Chapter, Paragraph
1 Intro,1 | Christ's Final Command~1. The Church has always considered catechesis
2 Intro,1 | of the efforts within the Church to make disciples, to help
3 Intro,1 | the Body of Christ. The Church has not ceased to devote
4 Intro,2 | predecessor Paul VI served the Church's catechesis in a particularly
5 Intro,2 | catechetical renewal throughout the Church. He set up the International
6 Intro,2 | life and mission of the Church when he addressed the participants
7 Intro,3 | from the Holy Spirit to the Church of today, a gift to which
8 Intro,4 | exhortation to the whole Church should strengthen the solidity
9 I,6 | his responsibility in the Church, every catechist must constantly
10 I,6 | of God transmitted by the Church's magisterium, what profound
11 I,6(14) | evangelizing activity of the Church, for example 4, 15, 78,
12 I,9 | great traditions of the Church and they all strengthen
13 II | EXPERIENCE AS OLD AS THE CHURCH ~
14 II,10 | that a lasting image of the Church being born of and continually
15 II,12 | The Fathers of the Church ~12. This mission of teaching
16 II,12 | workers was continued by the Church. Making herself day after
17 II,12(40) | 53 [1961], p. 401): the Church is "mother" because by baptism
18 II,12 | numerous Fathers of the Church, of works that are still
19 II,12 | spread and advance of the Church in the various periods of
20 II,12(41) | of Clement of Rome to the Church of Corinth, the Didache,
21 II,13 | organization of catechesis in the Church. It aroused the clergy to
22 II,13 | circumstances in which the Church finds herself.~Catechesis
23 II,13 | up with the whole of the Church's life. Not only her geographical
24 II,13 | from the experiences in Church history that we have just
25 II,14 | Catechesis as the Church's Right and Duty ~14. To
26 II,14 | with, it is clear that the Church has always looked on catechesis
27 II,14 | right to receive from the Church instruction and education
28 II,15 | place of catechesis in the Church's pastoral programs. The
29 II,15 | pastoral programs. The more the Church, whether on the local or
30 II,15 | activity as a missionary Church. As the 20th century draws
31 II,15 | century draws to a close, the Church is bidden by God and by
32 II,16 | work for which the whole Church must feel responsible and
33 II,16 | be responsible. But the Church's members have different
34 II,16 | various ministers of the Church, catechists, and also organizers
35 II,16 | important for the life of the Church and affects the life of
36 II,16 | if it stirred up in the Church as a whole and in each sector
37 II,16 | and in each sector of the Church a lively and active awareness
38 II,17 | It is important for the Church to give proof today, as
39 III | III. ~CATECHESIS IN THE CHURCH'S PASTORAL AND MISSIONARY
40 III,18 | be dissociated from the Church's pastoral and missionary
41 III,18 | both within and outside the Church.~This is not the place for
42 III,18 | already solidly established in Church documents-that are essential
43 III,18 | number of elements of the Church's pastoral mission that
44 III,20 | more and more within the Church to think like Him, to judge
45 III,22 | stored in the depths of the Church's memory and in Sacred Scripture,
46 III,23 | human beings.~In the early Church, the catechumenate and preparation
47 III,23 | long been Christian the Church has changed her practice
48 III,24 | responsible activity of the Church and of Christians in the
49 III,25 | Christian practice in the Church and the world. All this
50 IV,27 | which is entrusted to the Church," as was recalled by the
51 IV,27 | intelligence and the heart of the Church and for drawing inspiration
52 IV,27 | from the 2,000 years of the Church's reflection and life.~The
53 IV,27 | reflection and life.~The Church's teaching, liturgy and
54 IV,28 | moments have summed up the Church's faith in felicitous syntheses.
55 IV,29 | constituted by the mystery of the Church, which is an assembly of
56 IV,29 | guardians, to feed the Church of God."(67)~It is important
57 IV,29(68) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
58 IV,29 | the rich heritage of the Church's social teaching should,
59 IV,32 | been causing the Catholic Church to seek with other Christian
60 IV,32 | new extension within the Church, as is shown concretely
61 IV,32 | capacity and place in the Church, in the movement towards
62 IV,32 | is found in the Catholic Church,(84) it does so with sincere
63 IV,32(83) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 15: AAS 58 (1966),
64 IV,32 | perfect communion with this Church.~In this context, it is
65 IV,32 | up and give life to the Church herself, can exist outside
66 IV,32 | boundaries of the Catholic Church."(85) Among other things
67 IV,32 | appreciation of the Catholic Church and her conviction of being
