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Pope Francis adds “Comfort ofMigrants” to Mary’s titles
In this Feb. 26, 2019 photo, migrants rest in the chapel of the San Juan Bosco migrantshelter, in Nogales, Mexico. (Credit: Dario Lopez-Mills/AP.)
ROME – Pope Francis has given the Virgin Mary three new titles, theVatican announced Saturday, which will be added to the Catholic Church’straditional “Litany of Mary,” including one that reflects a signaturepreoccupation of this pope.
The new titles are “Mother of Mercy,” “Mother of Hope,” and “Comfort ofMigrants.”
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“We know from the Gospel that the disciples of Jesus had in fact learned fromthe very beginning to praise her as ‘blessed amongst women’ and to count onher maternal intercession,” he said, insisting that the numerous titles given toMary throughout history are a “privileged and sure way to an encounter withChrist.”
Pope Francis has often emphasized the topic of mercy in the Church, mostprominently through his 2015-2016 Jubilee of Mercy, and his own episcopalmotto, Miserando atque eligendo, or, “choosing with mercy.”
He has also been a champion of migrants and refugees since his election in2013, making frequent appeals on their behalf in his public audiences, and inhis meetings with diplomats and heads of state. His first trip outside of Romeas pope was to the visit the Italian island of Lampedusa in 2013, where he metmigrants detained at a large camp who had fled poverty and war in theMiddle East and Africa.
In September 2019, he added a sculpture depicting a boat full of migrants toSt. Peter’s Square. Marking the first new sculpture installed in square in over400 years, it’s called, “Angels Unaware,” and depicts 140 migrants andrefugees from different cultures and periods of history, including indigenouspeople, Jews escaping Nazi Germany, and Syrian and African refugees fleeingwar and famine in modern times.
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In letter dated June 20, Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of theVatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of theSacraments, announced the titles would be added to the Litany of Mary,called the “Litany of Loreto,” which is usually recited during the rosary or onmajor Catholic feasts.
Addressed to the presidents of all bishops’ conferences worldwide, the lettersaid the move comes at the express wish of Pope Francis.
The first new title is to be placed after “Mother of the Church,” the secondafter “Mother of Divine Grace,” while the third will go after Mary’sdesignation as “Refuge of Sinners.”
In the letter, Sarah said “the Church which walks along the pathways ofhistory as a pilgrim towards the heavenly Jerusalem and enjoys inseparablecommunion with Christ her Spouse and Savior, entrusts herself to her whobelieved in the word of the Lord.”
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