Chapter,  Paragraph, Number

  1 Intro,  0 |          great event, the Church of God in Africa experienced true
  2 Intro,  0 |              which is the Family of God 5 and the community of believers,
  3 Intro,  0 |           with the entire People of God: it rejoiced, expressing
  4 Intro,  0 |  contribution to the building up of God's Kingdom. It will thus
  5   I,  0   |           moment of grace, in which God manifests his salvation.
  6   I,  0   |             you are the Holy One of God" (Jn 6:67-69). The Bishops
  7   I,  0   |      greatness and mercy of the one God were manifested above all
  8   I,  0   |           Incarnation of the Son of God, the Son who is consubstantial
  9   I,  0   |     pilgrimage towards the House of God.~This faith in Jesus Christ
 10   I,  0   |            Message to the People of God. They are words which I
 11   I,  0   |           of hope for the People of God, we also announce a message
 12   I,  0   |     encouragement to you, Family of God in Africa, to you, the Family
 13   I,  0   |       Africa, to you, the Family of God all over the world: Christ
 14   I,  0   |                    14. I exhort all God?s People in Africa to accept
 15   I,  0   |           the Church's awareness of God's promise, which assures
 16   I,  0   |          upon itself but is open to God's Kingdom. This is why there
 17   I,  0   |             and the whole People of God throughout the world to
 18   I,  0   |             give thanks to Almighty God for the opportunity which
 19   I,  0   |                       The Family of God in the Synodal process~23.
 20   I,  0   |  involvement of the whole People of God, at all levels and especially
 21   I,  0   |         meetings with the People of God in Africa. I also took advantage
 22   I,  0   |            fervently thank Almighty God for the meticulous care
 23   I,  0   |                                     God wills to save Africa~27.
 24   I,  0   |          the Gentiles tells us that God "desires all men to be saved
 25   I,  0   |             truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator
 26   I,  0   |             is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ
 27   I,  0   |           all" (1 Tim 2:4-6). Since God, in fact, calls all people
 28   I,  0   |           in a manner known only to God offers to everyone the possibility
 29   I,  0   |            this Paschal Mystery".35 God's redeeming love embraces
 30   I,  0   |           develop a meditation upon God's salvific plan for Africa.
 31   I,  0   |            in tongues and extolling God" (10:45-46).~In the house
 32   I,  0   |               Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality, but
 33   I,  0   |                                 29. God's salvific plan for Africa
 34   I,  0   |           to play an active role in God's plan of salvation. For
 35  II,  1   |           of the marvels wrought by God in the course of Africa'
 36  II,  1   |            the light of the Word of God. In recalling the ancient
 37  II,  1   |         tongues the mighty works of God' (Acts 2:11). Five hundred
 38  II,  1   |         first of this new age (and, God willing, the last, so sublime,
 39  II,  1   |  explanation: all this is a gift of God, for no human effort alone
 40  II,  1   |            only wished to celebrate God's marvellous deeds for Africa'
 41  II,  1   |            spoke to you the word of God; consider the outcome of
 42  II,  1   |           pay our debt of thanks to God on this solemn occasion".
 43  II,  1   |            Message to the People of God, but they did not forget
 44  II,  1   |      consecration to the service of God and the Gospel.~
 45  II,  1   |         which make up the People of God. All this manifests, in
 46  II,  1   |         sacred, of the existence of God the Creator and of a spiritual
 47  II,  1   |       joyfully welcomed as gifts of God. "The sons and daughters
 48  II,  1   |            Message to the People of God were pleased to mention
 49  II,  2   |           Fathers is the thirst for God felt by the peoples of Africa.
 50  II,  2   |            searching for concerning God, man and his destiny, life
 51  II,  3   |         people. The whole People of God in the theological understanding
 52  II,  3   |          the Gospel and of faith in God? This is certainly a task
 53  II,  3   |            they will better reflect God's plan for the human family.
 54 III,  0   |            relations of people with God, one another and all creation
 55 III,  0   |             the African believes in God the Creator from his traditional
 56 III,  0   |            definitive revelation of God in Jesus Christ, God with
 57 III,  0   |             of God in Jesus Christ, God with us, Word made flesh.
 58 III,  0   |            Jesus, the Good News, is God who saves the African ...
 59 III,  0   |             comes from the mouth of God is living and active, and
 60 III,  0   |         Church, the written Word of God is not "a matter of one'
 61 III,  0   |           In order that the Word of God may be known, loved, pondered
 62 III,  0   |            Trinity, the Only Son of God, "by the power of the Holy
 63 III,  0   |          own culture, a people that God had chosen and accompanied
 64 III,  0   |           the unmistakable proof of God's love for humanity (cf.
 65 III,  0   |             our reconciliation with God, his Father and, thanks
 66 III,  0   |            is precisely the Word of God made man, who is himself
 67 III,  0   |           Incarnation of the Son of God, precisely because it was
 68 III,  0   |      discerned. Just as the Word of God became like us in everything
 69 III,  0   |            life in total union with God the Father, through the
 70 III,  0   |            Holy Spirit".97~Thanking God for the fruits which the
 71 III,  0   |                       The Church as God's Family~63. Not only did
 72 III,  0   |            it, taking the Church as God's Family as its guiding
 73 III,  0   |            Mystical Body, People of God, Temple of the Holy Spirit,
 74 III,  0   |       Sheepfold, the House in which God dwells with man. According
 75 III,  0   |             Church as the Family of God.103 It will then be possible
 76 III,  0   |         sign of intimate union with God, and of the unity of all
