- Pope Paul VI, to a general audience, 5/8/1974“This purpose, which for you is a conscious and authentic way of living the Christian vocation, is translated also in an effective testimony for others, in a stimulus for the rediscovery and recovery of true Christian values authentic, effective, that might otherwise be forgotten. No! You bring them out, in emergence and you give them a truly exemplary moral splendor, precisely because this way, with this Christian spirit, you live in this Neocatechumenal Community.”
“Dear brothers and sisters… thank you. The Pope’s task, the task of Peter, is to confirm his brothers in the faith. Thus, you too wanted by this gesture to ask that the Successor of Peter confirm your call, support your mission, bless your charism. And today I confirm your call, I support your mission, and I bless your charism.”