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Source: sanctepater.blogspot.com --- 17 days ago
Sends Message for Launch of Continental Mission Vatican CITY, AUG. 18, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- Benedict XVI is encouraging the faithful to be missionaries since "there is no greater richness than to enjoy friendship with Christ." The Pope affirmed this in a message sent to the 3rd American Missionary Congress, held last Tuesday through Sunday in Quito, Ecuador. The congress gathers more than 3,000 missionaries from 25 countries in the American continent and close to 100 special guests from all five continents. A. U.S. delegation sent 53 people, including three prelates. At the closing Mass of the congress, the Great Continental Mission was officially launched. The continental mission was called for by the 5th General Conference of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, which Benedict XVI opened near the shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in Brazil in May 2007. The mission aims to bring Catholic communities throughout the continent to evangelize and strengthen their faith. The Holy Father sent a special Envoy to the Quito congress, Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. "The most important service we can offer our brothers is the clear and humble proclamation of Jesus Christ," the Pope said in his message. He stressed the importance of a personal encounter with Jesus Christ as the basis of the witness a missionary must offer "so that the Lord will be better known, loved, followed an ...

Source: mysterium-fidei.blogspot.com --- 58 days ago
Lord Cardinals, Excellencies, Dear Brothers and Sisters, While you are gathered for the 49th International Eucharistic Congress, I am happy to join you through the medium of satellite and thus unite myself to your prayer. I would like first of all to greet the Lord Cardinal Marc Ouellet, archbishop of Quebec, and the Lord Cardinal Jozef Tomko, special Envoy for the congress, as well as all the cardinals and bishops present. I also address my cordial greetings to the personalities of civil society who decided to take part in the liturgy. My affectionate thought goes to the priests, deacons and all the faithful present, as well as to all Catholics of Quebec, of the whole of Canada and of other continents. I do not forget that your country celebrates this year the 400th anniversary of its foundation. It is an occasion for each one of you to recall the values that animated the pioneers and missionaries in your country."The Eucharist, gift of God for the Life of the World," this is the theme chosen for this latest International Eucharistic Congress. The Eucharist is our most beautiful treasure. It is the sacrament par excellence; it introduces us early into eternal life; it contains the whole mystery of our salvation; it is the source and summit of the action and of the life of the Church, as the Second Vatican Council recalled ("Sacrosanctum Concilium," No. 8). It is, therefore, particularly important that pastors and faithful dedicate the ...

Source: belarus-minsk-online.blogspot.com --- 62 days ago
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