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503 4,53 | its healing love and the consolation of Jesus Christ has reenacted
504 3,35 | Church that only a truly consolidated effort to assume responsibility
505 1,13 | cf. 2 Cor 1:21-22), and constituting each as a spiritual temple,
506 3,39 | individual's relation to God is a constitutive element of the very "being"
507 Intro,6| the futile experience of constructing the "Tower of Babel" (cf.
508 4,47 | referred to the beneficial and constructive affects for the family, "
509 4,53 | pushed to the edges of our consumer society; you who are sick,
510 3,34 | economic well-being and consumerism, even if coexistent with
511 3,37 | forfeit his life?" (Mk 8:36) contain an enlightening and stirring
512 4,52 | proclaim the message of hope contained in the relation between
513 2,19 | Council II has invited us to contemplate the mystery of the Church
514 2,30 | appreciation for prayer, contemplation, liturgical and sacramental
515 4,56 | Philothea, that a purely contemplative, monastic and religious
516 4,50 | discover all its richness of content-a richness that "from the
517 3,43 | desire to again refer its contents to all, in particular, to
518 3,42 | consideration on a properly continental and world level.~The fruit
519 Intro,7| every difficulty, delay and contradiction caused by the limits of
520 Intro,2| document is not something in contradistinction to the Synod, but is meant
521 3,38 | beginnings, refusing on the contrary-even for the dignity of research
522 3,44 | models of life, which are in contrast with the Word of God and
523 Intro,2| Secretariat itself have contributed to its final form.~This
524 3,36 | human"(134).~In this work of contributing to the human family, for
525 4,51 | irreplaceable and customary contributions.~In particular, two great
526 5,57 | faithful and religious) converge on this goal"(209).~
527 2,29 | all-inclusive and profound convergence when viewed from the perspective
528 3,44 | evangelizes when she seeks to convert, solely through the divine
529 5,63 | the work of formation some convictions reveal themselves as particularly
530 3,34 | into a most shining and convincing testimony, where, not fear
531 Intro,6| thus in itself dramatically convulsed and wounded.~On the other
532 5,61 | the Spirit and actively cooperates towards that end. With this
533 4,51 | ought to be recognized as cooperators in the mission of the church
534 3 | FORTH AND BEAR FRUIT~The Coresponsibility of the Lay Faithful in the
535 2,21 | individual way, active and coresponsible.~We now turn our thoughts
536 1,11 | reminds the Christians of Corinth of this fact: "For by one
537 2,21 | his First Letter to the Corinthians he writes: "And God has
538 1,13 | founded on Christ, the "corner stone", and destined to "
539 3,39 | dignity of every person, is a cornerstone of the structure of human
540 3,41 | traditional spiritual and corporal works of mercy, represent
541 5,62 | done by the faithful be correct from the standpoint of service
542 3,44 | evangelization of culture, or more correctly of cultures"(165).~The privileged
543 2,26 | grace of the Gospel and to correspond to the various circumstances
544 2,29 | from various sources and corresponds to different demands. In
545 3,42 | idolatry of power, egoism and corruption that are oftentimes directed
546 3,42 | increasing power at any cost.~The lay faithful given
547 4,56 | professing the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and
548 5,59 | daily lives deserves to be counted among the more serious errors
549 1,17 | wonderful scene: that of a countless number of lay people, both
550 3,35 | Even Christian married couples, in imitation of Aquila
551 3,44 | occurs through a firm and courageous rejection of every form
552 5,63 | developed through appropriate courses or suitable schools. Forming
553 4,56 | shop of the mechanic, the court of princes, or the home
554 5,60 | spirit of justice, sincerity, courtesy, moral courage; without
555 2,22 | of the People of the New Covenant and origin of the Hierarchy (
556 3,40 | cell of society. It is the cradle of life and love, the place
557 1,15 | the life of an ordinary craftsman of his own time and place"(
558 2,23 | faithful and the risk of creating, in reality, an ecclesial
559 Intro,5| development, in some ways to be creators of a new, more humane culture,
560 4,54 | of this good news gains credibility when it is not simply voiced
561 2,28 | which we profess in the Creed. The good of all becomes
562 3,37 | dignity of the human being cries out in vengeance to God
563 3,38 | and the like are certainly criminal: they poison human society;
564 3,44 | purification of the elements that critically burden existing culture,
565 3,42 | make "virtuous" or "above criticism" the activity of persons
566 4,54 | we pause beside all the crosses of contemporary man and
567 2,26 | almost not to be found in crowded and chaotic modern sections
568 4,50 | questions, oftentimes so crucial, on the "place" that women
569 2,27 | desire to experience and cultivate caring and personal relationships.
