Vatican City, May 3, 2012 / 17:03 pm
Bishop Michael J. Sheridan of Colorado Springs told his fellow bishops that they must never reduce Christ “to the status of a wise man,” but preach that he is alive and present in the modern world.
“Our proclamation must be a proclamation of a living Jesus, the one who died for our sins, yes, but who was raised and lives now, never to die again, is in our midst – and it is he that we proclaim,” he said May 3 at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome.
Bishop Sheridan is in Rome from May 1-5 with an episcopal delegation from Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming. The group is making their “ad limina” pilgrimage to the tombs of St. Paul and St. Peter and are due to meet with Pope Benedict XVI on May 4.
“Yesterday’s Mass at the tomb of St. Peter brought us into a very special union with the first Vicar of Christ,” recalled Bishop Sheridan, “and now in anticipation of our visits with our Holy Father we are in his cathedral church and he is very much with us today.”