Our pilgrimage this year is called 'The Vision of Beauty' Somebody once said that 'it is beauty that will save the world.' And this is our theme, actually, this year in WCCM, in all our communities, we're reflecting on the goodness of nature, the goodness of creation and the beauty of the world.
This is why we're going to Italy, one of the most beautiful countries in the world. In the repository of perhaps one of our classic ideas of what beauty is. If beauty is to save the world, it's because it is the vision of God. Beauty, somebody also said, is a glimpse of the whole of creation, the whole of the world, reality in a particular. So we'll be going to Italy on the 26th of September for nine days. It won't be a rushed pilgrimage. It will be a contemplative pilgrimage. But we will be covering many different aspects of beauty, the beauty of nature, the beauty of sacred sites, the religious beauty of the world. The beauty of places where people live in, of civilization. The great cities and small towns of Italy and, of course, the beauty of art.
