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Chapter, Paragraph
501 1,2 | numerous places and on various occasions, confirming and extending
502 2,4 | first place is seen to be occupied by the category of possessing,
503 6,14 | as consecrated persons, occupy a special place both in
504 3,8 | Romans, just quoted: "to offer your bodies as a sacrifice."(36)
505 3,8 | redemptive. For love He offered Himself, for love He gave
506 7,16 | which the present Holy Year offers a continuous opportunity
507 5,13 | the prayer in Gethsemane onwards, Christ's readiness to do
508 3,8 | knowledge of belonging to Christ open your hearts, thoughts and
509 3,8 | power of the Spirit of Truth operating from the abundance of the
510 7,16 | Year offers a continuous opportunity and a welcome encouragement.
511 6,14 | death; everything that is opposed to true love of God and
512 4,10 | another place: "Though our outer nature is wasting away,
513 4,9 | at the same time tends to overcome in the world everything
514 4,9 | deliberately speaking here of an overcoming as a transformation, for
515 2,6 | itself a gift! It is a gift overflowing with the deepest content
516 5,12 | enrichment unfolds in the pages of the Gospel, finding its
517 6,15(102)| activity: cf. Canon 675, par. 3.~
518 4,9 | the poor to a meal,(45) to pardon always(46) and many other
519 4,10 | Participation in the Self-emptying of
520 5,11 | bring into the midst of this passing world the announcement of
521 5,13 | zenith in the face of the passion and cross: "Father, if it
522 6,14 | Magisterium of Peter and of the pastors in communion with him, fostering,
523 2,6 | mystery of the Redemption penetrates the consciousness, heart
524 2,4 | perfection was in a certain way perceived by thinkers and moralists
525 7,16 | abides in us and his love is perfected in us."(106) May this witness
526 6,15 | apostolic works that you perform are extremely important,
527 2,4 | afterwards, in the different periods of history. But the biblical
528 2,3 | believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."(8)
529 2,3 | were ransomed...not with perishable things such as silver or
530 2,4 | elements that make man man, permeating this humanity-which in various
531 7,17 | Jesus Christ our Lord."(111) Persevering in fidelity to Him who is
532 2,5 | question: Why be a human person-and how? This answer adds a
533 7,16 | this road in the present phase of the history of the Church
534 4,9 | Against the background of the phrases taken from the first letter
535 5,13 | counsel of obedience are placed in a unique way between
536 3,8 | evangelical consecration has been planted as a particular sign of
537 5,11 | affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord,"(61) and "the
538 5,13 | for I always do what is pleasing to him."(77) "For I have
539 1,1 | it is that "with him is plenteous redemption": copiosa apud
540 7,17 | Redemption, 1984, the sixth of my Pontificate. ~
541 5,12 | paschal event; Christ, the poorest in His death on the cross,
542 7,16(107)| Pope Paul VI, Apostolic Exhortation
543 2,4 | occupied by the category of possessing, of "having," and to accept
544 2,5 | he discovers that those possessions and the comforts he enjoyed
545 6,15 | your love for the Church pour forth! ~
546 6,14 | Redemption "God's love has been poured out into our hearts through
547 3,8 | essentially to contemplation are a powerful aid and a stimulating support
548 6,14 | this way the Apostle Paul prayed in his letter to the Philippians, "
549 6,14 | the same time the Church prays for you, that your witness
550 2,5 | give" seem to lay down the precondition of a vocation. Nevertheless,
551 3,8 | to the Father: "You have prepared a body for me.... Lo, I
552 6,14 | recently received or are preparing to receive the Church's
553 5,13 | the written scroll it is prescribed for me. To do your will,
554 3,8 | a particular sign of the presence of God for whom all live,(40)
555 3,7 | Christ Himself-Prophet, Priest and King-a mission in which
556 4,9 | the words spoken in the priestly prayer to the Father: "I
557 5,11 | obedience seem to emphasize primarily the aspect of redemptive
558 5,13 | reality is inscribed in a primary and constitutive way the
559 5,11 | let him receive it."(57) Prior to this Christ had emphasized: "
560 6,15 | you are, may the truth be proclaimed and reconfirmed that "Christ
561 5,12 | your life this salvific profile of the poverty of Christ.
