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Papal envoys encourage Christians to follow St. Paul's example
01-07-2009
JERUSALEM (CNS) -- Papal envoys to the closing of the year of St. Paul in the Middle East encouraged Christians to follow the saint's example. Envoys to events in Jerusalem and Harissa, Lebanon, said St. Paul's life of conversion and witness offers the world new hope and a model for Christian life.
In Jerusalem, Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, urged Christians at an ecumenical service June 29 at the Basilica of St. Stephen to emulate the martyr as "the model of conversion and hope."
God's revelation of Jesus to St. Paul "completely changed not only his life but his whole way of thinking," he said.
The same day in Harissa, another envoy, Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris, called upon Lebanon's Christians to testify to their faith courageously and to persevere as a model of coexistence.
"The Lebanese church in the middle of the Arab world and the Middle East carries this apostolic treasure and must find an ultimate reason for its vocation and its pastoral task," he said.
Cardinal envoys were sent by Pope Benedict XVI to preside over closing events in Malta, Syria, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus, where the apostle lived and preached.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20090630.htm
