Vatican City, Jun 25, 2013 / 14:49 pm
Just as God called Abraham by name to receive a promise, so does he continue to call each Christian personally to enter into relationship with him, Pope Francis said at his daily Mass June 25.
"We Christians have been called one-by-one: none of us is Christian by pure chance. No one," he said during his homily at the chapel of Saint Martha House in the Vatican.
The call of each Christian is "by name, and with a promise: Go ahead, I am with you. I walk beside you."
"God accompanies us, God calls us by name," the Bishop of Rome assured his listeners.