John Paul Address to Primate of Sweden

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ECUMENICAL PRAYER SERVICE
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ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II
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Lutheran Cathedral of Uppsala
Friday, 9 June 1989
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“May all be one… so that the world may believe that you have sent me” (Io. 17, 21).
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
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  1. With these words of the Gospel before us, I wish to give thanks to Almighty God who in his loving Providence has made it possible for me to be with you today. My cordial greeting goes to Their Majesties King Carl Gustav and Queen Silvia, whose presence I gladly acknowledge with fervent prayers for the peace and well-being of the nation. I also wish to express my thanks to Archbishop Werkström, who has opened wide the door of friendship for this ecumenical service. To all of you who have come here this morning to pray with the Bishop of Rome I extend the hand of brotherhood and peace in our Lord Jesus Christ . . .
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  1. Dear brothers and sisters: this Gospel touches each of us personally. Christ’s priestly prayer includes us, inasmuch as we too have become believers through the apostles’ word. The gift of salvation, which restores man to communion with God and with others, is directed to all. “It has pleased God to make men holy and to save them not merely as individuals without any mutual bonds, but by making them into a single people, a people which acknowledges him in truth and serves him in holiness” (Lumen Gentium, 9). Into the unity of the one Church of Christ, then, God calls all who believe that Jesus is “the author of salvation and the source of unity and peace” (Ibid.). He, in fact, has established this Church, “that for each and all she may be the visible sacrament of this saving unity” . . .
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  1. We must acknowledge with sorrow that Christians are not united. At the same time we can be confident that the Lord of history has not abandoned us to our divisions. He wisely and patiently draws us by his grace to an ever greater remorse for them and an ever greater desire for unity . . .
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Despite all the dissension and division over the centuries, belief in our one Lord and Saviour and incorporation into him by Baptism ensures a kind of communion, however imperfect. Baptism, which is a sacramental bond among all those who have been reborn, is at the same time a dynamic point of departure. Once baptized, we must strive for fullness of life in Christ, a fullness that is expressed in the complete profession of faith and in the sacramental unity and fellowship of the Church as Christ willed it to be.
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As I stated last year to a Delegation from the Lutheran World Federation: “Because we already share bonds of unity in Christ through Baptism, we can never be satisfied with anything less than full communion”
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vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1989/june/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19890609_uppsala_en.html

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St Bridget is the co-patroness [with St Eric] of the Church of Sweden. Pope John Paul prayed with Lutheran Archbishop at Uppsala Cathedral where relics of St Eric and Sweden’s first Lutheran archbishop, Laurentius Petri. This is where apostolic succession is retained in Sweden. The following day John Paul celebrated Mass outside the cathedral.
Pope John Paul II in his speeches and homilies was always keen to stress the importance of St Bridget to ecumenism.
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Certainly from a Swedish and Scandinavian perspective, St Bridget has been one of the main focus points for increasing contacts between the Roman Catholic Church and the Scandinavian Lutheran churches.
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Diplomatic relations between Sweden and the Vatican were established in 1982
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Pope John Paul II visited Sweden in 1989 and in May 1991 King Karl Gustaf XVI of Sweden and Queen Silvia paid an official visit to the Vatican.
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idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com/2010/10/st-bridget-birgitta-of-sweden.html
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Is this a different Brigid from Ireland’s Saint Brigid?

BTW I am glad to see you still posting. I feared that you had been banned.🙂
 
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