Being with Christ is not isolating, Pope Francis said. Rather, it makes us more able to "encounter others."
He quoted Blessed Mother Teresa, who said: "We must be very proud of our vocation because it gives us the opportunity to serve Christ in the poor. It is in the favelas, in the cantegriles, in the villas miseria, that one must go to seek and to serve Christ."
Pope Francis then urged the bishops and priests to help kindle within the heart of youth "the desire to be missionary disciples of Jesus."
He recalled that when he was young, it was his dream to be a missionary in "faraway Japan."
"God, however, showed me that my missionary territory was much closer: my own country."
The call to be a missionary disciple, he stressed, is the call of the Christian, the call of the baptized.
"We must also help (young people) to realize that we are called first to evangelize in our own homes and our places of study and work, to evangelize our family and friends," he said.
He urged those in charge of forming the young to "spare no effort" so that they too will be able to go out and evangelize.
"We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!"
Priests, and all Christians, must go out from their circles of comfort to seek and to save others, he emphasized.
"It is not enough simply to open the door in welcome, but we must go out through that door to seek and meet the people!" the Pope said. "Let us courageously look to pastoral needs, beginning on the outskirts, with those who are farthest away, with those who do not usually go to church."
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"They too are invited to the table of the Lord."
The Pope then lamented that a culture of "exclusion, of rejection" is spreading. "There is no place for the elderly or for the unwanted child; there is no time for that poor person on the edge of the street."
The Bishop of Rome again repudiated the tendency to let human relationships be governed by models from the secular or business worlds. He criticized the view that sees human relations as regulated by the "dogmas" of "efficiency and pragmatism."
He encouraged bishops, priests, religious and seminarians to "have the courage to go against the tide."
The Pope implored them not to reject God's gift of "the one family of his children."
He said that "solidarity and fraternity," a "welcoming and encountering" of all people, are what make societies "truly human," truly personal.