GREETING OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV
"Saint Óscar A. Romero" Chapel (Chiclayo)
Friday, 13 November 2026
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Dear brothers and sisters,
To Bishop Edinson of this beloved Diocese of Chiclayo; to Father Alonso, pastor of the Parish of San José Obrero; and to all the members of this community at the San Oscar Romero Chapel, I wish you a very good afternoon.
How truly beautiful it is, indeed it is a blessing from God to be here with you. I am very grateful to God. I am also very grateful to all those — so many of you here today — who have worked together to make the dream of this new chapel dedicated to Saint Oscar Romero a reality. Thank you to everyone who has participated in this project.
At the same time, I want to thank the entire community for your prayers for my health. As you know, it has been just one month since I had to undergo surgery, and God, through his grace, has been wonderful. I know that your prayers and those of so many others have helped me recover and enabled me to be here with you today. Thank you very much.
Jesus Christ came to give us salvation and gave his life by dying on the cross so that we might have salvation and eternal life. But he invites us all to enter into the experience of being part of his Church — to be sisters and brothers, all united in the Church — to continue the mission he began, which he wants us to carry on. He calls all of us who are baptized, each according to our vocation — bishops, priests, consecrated persons, and also the lay faithful — to participate together in the communion that is the Church, to proclaim the Good News, to share our faith, and to continue passing on God’s love to one another, from generation to generation, among neighbors, and among family members. To share this great news that Jesus always walks with us.
Today’s brief visit was squeezed in amid so many other commitments, but it was something I truly wanted to do, because it should be a sign of this closeness, of this desire to build community and to collaborate, always to cooperate, working together to continue the Church’s mission.
Let us pray: I invite all of you to stand to recite the prayer that Jesus taught us. And I very humbly offer God’s blessing to each one of you, to your families, and to your loved ones, because we believe and know that Jesus Christ is with us.
Let us pray: “Our Father...”
[Blessing]
Long live Christ!