Pope Francis: the family is the first place where we learn to love. The 10th World Meeting of Families in Rome

The World Meeting of Families was held in Rome for the second time since 1994. The theme of this year’s meeting, attended by some 2,000 families, was “Family love: a vocation and a path to holiness”. The event began with the Feast of Families, which Pope Francis celebrated in the in the presence of 4,500 people in the Paul VI Hall. On Saturday evening, a solemn closing Mass was celebrated, at the end of which a missionary sending-out of families was given. During the closing Mass, the Pope reminded the participants of the meaning of Christ’s Passion and of what the Christian logic teaches. Pope Francis recalled that Christ, through his suffering and death, freed us from the slavery of self-centredness and set us free to love others better. 

PhD student from our doctoral school, Ervin Obermájer, was asked about his vocation

In my everyday life I find that the rather long title that appears after my name in official sources is in some ways unknown to ordinary people. The great majority of people know that I am a Roman Catholic priest and that I am engaged in pastoral work, as the classical pastoral way of life would say. This is certainly true, since I also work as an an auxiliary pastor in the parish of St. Augustine in Csíkszereda, but people who do not know me know very less about the other part of my activities.