An estimated 45,000 pilgrims from around the world assembled in St. Peter’s Square for a May 15 canonization Mass. Pope Francis canonized 10 new saints who exemplify the Christian call “to offer our lives without expecting anything in return, or any worldly glory.”
VATICAN CITY (CNS) The lives of the saints prove that holiness is not an unreachable goal accomplished by a select few but comes from acknowledging and sharing God s love, Pope Francis said. Our Christian lives begin not with doctrine and good works, but with the amazement born of realizing that we are loved, prior to any response on our part, the pope said in his homily during the canonization Mass in which he declared 10 men and women as saints of the Catholic Church. At times, by over
“By embracing with enthusiasm their vocation – as a priest, as a consecrated woman, as a lay person – they devoted their lives to the Gospel,” Pope Francis preached at the Mass of canonization on May 15.
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