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Prayer to Jesus Christ for the families of America 76. I therefore invite all the Catholics of America to take an active part in the evangelizing initiatives which the Holy Spirit is stirring in every part of this immense continent, so full of resources and hopes for the future. In a special way, I invite Catholic families to be “domestic Churches”, (294) in which the Christian faith is lived and passed on to the young as a treasure, and where all pray together. If they live up to the ideal which God places before them, Catholic homes will be true centers of evangelization. In concluding this Apostolic Exhortation, in which I have taken up the proposals of the Synod Fathers, I gladly welcome their suggestion to compose a prayer for the families of America. (295) I invite individuals, communities and ecclesial groups, wherever two or more gather in the Lord's name, to strengthen through prayer the spiritual bond between all American Catholics. Let everyone join in the prayer of the Successor of Peter, invoking Christ who is “the way of conversion, communion and solidarity in America”: We thank
you, Lord Jesus, We thank
you for the gift of your Life, Grant us
to be faithful witnesses You who,
in becoming man, May
families always be united, Protect
your Church and the Successor of Peter, Teach us
to love your Mother, Mary, Given at Mexico City, January 22, in the year 1999, the twenty-first of my Pontificate.
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294) Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 11. 295) Propositio 12. |
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