570 3,43 | the created world and "cultivating the garden" of the world.
571 5,60 | lay faithful"(215).~The cultivation of human values finds a
572 3,38 | to work, to family, to culture- is false and illusory if
573 5,59 | of truth in the area of culture-are the occasions ordained by
574 3,38 | defence of life and the cure of disease in its beginnings,
575 4,51 | their irreplaceable and customary contributions.~In particular,
576 Intro,4| without bounds, individuals cut the religious roots that
577 2,18 | celebrated words of Saint Cyprian: "The Church shines forth
578 3,42 | politics is an absolute moral danger, does not in the least justify
579 3,40 | uninterest and indifference, dare to take over the role in
580 1,14 | him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light" (
581 1,14 | Augustine offers for Psalm 26:"David was anointed king. In those
582 4,45 | during the day: some at dawn, others about nine in the
583 4,56 | taken from Saint Francis de Sales, who promoted lay
584 Intro,4| recalled the phenomenon of de-Christianization that strikes long-standing
585 2,27 | elements of disintegration and de-humanization. The individual is lost
586 4,51 | the inevitable risk of "de-humanizing" human life, above all when
587 Intro,7| of us, Pastors, priests, deacons, religious and lay faithful.
588 Intro,2| over your manner of life, dear people, and make sure that
589 5,64 | Rome, in St. Peter's, on 30 December, the Feast of the Holy Family
590 4,46 | are troubled by anxiety, deceptions, anguishes and fears of
591 1,9 | Instead it opened itself to a decidedly positive vision and displayed
592 4,51 | but also involves a real decision and obligation to employ
593 2,25 | certain instances also in decision-making - if applied in a broad
594 4,51 | the process of coming to decisions"(192).And again: "Women,
595 3,40 | be more opportunely and decisively realized as the threats
596 1,14 | own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him
597 3,34 | upsetting when compared with declared atheism. Sometimes the Christian
598 4,45 | youthful vitality begins to decline. The eleventh hour represents
599 2,25 | constantly foster"-we read in the Decree on the Apostolate of Lay
600 5,59 | unity of life by forcefully decrying the grave consequences in
601 5,62 | perceive all the beauty of dedicating their energies to the service
602 1,14 | may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out
603 4,46 | satisfying response to the most deep-seated aspirations of young people,
604 5,63 | feel the need to pursue and deepen our formation, still more
605 4,49 | has increased and been deepened in the years following the
606 3,42 | of education intended to defeat the ruling culture of egoism,
607 Intro,3| its unrest and hopes, its defeats and triumphs: a world whose
608 4,49 | affirmed the urgency to defend and to promote the personal
609 3,38 | personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination.~
610 1,17 | reflections intended to define the lay faithful's position
611 2,30 | necessity of having clear and definite criteria for discerning
612 1,9 | pointed to the need for a definition of the lay faithful's vocation
613 4,51 | responsible for the moral degradation of the person, the environment
614 3,37 | unfortunately continue to divide and degrade the human family, from those
615 3,34 | stated by all in varying degrees-to the problems and hopes that
616 Intro,7| Despite every difficulty, delay and contradiction caused
617 4,49 | destroy that unjust and deleterious mentality which considers
618 4,51 | the lay faithful with its deliberate and repeated use of the
619 4,48 | and basic way.~The Bible delights in presenting the older
620 1,16 | Spouse of the Lord Jesus, who delivered himself up for her sanctification (
621 3,34 | people to an inconsolable delusion or to the temptation of
622 5,64 | responsibilities, as well as a more demonstrable and decisive collaboration
623 Intro,1| with the labourers for a denarius a day, he sent them into
624 3,39 | who are violently being denied their basic rights. Those
625 3,42 | in the face of all that denies and compromises peace, namely,
626 1,14 | courageously identify and denounce evil. United to Christ,
627 3,39 | different "Worlds" were openly denounced in the recent Encyclical
628 5,61 | transmitted by the various departments of the Holy See call for
629 3,40 | cohesiveness of peoples depend above all on the human quality
630 2,31 | spoken in this regard: "Depending on its various forms and
631 3,38 | arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution,
632 2,23 | immediately from the official deputation given by the Pastors, as
633 1,9 | true vine, and from him derive their life and fruitfulness.~
634 4,45 | because the sun starts its descent from the height of heaven,
