Pope Francis receives IFCA Congress participants
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received participants in the
Congress of the Interntaional Forum- Catholic Action on Thursday morning in the
Synod Hall at the Vatican.
The Congress is focused on the theme: “Catholic Action in
Mission with All and for Everyone”, and is marking the 150th anniversary
of the organization’s founding.
The charism of Catholic Action is one of lay-led missionary
discipleship: faithful to the Pope, rooted in the local Church, and active in
service especially and particularly at the parish level.
In his remarks to the participants, Pope Francis focused on
renewing the mission of Catholic Action by recovering the original sense of the
apostolate and applying that sense of self-understanding to the concrete
conditions encountered in contemporary life.
Delivered in his native Spanish, and based on bullet-points,
Pope Francis encouraged the participants to foster renewal by becoming
prayerfully active, outgoing, docile to the Spirit, willing to sacrifice, and
open to surprises.
Among the highlights of the special audience was the
presentation to the Holy Father of several gifts, including an English-language
psalter found aboard a boat carrying migrants to Lampedusa, thousands of whom
drown during the course of the dangerous voyage.
The fate of the psalter’s owner is not known.
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