Holy Father sends Neocatechumenal Families on Mission

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http://www.zenit.org/english/
Code: ZE06011204
Date: 2006-01-12

Pontiff Sends 200 Neocatechumenal Families on Mission

In His 1st Audience With the Way

"…In his address, Benedict XVI acknowledged that in their few years of existence, the Neocatechumenal communities “have been able to do much and from your communities have come numerous vocations to the priesthood and to the consecrated life.”
The Pope presented Christ as the center of the mission who, “celebrated in the liturgical rites, constitutes a privileged and indispensable way to build living and persevering Christian communities…”