Priests' top task is evangelization, Pope tells Congregation for Clergy
October 03, 2014
Priests should be aware that “it is their lives that evangelize, rather than their works,” Pope Francis said in an October 3 address to the members of the Congregation for the Clergy.
“Every vocation is for the mission, and the mission of ordained ministers is evangelization,” the Pope said. He remarked that a priest is “the administrator of a gift that God has entrusted to him for the good of all the people.”
At the same time, the Pope continued, the priesthood is a gift to the Church, and “all the Christian community is the custodian of the treasure of these vocations.” So priests—along with all the faithful—should pray for and nurture vocations.
A priest should recall Christ’s call to his disciples to “follow me,” the Pope said. “It is a task that is never completed, because priests never stop being Jesus' disciples; they never stop following Him.”
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