Why Pope Léon XIV sends a letter to the bishops of France | EUROtoday

This yr 2025 throughout which the centenary of those canonizations is well known is well known, for the Sovereign Pontiff, an invite to awaken “this land of France”. He thus calls to not stay with nostalgia “of a past that might seem over”.

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If Léon XIV doesn’t instantly evoke the Act on Aid to die which has simply been adopted within the National Assembly, he writes: “I invoke the intercession of Saint John Eudes, Saint Jean-Marie Vianney and Saint Thérèse of the Jesus Child and the Holy Face, for your country and for the people of God who wander courageously under the opposite and sometimes hostile winds of the indifferentism individualism. That they give courage to this people, in the certainty that Christ is really resurrected, the Savior of the world. »»

Considering the three saints as “related” to face “the extent of the challenges” which present themselves at the Church of France, Pope Leo XIV considers in his letter that the latter have in common the fact of having “beloved Jesus in a easy, robust and genuine manner”. Evoking these saints who have experienced the goodness and tenderness of Jesus “in a specific each day proximity”, the sovereign pontiff explains that the latter testified to this love in “an admirable missionary impulse”.