The path to holiness isn’t for the lazy, pope tells altar servers

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Christ’s commandment to love God and neighbour is a path trodden by those who have the desire to become saints, Pope Francis told thousands of altar servers from around the world.

“Yes, it does take effort to keep doing good and to become saints,” the Pope told the young people July 31. “You know that the path to holiness isn’t for the lazy, it requires effort.”

The Pope presided over an evening meeting and prayer service with some 60,000 altar servers making an international pilgrimage to Rome. The majority of young men and women came from Germany, but there also were pilgrims from Italy, France, Austria, the United States and other countries.

After circling St Peter’s Square in his popemobile, Francis smiled brightly as Bishop Ladislav Nemet of Zrenjanin, Serbia, waved his arms and urged the young men and women to welcome the Pope with cheers and applause.

“You are very courageous to be here since 12 p.m. in this heat!” the Pope told the young people before responding to questions posed by servers from Luxembourg, Portugal, Antigua and Barbuda, Germany and Serbia.

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