635 1,8 | the image of the vine to describe the chosen people. Israel
636 1,15 | In fact the Council, in describing the lay faithful's situation
637 5,61 | Moses: "He found him in a desert land / and in the howling
638 5,59 | profess and their daily lives deserves to be counted among the
639 1,15 | theirs. Such a manner is designated with the expression "secular
640 3,34 | doubts they are led into despair. Therefore-with humility
641 4,49 | various surroundings, to destroy that unjust and deleterious
642 4,49 | the Church at its origin detached herself from the culture
643 2,30 | spiritual works; the spirit of detachment and evangelical poverty
644 1,17 | therefore an element which determines their dignity. At the same
645 5,61 | no foreign God with him" (Deut 32:10-12; cf. 8:5).~God'
646 Intro,5| no matter how often it is devalued and violated because it
647 3,34 | the practice of religion devoid of true meaning in the face
648 4,56 | heresy, to try to banish the devout life from the regiment of
649 2,22 | in Sacred Scripture as "diakonia", namely, service or ministry.
650 3,42 | as citizens guided by the dictates of a Christian conscience,
651 1,9 | Jn 3:5). In Christ who died and rose from the dead,
652 2,27 | together the many human differences found within its boundaries
653 Intro,7| her mission.~Despite every difficulty, delay and contradiction
654 4,50 | Apostolic Letter Mulieris Dignitatem, in particular, as a biblical
655 5,57 | bearing much fruit.~As a diligent vinedresser, the Father
656 2,19 | communion with its inseparable dimensions: the communion of each Christian
657 4,54 | spirit"(201), must never diminish but always must come to
658 Intro,5| where the human person is diminished and annihilated; other forms
659 5,61 | and in allowing a more direct and concrete perception
660 5,60 | for judging and practical directives (cf. Congregation for the
661 4,53 | who are sick, people with disabilities, the poor and hungry, migrants
662 5,60 | conditions of life, they do not disassociate union with Christ from that
663 3,44 | development of a culture becomes disassociated not only from Christian
664 4,46 | exalted personal call to discipleship ("Come and follow me." Mk
665 2,28 | riches are waiting to be discovered through an intensification
666 5,59 | Integrated Life ~59. In discovering and living their proper
667 4,49 | Consortio concerning the many discriminations of which women are the victims: "
668 3,38 | of life and the cure of disease in its beginnings, refusing
669 3,41 | all-too-easy and generalized disengagement from a sense of duty.~Precisely
670 3,42 | such as the recourse to disloyalty and to falsehood, the waste
671 2,27 | The individual is lost and disoriented, but there always remains
672 2,24 | For this reason no charism dispenses a person from reference
673 4,53 | soul's serenity is far from dispensing a person from working in
674 3,34 | patrimony runs the risk of being dispersed under the impact of a multiplicity
675 3,43 | use and misuse', or to dispose of things as one pleases.
676 3,33 | as Lord and Saviour; to disposing a person to receive Baptism
677 2,23 | dimension which is often disregarded"(76).~In the course of Synod
678 2,31 | agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you
679 4,53 | wearies the body's members and dissipates the soul's serenity is far
680 3,35 | world where the lessening of distance makes the world increasingly
681 Intro,2| Mt 20:3-4).~From that distant day the call of the Lord
682 1,15 | newness in Christian life and distinguished by their secular character(
683 2,20 | in the Church, that what distinguishes persons is not an increase
684 2,18 | After having described the distinguishing features of the lay faithful
685 3,42 | vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so
686 2,23 | to confer Baptism, and to distribute Holy Communion in accord
687 2,20 | necessities of service, distributes his different gifts for
688 2,24 | power of sin and how it can disturb and confuse the life of
689 3,37 | unfortunately continue to divide and degrade the human family,
690 2,31 | belong to Christ!' Is Christ divided?" (1 Cor 1: 12-13). No,
691 2,31 | overcoming each temptation to division and opposition that works
692 1,9 | in light of both recent documentation from the Magisterium and
693 4,54 | Apostolic Letter, Salvifici Doloris, from which I am pleased
694 4,53 | Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris-"Born in the mystery of Redemption
695 3,43 | God himself the task of "dominating" the created world and "
696 2,19 | Sacraments. Baptism is the door and the foundation of communion
697 2,19 | Communion' speaks of a double, lifegiving participation:
698 3,34 | life on earth. Invaded by doubts they are led into despair.