562 5,11 | chastity which each of you has promised by vow, together with poverty
563 5,12 | poverty. Therefore it can be properly understood only by the poor,
564 3,8 | He once spoke through the prophet Isaiah: ~"Fear not, for
565 6,14 | provided for by the Motu Proprio Ecclesiae sanctae, your
566 6,14 | your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God,
567 2,3(9) | 1 Pt. 1:18-19. ~
568 5,13 | as my Predecessor Paul VI puts it in the Apostolic Exhortation
569 2,6 | Christ, who "looks upon" His questioner "with love," the strong
570 7,16 | leaving behind them the bright radiance of God's light against the
571 3,8 | through faith stand within the radius of these words.~Are we not
572 5,13 | and to give his life as a ransom for many."(84) And His Mother,
573 2,3 | profound emotion: "You were ransomed...not with perishable things
574 3,8 | and from that depth it reaches the human soul. By virtue
575 5,13 | Gethsemane onwards, Christ's readiness to do the will of the Father
576 4,10 | the possibility of being reborn each day to a more profound
577 2,6 | Spirit, who continually "recalls" to new people, men and
578 | recent
579 2,3 | of brothers or sisters, recognized and approved by the Church.
580 6,15 | truth be proclaimed and reconfirmed that "Christ loved the Church
581 1,1 | redemption": copiosa apud eum redemptio.(2) ~
582 2,3 | deserves to be carefully reflected upon, for they present the
583 4,10 | things, and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain
584 6,14 | observance of the Church's norms regarding also the outward manifestation
585 6,15 | fundamental work of the apostolate remains always what (and at the
586 5,13 | according to your word."(85) ~Remember also, dear brothers and
587 6,14 | generosity and fidelity, remembering that obedience is an unambiguous
588 3,8 | these words.~Are we not reminded of this by the other words
589 5,13 | will of the Father also reminds us of that messianic confession
590 4,10 | chastity, poverty and obedience renders the human soul particularly
591 2,4 | person He is addressing to renounce a program of life in which
592 6,15 | Of each one of you can be repeated, with special appropriateness,
593 2,3 | secret of your heart. You replied to that look by choosing
594 2,6 | eternal life?"(22) Through the reply of Christ, who "looks upon"
595 4,9 | to comply with all the requests and desires of our neighbor,(44)
596 5,13 | consecrating yourselves without reserve to God through the profession
597 5,12 | evangelical blessedness reserved for the poor, (69) for the
598 5,12 | comparable with any other resource of material goods, a source
599 4,9 | inheritance of original sin, as a result of which the relationship
600 7,16 | Spirit-through Christ's cross and resurrection-"having the eyes of your
601 1,1 | anniversary of the crucifixion and resurrection-at the same time it is the
602 5,13 | one. At the same time they retain the authority proper to
603 2,3 | world. The Father's love was revealed in the Son as redeeming
604 4,9 | with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. . .
605 5,12 | Evangelical poverty reveals to the eyes of the human
606 2,4 | of the internal logic of Revelation, according to which man
607 2,5 | treasure is not so much a "reward" after death for the good
608 7,16 | called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance
609 3,8 | with Him, and continually rise with Him to a new life.
610 3,8 | heart waste away,~God is the rock of my heart~and my portion
611 5,13 | desire to find their own role in the Redemption of Christ
612 4,9 | God and given to man to be ruled by him,(49) was disfigured
613 5,13 | do this joyfully, and not sadly, for that would be of no
614 3,8 | that not even the greatest saint can repeat the words of
615 4,9 | of the entire economy of salvation. Everything in the Gospel
616 6,14 | the Motu Proprio Ecclesiae sanctae, your institutes have recently
617 5,13 | Christ and their own way of sanctification.~This is the way which Christ
618 2,5 | losing one's life in order to save it, and on the other hand
619 5,11 | all men can receive this saying, but only those to whom
620 5,13 | decide-as the Council says-to follow Christ "who, by an
621 1,2 | educational institutions, schools or universities-in fact,
622 5,13 | I come; in the written scroll it is prescribed for me.
623 2,3 | Christ's "loving look" in the secret of your heart. You replied
624 3,7(25) | Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes, Essential Elements
625 | seems
626 3,8 | every person whom the Lord selects from the midst of this people;
627 4,10 | in whom there are joined self- emptying through death and
628 5,13 | pride of life," with all the selfish tendencies to dominate rather
629 2,5 | follow Him. When a person "sells what he possesses" and "
630 4,10 | human soul particularly sensitive. The entire economy of Redemption
631 6,15 | Through each of the institutes separately and through their organic
632 2,5 | sequi-to follow, hence sequela Christi). The terms "go...
633 2,5 | the footsteps of Christ (sequi-to follow, hence sequela Christi).
