Chapter, Paragraph
1 Intro,1| MEMBERS of Christ's Faithful People (Christifideles Laici),
2 Intro,1| who form that part of the People of God which might be likened
3 Intro,2| addressed to everyone: lay people as well are personally called
4 Intro,2| world. In preaching to the people Saint Gregory the Great
5 Intro,2| your manner of life, dear people, and make sure that you
6 Intro,2| Lord's name that all lay people give a glad, generous, and
7 Intro,2| invitation at this moment. Young people should feel that this call
8 Intro,3| Council reminds us: "The People of God believes that it
9 Intro,3| which it shares with other people of our time. For faith throws
10 Intro,4| indicated: "Growing numbers of people are abandoning religion
11 Intro,4| long-standing Christian people and which continually calls
12 Intro,5| regarding women and young people, not only in areas of family
13 Intro,6| peacemakers" (Mt 5:9) finds in the people of our time a new and significant
14 Intro,7| bears testimony before all people.~The lay faithful have an
15 1,8 | express the Mystery of the People of God. From this perspective
16 1,8 | vine to describe the chosen people. Israel is God's vine, the
17 1,8 | and symbol not only of the People of God, but of Jesus himself.
18 1,9 | are established among the People of God. They are in their
19 1,9 | mission of the whole Christian people with respect to the Church
20 1,14 | a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the
21 1,14 | kingly dignity of the entire People of God in the following
22 1,14 | Church. Everyone, the whole People of God, shares in this threefold
23 1,14 | a holy nation, God's own people" (1 Pt 2:9). Precisely because
24 1,15 | for all the members of the People of God: "As members, they
25 1,17 | fulfill his will, serve other people and lead them to communion
26 1,17 | countless number of lay people, both women and men, busy
27 1,17 | of the Synod. The entire People of God, and the lay faithful
28 2,18 | Church shines forth as 'a people made one with the unity
29 2,19 | image of the Church as the People of God: "It has pleased
30 2,19 | has pleased God to make people holy and to save them, not
31 2,19 | making them into a single people, a people which acknowledges
32 2,19 | into a single people, a people which acknowledges him in
33 2,19 | as Communion is the "new" People, the "messianic" People,
34 2,19 | People, the "messianic" People, the People that "has, for
35 2,19 | messianic" People, the People that "has, for its head,
36 2,19 | unite the members of the New People among themselves -and first
37 2,20 | variety of charisms, inviting people to assume different ministries
38 2,20 | them, as he reminds all people in their relationship in
39 2,22 | the apostles-seed of the People of the New Covenant and
40 2,22 | and to rule the priestly people. The mission of the Apostles,
41 2,22 | entrust to the Pastors of his people, is a true service, significantly
42 2,22 | the service of the entire People of God (cf. Heb 5:1). The
43 2,23 | more Gospel-inspired lay people there are engaged in these
44 2,24 | Spirit who sanctifies the People of God through the ministry
45 2,25 | areas are to be met, lay people should not limit their cooperation
46 2,25 | concerned about the needs of the People of God scattered throughout
47 2,26 | circumstances of life in which people find themselves today. In
48 2,26 | community of the Christian people; to initiate and gather
49 2,26 | initiate and gather the people in the accustomed expression
50 2,26 | and renew the faith in the people of today; to serve as the
51 2,28 | religious, make up the one People of God and the Body of Christ.~
52 2,28 | communion with God and with all people.~
53 2,29 | days the phenomenon of lay people associating among themselves
54 2,29 | the generosity of our lay people"(105).~Oftentimes these
55 2,29 | all, the freedom for lay people in the Church to form such
56 2,30 | the Christian formation of people's conscience, so as to enable
57 3,32 | gift is destined for all people. Thus the Church feels she
58 3,32 | all other members of the People of God. This fact, fully
59 3,33 | They lead to the Church people who are perhaps far removed
60 3,34 | responses, expose contemporary people to an inconsolable delusion
61 3,34 | strength of the Gospel.~To all people of today I once again repeat
62 3,34 | he knows! Today too often people do not know what they carry
63 3,34 | in their heart. Too often people are uncertain about a sense
64 3,34 | activity towards the many people who still do not believe
65 3,35 | today the Church lives among people of various religions...
