Pope Leo XIV has said all Christians are called to enter “the dynamism of mission and to face the challenges of evangelisation.”

On Friday, the Pope addressed two separate groups: seminary formators and participants in the Xaverian Missionaries’ General Chapter, which he acknowledged were “certainly two different events.”

The Holy Father said the call to be missionaries “requires of us all, ordained ministers and lay faithful alike, a solid and integral formation, which is not limited to specialised knowledge, but must aim to transform our humanity and our spirituality so that they reflect the Gospel, and so that we have ‘the same mind’ as Christ Jesus.”