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1503 3,39 | immediately recognize how such a problem today has a world dimension:
1504 2,29 | external structures, in their procedures and training methods, and
1505 Intro,2| conclusion of their work, which proceeded with great commitment, competence
1506 Intro,2| contribution to the Synod proceedings. This was publicly acknowledged
1507 3,38 | working processes that govern procreation and the first phases of
1508 2,30 | readiness to participate in programmes and Church activities at
1509 3,43 | expressed symbolically by the prohibition not to 'eat of the fruit
1510 4,50 | the same time fulfilling a promise made in the Encyclical Redemptoris
1511 4,47 | and, even more, to them he promised the Kingdom of heaven (cf.
1512 4,56 | obedience through vows or promises, while fully maintaining
1513 2,26 | parish still enjoys a new and promising season. At the beginning
1514 Intro,2| give a glad, generous, and prompt response to the impulse
1515 1,14 | mission of Christ -Priest, Prophet-Teacher, King-continues in the Church.
1516 1,8 | the mystery of the Church, proposes again the image of the vine
1517 5,62 | This Synod"-we read in the proposition-"appeals to the prophetic
1518 Intro,2| small groups" to the final "Propositions" and the concluding "Message".
1519 3,33 | strengthen a person in the prospect and realization of new life
1520 3,38 | imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and
1521 5,59 | the occasions ordained by Providence for a "continuous exercise
1522 5,62 | near them as a loving and providential Father; while learning the
1523 5,61 | formation of Christians, by providing a consciousness and an experience
1524 2,25 | Churches of the ecclesiastical province or Episcopal Conference.~
1525 2,25 | local Councils, whether provincial or plenary, is envisioned
1526 5,63 | which does not fear being pruned by the heavenly vinedresser
1527 5,57 | that does bear fruit, he prunes that it may bear more fruit" (
1528 1,14 | St. Augustine offers for Psalm 26:"David was anointed king.
1529 4,48 | ways of application. As the Psalmist says: "They still bring
1530 Intro,2| Synod proceedings. This was publicly acknowledged in the concluding
1531 2,29 | citation from the recently published Code of Canon Law affirms
1532 5,58 | newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by
1533 4,56 | true, Philothea, that a purely contemplative, monastic
1534 3,44 | recognition and possible purification of the elements that critically
1535 3,44 | threat. She never ceases to purify and to elevate the morality
1536 3,43 | which -precisely for this purpose-possesses an intrinsic social function.
1537 Intro,6| society is increasingly pursued today as the way to make
1538 3,36 | Constitution Gaudium et Spes: "Pursuing the saving purpose which
1539 4,53 | who are the abandoned and pushed to the edges of our consumer
1540 4,49 | the human person and by putting the teaching of the Church
1541 Intro,2| there was not lacking a qualified representation of the lay
1542 4,51 | words of the Council just quoted point to an important field
1543 3,37 | is manifested in all its radiance when the person's origin
1544 3,34 | in which the faith might radiate and fulfill the basic meaning
1545 3,44 | people of the press, cinema, radio, television and theatre.
1546 1,16 | faithful of Christ of whatever rank or status are called to
1547 3,44 | because it is undergoing a rapid and innovative development
1548 Intro,3| world is indeed great and rapidly changing. For this reason
1549 Intro,2| October 1987, these words were re-echoed in spirit once again. Following
1550 Intro,2| And the Council Fathers, re-echoing the call of Christ, have
1551 5,61 | Christ the Teacher, and reaches to the depths of every individual'
1552 Intro,5| person must be pondered and reaffirmed in stronger. terms. A beneficial
1553 2,22 | These ministries express and realize a participation in the priesthood
1554 3,42 | individual because we are all really responsible for all"(154).~
1555 3,43 | In the socio-economic realm the dignity and total vocation
1556 5,62 | themselves to the work of rearing their children as a true
1557 4,56 | certain degree with greater reason-of the infinite number of ways
1558 3,35 | by those who for various reasons live in countries or surroundings
1559 2,27 | their parishes in order to reawaken missionary zeal towards
1560 2,30 | and sacramental life, the reawakening of vocations to Christian
1561 4,55 | witness and, in its own way recalling for priests, women and men
1562 3,44 | communication and their reception by the public demand both
1563 3,34 | carry inside, in the deepest recesses of their soul, in their
1564 1,12 | death so as to unite the recipient to his resurrection (cf.
