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PHILADELPHIA — Pope Francis kicked off the last leg of his US visit by urging Catholics in this City of Brotherly Love — and, by extension, all Catholics — to go out to the peripheries of society to spread the mission of the Church.
“What about you?” he asked, echoing the words of Pope Leo XIII, who posed that question during a private audience in 1887 to St. Katharine Drexel, a wealthy Philadelphian heiress who was then inspired to take up missionary work.
“Those words changed Katharine’s life,” the pope said, “because they reminded her that, in the end, every Christian man and woman, by virtue of baptism, has received a mission. Each one of us has to respond, as best we can, to the Lord’s call to build up his Body, the Church.”
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“What about you?” he asked, echoing the words of Pope Leo XIII, who posed that question during a private audience in 1887 to St. Katharine Drexel, a wealthy Philadelphian heiress who was then inspired to take up missionary work.
“Those words changed Katharine’s life,” the pope said, “because they reminded her that, in the end, every Christian man and woman, by virtue of baptism, has received a mission. Each one of us has to respond, as best we can, to the Lord’s call to build up his Body, the Church.”
cruxnow.com/church/2015/09/26/francis-challenges-the-faithful-what-about-you/