Chapter, Paragraph
1 Intro,1| that part of the People of God which might be likened to
2 Intro,1| according to the plan of God in view of the final coming
3 Intro,1| coming of the Kingdom of God.~
4 Intro,2| proclamation of the Word of God and catechesis; the multiplicity
5 Intro,3| reminds us: "The People of God believes that it is led
6 Intro,3| discern authentic signs of God's presence and purpose in
7 Intro,3| the full ideal to which God has called each individual,
8 Intro,4| of wishing to become like God (cf. Gen 3:5) through the
9 Intro,4| their hearts; they forget God, or simply retain him without
10 Intro,5| dignity as the living image of God (cf. Gen 1:26), the human
11 Intro,5| unshakable foundation in God as Creator and Father. The
12 Intro,7| instrument of intimate union with God and of the unity of all
13 1,8 | Mystery of the People of God. From this perspective which
14 1,8 | chosen people. Israel is God's vine, the Lord's own work,
15 1,8 | aspects of the Kingdom of God: "A man planted a vineyard,
16 1,8 | not only of the People of God, but of Jesus himself. He
17 1,8 | relive the very communion of God and to manifest it and communicate
18 1,9 | to "seek the Kingdom of God by engaging in temporal
19 1,9 | according to the plan of God"(14). "The term 'lay faithful'" -
20 1,9 | established among the People of God. They are in their own way
21 1,9 | richness in mystery that God gives to the Christian in
22 1,10 | that vocation received from God. In arriving at a basic
23 1,10 | in the life ot the Son of God; unites us to Christ and
24 1,11 | cannot enter the kingdom of God"(Jn 3:5). Baptism, then,
25 1,11 | into song: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
26 1,11 | living and abiding word of God" (1 Pt 1:23).~With Baptism
27 1,11 | Baptism we become children of God in his only-begotten Son,
28 1,11 | baptized as Children of God and members of Christ's
29 1,11 | And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his
30 1,13 | with the holy presence of God as a result of each person'
31 1,14 | rejected by men but in God's sight chosen and precious;
32 1,14 | sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ ...
33 1,14 | priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may
34 1,14 | of the entire People of God in the following words: "
35 1,14 | to be-Son of the living God (confessed by Peter), has
36 1,14 | Everyone, the whole People of God, shares in this threefold
37 1,14 | Eucharist for the glory of God and the salvation of humanity.
38 1,14 | sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ (cf.
39 1,14 | consecrate the world itself to God"(23).~Through their participation
40 1,14 | himself to the Father, so that God might be everything to everyone (
41 1,14 | priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people" (1 Pt 2:9).
42 1,15 | members of the People of God: "As members, they share
43 1,15 | secular character in light of God's plan of salvation and
44 1,15 | receive their call from God: "There they are called
45 1,15 | There they are called by God"(33). This "place" is treated
46 1,15 | itself is destined to glorify God the Father in Christ. The
47 1,15 | there let him remain with God" (1 Cor 7:24). On the contrary,
48 1,15 | in fact, "are called by God so that they, led by the
49 1,15 | their situation in the world God manifests his plan and communicates
50 1,15 | seeking the Kingdom of God by engaging in temporal
51 1,15 | according to the plan of God"(38).~Precisely with this
52 1,15 | understood in light of the act of God the creator and redeemer,
53 1,16 | the holiness of the Son of God made man.~It is ever more
54 1,16 | we must assiduously beg God to raise up"(42).~Everyone
55 1,16 | meditating on the Word of God, in conscious and active
56 1,17 | Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him" (
57 1,17 | occasion to join themselves to God, fulfill his will, serve
58 1,17 | lead them to communion with God in Christ"(46).~The vocation
59 1,17 | steadfast through the power of God's grace, these are the humble
