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Holy week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. we should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered.

-Pope Francis

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Holy Week Challenges Us To Step Outside

Pope Francis

Holy week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. we should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered.

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