634 6,14 | is contrary to life and serves sin and death; everything
635 2,4 | constitutes as it were a wider setting for the ideal of evangelical
636 3,8(39) | Cf. Sg. 8:6.~
637 | shall
638 2,6 | way of perfection takes shape from Him and through Him
639 3,8 | radical way possible, in the shaping of that "new creation"(41)
640 7,17 | to God, she is the first. She-the Virgin of Nazareth-is also
641 2,4 | been contaminated by sin, showing the perfection which the
642 2,3 | choosing the way that He has shown you. ~
643 6,14 | the evangelical counsels shows each of you how with the
644 5,13 | find on this theme a very significant indication: "Obey your leaders
645 2,3 | perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious
646 3,7 | Jesus Christ."~In this way, simultaneously with the profession of the
647 2,4 | various ways is burdened by sin-with the divine and human leaven
648 2,6 | searching with truth and sincerity.~Thus the call to the way
649 5,13 | this "place" with all the sinful background of their own
650 5,13 | disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience
651 2,6 | be the expiation for our sins."(24) ~
652 7,17 | the Redemption, 1984, the sixth of my Pontificate. ~
653 3,7 | death "freedom from the slavery of sin." Above all, though,
654 7,17 | more reason do you find her so-you as consecrated individuals
655 6,15 | her pastoral and maternal solicitude, with regard to the spiritual
656 | some
657 5,13 | This obedience of the Son-full of joy-reaches its zenith
658 4,9 | everything that has its sources in the lust of the flesh;
659 4,10 | brothers and sisters, a wide space for the "new creation"(52)
660 3,8 | to a new life. The Lord speaks to each of you, just as
661 2,4 | clearly bring us into the sphere of the evangelical counsel
662 7,16 | your dignity. May the Holy Spirit-through Christ's cross and resurrection-"
663 2,3 | lamb without blemish or spot,"(9) writes St. Peter And
664 2,3 | the evangelical counsels springs from the interior encounter
665 3,8 | each one can through faith stand within the radius of these
666 2,3 | writes St. Peter And St. Paul states: "You were bought with a
667 1,2 | sure guide in concretely stating the means for faithfully
668 4,9 | transformation takes place in step with that love which Christ'
669 6,14 | order that, as faithful stewards of this precious gift, you
670 | still
671 3,8 | are a powerful aid and a stimulating support for their brothers
672 6,14 | consecration, as an unceasing stimulus of salvific renewal. "Do
673 2,5 | Sermon on the Mount(18) to store up treasure in heaven, added: "
674 6,15 | turn it is extended and strengthened in the life of the religious
675 7,16 | effect in you ". . .the strengthening of the inner nature,"(109)
676 2,6 | questioner "with love," the strong leaven of the mystery of
677 3,7 | supernatural energy: a particular style of life, witness and apostolate,
678 3,8 | Christ, as the complete subject of spousal and redemptive
679 4,9 | thanks to them, is to be subjected to man and given to him
680 5,13 | appropriate. ~Hand in hand with submission-obedience thus conceived goes the
681 5,13 | Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping
682 4,9 | which constitutes the very substance of consecration: a man or
683 1,2 | of the Bishop of Rome and Successor of St. Peter, with whom
684 4,10 | language: for him "I have suffered the loss of all things,
685 4,9 | usage seems to emphasize sufficiently clearly their importance
686 4,9 | in a certain sense as a "summing up" of the entire economy
687 2,4 | words in the light of the superiority of "being" over "having,"
688 3,7 | source of spiritual and supernatural energy: a particular style
689 1,2 | you a valuable aid and a sure guide in concretely stating
690 2,3 | approved by the Church. Surely it is precisely to this
691 7,16 | the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may
692 5,12 | which constitute a concise synthesis of all that we hear on this
693 6,15 | to the whole world" to "teach all nations,"(95) and it
694 6,14 | in conformity with the teachings and directives of the Magisterium
695 2,3 | know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit...? You
696 5,11 | people in the conditions of temporality, and makes it in a certain
697 5,13 | life," with all the selfish tendencies to dominate rather than
698 2,5 | hence sequela Christi). The terms "go...sell...give" seem
699 5,13 | the psalmist in the Old Testament: "Behold, I come; in the
700 5,12 | call there is hidden the testimony of the infinite richness
701 | than
702 4,9 | creation": "the world," thanks to them, is to be subjected
703 7,16 | afraid to enter upon it, that-even in the midst of the adverse
704 7,17 | of the Annunciation, and then-at the foot of the cross-obedient
705 4,10 | in him."(55)~Renunciation therefore-the reflection of the mystery
706 5,13(74) | Mysterium iniquitatis"; cf. 2 Thes. 2:7.~
