Vatican City, May 14, 2011 / 09:03 am
The Pope has reminded Catholic missionaries of the essentially supernatural nature of their work.
“Only deeply rooted in Christ and his Word are we able to resist the temptation to reduce evangelization to a purely human or social project, hiding or silencing the transcendent dimension of salvation offered by God in Christ,” he said.
The pontiff spoke in an address to participants at the Pontifical Missions Society General Assembly to the Vatican on May 14.
“It’s a Word that should be explicitly witnessed and proclaimed, because without a consistent witness it is less understandable and believable. Although we often feel inadequate, poor, incapable, we must always retain confidence in the power of God, who puts his treasure in ‘jars of clay,’ so that it is He who acts through us.”