More than 150 thousand faithful gathered this Sunday in Santuario do Sameiro in Braga for the final sermon of the V National Eucharistic Congress. At the ceremony, Cardinal Tolentino Mendonça, in his capacity as special envoy of Pope Francis, said the Church in Portugal is “called to be eucharistic,” with “open doors” and giving priority to “the loving service of life rather than the severity of judgments that exclude.”
At the mass that culminated the annual pilgrimage to Monte do Sameiro, Tolentino Mendonça stressed that the Portuguese Church “is experiencing great epochal challenges, such as intergenerational and intercultural unions, which urgently need to be built in modern Portugal. An intergenerational alliance that guarantees the bread of the future for young people surrounded by instability, and the bread of love for older people who cannot be excluded from the social equation because they are no longer productive,” said the Portuguese cardinal.
Author: Edgar Nascimento
Source: CM Jornal
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