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Pentecost 2019

Members of the ADL Steering Committee at the CHARIS Pentecost 2019 Events

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS

To participants in the International Conference of Leaders of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal International Service – CHARIS

Paul VI Audience Hall, June 8, 2019

Dear Brothers and Sisters, good morning!

I like how in some countries people greet one another in this Easter season, not by saying “Good morning” or “Good afternoon”, but with the words “Jesus is risen”. So let’s greet one another that way, saying together: “Jesus is risen”!

Yes, Jesus is alive! Thank you, because you remembered that I like that first song you sang.

This Pentecost begins a new stage begins on the journey inaugurated by the Charismatic Renewal fifty-two years ago. The Charismatic Renewal, which developed in the Church by the will of God, represents, to paraphrase Saint Paul VI, “a great opportunity for the Church” (cf. Address to Participants in the III International Congress of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, 19 May 1975).