1565 3,43 | future generations are the recipients of the Lord's gifts: "The
1566 5,63 | The Reciprocal Formation Received and Given
1567 3,40 | is an interdependence and reciprocity between the person and society:
1568 1,16 | Eucharist. Since Christians are reclothed in Christ Jesus and refreshed
1569 1,12 | is stripped away for a reclothing with "the new man", that
1570 3,44 | Evangelii Nuntiandi merit recollection here: "The Church evangelizes
1571 4,49 | among others, this precise "recommendation": "It is necessary that
1572 2,26 | given territory(96) and recommends to the bishop's care the
1573 2,23 | proprio Ministeria Quaedam be reconsidered, bearing in mind the present
1574 Intro,3| present-day society. The gospel records that the weeds and the good
1575 1,13 | release to captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to
1576 3,32 | Second Vatican Council, recurred with renewed clarity and
1577 4,51 | of Christ and his Church, recurs with continued urgency throughout
1578 3,37 | and likeness as well as redeemed by the most precious blood
1579 4,53 | associates you with his redeeming Passion. You are brought
1580 4,50 | promise made in the Encyclical Redemptoris Mater(186) and serving as
1581 3,40 | done in favour of society redounds to the benefit of the person.
1582 3,37 | individual can never be reduced by all that seeks to crush
1583 4,53 | consolation of Jesus Christ has reenacted the gospel parable of the
1584 1,12 | Spirit (cf. Jn 17:21). Jesus refers to this same unity in the
1585 3,44 | factors which go to the refining and developing of humanity'
1586 3,36 | but in some way casts the reflected light of that divine life
1587 1,16 | reclothed in Christ Jesus and refreshed by his Spirit, they are "
1588 4,48 | the temptation of taking refuge in a nostalgia in a never-to-return
1589 4,53 | migrants and prisoners, refugees, unemployed, abandoned children
1590 3,38 | disease in its beginnings, refusing on the contrary-even for
1591 2,28 | and admits no substitute. Regardless of circumstance, all lay
1592 1,10 | fundamental aspects: Baptism regenerates us in the life ot the Son
1593 4,56 | the devout life from the regiment of soldiers, the shop of
1594 2,25 | and men, at a national or regional level, so that they may
1595 1,14 | him, to that living stone, rejected by men but in God's sight
1596 3,44 | through a firm and courageous rejection of every form of monopoly
1597 Intro,2| the Synod we have not only rejoiced in the participation of
1598 3,41 | sign of love, and while she rejoices in the undertakings of others,
1599 2,20 | lively sense of fellowship, rejoicing in an equal dignity and
1600 4,46 | The Church must seek to rekindle the very special love displayed
1601 1,14 | their mental and physical relaxation, if carried out in the Spirit,
1602 1,13 | has sent me to proclaim release to captives and recovering
1603 2,27 | authoritatively places it in relief: "The parish offers an outstanding
1604 3,41 | and mutual aid intended to relieve human needs of every kind,
1605 3,42 | lay faithful are never to relinquish their participation in "
1606 1,8 | Jn 3:5), and called to relive the very communion of God
1607 4,52 | Church should even more fully rely on the riches found here"(
1608 3,35 | This should be done by relying on every appropriate means,
1609 3,34 | what is needed is to first remake the Christian fabric of
1610 4,51 | by their combined efforts remedy the institutions and conditions
1611 4,48 | insupportable burden. I remind older people that the Church
1612 4,47 | Children are a continual reminder that the missionary fruitfulness
1613 2,20 | and forms of service and reminding them, as he reminds all
1614 3,33 | people who are perhaps far removed from it; they earnestly
1615 3,44 | humanity; it combats and removes the error and evil which
1616 3,43 | the things of nature, the renewability of resources and the consequences
1617 3,39 | daughters give reason for renewing the pursuit of a holy and
1618 2,31 | employing new forms, cannot renounce the service provided by
1619 3,38 | afflicts the world, she replies with this living 'Yes',
1620 Intro,2| Laboris, from the introductory report, the presentations of individual
1621 Intro,2| not lacking a qualified representation of the lay faithful, both
1622 2,23 | Christian powers which are often repressed and buried, the more these
1623 2,31 | continues to resound as a reproach to those who are "wounding
1624 2,19 | history of salvation and has reproposed the image of the Church
