The feast of St. James the Apostle is the "vivid memory of the identity of Spain", which invites the country "to go back to the origins of its more authentic history, and to update from both the human and spiritual point of view, rediscovering the Christian heritage characterizing its roots", said Card. Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, archbishop of Madrid, on the occasion of the solemnity of St. James, the patron of Spain, celebrated today. "James reminds the whole Spanish Church of its apostolic origins added the cardinal as well as the precocious evangelization of its people". "Spain recalled the archbishop of Madrid – has been the land of Mary and the land of saints", because in its history, "the apostolic seed of the Gospel preached by James, and the faith received by Spain, have always driven it and cultivated it very accurately, through the gift of contemplative life and the missionary zeal of all its children". In 2007, above all, according to the cardinal, James "invites us to live our missionary vocation again", as witnesses of Christ, "with particular urgency", both "among us, in our society e among the new generations, including young migrants", and beyond "our frontiers". (To be continued)
