Chapter, Paragraph
1 Intro,1 | The Marvel of God's Plan in Asia~1. The Church
2 Intro,1 | sings the praises of the "God of salvation" (Ps 68:20)
3 Intro,1 | was in fact in Asia that God revealed and fulfilled his
4 Intro,1 | traditions and heritage. God in fact had long before
5 Intro,1 | Millennium marvelling at all that God has worked from those beginnings
6 Intro,2 | the one Mediator between God and man and the sole Redeemer
7 Intro,3 | Assembly~3. By the grace of God, the Special Assembly for
8 Intro,4 | remembered, they celebrated God's "abundant goodness" (Ps
9 Intro,4 | continually being offered by God.~As well as a remembrance
10 Intro,4 | you are the Holy One of God" (Jn 6:69). In the face
11 I,5 | Incarnation of the Son of God, which the whole Church
12 I,5 | In Jesus of Nazareth, God has assumed the features
13 I,5 | for every creature: "For God so loved the world that
14 I,5 | essential if the People of God on the continent are to
15 I,5 | continent are to respond to God's will for them in the new
16 I,8 | advancement. The Spirit of God helps and sustains people'
17 I,8 | life may be satisfied as God wills (cf. Jn 10:10).~ ~ ~
18 I,9 | chapters in the history of God's People on the continent.~
19 I,9 | hope. The universality of God's plan of salvation, the
20 I,9 | an intense yearning for God. The Church knows that this
21 I,9 | Christ, the Good News of God for all the nations. The
22 I,9 | the Saviour.~The Spirit of God, always at work in the history
23 I,9 | adoption as children of God (cf. Rom 8:15-16).~At the
24 I,9 | and those known only to God, whose example is a source
25 I,9 | in Redemptoris Missio: "God is opening before the Church
26 II,10 | proclamation of Jesus Christ, true God and true man, the one and
27 II,10 | which has been received from God's bounty in order to be
28 II,10 | as a fitting response to God".40~Deeply convinced of
29 II,11 | intimate relationship with God whom he addressed as Abba, "
30 II,11 | were truly blessed, for God was with them. He ate with
31 II,11 | them know the nearness of God. He wept for a dead friend,
32 II,11 | everyday life to speak of God's love and his Kingdom;
33 II,11 | human history the Kingdom of God and "brought its power to
34 II,11 | brought us to life again: "God made [us] alive together
35 II,11 | revealed him to be the Son of God, the pre-existent Word,
36 II,12 | and Mission of the Son of God~12. The "scandal" of Christianity
37 II,12 | all-powerful and all-knowing God took upon himself our human
38 II,12 | the mystery of the Triune God. It has been a constant
39 II,12 | alone dwells the fullness of God in bodily form (cf. Col
40 II,12 | absolute saving Word of God (cf. Heb 1:1-4). As the
41 II,12 | definitive Word, Jesus makes God and his saving will known
42 II,12 | the person of Jesus does God's word of salvation appear
43 II,12 | Spirit, we come to know that God is not distant, above and
44 II,13 | condition? The Incarnate Son of God not only revealed completely
45 II,13 | the human heart to love God and man, even when this
46 II,13 | according to the plan of God. In Jesus then, we discover
47 II,13 | each person in the heart of God who created man in his own
48 II,13 | Incarnation, he, the Son of God, in a certain way united
49 II,13 | respond with a living faith to God's offer of love, his presence
50 II,13 | First-born Son to be children of God and called to grace, called
51 II,13 | restored communion between God and humanity; it also established
52 II,13 | and arms, gathering all God's children into one family
53 II,13 | Jn 15:9, 12). Sent by the God of communion and being truly
54 II,13 | communion and being truly God and truly man, Jesus established
55 II,13 | him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and
56 II,13 | the person of the Son of God made man and the mission
57 II,13 | of faith: "There is one God, and there is one mediator
58 II,13 | is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ
59 II,14 | eternally begotten Son of God, "was already present in
60 II,14 | submission to the will of God, compassion and rectitude,
61 II,14 | that Jesus Christ, true God and true man, is the one
62 III,15 | The Spirit of God in Creation and History~
63 III,15 | of the love of the Triune God, and is always present in
64 III,15 | all creatures. Creation is God's free communication of
65 III,15 | Created in the image of God, human beings become the
66 III,15 | Spirit are the sign that "God's love has been poured into
67 III,15 | history. ‘The Spirit of God with marvellous foresight
68 III,15 | right to see the Spirit of God as the prime agent of the
69 III,16 | Incarnation of the Son of God is the supreme work of the
70 III,16 | Incarnation is the event in which God gathers into a new and definitive
71 III,16 | sign that the Kingdom of God had come (cf. Mt 12:28).
72 III,17 | the adopted children of God destined to inherit salvation,
73 III,17 | realization of the plan of God, who has constituted Christ
74 III,17 | the seed of the Kingdom of God and she looks eagerly for
75 III,17 | inseparable from the Kingdom of God which Jesus announced and
76 III,18 | dialogue of love between God and man was prepared for
77 III,18 | knowledge of the one true God and Jesus Christ whom he
78 III,18 | that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs,
