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Nuns and monks"are the true strength that carries forward the people of God, they are a bit like a reserve that we have in the Church". Pope Francis said this today addressing the faithful during the Wednesday general audience in St Peter's Square.
"We might ask ourselves," he noted,"how can people living in monasteries help the proclamation of the Gospel? Wouldn't they do better to employ their energies in the mission, going out and preaching outside the monastery? In reality," the Pontiff replied,"the cloistered religious are the beating heart of the proclamation: their prayer is oxygen for all the members of the Body of Christ, it is the invisible force that sustains the mission".
This love embraces the world, translating itself into intercessory prayer. In this regard, he recalled the 'universal solidarity' of which St Gregory of Narek, an Armenian monk who lived around the year 1000 and was a doctor of the Church, spoke."He left us a book of prayers," Francis recalled,"in which the faith of the Armenian people, the first to embrace Christianity, is poured out; a people that, clasped to the cross of Christ, has suffered so much throughout history.
"I have voluntarily taken upon myself all sins, from those of the first father down to that of the last of his descendants," wrote Gregory of Narek. 'These are the great evangelisers,' the pope commented. 'By word and example, by intercession and daily work they are a bridge for all people and sins'.
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