October 21
Our Lady of Europe
May the Virgin Mary, so loved and venerated in every part of Italy, precede and guide us in our union with Christ. In her we meet, pure and undeformed, the true essence of the Church, and so through her, we learn to know and love the mystery of the Church that lives in history, we deeply feel a part of it, and in our turn we become "ecclesial souls," we learn to resist the "internal secularization" that threatens the Church of our time, a consequence of the secularization process that has profoundly marked European civilization.
Pope Benedict XVI, Address, October 19, 2006
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