60 1,17 | builders of the Kingdom of God in history.~Holiness, then,
61 1,17 | Synod. The entire People of God, and the lay faithful in
62 2,18 | Jesus has the communion of God as Trinity, namely, the
63 2,18 | intimate life of love in God as Trinity, Father, Son
64 2,18 | Lord Jesus, the love of God and the fellowship of the
65 2,19 | speaks of the union with God brought about by Jesus Christ,
66 2,19 | is present in the Word of God and in the Sacraments. Baptism
67 2,19 | Church as the People of God: "It has pleased God to
68 2,19 | of God: "It has pleased God to make people holy and
69 2,19 | instrument of intimate union with God and of the unity of all
70 2,19 | the dignity and freedom of God's Children... for its law,
71 2,19 | its goal, the kingdom of God... established by Christ
72 2,19 | human nature to the Son of God, that same identical Spirit
73 2,21 | Corinthians he writes: "And God has appointed in the Church
74 2,21 | knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the
75 2,22 | of the entire People of God (cf. Heb 5:1). The lay faithful,
76 2,23 | of announcing the word of God and pastoral care(74).~In
77 2,23 | service of the Kingdom of God and therefore at the service
78 2,24 | sanctifies the People of God through the ministry and
79 2,24 | become 'good stewards of God's varied grace' (1 Pt 4:
80 2,24 | and received. We know that God acts in all Christians,
81 2,25 | the needs of the People of God scattered throughout the
82 2,26 | but rather, "the family of God, a fellowship afire with
83 2,26 | communicate the Word of God and express it in service
84 2,28 | make up the one People of God and the Body of Christ.~
85 2,28 | whole Church. Therefore, God calls the individual in
86 2,28 | that is, to communion with God and with all people.~
87 2,31 | So as to render thanks to God for the great gift of Church
88 2,31 | communion of the love of God, Three in One, we once again
89 3,32 | communion that the Son of God made man introduced into
90 3,32 | members of the People of God. This fact, fully understood
91 3,33 | in presenting the Word of God, especially by means of
92 3,33 | adherence to the Word of God which is celebrated in the
93 3,34 | sustains a life lived "as if God did not exist". This indifference
94 3,34 | dignity.~Humanity is loved by God! This very simple yet profound
95 3,34 | this proclamation resound: God loves you, Christ came for
96 3,36 | Church has the Kingdom of God as her supreme goal, of
97 3,36 | the world the mystery of God that shines forth in Jesus
98 3,36 | the Incarnation the Son of God has united himself in some
99 3,37 | are considered: created by God in his image and likeness
100 3,37 | of blessed communion with God. For this reason every violation
101 3,37 | cries out in vengeance to God and is an offence against
102 3,37 | being was made by the Son of God in his becoming man in the
103 3,38 | rights find their source in God himself.~The inviolability
104 3,38 | absolute inviolability of God, fínds its primary and fundamental
105 3,38 | always a wonderful gift of God's goodness. Against the
106 3,39 | individual's relation to God is a constitutive element
107 3,39 | an individual: it is in God that we "live, move and
108 3,39 | property of the Church: God's Church is born of God'
109 3,39 | God's Church is born of God's grace, which is expressed
110 3,40 | giving of self to others: "God, who has fatherly concern
111 3,40 | couple and the family: "But God did not create man a solitary
112 3,43 | According to the plan of God the goods of the earth are
113 3,43 | through work offered to God an individual is associated
114 3,43 | humanity has received from God himself the task of "dominating"
115 3,43 | responsibility for the gifts that God has bestowed and continues
116 3,44 | contrast with the Word of God and the plan of salvation.
117 4 | VINEYARD~Good Stewards of God's Varied Grace~
118 4,45 | coming of the Kingdom of God according to the diversity
119 4,46 | number half of the People of God itself living in those countries.
