The visit with Mongolian Catholics included moments of great emotion like this one with the man in the red jacket crying before the Pope while Cardinal Giorgio Marengo tries to explain what was happening.
Pope Francis visited the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul in Mongolia's capital. Waiting for him inside were bishops, priests, religious and catechists who live in the country.
Many of them are missionaries and the Pope gave them words of encouragement. He reminded them how important it is that they live close to the poor and that they pray daily to avoid the fatigue of evangelization. He emphasized that it is important to pray in silence before the tabernacle.
POPE FRANCIS
The Christian is the one who is able to worship. Worship in silence. And then, from this worship, flows activity. But don't forget worship. We have lost the sense of worship a bit in this pragmatic century.
He also told them that it is very important to live in unity with the bishop.
He then had a message for general political authorities, reminding them that the Church should not be seen as a political actor.
POPE FRANCIS
The Lord Jesus, in sending His own into the world, did not send them to spread a political thought, but to witness with their lives the newness of their relationship with His Father, who became "Our Father."
This is why governments and secular institutions have nothing to fear from the Church's evangelizing action.
Before entering the small cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, the Pope visited the woman who found the wooden statue of Our Lady that is now in the cathedral. At the end of the meeting, the Pope blessed the statue and one by one, greeted everyone present.
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