1625 4,50 | serving as a response to the request of the Synod Fathers.~May
1626 Intro,2| to me their desires and requested that at an opportune time,
1627 4,50 | and clarify the values and requirements that belong to the enduring
1628 4,50 | human sciences and cultures, researchers because of an informed discernment,
1629 2,21 | who gives himself without reserve for the salvation of all (
1630 4,50 | theological foundations for resolving questions about the true
1631 Intro,6| time a new and significant resonance: entire populations today
1632 Intro,3| voice of the Lord clearly resounds in the depths of each of
1633 3,44 | sustained by more adequate resource materials, both intellectual
1634 4,52 | reverence for motherhood must be respectively restored"(197), and still
1635 1,15 | especially in this way of life, resplendent in faith, hope and charity
1636 4,51 | to distinguish what truly responds to her dignity as a person
1637 3,34 | constitutes the only fully valid response-consciously perceived and stated by
1638 4,51 | partial fulfilment of parental responsibilities-indeed he can be involved in new
1639 5,59 | situation, every precise responsibility-as, for example, skill and
1640 3,42 | felt today as a pressing responsibility-the lay faithful must bear witness
1641 Intro,4| Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you"(
1642 3,39 | people who, despite their restricted liberty, live as tireless
1643 2,29 | received a special stimulus, resulting in the birth and spread
1644 Intro,4| they forget God, or simply retain him without meaning in their
1645 3,35 | to the particular Church retains all its value, even demanding
1646 4,48 | worldwide and the expected retirement of persons from various
1647 Intro,5| the person always keeps returning, again and again.~The sense
1648 4,51 | be read. Furthermore the revised Code of Canon Law contains
1649 4,51 | deeper understanding and a richer realization of human and
1650 3,38 | made on behalf of human rights-for example, the right to health,
1651 1,11 | only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Rising from the waters of the Baptismal
1652 5,61 | again some elements from the Rite of Christian Initiation
1653 3,34 | externals of its tradition and rituals, tends to be separated from
1654 1,11 | the banks of the Jordan River: "You are my beloved Son;
1655 2,26 | pontificate, Paul VI addressed the Roman clergy in these words: "
1656 1,9 | In Christ who died and rose from the dead, the baptized
1657 2,22 | Hierarchy (65)-to form and to rule the priestly people. The
1658 2,29 | have the right to found and run such associations and to
1659 3,34 | and spiritual patrimony runs the risk of being dispersed
1660 2,25 | the needs of cities and rural areas are to be met, lay
1661 2,19 | Christ in the Holy Eucharist sacramentalizes this communion, that is,
1662 2,23 | without in any way losing or sacrificing their human content but
1663 4,51 | which are associated with safeguarding the basic duty to human
1664 4,56 | spiritual vocation can also be said-and to a certain degree with
1665 4,56 | taken from Saint Francis de Sales, who promoted lay spirituality
1666 2,24 | apostolate the Holy Spirit who sanctifies the People of God through
1667 1,15 | the influence of sin and sanctify themselves in marriage or
1668 4,50 | receive his salvific and sanctifying 'visits'"(187).~
1669 1,9 | belong to a religious state sanctioned by the Church. Through Baptism
1670 2,19 | Catechism that speaks of the sanctorum communionem, 'the Communion
1671 4,48 | age, they are ever full of sap and green, to show that
1672 4,46 | Gospel as the unique and satisfying response to the most deep-seated
1673 1,13 | Jesus as the Christ, the Saviour-Messiah.~
1674 4,52 | lament the absence or the scarcity of the presence of men,
1675 1,17 | faith behold a wonderful scene: that of a countless number
1676 1,8 | the Vine ~8. The Sacred Scriptures use the image of the vine
1677 1,13 | anoints" the baptized, sealing each with an indelible character (
1678 2,26 | enjoys a new and promising season. At the beginning of his
1679 4,51 | decisive intervention of woman.~Secondly, women have the task of
1680 2,26 | crowded and chaotic modern sections of cities. The parish is
1681 2,25 | communication no longer allow any sector of society to remain closed
1682 3,34 | secularization and the spread of sects. Only a re-evangelization
1683 Intro,5| some of its atheistic and secularistic forms arrive at a point
1684 3,34 | of processes, including secularization and the spread of sects.