 77 III,  0   |         those who are searching for God".109 Such dialogue can be
 78 III,  0   |          emphasizes that the Living God, Creator of heaven and earth
 79 III,  0   |              The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because he has
 80 III,  0   |          bring about the Kingdom of God after the example of Jesus,
 81 III,  0   |           with one another and with God".122 Thus "the Kingdom is
 82 III,  0   |          Incarnation of the Word of God, who is the foundation of
 83 III,  0   |              image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation" (
 84 III,  0   |          his Incarnation the Son of God has united himself in some
 85 III,  0   |  inalienable dignity, received from God through the Incarnation
 86 III,  0   |            to reveal the mystery of God, who is the ultimate goal
 87 III,  0   |            been a characteristic of God to want to communicate.
 88 III,  0   |            In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers
 89 III,  0   |             1:1-2)".134 The Word of God is by nature word, dialogue
 90 III,  0   | communication and relations between God and humanity, and on the
 91  IV,  1   |            that the whole Church of God on the Continent might reflect
 92  IV,  1   |         proclamation of the word of God has Christian conversion
 93  IV,  1   |         cannot enter the Kingdom of God ? (Jn 3:5). In Baptism,
 94  IV,  1   |            born anew to the life of God's children, united to Jesus
 95  IV,  1   |             conscience according to God's law, will be saved by
 96  IV,  1   |          always an actual call from God, which is waiting to be
 97  IV,  1   |             new life is a gift from God, and people are asked to
 98  IV,  1   |          love. She is the People of God immersed in the world, and
 99  IV,  1   |             of the ?mighty works of God' ".145~In Africa today "
100  IV,  1   |         they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you
101  IV,  1   |           continues the dialogue of God with humanity and reaches
102  IV,  2   |             from the fact that when God created man, "in the image
103  IV,  2   |       created man, "in the image of God he created him, male and
104  IV,  2   |            created "in the image of God", that is, endowed with
105  IV,  2   |         made him little less than a god; with glory and honour you
106  IV,  2   |             created in the image of God, man and woman, although
107  IV,  2   |             race ?male and female', God gives man and woman an equal
108  IV,  2   |            and role of Marriage~83. God — Father, Son and Holy Spirit —
109  IV,  2   |               The communion between God and his people finds its
110  IV,  2   |           of love which the Word of God makes to humanity in assuming
111  IV,  2   |            revealed that plan which God has imprinted on the humanity
112  IV,  2   |             Church as the Family of God, an anticipation on earth,
113   V,  0   |           to build up the Church of God, in the light of the coming
114   V,  0   |        Entrance into the Kingdom of God demands a change of mentality (
115   V,  1   |            which pray and listen to God's Word, encourage the members
116   V,  1   |          community in dialogue with God 177 and generously open
117   V,  1   |         understood as the Family of God, consecrated life has the
118   V,  1   |             pastor the Church which God obtained with the Blood
119   V,  2   |         temporal goods according to God's plan and the struggle
120   V,  2   |             of the salvific Word of God. They are a sign of the
121  VI       |             BUILDING THE KINGDOM OF GOD~
122  VI,  0   |          addressed to the Church of God in all times and places.
123  VI,  0   |             Church as the Family of God in Africa must bear witness
124  VI,  0   |             shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are
125  VI,  0   |        solidarity by each member of God's People. This is especially
126  VI,  0   |          truth, justice and love of God in their daily life. "The
127  VI,  0   |             are linked together. As God's Family on earth, the Church
128  VI,  0   |      Because all men and women bear God's image and are called to
129  VI,  0   |             world's resources which God has put at the everyone'
130  VI,  1   |             shall be called sons of God" (Mt 5:9).~Those who foment
131  VI,  1   |          will have to answer before God for every act of violence
132  VI,  1   |            in society at large. "So God created man in his own image,
133  VI,  1   |          own image, in the image of God he created him; male and
134  VI,  2   |            Good News of the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ.~
135 VII,  0   |            adulterating the word of God, or of emptying the Cross
136 VII,  0   |          Synod Fathers acknowledged God's call to Africa to play
137 VII,  0   |             I am deeply grateful to God to learn that a growing
138 VII,  0   |           thus can you be a sign of God in the world and re-live
139 VII,  0   |         source in the fatherhood of God. "All persons created by
140 VII,  0   |              All persons created by God have the same origin. Whatever
141 VII,  0   |            sole family according to God's plan established ?in the
142 VII,  0   |          his Incarnation the Son of God has united himself in some
143 VII,  0   |         leading it to acceptance of God's salvific plan through
144 VII,  0   |           concern to the Kingdom of God".267 Precisely for this
145 Conclu,  0|            Church, I give thanks to God — Father, Son and Holy Spirit —
146 Conclu,  0|           grateful to the People of God in Africa for all that they
147 Conclu,  0|        present Exhortation I invite God's People in Africa — Bishops,
148 Conclu,  0|               142. My invitation to God's People in Africa to prepare
149 Conclu,  0|        coming on earth of Emmanuel, God with us".269~It is the two
150 Conclu,  0|           them (cf. Is 49:14)! "And God answers with the words of
151 Conclu,  0|             Rome:~O Mary, Mother of God~and Mother of the Church,~
152 Conclu,  0|     adjacent Islands,~the People of God with its Pastors~turns to
153 Conclu,  0|     perfection~in the City that has God as its Builder:~the City