Cardinal Dolan from New York: Priests and Catholics must evangelize in the street

The New York Archbishop (United States), Cardinal Timothy Dolan, said that priests and faithful Catholics must leave and evangelize “outside, on the streets.”

In his reflection on the Gospel of February 5, the purple stressed that “Jesus sends his apostles out: he wants them in the cities, he wants them in the houses, in the streets, he loves them in the synagogues, in the workplaces ”

In the evangelical text of San Marcos 6, 1-6the Lord teaches in the synagogue of his land, and not finding faith in which they hear it, continues with his disciples towards neighboring peoples to continue announcing salvation.

In this regard, Cardinal Dolan remembered “a priest who respects a lot, Monsignor Peter Voghi, pastor of the little flower parish in Bethesda, Maryland, when I was rector of the American school in Rome, said: ‘Tell the boys that are Priests of the street, which are always outside with people, in their homes, in hospitals, in the elderly, in the places of play, in schools, everywhere. ‘ Priests of the street ”.

In that sense, the Purpurado American referred to “the magnificent apostles of the Church that are the Legion of Mary and the Society of San Vicente de Paul, when they go to the houses they really go to evangelize and to do the works of mercy.”

“We need to listen to Jesus and be outside, in the streets,” he concluded.