707 5,13 | count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied
708 6,14 | precious gift, you may "think with the Church" and always
709 2,4 | certain way perceived by thinkers and moralists of the ancient
710 3,7 | family. Hence, the Church thinks of you, above all, as persons
711 2,4 | particular man, possesses in the thought and intention of God Himself
712 4,9 | therefore to conquer the threefold lust. "The lust of the flesh,
713 7,16 | adverse circumstances of life today-they may hear Christ's "Follow
714 2,4 | of religious profession touches upon the very roots of humanity,
715 2,6 | synoptic Gospels,(20) is traced little by little as one
716 2,4 | personal "being" with all the transcendence that is proper to it. ~Such
717 5,12 | infinite richness of God which, transferred to the human soul in the
718 4,10 | economy of the Redemption transfers the power of the Paschal
719 4,9 | the most radical means for transforming in the human heart this
720 6,14 | strive to make it fully transparent and fully fruitful in the
721 7,16 | existence. ~To all of you who travel this road in the present
722 7,16 | so many generations have traveled together with Christ, the
723 3,8 | inheritance of the most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
724 3,7 | the person and the One and Triune God, in Jesus Christ. This
725 5,12 | grace.~And thus it is also true-as the Apostle writes-that "
726 3,7 | crucified is to be found the ultimate foundation both of baptismal
727 6,14 | remembering that obedience is an unambiguous manifestation of love.~It
728 7,16 | enlightening the heart" the Church unceasingly asks for each one of you
729 | under
730 7,16 | this treasure becomes more understandable through meditation on the
731 3,7 | all else. The commitment undertaken by means of the vows to
732 5,12 | this process of enrichment unfolds in the pages of the Gospel,
733 1,2 | whom your communities are united in a characteristic way.
734 6,15 | burdens, you show by your unity that Christ is living in
735 7,16 | become present everywhere and universally clear. May the people of
736 1,2 | institutions, schools or universities-in fact, in every one of your
737 2,3 | that person's unique and unrepeatable personal "I." The One who,
738 7,17 | all persons consecrated unreservedly to God, she is the first.
739 4,9 | poverty and obedience, this usage seems to emphasize sufficiently
740 3,7 | righteousness and holiness," to use once more the words of the
741 2,4 | understood in a materialistic and utilitarian sense, we as it were touch
742 5 | V ~CHASTITY POVERTY OBEDIENCE ~
743 1,2 | will be for all of you a valuable aid and a sure guide in
744 3,7 | determines your place in the vast community of the Church,
745 3,7 | profession, we must turn to the vibrant words of St. Paul in the
746 6,14 | life in Christ Jesus..." be victorious within you, in a way worthy
747 5,11 | known from various points of view, in connection with each
748 7 | VII ~CONCLUSION ~
749 3,8 | reaches the human soul. By virtue of the grace of the Redemption,
750 6,15 | Gospel becomes particularly visible, there also comes, dear
751 5,11 | Himself through the beatific vision and the love which contains
752 6,15 | universal community of the vocations and charisms of the whole
753 1,2 | consecrated to contemplation or vowed to the various works of
754 4,9 | consecration: a man or woman's vowing of self to God in religious
755 4,9 | within: "For the creation waits with eager longing for the
756 3,8 | Though my flesh and my heart waste away,~God is the rock of
757 4,10 | Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is
758 5,13 | them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as men
759 7,16 | times, in their spiritual weariness, find in it both support
760 7,16 | continuous opportunity and a welcome encouragement. Recognize,
761 7,16 | brethren with the joy that wells up from a heart in which
762 | wherever
763 3,7 | the evangelical counsels, which-in the words of the Second
764 3,8 | particular consecration which-on the sacramental basis of
765 | whoever
766 | Why
767 4,10 | brothers and sisters, a wide space for the "new creation"(52)
768 5,13 | Church, and they will show willingness to listen to their brothers
769 4,10 | this on the path of that wonderful process of which the same
770 3,8 | which is your spiritual worship"(34)? These words are as
771 6,14 | victorious within you, in a way worthy of your vocation, that law
772 2,4 | likeness. As St. Paul will write in the letter to the Ephesians: "
773 5,12 | also true-as the Apostle writes-that "by his poverty we have
774 5,13 | Behold, I come; in the written scroll it is prescribed
775 2,6 | but especially in their youth, all that Christ "has said,"(21)
776 5,13 | Son-full of joy-reaches its zenith in the face of the passion
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