杏MAP导航

By Vatican News staff writer

At the conclusion of the 杏MAP导航鈥檚 34th Apostolic visit abroad, the day after the 杏MAP导航 met with members of Slovakia鈥檚 Roma community, Fr Maro拧 Peciar, a Salesian priest who works with local authorities in the Luník IX, where the 杏MAP导航 visited the Roma community, spoke to Lydia O鈥橩ane about his experience following the visit.

Visit to the Roma community

Fr Peciar describes what he saw after the event had finished. While cleaning the areas where the pilgrims had been, he describes the unusual silence that surrounded them. 鈥淯sually music and voices go on until midnight, he notes, "or even much later鈥�. Instead, Fr Peciar says that 鈥渢he local inhabitants were unusually quiet鈥�.

We saw that the people felt they were loved, said Fr Peciar, 鈥渢hey were very very happy鈥�. Such a small 鈥渢hing鈥� he said, really made a difference.

The 杏MAP导航 in Slovakia

Speaking more generically of the 杏MAP导航鈥檚 trip to Slovakia, Fr Peciar says he believes the 杏MAP导航 visited 鈥渏ust to make us stronger in light of our faith, because we see that a lot of different ideas are present in the life of the Church. Maybe we are not all courageous like pope Francis asks us to be鈥�, he says.

The 杏MAP导航 underlined this in his final homily says Fr Peciar: 鈥渋nviting us to walk on the street of life.. to be prophets of our time.. and to be rich in compassion鈥�, and these three points, Fr Peciar stresses, 鈥渁re how we can be stronger with our faith鈥�.