68 IV,33 | in the sacraments of the Church. Therefore, where there
69 IV,33 | Catholics in the Catholic Church should be well ensured in
70 IV,33(86) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium 15: AAS 57 (
71 V,37 | comes soon, at school and in Church, in institutions connected
72 V,37 | organically into the life of the Church, a moment that includes
73 V,39 | recent documents of the Church,(88) fittingly completes
74 V,39(88) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
75 V,40 | the following years, the Church has widely shared in concern
76 V,40 | will long endure in the Church's consciousness. In this
77 V,40 | been valuable for the whole Church by seeking to trace with
78 V,40 | is a treasure which the Church can and should count on
79 V,43(90) | s Pastoral Office in the Church Christus Dominus, 14: AAS
80 V,43(90) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 14: AAS 58 (1966),
81 V,45 | restated that nobody in the Church of Jesus Christ should feel
82 V,45 | are humble pupils of the Church, the great giver as well
83 VI,46 | to the magisterium. The Church now has many opportunities
84 VI,47 | very comforting for the Church. These include Catholic
85 VI,47 | source of great hope for the Church of tomorrow. But, in the
86 VI,47 | their members and also the Church.~The catechetical endeavor
87 VI,49 | various ways and means-all the Church's activities have a catechetical
88 VI,49 | place in many parts of the Church. Numerous very successful
89 VI,49 | people and to the life of the Church. In certain places, the
90 VI,49 | elements essential to the Church's faith, or by attributing
91 VI,49 | with the teaching of the Church's magisterium.~Therefore,
92 VI,49 | message of Christ and His Church, without neglecting or distorting
93 VI,50 | can be no doubt that the Church will find the experts and
94 VII,51 | surrounding in which the Church carries out her catechetical
95 VII,52 | universal magisterium of the Church, in its solemn or ordinary
96 VII,54 | each Christian and in the Church, the mystery of the hereafter,
97 VII,55 | fundamental for the whole of the Church's life: the law of fidelity
98 VIII,61 | immediately after the Council, the Church is living through an important
99 VIII,61 | most valuable gift that the Church can offer to the bewildered
100 IX,62 | pastor of the universal Church, to set your hearts aflame,
101 IX,63 | catechesis throughout the Church. Accept therefore what I
102 IX,63(113)| s Pastoral Office in the Church Christus Dominus, 14: AAS
103 IX,64 | especially youth groups, the Church expects you to neglect nothing
104 IX,65 | deeply committed to the Church's catechetical activity,
105 IX,65 | readily available for the Church's service, to prepare as
106 IX,66 | anxious to give thanks in the Church's name to all of you, lay
107 IX,66 | collaboration for the life of the Church. ~But the term "catechists"
108 IX,67 | the same membership of the Church, and on commitments in society
109 IX,68 | rightly stressed by the Church, particularly by the Second
110 IX,68(118)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 11, 35: AAS
111 IX,68(118)| Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
112 IX,68 | practically impossible, "the church of the home"(120) remains
113 IX,68(120)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 11: AAS 57 (
114 IX,69 | the school framework, the Church has the duty to do so as
115 IX,69 | and the precepts of the Church, does not apply constraint,
116 IX,69 | instruction dependent on the Church, but which, according to
117 IX,70 | objectives better, and serve the Church better, if they give an
118 IX,70 | association of the faithful in the Church has by definition the duty
119 IX,71 | great importance in the Church. Their preparation calls
120 IX,71 | better assistance can one Church give to another than to
121 IX,71 | to help it to grow as a Church with its own strength?~I
122 IX,71 | witness of unity given by the Church. This is a source of responsibility
123 Conclu,72 | Spirit would have in the Church, Christ used the significant
124 Conclu,72 | is thus promised to the Church and to each Christian as
125 Conclu,72 | charisms that build up the Church, the community of Christians.(129)~
126 Conclu,72 | initiate and sustain in the Church.~This realization, based
127 Conclu,72 | that mission within the Church and in her name- must be
128 Conclu,72 | attitude of the teaching Church and of every catechist.~
129 Conclu,72 | fully-at a time when "in the Church we are living an exceptionally
130 Conclu,72 | real fruitfulness in the Church, not so much according as
131 Conclu,72 | invoke on the catechizing Church this Spirit of the Father
132 Conclu,72 | catechetical dynamism in the Church. ~
133 Conclu,73 | prayers of Mary, grant the Church unprecedented enthusiasm
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