699 3,44 | culture is without a doubt the drama of our time, just as it
700 Intro,6| family is thus in itself dramatically convulsed and wounded.~On
701 2,31 | and, at the same time, of drawing up, together with the Pontifical
702 3,40 | these very springs of life dry up. Furthermore, ideologies
703 2,20 | Council writes: "The Spirit dwells in the Church and in the
704 Intro,4| life, to suffering and to dying-they are unable to avoid making
705 4,55 | mystery of communion" and are dynamically coordinated in its unique
706 2,26 | circumstances of some Christians (e.g. exiles and migrants). So
707 3,33 | their community, they are eager to do their share in apostolic
708 Intro,2| they should respond to it eagerly and magnanimously. The Lord
709 5,61 | apple of his eye. / Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
710 4,49 | communities"(181).~Both in her earliest days and in her successive
711 3,39 | vine bears witness to its earnestness in the faith, as expressed
712 2,25 | of mutual bonds, and the ease of communication no longer
713 5,62 | recognition of its riches easier (cf. Congregation for Catholic
714 4,49 | message of resurrection on Easter morn (cf. Lk 24:1-10), and
715 3,43 | the prohibition not to 'eat of the fruit of the tree' (
716 1,15 | specific way, a theological and ecclesiological reality as well. In fact,
717 1,12 | find again the faithful echo of the teaching of Jesus
718 2,20 | can hear his rich teaching echoed in the following synthesis
719 3,43 | acute way, the so-called "ecological" question poses itself in
720 3,43 | taking place in the world of economy and work which are a cause
721 2,31 | approval might be given to ecumenical associations in which there
722 4,53 | abandoned and pushed to the edges of our consumer society;
723 3,34 | has to being instructed, educated and supported in the faith
724 5,61 | the Father who loves and educates his children. Yes, God is
725 3,44 | culture, that is, the world of education-school and university-in places
726 4,51 | but also in the various educational environments, is to be more
727 2,26 | territory, cannot do their work effectively because they lack material
728 3,38 | human life concrete and efficacious.~The enormous development
729 4,52 | major source of meaning and efficacy in the pastoral action of
730 3,42 | necessary competence and efficiency, can make "virtuous" or "
731 3,33 | goods of the Church more efficient"(122).~The entire mission
732 | either
733 3,44 | ceases to purify and to elevate the morality of peoples...
734 3,38 | State, can change-let alone eliminate-them because such rights find
735 3,34 | or to the temptation of eliminating the truly humanizing dimension
736 4,47 | Kingdom of God. They are the eloquent symbol and exalted image
737 | elsewhere
738 2,30 | expressed in loyal readiness to embrace the doctrinal teachings
739 3,42 | arrangement. The common good embraces the sum total of all those
740 Intro,3| highlight some trends that are emerging in present-day society.
741 5,64 | of the Spirit. With deep emotion and gratitude, we again
742 4,49 | different ways and with diverse emphases, has always known women
743 4,49 | and mission of the Church, emphasis should be placed on what
744 1,14 | ministry, my aim was to emphasize forcefully the priestly,
745 1,8 | From this perspective which emphasizes the Church's internal nature,
746 4,56 | Christians to holiness while emphasizing the specific form with which
747 4,56 | members of the Church are employed as labourers in the vineyard
748 2,31 | associations and the process of employing new forms, cannot renounce
749 4,56 | adapted to the strength, the employment, and the duties of each
750 Intro,7| the forces that humanity employs for communion and participation
751 5,60 | faith's dynamism but also in enabling them to "give a reason for
752 5,61 | of the wilderness; / he encircled him, he cared for him, he
753 4,48 | because of difficulties encountered in a world of one novelty
754 4,46 | people are and ought to be encouraged to be active on behalf of
755 2,25 | The same Council strongly encourages the lay faithful actively
756 3,38 | new technological power, endangering not only fundamental human
757 5,64 | take up anew the missionary endeavour. A great venture, both challenging
758 3,44 | diverse spiritual and physical endowments. It means the efforts of
759 3,32 | preach the Gospel "to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8).
