"Those nice days" of my visit in Bavaria "are shining bright in my mind". With these words, Benedict XVI welcomed, yesterday morning, at the audience, card. Friedrich Wetter, apostolic administrator of München und Freising (Federal Republic of Germany), with a delegation of the Metropolitan Chapter. The news has been relayed today by the Newsroom of the Holy See. With reference to the talks he had yesterday morning with the Bavarian president minister and the president minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Benedict XVI highlighted the two politicians’ wish that "the reconciliatory and healing inner strength of faith may stay alive in our people". In addition, the Pope met the Metropolitan Bishop Ioannis Zizioulas of Pergamum, the envoy of the Patriarch of Constantinople, who said he is sure "the encounter between Rome and Orthodoxy is fundamentally important" and "that we must do everything in our power" to reach "a fraternal communion", so that "mankind will be able to see that we are ‘one’ and believe in Christ accordingly". "I think concluded the Pontiff this is the mission for all of us: to work hard each one in his role for the strength of faith to become effective in this world, as joy, as trust, as a gift".
