Vatican Radio–Vatican News now speaks the language of Mo-ngolia. Mongolian joins the 51 languages already present, both written and spoken, thanks to a collaboration with the local Chur-ch. All Sunday Angelus and Wed-nesday catechesis will be translat-ed and published on the Vatican portal’s new dedicated language page.
“We are happy about this new possibility to read the words of the Holy Father in Mongolian,” emphasizes Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar. “It is one of the fruits of his recent visit to the land of the eternal blue sky, which touched the hearts of Mongolian Catholics, but also of many people of other religious beliefs, positi-vely impressed by the great hu-man and spiritual testimony of Pope Francis.
“His words have stuck with us,” the cardinal reiterated, “ma-ny people have commented, ‘high-lighting the values of our tradi-tion.’ Now the ordinary magi-sterium of the Successor of Peter is available in the Mongolian language. A new tool for evange-lization, which we hope will un-leash its full potential through to-day’s communication channels.”
“It seems like a small thing,” said Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, “but to us, it seems and is as great as Mongolia itself. Speaking all languages, as many languages as possible, is our mission, our service. Doing it not alone, but with those living in the territories where our words reach, teaches us the importance of facing challenges together, walking together, doing ‘great things’ in the daily effort of seemingly small things. Step by step.”
“In the Church,” Dr. Ruffini emphasized, “there is no great and no small. Speaking Mongolian will also help the entire Church rediscover the importance of what seems small in the world’s eyes and of planting little seeds. We will receive more than we give. As Pope Francis often repeats, God’s revelation occurs in littleness: ‘The Spirit chooses the small, always; because it ‘cannot enter the big, the proud, the self-sufficient.’”