760 Intro,5| exceedingly great capacity for endurance and to the clear injustice
761 2,19 | Churches, and this teaching endures to the present day. Much
762 4,50 | requirements that belong to the enduring essential aspects of women
763 5,62 | whom the new commandment is enfleshed. The simultaneous presence
764 3,34 | questions and formidable enigmas posed by these situations,
765 3,39 | sisters that still do not enjoy such a right and have to
766 4,50 | foundations of women ought to enlighten and guide the Christian
767 3,42 | the life of the Church and enlightened by her social doctrine.
768 3,43 | hands at Nazareth greatly ennobled the dignity of work"(160).~
769 Intro,6| again, but with proportions enormously widespread, diverse sectors
770 3,44 | every effort must be made to ensure a full evangelization of
771 4,47 | conditions that are essential for entering into the Kingdom of God
772 5,64 | hearts~with a gratitude and enthusiasm~for this vocation and mission.~~
773 5,59 | not fully embraced, not entirely thought out, not faithfully
774 3,38 | authority. The human being is entitled to such rights, in every
775 4,49 | proper dignity and their entrance into public life as signs
776 3,43 | to raise up new forms of entrepreneurship and to look again at systems
777 1,15 | not simply an external and environmental framework, but as a reality
778 2,25 | provincial or plenary, is envisioned by the Code of Canon Law(
779 2,21 | 28). In his Letter to the Ephesians we read: "But the grace
780 4,50 | Both women and men ... are equally capable of receiving the
781 2,23 | the confusion and the equating of the common priesthood
782 2,21 | pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work
783 1,14 | supernatural faith, that "cannot err in matters of belief"(25)
784 5,59 | counted among the more serious errors of our age"(212).~Therefore,
785 4,55 | state bears witness to the eschatological character of the Church,
786 5,64 | Lord which he addresses to eueryone, yet, in a particular way
787 3,38 | murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia and willful suicide; all
788 2,25 | Conferences are called to evaluate the most oportune way of
789 2,21 | apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,
790 3,44 | recollection here: "The Church evangelizes when she seeks to convert,
791 Intro,4| How can one not notice the ever-growing existence of religious indifference
792 3,43 | work"(160).~Today in an ever-increasingly acute way, the so-called "
793 3,33 | its vital value and its ever-pressing obligation. Nevertheless,
794 3,44 | preaching the Gospel in ever-wider geographic areas or to ever-greater
795 4,49 | cf. Acts 1:14).~From the evidence of the Gospel, the Church
796 Intro,6| phenomenon that is quite evident in present-day humanity:
797 2,27 | important affirmation, which evidently must be interpreted in light
798 5,64 | of the many dangers~and evils which threaten~to overpower
799 3,44 | human family and of social evolution. In light of the Council,
800 4,50 | women and those bound to evolve in history. The Second Vatican
801 4,48 | in society (cf. Ps 44: 2; Ex 12:26-27), the teacher of
802 5,60 | indispensable that they have a more exact knowledge -and this demands
803 1,10 | Christian Life ~10. It is no exaggeration to say that the entire existence
804 Intro,5| forms of humanism, instead, exalt the individual in such a
805 2,27 | all of which need to be examined together and solved through
806 2,27 | The Council's mention of examining and solving pastoral problems "
807 3,39 | which is expressed in an excellent way in martyrdom"(143).~
808 | except
809 4,49 | all human beings without exception may be fully respected"(
810 4,52 | expressing the fear that excessive insistence given to the
811 1,17 | secular affairs should be excluded from their religious programme
812 4,53 | institutions is total and exclusive. It is to just such people-doctors,
813 1,14 | tradition of the Church, as exemplified in the explanation which
814 5,60 | matters, it is not enough to exhort them. They must be offered
815 5,59 | from culture: "The Council exhorts Christians, as citizens
816 2,26 | of some Christians (e.g. exiles and migrants). So that all
817 2,23 | the past these ministries existed in the Latin Church only
818 Intro,4| serious questions of human existence-particularly questions related to the
819 4,49 | continue, indeed that it be expanded and intensified in the face
820 4,48 | that the Church calls and expects them to continue to exercise
821 2,23 | Matrimony.~When necessity and expediency in the Church require it,
822 3,35 | While pointing out and experiencing the present urgency for