79 III,18 | children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ" (
80 IV,19 | of Nazareth, the Son of God, are not proclaimed".66
81 IV,20 | knowing the truth about God, about man, and about how
82 IV,20 | hear the Good News of the God who reveals and gives himself
83 IV,20 | the Incarnate Wisdom of God whose grace brings to fruition
84 IV,21 | of it. Yet the Kingdom of God comes to people who are
85 IV,21 | Mystery in a manner known to God. 87 The Spirit's presence
86 IV,21 | involve the entire People of God, since the life of the Church
87 IV,22 | other religions; the word of God has an inherent power to
88 IV,22 | the Holy Spirit reveals God's plan of salvation for
89 IV,22 | involves the entire People of God, the role of the laity is
90 IV,23 | rooted in the experience of God which flows from a living
91 IV,23 | others the fulfilment of God's Kingdom in Jesus Christ.
92 IV,23 | listening to the word of God, from prayer and contemplation,
93 IV,23 | has no deep experience of God in prayer and contemplation
94 IV,23 | only way of proclaiming God's Kingdom in many places
95 V,24 | world's persecutions and God's consolations",113 as she
96 V,24 | the glory of heaven. Since God desires "that the whole
97 V,24 | may become one People of God, form one Body of Christ,
98 V,24 | world "the visible plan of God's love for humanity, the
99 V,24 | place of encounter between God and man, in which God chooses
100 V,24 | between God and man, in which God chooses to reveal the mystery
101 V,24 | the world.~The mystery of God's loving design is made
102 V,24 | of the human person with God, and, because people's communion
103 V,24 | rooted in that union with God, the Church is also the
104 V,24 | as the pilgrim People of God to whom all peoples are
105 V,25 | life of the whole People of God. Fully aware that "the Petrine
106 V,25 | part of the parish and of God's People as a whole. Pastoral
107 V,25 | more intimate experience of God through faith and the sacraments,
108 V,28 | these lands the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ. 141~
109 V,28 | reconciliation of men with God and among themselves, has
110 V,29 | prosperity without reference to God, and to reduce the religious
111 V,29 | corresponds to the way in which God acted in Jesus Christ: he
112 V,30 | together in the grace of God, communion needs to be restored
113 V,31 | other religions can receive God's grace and be saved by
114 V,31 | faith and baptism which God wills for all people".155~
115 V,31 | the world to witness to God's saving love and mercy.
116 V,31 | mercy. Only if the People of God recognize the gift that
117 VI,33 | created in the image of God and endowed with a God-given
118 VI,33 | expressed the need for all God's people in Asia to come
119 VI,34 | such belongs the Kingdom of God (cf. Lk 18:16). 180~The
120 VI,35 | gift entrusted to us by God: he entrusts it to us as
121 VI,35 | conception, human life involves God's creative action and remains
122 VI,35 | can show their fidelity to God and their commitment to
123 VI,36 | visible and effective sign of God's unfailing love. These
124 VI,38 | is especially blessed by God.~Especially troubling in
125 VI,38 | Synod Fathers prayed to God, who knows the depths of
126 VI,38 | country. The Synod prayed that God will enlighten the minds
127 VI,41 | Christians and of all who look to God as the Creator to protect
128 VI,41 | reverence for the whole of God's creation. It is the Creator'
129 VI,41 | stewardship over creation which God has entrusted to humanity.
130 VI,41 | bond between worship of God and care for the weak, represented
131 VI,41 | can be no true worship of God (cf. Is 1:10-17; Am 5:21-
132 VI,41 | filled with the Spirit of God, who wants "mercy not sacrifice" (
133 VII,42 | duty of the whole People of God. 204 Since the whole People
134 VII,42 | Since the whole People of God is sent forth to preach
135 VII,42 | who bore heroic witness to God's love among the peoples
136 VII,43 | this task precisely because God's love has been poured into
137 VII,43 | and sanctify the People of God. By the will of Christ himself,
138 VII,44 | consecrated life shows forth God's love in the world by its
139 VII,44 | prayer and communion with God, the Church in Asia looks
140 VII,44 | vain. 210~The search for God, a life of fraternal communion,
141 VII,44 | world in which the sense of God's presence is often diminished,
142 VII,44 | witness to the primacy of God and to eternal life. Living
143 VII,44 | leaders in the search for God, a search which has always
144 VII,44 | and discern the call of God. 216~In the context of the
145 VII,45 | mission of the People of God, as witnesses to Christ
146 VII,46 | each member experiences God's love and communicates
147 Conclu,50| foremost, we again praise God for the wealth of cultures,
148 Conclu,50| great continent. Blessed be God for the peoples of Asia,
149 Conclu,50| of Jesus Christ, we thank God for choosing Asia as the
150 Conclu,51| Daughter of the Most High God,~Virgin Mother of the Saviour
151 Conclu,51| call~to be the Mother of God;~teach us to empty our hearts~
152 Conclu,51| hearts~of all that is not of God,~that we too may be filled~
153 Conclu,51| pondered the mysteries of God's will~in the silence of
154 Conclu,51| to discern the signs of God's powerful hand.~You went
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