...and the beauty, of Rome with its mellow evening light, and packed street cafes and restaurants around the large piazzas all teeming with people, and the streets with the thousands of square cobbles, and the vast cool churches and sudden great chunks of ancient buildings jostling with souvenir shops.
I'm writing this on Sunday morning as helicopters hurtle around overhead, and everywhere - everywhere around the city - there are tramping feet and chattering voices as pilgrims head for St Peter's, and a great moment in the history of the Church...
Last night, we prayed with the Emmanuel Community in one of Rome's great churches, then drifted through the city and were caught up in a wonderful crowd of singing, joyful Poles in the Piazza Navona. The city of Rome is pulsating with joyful people, and feels like the centre of the world.
And John Paul II and John XXIII will be declared as Saints in an hour's time...
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