{"id":69087,"date":"2026-01-10T13:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=69087"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:03:08","slug":"welcoming-the-migrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/welcoming-the-migrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming the Migrant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Timothy Brunk, January 10, 2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to make two points in this post.&nbsp; The first point concerns the Christian life as a voyage or sojourn.&nbsp; The second concerns the church as a sacrament of unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the first point, at the conclusion of a prayer service in St. Peter\u2019s Square in 2021, Pope Francis said to those gathered, \u201cI invite you to go over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2019-09\/pope-francis-world-day-migrants-refugees-sculpture.html\">monument<\/a> over there . . . &nbsp;the boat with the migrants, and to look closely at the expressions of those people and grasp in that look the hope that every migrant has, to start living again.\u201d<sup>1<\/sup>&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In light of that monument, I want to remind us all that the main space in Christian houses of worship is called a <em>nave<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The word <em>nave<\/em> comes from the Latin word <em>navis<\/em>, which means \u201cship.\u201d&nbsp; In antiquity, \u201calways the sea is presented as changeable and dangerous, the Mediterranean being peculiarly prone to storms: the sea is a major metaphor in Greek literature for fate and necessity, or circumstances all the wise beyond human control.\u201d &nbsp;Understandably, then, a ship becomes a symbol of safety in the no less turbulent sea of human living.&nbsp; Moreover, a ship is going somewhere; there is a sense of direction.&nbsp; And so early Christians thought of the church as a ship, a <em>navis<\/em>, a nave.<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Christians gather for worship as those undertaking a voyage on the seas\u2014or a journey on land.&nbsp; Indeed, early Christians regarded themselves as sojourners, in Greek <em><u>paroikos<\/u><\/em>,<sup>3<\/sup> a word from which we derive the English word \u201cparish.\u201d<sup>4<\/sup>&nbsp; Connecting this sense of journey to the Paschal Mystery, the then Pontifical Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrant and Itinerant Peoples asserted in 1978 that \u201cthe Christian life is essentially a living through of the Passover with Christ, or a journey, a sublime migration towards the total Communion of the Kingdom of God, where everyone and everything is restored in Christ.\u201d<sup>5<\/sup>&nbsp; In 2004, the renamed Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrant and Itinerant Peoples issued an Instruction that called in part for liturgical celebrations that are \u201cmore sensitive to the historical and anthropological aspects of migration, so that liturgical celebrations become a living expression of communities of believers who walk <em>hic et nunc<\/em> on the ways of salvation.\u201d<sup>6<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second point concerns the teaching in <em>Lumen Gentium<\/em> that \u201cthe church, <a><\/a>in Christ, is a sacrament\u2014a sign and instrument, that is, of communion with God and of the unity of the entire human race.\u201d<sup>7<\/sup>&nbsp; Picking up on this point, the Pontifical Council\u2019s 2004 Instruction held that \u201cforeigners are also a visible sign and an effective reminder of that universality which is a constituent element of the Catholic Church.\u201d<sup>8<\/sup>&nbsp; The Instruction later argues that it is \u201cnecessary to build up the Church and make it grow <em>in<\/em> and <em>with<\/em>. . . migrants, to rediscover together and reveal Christian values and form an authentic <em>sacramental community of faith, worship, love and hope<\/em>.\u201d<sup>9<\/sup>&nbsp; Addressing the history of racism directed at Latinos in the United States, Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso wrote in a pastoral letter in 2019 that \u201cOur Church has . . . made progress . . . . 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