“By virtue of the baptism received and the resulting incorporation into the Church, every baptized person participates in the mission of the Church and, in it, in the mission of Christ king, priest and prophet,” he said. he declares.
During his weekly Wednesday audience in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to reflect on the Second Vatican Council’s decree on missionary activity, Ad gentes (To the Nations), which, he says, “reminds us that it is the task of the Church to continue the mission of Christ, who was “sent to proclaim the Gospel to the poor.”
Quote Ad genteshe said: “’The Church, impelled by the Holy Spirit, must walk on the same path that Christ traveled: a path of poverty and obedience, of service and self-denial until death, from which he left one day. victorious by his resurrection.
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Pope Francis added that the preaching of the Gospel must be done in community and must never be a solitary or individualistic task independent of the Church.
“Today we listen to the Second Vatican Council and discover that evangelization is always an ecclesial service, never solitary, never isolated or individualistic,” he said.