To all people of good will who feel they are an active and living part of the parish community, I say: do not tire of seeking all the opportunities that the Lord offers you to broaden your contacts and carry on that work of promotion based on truth, justice and respect for others, which constitutes, for those who feel distant from the faith, the necessary prelude to knowing Christ, whom you are fortunate enough to profess with your lives and with the practice of the sacraments of faith.

9. Be a living praise of God in the eyes of those who seek the Lord but have not yet found him. Repeat with the psalmist: "Praise the Lord, O my soul, your creator." Dear brothers and sisters! Learn to praise God; give glory to him on behalf of all creatures.
Learn to do so in the spirit of the "poor widow" of today's liturgy, so that the sacrifice of glory may find its evangelical "resonance" in the heart of Christ. Learn - again and again - to participate in the Eucharist so that your Christian life may mature and be enriched through "poverty of spirit".

[Pope John Paul II, homily, 6th November 1988]