Make us ready to embrace the universality You ask of us.
Saint Paul had understood well that only in Christ can humanity find redemption and hope. Therefore, he perceived that the mission was pressing and urgent to proclaim “the promise of life in Christ Jesus” (2 Tm 1:1), “our hope” ( 1 Tm 1:1), so that all peoples could be co-heirs and co-partners in the promise through the Gospel (Cf. Eph 3:6).
He was aware that without Christ humanity is “without hope and without God in the world” (Eph 2:12)—“without hope because they were without God” (Spe Salvi, No. 3).
In fact, “anyone who does not know God, even though he may entertain all kinds of hopes, is ultimately without hope, without the great hope that sustains the whole of life (cf. Eph 2:12)” (Ivi, No. 27).
(Pope Benedict XVI, 2008 World Mission Day)
Lord, we want to be faithful to mission of holiness You have entrusted to us, but we can't do it alone! Send us Your Holy Spirit to fill us with love and trust so we may always be ready to proclaim the reason for our hope.
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