During the liturgy, Daniel Pilly, a representative of the Protestant community, asked pardon for historic actions against Christian unity.
Father Desthieux said that Geneva’s Catholics were touched by the Protestant community’s invitation to celebrate Mass at St. Pierre Cathedral and also asked for forgiveness for “faults against unity”: acts of mockery, caricature, or challenge to the Reformed community. Desthieux also underlined the desire to “enrich each other with our differences.”
The priest greeted couples from religiously mixed marriages “who live ecumenism in the most intimate way.” Referring to Jesus’ temptation by Satan in the desert, he called on those present to “resist the forces of division in our lives between us and among us Christians.”
In a letter published on the vicariate’s website in 2020, Desthieux described the cathedral as the “central and symbolic location of Geneva’s Christian history.”
Following the Reformation, the cathedral became a location “emblematic of the Calvinist reform,” he said.
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