...to the whole People of God in Europe

7. Finally, we wish to be "Samaritans of hope" for those brothers and sisters with whom we share the difficulties of the journey. We wish to address the same message of hope to the whole People of God, on pilgrimage in this ancient and blessed continent, in the Churches of the East and the West. At one time the proclamation of the good news spread out from here, thanks to the courage of many evangelisers who witnessed even with their blood. And still today, we wish to believe, the Spirit of the Father is calling.

He sends throughout the world the children of this generous continent where Christianity has its roots, but it too has need of the New Evangelisation and new evangelisers. Now we too present ourselves to the Lord, as the Apostles once did, conscious of our poverty and the needs of this Church: "Master, we toiled all night and took nothing" (Lk 5, 5). But above all we want to believe and hope "on his word" that the Lord, like before, can also today fill the boats of the apostles with a miraculous catch and transform every believer into a fisher of men.