” “Then, Benedict XVI resumed the subject of the parish, the focus of the Diocesan Synod. "Very confidently, Pope Roncalli entrusted to the parish, a family of families, the task of imbuing feelings of communion and fraternity in the devotees recalled the Pope . Shaped by the Eucharist, the parish may become he thought a ferment of healthy restlessness in the widespread consumerism and individualism of our time, reawakening solidarity and opening, through faith, the eyes of the heart to recognise the Father, who is free love, longing to share His joy with His children". "Dear Friends stated the Holy Father, as he kept speaking to the devotees from Bergamo , you have come to Rome with the image of the Virgin that Pope John received as a gift when he visited Loreto, a few days before the opening of the Council. He wanted the statue to be put in the Diocesan Seminary dedicated to him, in his native diocese". "I gladly entrust to God’s Mother he went on all the families and parishes, proposing them the model of the Holy Family of Nazareth: may they be the first seminary, and may they be able to cultivate within them calls to priesthood, to mission, to religious consecration, to family life, according to Christ’s heart". ” “
