This Thursday, Pope Francis sent a message to the approximately 1,300 participants of the Sixth American Missionary Congress (CAM-6), held from November 19 to 24 in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico, Friday, November 22, 2024 (Rei, Vatican Radio): In a message to a conference of missionaries in the Americas, Pope Francis invites the apostolic workers of the Church to speak to the people in the language of love, that can be understood by all of humanity.
Missionaries to the Americas
This Thursday, Pope Francis sent a message to the approximately 1,300 participants of the Sixth American Missionary Congress (CAM-6), held from November 19 to 24 in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Missionaries from all over America have gathered in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico, to share their apostolic work in a conference titled “Evangelists in the Holy Spirit: To the Ends of the Earth.”
In a message to Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, special envoy of the Holy See and archbishop emeritus of Caracas, Pope Francis urged all missionaries to pray incessantly to the Triune God so that God would “pour out his love and renew the face of the earth.” ”. “
immeasurable Christian joy
Reflecting on the foundation of the Church’s evangelizing mission, the Pope said that it is based on our personal and loving union with the Lord Jesus Christ. He said: “We cannot give what we do not have. We cannot express what we have not experienced, what our eyes have not seen or what our hands have not touched.”
The Holy Father said that the Lord Jesus Christ himself was a missionary, who spoke from the fullness of his heart after spending time in prayer with God the Father. Thus, the Pope said, every baptized Christian is called to “look at God, at the world and at his brothers and sisters in them, with ‘Christian’ eyes of compassion, welcome and kindness.”
by the power of the holy spirit
Pope Francis said that when we really encounter the Risen Christ, Christians cannot contain our joy, the Holy Spirit moves us to express that joy in words and testimonies.
He said: “Through the life-giving power and the power of the Holy Spirit, we can spread the message in all languages, not only because the Church speaks in all languages, but above all because it always speaks the same language, which is the language of the love, which is understandable for all humanity, because it is part of our essence, created in the image of God.”