66 3,35 | faithful who live among the people of other religions, whether
67 3,36 | total salvation for all people: with this in mind, then,
68 3,36 | imbues the daily activity of people with a deeper sense and
69 3,37 | foundation of the equality of all people among themselves. As a result
70 3,37 | foundation of equality of all people among themselves, so it
71 3,37 | participation and solidarity of all people among themselves: dialogue
72 3,37 | rooted ultimately in what people "are", first and foremost,
73 3,37 | foremost, rather than on what people "have".~The dignity of the
74 3,38 | but the very content of people's consciences and life styles,
75 3,39 | serious duties of every people that truly wishes to assure
76 3,39 | give thanks to those lay people who, despite their restricted
77 3,40 | everyone has willed that all people should form one family and
78 3,40 | meaning of service to all people which is inseparable from
79 3,42 | offered in a fitting manner to people, both as individuals and
80 3,42 | demanded by the rest of the people. To accomplish this requires
81 3,42 | the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the
82 3,43 | earth are offered to all people and to each individual as
83 3,44 | the common good of every people, the expression of its dignity,
84 3,44 | well-being that burn in people's hearts. For this reason
85 3,44 | liturgical forms, she leads people to interior freedom"(164).~
86 3,44 | collective consciences of people, the activities in which
87 3,44 | ever-greater numbers of people, but also of affecting and
88 3,44 | even to those professional people of the press, cinema, radio,
89 4,46 | Young People, Children and Older People ~
90 4,46 | People, Children and Older People ~Youth, the Hope of the
91 4,46 | constitute in number half of the People of God itself living in
92 4,46 | am writing to you, young people, because you have overcome
93 4,46 | I write to you, young people, because you are strong
94 4,46 | the Church: in fact, young people are and ought to be encouraged
95 4,46 | and grace before God and people" (Lk 2:52).~The Synod Fathers
96 4,46 | The sensitivity of young people profoundly affects their
97 4,46 | deep-seated aspirations of young people, as illustrated in Christ'
98 4,46 | In its message to young people the Council said: "The Church
99 4,47 | that "children and young people are in no way a negligible
100 4,48 | Older People and the Gift of Wisdom~48.
101 4,48 | 48. I now address older people, oftentimes unjustly considered
102 4,48 | insupportable burden. I remind older people that the Church calls and
103 4,48 | sense the "gift" of older people can be specifically that
104 4,48 | growing number of older people in different countries worldwide
105 4,48 | workplace provides older people with a new opportunity in
106 4,48 | celebration of the Older People's Jubilee: "Arriving at
107 4,48 | the Church for the whole People of God... Despite the complex
108 4,51 | in the apostolate of the People of God.~From this perspective
109 4,53 | Sick and the Suffering ~53. People are called to joy. Nevertheless,
110 4,53 | society; you who are sick, people with disabilities, the poor
111 4,53 | abandoned children and old people who feel alone; you who
112 4,54 | of Calvary all suffering people who believe in Christ, and
113 4,54 | gather beneath the Cross all people of good will, for on this
114 4,54 | moral sufferings of the people of all times, so that in
115 4,55 | All the members of the People of God -clergy, men and
116 4,56 | of self-giving to which people who remain fully in the
117 5,57 | can do nothing" (Jn 15:5).~People are approached in liberty
118 5,60 | participation in the liturgy. Lay people should so make use of these
119 5,61 | and great teacher of his People, as it states in the striking
120 5,61 | God's work in forming his people is revealed and fulfilled
121 5,62 | and professors, now lay people for the most part, for their
122 5,63 | exist in one and the same people or nation at the same time.
123 5,63 | culture of a less numerous people living in large nations
124 5,64 | Lord's call by the entire People of God, in particular, by
125 5,64 | the other members of the People of God, I have recourse
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