120 4,46 | are strong and the word of God abides in you (1 Jn 2:13
121 4,46 | wisdom, age and grace before God and people" (Lk 2:52).~The
122 4,47 | ones have in the Kingdom of God. They are the eloquent symbol
123 4,47 | entering into the Kingdom of God and for living the logic
124 4,47 | absolute gratuitous gift of God. The life itself of innocence
125 4,48 | for the whole People of God... Despite the complex nature
126 4,49 | discrimination so that the image of God that shines in all human
127 4,50 | in such a way, to obey God, who created the individual "
128 4,50 | would accept the call of God to come to know, reverence
129 4,50 | fullness of time", when "God sent his Son, born of a
130 4,50 | fullness" continues in history: God's plan for woman is read
131 4,51 | regard embracing the Word of God, its understanding and its
132 4,51 | fit for him" (Gen 2:18). God entrusted the human being
133 4,51 | apostolate of the People of God.~From this perspective the
134 4,52 | mystical, intimate life of God, One in Three.~Precisely
135 4,52 | builds up the Kingdom of God in history through the everyday
136 4,53 | growth of the Kingdom of God in a new and even more valuable
137 4,53 | and old age are called by God not only to unite their
138 4,54 | in life but also faith in God and his love as Father.~
139 4,55 | members of the People of God -clergy, men and women religious,
140 4,55 | in the salvific plan of God. In turn, the ministerial
141 4,55 | straining towards the Kingdom of God that is prefigured and in
142 4,56 | fulfill it: "In creation God commanded the plants to
143 4,56 | coming of the Kingdom of God. No talent, no matter how
144 4,56 | another, as good stewards of God's varied grace" (1 Pt 4:
145 5,57 | takes care of his vine. God's solicitude is so ardently
146 5,57 | she prays: "Turn again, O God of hosts! / Look down from
147 5,57 | approached in liberty by God who calls everyone to grow,
148 5,57 | In this dialogue between God who offers his gifts, and
149 5,58 | to fulfil one's mission.~God calls me and sends me forth
150 5,58 | In fact, from eternity God has thought of us and has
151 5,58 | events is the eternal plan of God revealed to each of us.
152 5,58 | listening to the Word of God and the Church, fervent
153 5,58 | gifts and talents given by God, as well as the diverse
154 5,58 | decisive moments for discerning God's call and embracing the
155 5,58 | attentiveness to the voice of God.~It is not a question of
156 5,58 | question of simply knowing what God wants from each of us in
157 5,58 | individual must do what God wants, as we are reminded
158 5,58 | However, to act in fidelity to God's will requires a capability
159 5,59 | enters into the plan of God, who desires that these
160 5,60 | their tasks according to God's will, may they actually
161 5,61 | Collaborators with God the Teacher ~61. Where are
162 5,61 | origin and its strength in God the Father who loves and
163 5,61 | educates his children. Yes, God is the first and great teacher
164 5,61 | and there was no foreign God with him" (Deut 32:10-12;
165 5,61 | Deut 32:10-12; cf. 8:5).~God's work in forming his people
166 5,61 | instruct its members in hearing God's Word, in liturgical and
167 5,61 | and personal dialogue with God, in the life of fraternal
168 5,62 | learn also the praise of God, whom they feel is near
169 5,62 | service of the Kingdom of God.~Schools and Catholic universities,
170 5,63 | is open to the action of God. Only the branch which does
171 5,64 | by the entire People of God, in particular, by the lay
172 5,64 | should be called children of God; and so we are" (1 Jn 3:
173 5,64 | members of the People of God, I have recourse at the
174 5,64 | With you we give thanks to God,~"whose mercy~is from generation
175 5,64 | entrusted to the lay faithful.~~God has called each of them
176 5,64 | one~in the great family of God's children.~He has sent
177 5,64 | willingness~for service to God~and the salvation of the
178 5,64 | anticipation~of the Kingdom of God~and of the proclamation
179 5,64 | spiritual strength~and trust in God inspire us,~so that we might
180 5,64 | joyful hope~of the coming of God's Kingdom, and~of a "new
181 5,64 | civilization of truth and love,~as God wills it,~for his glory.~
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