Gaudet Mater Ecclesia is the Latin title of a celebrated speech by Pope John XXIII.
It was pronounced in the Basilica of St. Peter on October 11, 1962 for the opening of the Second Vatican Council at the end of a solemn celebration in the presence of all the fathers of the Council. Conciliar Fathers on the Basilica of the Vatican Basilica on the day of the opening of Vatican Council II
In it the pope defined what the purposes of the conciliar assassination work were:
He then explained how in those times the Church, in combating the mistakes, preferred to "use the medicine of mercy instead of harnessing the weapons of rigor."
In his speech, he rejected what he called "prophets of misfortune": Voices correlateemodify wikitesto Links externalize the wikitesto
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