Pope Francis Part II The Christian who would bring the Gospel must go down this road: [must] listen to everyone!...[The Church] does not grow by means of proselytizing, {but} by attraction, by witnessing, by preaching...Christians who are afraid to build bridges and prefer to build walls are Christians who are not sure of their faith, not sure of Jesus Christ. When the Church loses this apostolic courage, she becomes a stalled Church, a tidy Church, a Church that is nice to look at, but that is without fertility, because she has lost the courage to go to the outskirts, where there are many people who are victims of idolatry, worldliness, of weak thought, so many things. Let us today ask Saint Paul to give us this apostolic courage, this spiritual fervor, so that we might be confident. But Father, [you might ask], we might make mistakes....[Well, what of it, I might respond], Get on with you: if you make a mistake, you get up and go forward: that is the way. Those who do not walk in order not to err, make the more serious mistake. Pope Francis
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:06:58 +0000