1685 2,29 | On the other hand, in a secularized world, above all, the various
1686 1,15 | particular vocation of "seeking the Kingdom of God by engaging
1687 | seems
1688 2,31 | ecclesial authority can select and promote in a particular
1689 4,48 | lack of understanding by a self-centered society, you are not to
1690 4,56 | stirs up other forms of self-giving to which people who remain
1691 4,49 | sell, as an instrument for selfish interests or for pleasure
1692 3,38 | Against the pessimism and selfishness which casts a shadow over
1693 4,49 | as an object to buy and sell, as an instrument for selfish
1694 3,38 | slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children, degrading
1695 3,35 | the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest!" (
1696 4,51 | according to the diverse sensibilities of culture and opportuneness
1697 5,59 | the grave consequences in separating faith from life, and the
1698 4,53 | and dissipates the soul's serenity is far from dispensing a
1699 Intro,5| of human beings have been seriously afflicted.~But the sacredness
1700 3,43 | Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, is the seriousness of present problems as they
1701 5,58 | Jesus, addressed to the servants at Cana: "Do whatever he
1702 3,41 | man who "came not to be served but to serve" (Mk 10:45).
1703 4,46 | will provide a favorable setting for the meeting and exchange
1704 | several
1705 3,38 | selfishness which casts a shadow over the world, the Church
1706 2,27 | environments, is violently shaken by elements of disintegration
1707 | shall
1708 3,42 | feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes
1709 4,51 | well as a man-is made a sharer in the threefold mission
1710 1,12 | Jn 15:5), an image that sheds light not only on the deep
1711 2,19 | one another. There is the sheepfold, the flock, the vine, the
1712 3,32 | their exalted office to be shepherds of the lay faithful and
1713 5,59 | that they may therefore shirk their earthly responsibilities;
1714 4,56 | regiment of soldiers, the shop of the mechanic, the court
1715 3,41 | Eucharistic Supper, and thus showed herself to be wholly united
1716 1,14 | the Lord: in fact, Jesus showers his gifts upon the Church
1717 4,53 | call becomes the living signof Jesus Christ and his Church
1718 2,26 | find themselves today. In a similar way there exist in the areas
1719 Intro,3| generalizations and unwarranted simplifications. It is possible, however,
1720 5,62 | commandment is enfleshed. The simultaneous presence of clergy, the
1721 5,60 | honesty, a spirit of justice, sincerity, courtesy, moral courage;
1722 2,31 | the Synod Fathers have singled out various movements and
1723 1,11 | 4:4-7) and a brother or sister of Christ. In this way the
1724 4,45 | person grows in strength. The sixth hour is adulthood, the sun
1725 3,42 | the least justify either skepticism or an absence on the part
1726 4,53 | medical arts as well as the skilled and generous service of
1727 3,33 | and offer their special skills to make the care of souls
1728 4,45 | is in the middle of the sky, indeed at this age the
1729 3,38 | technology, and not become their slaves ... In view of the moral
1730 3,35 | makes the world increasingly smaller, the Church community ought
1731 2,29 | all of them in the Church'smission of carrying forth the Gospel
1732 3,39 | purpose of the whole of socíety itself is geared to the
1733 2,29 | pluralistic and fragmented society-the case in so many parts of
1734 4,51 | the socio-economic to the sociopolitical dimension, the personal
1735 4,56 | life from the regiment of soldiers, the shop of the mechanic,
1736 3,44 | when she seeks to convert, solely through the divine power
1737 5,57 | care of his vine. God's solicitude is so ardently called upon
1738 3,40 | to the married couple and solidity to the family (Mt 19:3-9).
1739 3,40 | God did not create man a solitary being. From the beginning '
1740 Intro,3| guides the mind towards solutions which are fully human"(6).~
1741 2,27 | be examined together and solved through general discussion.
