In this video, Trudy Dantis, the Director of the National Centre For Pastoral Research of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, reflects on the message of Pope Francis for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2024: “God walks with His people.”
Read: Pope Francis’ Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
“God walks with His people”, is the title chosen by Pope Francis for his Message for the upcoming World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR), which will be celebrated on Sunday, 29 September 2024.
In this message, the Holy Father reminds us that all of us, God’s people, are migrants on this earth, on our way to the “true homeland”, the Kingdom of Heaven. Migrants are a contemporary icon of this people on a journey, of the Church on a journey, and at the same time, it is in them and in all our vulnerable brothers and sisters that we can encounter the Lord who walks with us.
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