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INTRODUCTORY WORDS 

OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI

DURING THE EVENING PRAYER

at Westminster Abbey, 17 Sept. 2010

Your Grace, Mr Dean,

Dear Friends in Christ,

I thank you for your gracious welcome. 

This noble edifice evokes England’s long history, so deeply marked by the preaching of the Gospel and the Christian culture to which it gave birth. 

I come here today as a pilgrim from Rome, to pray before the tomb of Saint Edward the Confessor, and to join you in imploring the gift of Christian unity. 

May these moments of prayer and friendship confirm us in love for Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour, and in common witness to the enduring power of the Gospel to illumine the future of this great nation.

 

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