823 1,14 | Church, as exemplified in the explanation which St. Augustine offers
824 4,50 | and loving plan must be explored to discover all its richness
825 3,34 | remaining without responses, expose contemporary people to an
826 Intro,5| 26), the human being is exposed to more humiliating and
827 4,52 | raised in the Synod Hall expressing the fear that excessive
828 2,26 | these communities are true expressions of ecclesial communion and
829 2,25 | boundaries but strive to extend it to interparochial, interdiocesan,
830 1,17 | of salvation is further extended to every person, of every
831 3,44 | this work of defence. It extends to everyone in the world
832 1,12 | presenting it as an image and extension of that mystical communion
833 5,62 | context which is marked by an extensively deep cultural involvement,
834 3,34 | maintaining some of the externals of its tradition and rituals,
835 2,24 | it belongs, not indeed to extinguish the Spirit, but to test
836 Intro,4| are not able to be totally extinguished. When persons in conscience
837 1,8 | reason of abundant water" (Ez 19:10); "My beloved had
838 2,31 | Pastors of the Church even if faced with possible and understandable
839 2,23 | Pastors guard against a facile yet abusive recourse to
840 2,31 | competent Church authority to facilitate their growth on both the
841 3,39 | reason an irreplaceable factor in the good of individuals
842 Intro,2| services and tasks that some fail to become actively engaged
843 Intro,2| into my vineyard too" never fails to resound in the course
844 4,55 | women religious, the lay faithful-are labourers in the vineyard.
845 2,31 | of service through their faithfulness and good works to promote
846 2 | Participation of the Lay Faithtul in the Life of Church as
847 3,36 | responsible, a particular place falls to the lay faithful, by
848 3,42 | recourse to disloyalty and to falsehood, the waste of public funds
849 3,38 | operations that result in falsifying the genetic patrimony of
850 3,35 | laypersons who are ready to leave familiar surroundings, their work,
851 4,52 | and between members of the family-a love lived out in all its
852 4,56 | state in life (married and familylife, celibacy, widowhood), from
853 2,31 | collaboration, with patience, far-sightedness, and readiness to sacrifice
854 Intro,3| grain grew together in the farmer's field. The same is true
855 Intro,4| development and above all, fascinated by a very old and yet new
856 3,36 | has united himself in some fashion to every person"(132).~For
857 2,24 | test all things and hold fast to what is good (cf. 1 Thess
858 4,48 | as passive objects in a fast-paced world, but as participants
859 Intro,6| initiatives, but manifested in the fatal opposition of persons, groups,
860 4,51 | Man himself-husband and father-can be helped to overcome forms
861 5,61 | intimately connected with fatherhood and motherhood, so Christian
862 3,40 | to others: "God, who has fatherly concern for everyone has
863 4,51 | norms of justice, and may favor the practice of virtue rather
864 4,46 | courage, will provide a favorable setting for the meeting
865 2,25 | sense, the recent Synod has favored the creation of Diocesan
866 4,46 | deceptions, anguishes and fears of the world as well as
867 2,28 | the only one available and feasible"(104).~In the apostolate
868 5,64 | Peter's, on 30 December, the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus,
869 3,32 | people. Thus the Church feels she owes to each individual
870 1,8 | had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared
871 5,58 | Word of God and the Church, fervent and constant prayer, recourse
872 3,43 | growing unemployment; to fight for the most opportune overcoming
873 1,8 | mystery of the vine: it is the figure and symbol not only of the
874 5,64 | Virgin of the Magnificat,~fill their hearts~with a gratitude
875 3,43 | at systems of commerce, finance and exchange of technology.~
876 3,38 | absolute inviolability of God, fínds its primary and fundamental
877 4,49 | mission the Church must stand firmly against all forms of discrimination
878 1,11 | order that he might be the first-born among many brethren" (Rom
879 4,51 | let us make him a helper fit for him" (Gen 2:18). God
880 4,45 | three, the last, around five (cf. Mt 20:1 ff.). In commenting
881 5,64 | taking an active part to fix deeply in one's mind, heart
882 4,48 | never-to-return past or fleeing from present responsibility
883 2,26 | structures according to the full flexibility granted by canon law, especially
884 2,19 | There is the sheepfold, the flock, the vine, the spiritual
885 1,12 | Church", as the Council of Florence teaches(17).~Baptism symbolizes
