The Pope Video: December 2021 - Catechists

In the last Pope Video of 2021, Pope Francis centres his message on the ministry, mission and vocation of catechists, thanking them for their enthusiasm for transmitting the faith, and encouraging them to proclaim the Gospel with new languages and in new ways... Pope Francis says:

"Catechists have an invaluable mission for the transmission and growth of the faith. The lay ministry of catechist is a vocation; it's a mission. Being a catechist means that you 'are a catechist,' not that you 'work as a catechist.' It's an entire way of being, and we need good catechists who are both companions and teachers.

We need creative people who proclaim the Gospel, but who proclaim it neither with a mute nor with a loudspeaker, but rather with their life, with gentleness, with a new language, and opening new ways.

In many dioceses, on many continents, evangelization is fundamentally in the hands of a catechist.

Let us thank catechists for the interior enthusiasm with which they live this mission at the service of the Church.

Let us pray for the catechists, summoned to announce the Word of God: may they be its witnesses, with courage and creativity and in the power of the Holy Spirit, with joy and much peace."

Watch the video here: www.thepopevideo.org/
and on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJpxgGQywX8