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Catholic News Service reports that the most often repeated Bible story repeated at the World Synod of Bishops on Scripture is the tale of two disciples meeting Jesus on the road to Emmaus. Father Pasual Chavez Villanueva, superior general of the Salesians, told the synod earlier this month that the story give precise instructions for how to evangelize the young, emphasizing that it is Jesus who evangelizes through his word and that evangelization takes place by walking alongside people, listening to their sorrows, and then giving them a word of hope and a community in which to live it. Father Chavez told the synod that today’s young people definitely share with the disciples “the frustration of their dreams, the tiredness of their faith and being disenchanted with discipleship.” “Young people,” he said, “need a church that walks alongside them where they are.” More here.
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