Pope Benedict XVI and the missionary challenge
“Faced with an increasingly secularized culture, every baptized person must become active in the Church’s missionary activity.” [I] “invite local Churches on all continents to a joint awareness of the urgent need to re-launch missionary activity to meet the many grave challenges of our time”. … The missionary challenge of today “is no longer simply to collaborate in the activity of evangelization, but to make people feel that that they are protagonists and share responsibility for the Church’s mission.”
Pope Benedict XVI – Message for 81st World Youth Day, MAY 29, 2007.
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This missionary challenge starts at home. It is our responsibility as parents to actively share our faith with our children. We need to give them the skills and desire to develop their own faith. We need to give them the confidence to go out and confidently live the way they know they should, with Christ as an example.