886 1,15 | Because of the one dignity flowing from Baptism, each member
887 5,61 | stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading
888 5,58 | faithful and makes up the focal point of the whole work
889 4,56 | or the home of married folk. It is true, Philothea,
890 3,39 | fulfilment of each individual. It follows that the freedom of individuals
891 1,11 | waters of the Baptismal font, every Christian hears again
892 4,49 | 3), were present at the foot of the Cross (cf. Lk 23:
893 3,41 | institutions and public initiatives forced to give a response to the
894 4,46 | illustrated in Christ's forceful and exalted personal call
895 3,43 | responsibility of being in the forefront in working out a solution
896 5,61 | lead him, and there was no foreign God with him" (Deut 32:10-
897 1,11 | history: "For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be
898 3,37 | people "are", first and foremost, rather than on what people "
899 4,55 | stands out boldly as the forest in the plain; elsewhere
900 3,37 | gain the whole world and to forfeit his life?" (Mk 8:36) contain
901 2,23 | supply takes its legitimacy formally and immediately from the
902 | formerly
903 3,34 | cases, the questions and formidable enigmas posed by these situations,
904 3,43 | The Second Vatican Council formulates in general terms the purpose
905 4,48 | not everyone has the good fortune to reach this stage in life,
906 2,30 | the lay faithful must be a forum where the faith is proclaimed
907 3,35 | undeniable element in the founding of Churches(128) is the
908 4,49 | witness of the Apostles founds the Church", stated Paul
909 2,27 | saying, to be the "village fountain" to which all would have
910 2,25 | come about from a kind of fragmentation of the universal Church,
911 2,29 | context of a pluralistic and fragmented society-the case in so many
912 4,56 | passage taken from Saint Francis de Sales, who promoted lay
913 5,61 | with God, in the life of fraternal charity, and in allowing
914 2,31 | form, the lay faithful may freely associate under the movement
915 4,53 | sickness is indeed the most frequent and common expression of
916 4,50 | Christian response to the most frequently asked questions, oftentimes
917 1,9 | find themselves on the front lines of the Church's life;
918 4,52 | totality, oneness, fidelity and fruitfulness-that the Christian family's participation
919 2,20 | common commitment to bring to fruition the immense treasure that
920 1,16 | holiness and the perfect fulfillment of their own state of life"(
921 4,51 | necessary of her personal fulfillment-on which so many justly insist
922 Intro,2| of the Church; and in the fuller and meaningful participation
923 3,42 | accomplish this requires a fullscale battle and a determination
924 3,41 | result of an impersonal functionalism, an overgrown bureaucracy,
925 2,20 | to that of a living and functioning body. In fact, at one and
926 3,42 | falsehood, the waste of public funds for the advantage of a few
927 Intro,6| omnipotence", renew the futile experience of constructing
928 3,37 | does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and to forfeit
929 4,54 | proclamation of this good news gains credibility when it is not
930 3,43 | world and "cultivating the garden" of the world. But this
931 4,49 | humanizing" social relations.~Gathering together the pronouncements
932 5,60 | instruction and in specialized gatherings, as well as in schools and
933 Intro,3| necessary to guard against generalizations and unwarranted simplifications.
934 3,41 | and an all-too-easy and generalized disengagement from a sense
935 2,27 | apostolate of the Pastors is generally unable to achieve its full
936 3,38 | individual and of human generative power(139).~The lay faithful,
937 3,38 | result in falsifying the genetic patrimony of the individual
938 3,38 | as every kind of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia and
939 4,56 | in different ways by the gentleman, the workman, the servant,
940 3,43 | and is enabled to exercise genuine charity and be a partner
941 2,24 | Judgment as to their (charisms) genuineness and proper use belongs to
942 2,26 | ordained men or are too big geographically or because of the particular
943 4,47 | and universal Church. John Gerson, a great theologian and
944 3,35 | Church today ought to take a giant step forward in her evangelization
945 3,38 | indifferent in the face of these gigantic strides accomplished by
946 Intro,2| that all lay people give a glad, generous, and prompt response
947 3,36 | totally consecrated to the glorification of the Father. However,
948 1,15 | world itself is destined to glorify God the Father in Christ.
