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over in Coventry and recalls in a special way the Pope's words during the homily there on Pentecost Sunday. This is an excerpt from that homily: " Today, the scale and the horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past , to history ; it should find no place on humanitys' agenda for the future ".... Catholic author Joanna Bogle also picks up on John Paul II's impassioned pleas for peace as she shares her personal memories of this six day trip . Among the things she pinpoints in a special way are the simplicity of his repeated request to English Catholics to pray and his insistance they attend Sunday Mass on a regular basis. Both popes followed in the footsteps of another Roman Pontiff, Gregory the Great . A Pope who may not have crossed the channel that separates England from the continent but sent an envoy there centuries earlier, precisely in 595. The envoy being no other than Saint Augustine, whose presence on the Island was mentioned by Blessed John Paul II on the eve of his visit to the heart of the Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral. An occasion during which he was received by the Archbishop of Canterbury of the time Doctor Robert Runcie and joined in an ecumencial service, pronouncing these words: "On this first visit of a Pope to Canterbury, I come to you in love - the love of Peter. I come to you also in the love of Gregory, who sent Saint Augustine to this place to give the Lords flock a shepherds care . Just as every minister of the Gospel must do, so today I echo the words of the Master: I am among you as one who serves . With me I bring to you, beloved brothers and sisters of the Anglican Communion, the hopes and the desires, the prayers and good will of all who are united with the Church of Rome, which from earliest times was said to preside in love"... Listen to this very personal programme with a selection of recordings from our Vatican Radio archives...
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