1742 2,27 | mention of examining and solving pastoral problems "by general
1743 | someone
1744 | something
1745 | Sometimes
1746 4,54 | when sickness and suffering sorely test not only faith in life
1747 4,54 | salvific meaning of their sorrow and valid answers to all
1748 4,54 | Redeemer of Man', the Man of Sorrows, who has taken upon himself
1749 3,33 | skills to make the care of souls and the administration of
1750 4,51 | Christ, totally free and sovereign, who called only men to
1751 5,60 | catechetical instruction and in specialized gatherings, as well as in
1752 2,28 | Church as a whole, come specially addressed to each member
1753 3,38 | biological essence of the human species, it is of utmost importance
1754 3,42 | Constitution Gaudium et Spes-"exists for that common good
1755 2,30 | various communities and spheres of life"(115).~From this
1756 2,24 | ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds
1757 4,48 | life which is humanly and spiritually fruitful. You still have
1758 3,38 | human life she sees the splendour of that 'Yes', that 'Amen',
1759 2,27 | and missionary undertaking sponsored by their own ecclesial family"(
1760 3,41 | diverse ways, from those spontaneous and informal to those more
1761 Intro,6| cf. Gen 11:1-9), which spreads confusion, struggle, disintegration
1762 3,40 | threaten to make these very springs of life dry up. Furthermore,
1763 2,29 | and new sodalities have sprouted, with a specific feature
1764 2,31 | indeed, in this organic and stable form, the lay faithful may
1765 3,42 | society finds its basic standard in the pursuit of the common
1766 5,62 | faithful be correct from the standpoint of service to an individual
1767 4,45 | ninth hour, because the sun starts its descent from the height
1768 3,37 | enlightening and stirring statement about the individual: value
1769 4,47 | emphasized this fact in stating that "children and young
1770 2,21 | manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (
1771 1,17 | vineyard. Confident and steadfast through the power of God'
1772 2,23 | Church only as spiritual steps on route to the ordained
1773 4,56 | apostle Peter gives us a stern warning: "As each has received
1774 2,23 | had such a great part in stimulating the varied collaboration
1775 Intro,2| This Exhortation intends to stir and promote a deeper awareness
1776 5,57 | regard for this vine, / the stock which your right hand has
1777 4,54 | Mary, Mother of Christ, who stood beneath the Cross, we pause
1778 4,55 | the Church, that is, the straining towards the Kingdom of God
1779 3,42 | remain indifferent or be strangers and inactive in the face
1780 3,44 | milieux which are theirs. Strata of humanity are transformed:
1781 3,33 | activity of the Church... Strengthened by their active participation
1782 3,36 | by the way in which she strengthens the bonds of human society,
1783 5,60 | doctrine, as repeatedly stressed by the Synod Fathers in
1784 3,38 | the face of these gigantic strides accomplished by a technology
1785 Intro,4| de-Christianization that strikes long-standing Christian
1786 5,61 | People, as it states in the striking passage of the Song of Moses: "
1787 1,12 | 6:3-5). The "old man" is stripped away for a reclothing with "
1788 4,53 | our attention to all those struck down by sickness in its
1789 Intro,6| which spreads confusion, struggle, disintegration and oppression.
1790 5,62 | women religious, offers students a vivid image of the Church
1791 3,38 | people's consciences and life styles, thereby worsening the condition
1792 3,38 | against human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary
1793 2,24 | person from reference and submission to the Pastors of the Church.
1794 1,15 | relationships arise, willingly submitting himself to the laws of his
1795 2,23 | baptized participate, and the substantial diversity of the ministry
1796 5,62 | always necessary and without substitution-is no longer enough. What is
1797 2,22 | Christ, in uninterrupted succession from the apostles, through
1798 4,49 | earliest days and in her successive development the Church,
1799 5,61 | of the lay faithful. As successor of Saint Peter, he has the
1800 2,20 | Consequently, if one member suffers anything, all the members
1801 2,19 | cannot be interpreted in a sufficient way if it is understood
1802 Intro,2| experience, their advice and the suggestions they have offered out of
1803 3,38 | euthanasia and willful suicide; all violations of the integrity
1804 2,26 | with the whole Church. Such suitableness is rooted in the fact that
1805 5,62 | order that the school can suitably fulfill its natural function
1806 2,26 | is a community properly suited for celebrating the Eucharist,
1807 3,42 | common good embraces the sum total of all those conditions
1808 2,19 | Constitution Lumen Gentium summarizes this doctrine in a wonderful
1809 Intro,2| the call of Christ, have summoned all the lay faithful, both
