<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nBeing a priest and fostering vocations among young people<\/h3>\n\n\n\n As Pope Francis said, we are living a \"change of epoch\". Many young people are far from God and the Church. \"If we want to foster priestly vocations,\" says Franklyn, it is essential that the people pray that the Lord of the harvest will send out workers. Priests have to witness to the beauty of the priestly vocation. A priest of the 21st century must be above all a friend of Christ.<\/strong>who witnesses with his life to his love for the Church and for souls\".<\/p>\n\n\n\nSecularization and evangelization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n In Brazil, secularization and the irruption of Protestantism threaten the life of the Catholic Church. \"Today more than ever, the Church has the obligation to announce the good news of Jesus Christ, to promote the encounter of young people with the Person of Jesus, so that they may discover in Him the sure path to happiness\". In the face of secularization, Franklyn proposes to live the faith as witnesses of the Risen One and, in the face of Protestantism, to present the truth of the faith. present the truth of the faith<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\"The most important apostolic needs of Rio de Janeiro are: the personal conversion of each Christian and, from there, to promote an evangelization that presents all the richness and truth that Jesus Christ entrusted to the Catholic Church\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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