Chapter, Paragraph
1 Intro,1| after the Second Vatican Council" was the topic of the 1987
2 Intro,2| vineyard of the Lord"(2).~The Council, in particular, with its
3 Intro,2| the lay faithful. And the Council Fathers, re-echoing the
4 Intro,2| labour in the vineyard: "The Council, then, makes an earnest
5 Intro,2| the path marked out by the Council and remaining open to the
6 Intro,2| the years following the Council the Synod Fathers have been
7 Intro,2| reference to the Second Vatican Council, whose teaching on the lay
8 Intro,2| lay state expressed by the Council can be translated into authentic
9 Intro,2| collegiality. As such, the Council of the General Secretariat
10 Intro,3| Church and humanity, as the Council reminds us: "The People
11 Intro,3| description provided by the Council in the Pastoral Constitution,
12 Intro,4| whole communities, as the Council has already indicated: "
13 1,8 | ff.).~The Second Vatican Council, making reference to the
14 1,9 | teachings of the Second Vatican Council in light of both recent
15 1,9 | are the lay faithful", the Council went beyond previous interpretations
16 1,12 | body of the Church", as the Council of Florence teaches(17).~
17 1,13 | described by the Second Vatican Council: "By regeneration and the
18 1,14 | wake of the Second Vatican Council(20), at the beginning of
19 1,14 | priests' The Second Vatican Council has reminded us of the mystery
20 1,14 | fruitful teaching of the Council which speaks of their participation
21 1,14 | of the lay faithful the Council says: "For their work, prayers
22 1,15 | religious. The Second Vatican Council has described this manner
23 1,15 | which, according to the Council, is "properly and particularly"
24 1,15 | character"(32).~In fact the Council, in describing the lay faithful'
25 1,15 | cultures, etc. However, the Council considers their condition
26 1,15 | the Father in Christ. The Council is able then to indicate
27 1,16 | Christ.~The Second Vatican Council has significantly spoken
28 1,16 | daughters of the Church by a Council which intended to bring
29 1,16 | twenty years after the Council, opportunely insisted on
30 1,17 | to the lay faithful, the Council categorically affirms: "
31 2,18 | Church, as the Second Vatican Council recalls in the celebrated
32 2,19 | 19. At the Second Vatican Council the Church again proposed
33 2,19 | done by the Second Vatican Council to bring about a clearer
34 2,19 | after the conclusion of the Council Pope Paul VI addressed the
35 2,19 | the Church"(54).~Vatican Council II has invited us to contemplate
36 2,19 | various passages of the Council's documents(56). In its
37 2,19 | documents(56). In its turn, the Council has looked again at the
38 2,20 | following synthesis from the Council: "Jesus Christ"-we read
39 2,20 | toward perfect communion, the Council writes: "The Spirit dwells
40 2,21 | Church~21. The Second Vatican Council speaks of the ministries
41 2,22 | priesthood, as the Second Vatican Council recalls, essentially has
42 2,23 | renewal promoted by the Council, the lay faithful themselves
43 2,24 | faithful the Second Vatican Council writes: "For the exercise
44 2,24 | source of this giving, as the Council recalls(80), the gifts of
45 2,24 | Pastors of the Church. The Council clearly states: "Judgment
46 2,25 | Churches. For this reason the Council says that the particular
47 2,25 | Catholic Church"(85).~The same Council strongly encourages the
48 2,27 | incisive passage from the Council: "Their activity within
49 2,27 | their parish. Once again the Council authoritatively places it
50 2,27 | ecclesial family"(101).~The Council's mention of examining and
51 2,28 | From this perspective the Council's insistence on the absolute
52 2,29 | ecclesiology, as the Second Vatican Council clearly acknowledged in
53 2,29 | mission. In this regard the Council is quite clear: "As long
54 2,31 | international level. The Council has already spoken in this
55 2,31 | spirit"(117).~The Pontifical Council for the Laity has the task
56 2,31 | together with the Pontifical Council for the Union of Christians,
57 3,32 | Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, recurred with renewed clarity
58 3,33 | from the Second Vatican Council we read: "As sharers in
59 3,35 | addressed by the Second Vatican Council to the particular Church
60 3,36 | 133).~The Second Vatican Council, repeatedly and with a singular
61 3,38 | poor. The Second Vatican Council openly proclaimed: "All
62 3,42 | contrary, the Second Vatican Council's words are particularly
63 3,43 | faithful. The Second Vatican Council formulates in general terms
64 3,43 | explicit invitation of the Council: "By work an individual
65 3,44 | evolution. In light of the Council, we mean by "culture" all
66 3,44 | treatment by the Second Vatican Council of the rapport between the
67 4,46 | Spirit. In this sense the Council has defined youth as "the
68 4,46 | message to young people the Council said: "The Church looks
69 4,47 | more humane. How often the Council referred to the beneficial
70 4,47 | their parents"(173). The Council's words must also be repeated
71 4,49 | urged by the Second Vatican Council: "Since in our days women
72 4,49 | the years following the Council and has found its fundamental
73 4,49 | pronouncements of the Second Vatican Council, which reflect the Gospel'
74 4,50 | history. The Second Vatican Council reminds us: "The Church
75 4,51 | in the second part of the Council's Constitution Gaudium et
76 4,51 | life. The Second Vatican Council seems to connect the moral
77 4,51 | communities, the words of the Council just quoted point to an
78 4,56 | line the Second Vatican Council states: "This lay spirituality
79 5,59 | 211).~The Second Vatican Council has invited all the lay
80 5,59 | gospel from culture: "The Council exhorts Christians, as citizens
81 5,60 | charity and justice. The Council writes: "This life of intimate
82 5,60 | faithful. In this regard the Council wrote: "(the lay faithful)
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