1810 1,14 | appreciation of the Church's supernatural faith, that "cannot err
1811 2,24 | the Spirit who abundantly supplies them, and as a response
1812 4,54 | all of you who suffer to support us. We ask precisely you
1813 Intro,2| twenty years, has taken on a surprisingly contemporary character and
1814 4,54 | activity must be capable of sustaining and fostering attention,
1815 3,43 | Creator himself and expressed symbolically by the prohibition not to '
1816 1,12 | Florence teaches(17).~Baptism symbolizes and brings about a mystical
1817 2,30 | is proclaimed as well as taught in its total content.~-
1818 Intro,5| inhumane systems, scientific technocracy or the intrusiveness of
1819 3,44 | the press, cinema, radio, television and theatre. These also
1820 1,15 | also and above all, they tell of the radical newness and
1821 5,58 | at Cana: "Do whatever he tells you" (Jn 2:5). However,
1822 1,8 | tower and let it out to tenants and went into another country" (
1823 4,47 | object of the Lord Jesus' tender and generous love. To them
1824 3,34 | its tradition and rituals, tends to be separated from those
1825 3,37 | injustice, not so much for the tensions and the conflicts that can
1826 2,23 | and with a more precise terminology(75), both the unity of the
1827 4,54 | Church and humanity. In the terrible battle between the forces
1828 5,61 | especially if vast and territorially extensive, small Church
1829 2,26 | might be scattered over vast territories or almost not to be found
1830 3,40 | coordinated.~As experience testifies, whole civilizations and
1831 2,21 | and other New Testament texts indicate the diversity of
1832 5,64 | joining you in your hymn of thankfulness and love.~With you we give
1833 3,44 | cinema, radio, television and theatre. These also are called to
1834 4,54 | a hard reality of life. Thegood news is the proclamation
1835 4,47 | Church. John Gerson, a great theologian and educator of the 15th
1836 3,34 | they are led into despair. Therefore-with humility and trust I beg
1837 3,38 | defence and the promotion of therights of the human person. It
1838 4,53 | Spirit in much affliction" (1 Thes 1:6) and witnesses to Jesus'
1839 2,24 | fast to what is good (cf. 1 Thess 5:12 and 19-21)"(82), so
1840 5,59 | seek one which is to come, think that they may therefore
1841 5,64 | and responsible part of thisventure, called as they are to proclaim
1842 3,42 | organizations can achieve more thoroughly their own fulfilment"(151).
1843 2,21 | coresponsible.~We now turn our thoughts to ministries and charisms
1844 3,38 | as a "culture of death" threatens to take control. In fact, "
1845 3,40 | decisively realized as the threats to the stability and fruitfulness
1846 5,57 | the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned" (
1847 Intro,3| people of our time. For faith throws a new light on all things
1848 4,49 | Col 4:15 and 1 Cor 11:5; 1 Tim 5:16). "If the witness of
1849 3,42 | person"(152).At the same time-and this is felt today as a
1850 4,51 | be realized with greater timeliness and determination.~An example
1851 4,46 | reason the Church does not tire of proclaiming Jesus Christ,
1852 5,64 | faithful, never to become tired of maintaining-indeed always
1853 3,39 | restricted liberty, live as tireless witnesses of faith in faithful
1854 1,16 | The apostle Paul never tires of admonishing all Christians
1855 1,8 | Jesus says, "you will know tkat I am in my Father and you
1856 2,31 | that you have sent me" (Tn 17:21). In such a way communion
1857 2,23 | positive elements, about a too-indiscriminate use of the word "ministry",
1858 3,38 | men are treated as mere tools for profit rather than free
1859 Intro,4| Human longing and the need tor religion, however, are not
1860 3,40 | the anti-birth campaign, totalitarian politics, situations of
1861 3,39 | freedom, inasmuch as it touches the most intimate sphere
1862 Intro,2| he sends them into every town and place where he himself
1863 3,36 | for the Church, the way traced out by Christ himself, the
1864 3,34 | even if coexistent with a tragic situation of poverty and
1865 2,29 | in their procedures and training methods, and in the fields
1866 3,43 | In the context of the tranformations taking place in the world
1867 3,42 | and the safeguard of the transcendental dimension of the human person"(
1868 3,37 | the value of one person transcends all the material world.
1869 2,23 | this way there is a natural transition from an effective involvement
1870 Intro,2| expressed by the Council can be translated into authentic Church "practice".
1871 4,51 | places of great importance in transmitting the faith and offering every
1872 1,8 | like a vine in a vineyard transplanted by the water, fruitful and
1873 3,36 | route that the Church must travel in fulfilling her mission:
1874 2,20 | to fruition the immense treasure that each has inherited.
