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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Priests are called to be “a true icon of Jesus,” drawing closer to God the Father by devoting their lives to the care of all God’s children, Pope Francis wrote.
The pope met April 4 at the Vatican with Latin American priests doing graduate studies in Rome and living at the Mexican, Brazilian and Latin American colleges in the city. He handed them copies of his prepared text but did not read it.
Referring to the sixth station of the cross, Pope Francis wrote that priests must “become the ‘Veronica’ of every face, of every tear. How? By wiping them away with my priestly vestments.”
The first way a priest does that, he said, is “by prayer, presenting each concrete situation to the presence of God: ‘Lord, the one you love is suffering.'”
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The pope met April 4 at the Vatican with Latin American priests doing graduate studies in Rome and living at the Mexican, Brazilian and Latin American colleges in the city. He handed them copies of his prepared text but did not read it.
Referring to the sixth station of the cross, Pope Francis wrote that priests must “become the ‘Veronica’ of every face, of every tear. How? By wiping them away with my priestly vestments.”
The first way a priest does that, he said, is “by prayer, presenting each concrete situation to the presence of God: ‘Lord, the one you love is suffering.'”
Recalling and witnessing God’s love
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Pope tells priests: Be icons of Christ, wipe tears like Veronica
Referring to the sixth station of the cross, Pope Francis said that priests must "become the 'Veronica' of every face, of every tear. How? By wiping them away with my priestly vestments."
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