward God a grateful prayer, and we beg Him to help us follow along this path and to bestow upon you and upon us, who have un dertaken it with faith and con fidence, that blessing which will ensure happy results. With these feelings, it is not a “good-by” that we say to you, but, if you allow us, an “au re- voir" based upon the hope of other fruitful meetings “in the name of the lord" (in nomine domine). JORDAN, Jerusalem (NC)— Following is the address given in French by Pope Paul VI at the Church of St. Anne here (Jan. 4) to Latin and Eastern Rite Catholic prelates: Nearly three quarters of a century ago there was held in Jerusalem a eucharistic con gress that was an important event for the churches of the Orient in communion with the See of Rome. That the situa tion has changed since that time is eloquently demonstrated by your presence here. Venerable Brothers of the Oriental chur ches. OUR JOY in meeting you is great. We have come here as a come us personally on our ar rival in yourklngdom. Our visit is a spiritual one, a humble pil grimage to sacred places made holy by the birth, life. Passion and death of Jesus Christ and by His glorius Resurrection and Ascension. AT EACH OF these venera ble shrines we shall pray for that peace which Jesus left to His disciples, that peace which the world cannot give but which comes from fulfillment of His commandment to love one anot her as He loves us. Your Majesty, we know, ar dently desires peace and pros perity for your people and for all nations of the world, and we, Peter’a successor, re member his reference to Psalms in his first epistle: “He who would love life, and see good days. . ., let him turn away from evil and do good, let him seek after peace and pur sue it” (1, Peter, II, 10, II) STT. PETER also wrote; Honor all menf love the bro therhood; fear God; honor the King” (1, Peter, II, 17). May God grant our prayer and that of all men of good will that, living together in harmony and accord, they may help one another in love and justice and attain to universal peace in the true brotherhood. pilgrim, as you know, in order to follow in the footsteps of Christ in that “holy and glorious Sion, the mother of all the chur ches," to use the expression of the ancient Jerusalem liturgy of St. James. The places of the life. Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord are in fact those of the churches' birth. No one can forget that when God decided to choose for him self a fatherland, a family and a language in this world, it was from the Orient that he took them. And it was to the Orient that he first sent his Apostles: “It was first of all in Pale stine that the Apostles estab lished faith in Jesus Christ and set up churches. Then they went forth into the whole world to announce that same teach ing and identical Faith" (Ter- tu Ilian). Each nation received the good seed of their preaching accord ing to its proper mentality and culture. Each local church grew with its own personality and customs, its own way of cele brating the divine mysteries, all of which did not, however, harm the unity of faith or the communion of all in charity and in respect of the order established by Christ. IN THIS is the origin of our diversity in unity, our catho licity, that property which was always essential to the Church of Christ, and of which the Holy Spirit gives us a new experi ence at our present time and in the counciL If unity is only catholic, if it only respects the legitimate di versity of each one, so also di versity is not catholic unless insofar as it respects unity, serves charity, and contributes to the edification of “the holy people of God." In our joy at meeting you as sembled here, in this your land of the Orient, we cannot but feel profoundly and keenly the need of bearing witness to unity, that great sign given by Christ for the faith of the world: "That they may be one, so that the world may believe." Among ourselves, Catholic therefore let us above all show forth the unity which is ours, as much as possible, by a self less collaboration entirely at the service of the Church and solely concerned with the good of the faithful. Let us manifest as clearly as we can that unity which, though incomplete and wounded, already exists with our other Christian brethren, your brothers in both blood and tradition. AS WE HAVE said on ano ther occasion: Have they not indeed the same baptism, the same fundamental laws, the same priesthood celebrating the unique sacrifice of the one and only Lord of the Church? In fine, let us not forget that our neighbor, he whom we must love as ourselves, is not ex clusively and only our Christian neighbor. May the Lord grant to us all that we may live in charity, and that charity may reign in this land where the love and good ness of God were shown forth by the highest proof of love: "To lay down one's life for one’s friends." KING HUSSEIN, the youthful monarcn of Jordan, was at i airport to greet Pope Paul VI upon the latter's arrival (Ji 4) at Amman to suit his historic pilgrimage. Pope Greets King Hussein At Amman