949 1,12 | incorporation into the crucified and glorious body of Christ. Through
950 3,38 | wonderful gift of God's goodness. Against the pessimism and
951 2,23 | and suffering. The more Gospel-inspired lay people there are engaged
952 1,14 | humanity in an activity governed by the life of grace, they
953 3,42 | oftentimes directed at persons in government, parliaments, the ruling
954 2,24 | ordinary, the charisms are graces of the Holy Spirit that
955 5,58 | of us. Therefore, it is a gradual process; in a certain sense,
956 Intro,3| that the weeds and the good grain grew together in the farmer'
957 4,55 | the Church fills the great granary of the world with abundant
958 4,49 | behalf. History is marked by grand works, quite often lowly
959 4,55 | Jesus overflow with the grapes of a productive vine, enriches
960 5,61 | of allowing a person to grasp and live the immense, extraordinary
961 4,47 | merits, but in the absolute gratuitous gift of God. The life itself
962 1,8 | Holy Spirit are the gift gratuitously offered to all those who
963 4,49 | The dignity of women, gravely wounded in public esteem,
964 4,48 | are ever full of sap and green, to show that the Lord is
965 2,18 | priest welcomes all with the greeting of the Apostle Paul: "The
966 Intro,3| weeds and the good grain grew together in the farmer's
967 2,27 | have abandoned the faith or grown lax in the Christian life.~
968 4,55 | and places, the permanent guarantee of the sacramental presence
969 Intro,3| each individual, and thus guides the mind towards solutions
970 3,41 | immediate, ordinary and habitual ways that lead to the Christian
971 1,15 | creator and redeemer, who has handed over the world to women
972 4,54 | person, the bearer of a handicap, or the suffering individual,
973 5,64 | magnanimity~you were the "handmaid of the Lord";~give us your
974 3,43 | Christ, whose labour with his hands at Nazareth greatly ennobled
975 3,43 | and the consequences of haphazard industrialization-three
976 5,61 | beauty of virtue"(217). This happened with Saint Paul, who was
977 5,64 | both women and men.~The happenings at the Synod have been a
978 1,14 | the Spirit, and even the hardships of life if patiently borne-all
979 3,38 | society; and they do more harm to those who practice them
980 4,54 | of their sufferings may hasten the fulfilment of the prayer
981 3,42 | ruling culture of egoism, hate, the vendetta and hostility,
982 3,38 | such as parents, teachers, healthworkers and the many who hold economic
983 3,38 | every condition, whether healthy or sick, whole or handicapped,
984 1,11 | Baptismal font, every Christian hears again the voice that was
985 5,63 | fear being pruned by the heavenly vinedresser can bear much
986 1,8 | planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit
987 4,51 | alone: let us make him a helper fit for him" (Gen 2:18).
988 5,64 | Enable us to do our part~in helping to establish on earth~the
989 4,55 | and wonderful variety of herbs, plants, flowers and fruits.
990 4,56 | is an error, or rather a heresy, to try to banish the devout
991 1,17 | holiness and new witnesses of heroic virtue lived in the ordinary
992 | hers
993 1,14 | in word and deed, without hesitating to courageously identify
994 5,60 | faithful) should also hold in high esteem professional skill,
995 Intro,3| is possible, however, to highlight some trends that are emerging
996 1,8 | vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it
997 4,51 | experience of motherhood. Man himself-husband and father-can be helped
998 4,51 | practice of virtue rather than hindering it. By so doing, they will
999 Intro,1| early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard.
1000 Intro,3| him, 'Because no one has hired us'. He said to them, 'You
1001 5,62 | In the present social and historical context which is marked
1002 5,64 | and of their vocation to holines in love, it receives expression
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