1875 2,20 | behalf of communion. They are treasures that complement one another
1876 3,44 | Christian faith. The extensive treatment by the Second Vatican Council
1877 3,43 | eat of the fruit of the tree' (cf. Gen 2:16-17) shows
1878 Intro,3| however, to highlight some trends that are emerging in present-day
1879 Intro,3| Moved by this faith it tries to discern authentic signs
1880 4,46 | of nature. But they are troubled by anxiety, deceptions,
1881 1,17 | Saint Maximus, Bishop of Turin, in addressing those who
1882 4,49 | to the apostolate of the Twelve, and thereby, to the ministerial
1883 2,28 | associations) are called to this type of apostolate and obliged
1884 2,31 | apostolate provides for different types of relationships with the
1885 4,50 | change; these find their ultimate foundation in Christ, who
1886 3,37 | and communion are rooted ultimately in what people "are", first
1887 1,17 | far from view and quite unacclaimed by the world, unknown to
1888 2,26 | Christian Faithful, even the unbaptized who are not under his ordinary
1889 Intro,5| count the number of babies unborn because they have been killed
1890 2,20 | In order that we might be unceasingly renewed in him (cf. Eph
1891 3,34 | heart. Too often people are uncertain about a sense of life on
1892 1,13 | Christ.~With this spiritual "unction", Christians can repeat
1893 1,11 | inheritance which is imperishable, undefiled and unfading"( 1 Pt 1:3-
1894 4,48 | feel yourselves as persons underestimated in the life of the Church
1895 2,31 | faced with possible and understandable difficulties as a result
1896 2,30 | freedom to associate, that one understands the necessity of having
1897 5,64 | of the many initiatives~undertaken for good,~the great yearning
1898 3,41 | while she rejoices in the undertakings of others, she claims works
1899 Intro,5| participation, which is undoubtedly one of the distinctive features
1900 3,38 | physical and mental torture, undue psychological pressures;
1901 4,53 | and prisoners, refugees, unemployed, abandoned children and
1902 3,43 | serious problems of growing unemployment; to fight for the most opportune
1903 3,39 | basic rights. Those forms of unequal development among the so-called
1904 1,11 | imperishable, undefiled and unfading"( 1 Pt 1:3-4). And he calls
1905 5,58 | 3). However, only in the unfolding of the history of our lives
1906 3,37 | especially those forms which unfortunately continue to divide and degrade
1907 3,40 | together with forms of uninterest and indifference, dare to
1908 2,22 | from the Risen Christ, in uninterrupted succession from the apostles,
1909 3,42 | various groups, from labour unions to political parties. All
1910 5,64 | secular character" which is "uniquely and properly" theirs.~Besides
1911 2,25 | essential and constant bond uniting each of them and this is
1912 2,27 | and draws them into the universality of the Church. The lay faithful
1913 1,14 | Christ, Lord and King of the Universe, they share in his kingly
1914 3,44 | of education-school and university-in places of scientific and
1915 1,17 | unacclaimed by the world, unknown to the world's great personages
1916 4,55 | of them has a basic and unmistakable character which sets each
1917 4,48 | oftentimes unjustly considered as unproductive, if not directly an insupportable
1918 5,64 | the Lord";~give us your unreserved willingness~for service
1919 4,51 | Gaudium et Spes, which remain unresolved and not at all affected
1920 Intro,3| problems and values, its unrest and hopes, its defeats and
1921 3,42 | solidarity, faithful and unselfish dedication for the good
1922 Intro,5| violated because it has its unshakable foundation in God as Creator
1923 Intro,6| the other hand, totally unsupressible is that human longing experienced
1924 4,56 | is to be hidden or left unused (cf. Mt 25:24-27).~In this
1925 2,26 | the living source for its upbuilding and the sacramental bond
1926 4,48 | to show that the Lord is upright" (Ps 92:15-16). I repeat
1927 5,62 | professional competence and uprightness, their Christian inspired
1928 3,34 | are not less worrying and upsetting when compared with declared
1929 2,26 | established in regions affécted by urban progress or in missionary
1930 5,64 | Exhortation, then, intends to urge the most abundant possible
1931 3,34 | Christian fabric of society is urgently needed in all parts of the
1932 2,28 | it. Such an apostolate is useful at all times and places,
1933 2,24 | directly or indirectly, a usefulness for the ecclesial community,
1934 1,8 | the symbol of the vine and uses it to illustrate various
1935 | using
1936 3,38 | human species, it is of utmost importance that lay Christians
1937 Intro,4| their own the words of truth uttered by Saint Augustine: "You
