Father Jansen's Outlook

When departing for Rome Father Jansen told us that we would encounter a multitude of nations and cultures in Rome and adviced us to get inspired and at the same time be ambassadors of our nation.
Regretfully there were a lot of German people in Rome, several German dioceses with their respective bishops among them the arcdiocese of Cologne, the dioceses of Essen and Speyer. Since the arcdiocese of Cologne is important and powerful, I had the odd experience of climbing the cupola of St Peter's faintly hearing the German hymn "Großer Gott wir loben Dich" and even stepping out into the inner circle of the cupola to the sounds of this song. For beneath us was the Arcbishop of Cologne, Cardinal (!) Woelki, celebrating mass.