"To preach the gospel ever anew"

"To preach the gospel ever anew"...

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One of the most well-known expressions of St. Clement Maria Hofbauer include the words: "Thegospel has to be preached ever anew." There is always special attention in the whole Redemptorist has to be preached ever anew." There is always special attention in the whole Redemptorist family to these words. Emanuel Veith, one of his followers in Vienna and himself an important preacher, reports that Clement came back to this phrase again and again and pronounced it "solemnly emphatically" (Monumenta Hofbaueriana XII, 245-246). Obviously, this was a very special concern for Clement.

For us Redemptorists, it is actually a particularly valuable sentence. It points to the essence of our mandate to preach the Gospel to the poor (Constitution 1). At the same time, it gives us the task of doing this with special attention to the questions and hopes of the people of our time. For the Gospel to meet open ears and hearts, proclaimers are needed who are close to the people, who know them and who understand their situations in life. As Redemptorists, it is our mission to be close to the people in this specific way and to be in an alert dialogue with our times.

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