1938 5 | CHAPTER V~THAT YOU BEAR MUCH FRUIT~
1939 3,42 | solidarity "is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress
1940 4,54 | always must come to be more valued and enriched through renewal
1941 3,36 | himself, the way that leads in variably through the mystery of the
1942 3,34 | perceived and stated by all in varying degrees-to the problems
1943 3,42 | culture of egoism, hate, the vendetta and hostility, and thereby
1944 2,26 | simply that this old and venerable structure of the parish
1945 3,38 | respecting, even remaining in veneration of, the inviolable dignity
1946 3,37 | human being cries out in vengeance to God and is an offence
1947 5,64 | missionary endeavour. A great venture, both challenging and wonderful,
1948 2,30 | at this time find their verification in the actual fruits that
1949 Intro,2| Fathers have been able to verify how the Holy Spirit continues
1950 Intro,5| that these forms become a veritable and real idolatry. There
1951 2,29 | is the richness and the versatility of resources that the Holy
1952 3,34 | and capable of fostering a viable and working community of
1953 3,37 | the individual who is the victim of the injustice, but still
1954 4,54 | with the Cross of Christ be victorious"(202).~
1955 3,32 | renewed clarity and increased vigor in all the works of the
1956 4,49 | women are the victims: "Vigorous and incisive pastoral action
1957 2,27 | fond of saying, to be the "village fountain" to which all would
1958 1,8 | and planted it with choice vines ..."((Is 5:1-2).~Jesus himself
1959 3,37 | God. For this reason every violation of the personal dignity
1960 1,16 | nature of Jesus in Mary's virginal womb (cf. Lk 1:35) is the
1961 5,60 | and civic spirit, and the virtues related to social behaviour,
1962 3,42 | and efficiency, can make "virtuous" or "above criticism" the
1963 4,50 | salvific and sanctifying 'visits'"(187).~
1964 5,62 | religious, offers students a vivid image of the Church and
1965 4,52 | Together with Women~52. Many voices were raised in the Synod
1966 Intro,6| institutional forms and those of a voluntary nature in service to the
1967 4,53 | other healthcare workers, volunteers-that the call becomes the living
1968 4,47 | and become like children. vou will never enter the Kingdom
1969 2,28 | individual, great riches are waiting to be discovered through
1970 1,14 | Christ is formed"(19).~In the wake of the Second Vatican Council(
1971 3,36 | in mind, then, the Church walks and lives, intimately bound
1972 3,43 | doctrine of the Church. I warmly desire to again refer its
1973 4,56 | apostle Peter gives us a stern warning: "As each has received a
1974 2,23 | necessity of the Church warrants it and when ministers are
1975 1,9 | Gal 6:15; 2 Cor 5:17), washed clean from sin and brought
1976 Intro,2| labourers in the vineyard: "Keep watch over your manner of life,
1977 Intro,3| necessary, then, to keep a watchful eye on this our world, with
1978 3,39 | fruitful the more it is watered by the blood of martyrs"(
1979 1,11 | Christ. Rising from the waters of the Baptismal font, every
1980 4,53 | vineyard: the weight that wearies the body's members and dissipates
1981 4,55 | elsewhere the rich harvest of weddings blessed by the Church fills
1982 4,50 | catechetical reflections of the Wednesday General Audiences devoted
1983 Intro,3| gospel records that the weeds and the good grain grew
1984 4,53 | the Lord's vineyard: the weight that wearies the body's
1985 2,27 | a word, to be a house of welcome to all and a place of service
1986 2,18 | Eucharist, when the priest welcomes all with the greeting of
1987 | Whoever
1988 3,41 | thus showed herself to be wholly united around Christ by
1989 3,41 | needs-oftentimes today so serious and widespread-of entire populations. Paradoxically
1990 4,56 | servant, the prince, the widow, the maid and the married
1991 4,52 | love between husband and wife and between members of the
1992 5,61 | the howling waste of the wilderness; / he encircled him, he
1993 3,38 | abortion, euthanasia and willful suicide; all violations
1994 1,15 | social relationships arise, willingly submitting himself to the
1995 3,33 | evangelization. Through the winding passages of history the
1996 4,55 | abundant produce, and the wine-presses of the Lord Jesus overflow
1997 1,8 | it, and dug a pit for the winepress, and built a tower and let
1998 5,61 | young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing
1999 3,39 | every people that truly wishes to assure the good of the
2000 3,35 | re-evangelization, the Church cannot withdraw from her ongoing mission
2001 5,57 | cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered,
2002 3,33 | by name; no disciple can withhold making a response: "Woe
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