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1002 II,11(36) | also Philip catechizing the minister of the Queen of the Ethiopians:
1003 I,9 | teaching: His silences, His miracles, His gestures, His prayer,
1004 VIII,60 | as yet we see only "in a mirror dimly"(103); and that God
1005 IX,67(117) | also Institutio Generalis Misalis Romani, promulgated by a
1006 IV,29 | grace and sin, greatness and misery, is taken up by God in His
1007 IX,66 | Christianity and instructed by missionaries or by another catechist,
1008 V,38 | searching, of a certain mistrust of others and dangerous
1009 VIII,59 | nevertheless language is being misused today for ideological mystification,
1010 VII,52 | danger and the temptation to mix catechetical teaching unduly
1011 III,18 | Catechesis is one of these moments-a very remarkable one-in the
1012 IX,67 | community.~In short, without monopolizing or enforcing uniformity,
1013 VII,52 | every form of formalistic moralism, although it will include
1014 IV,28(59) | Faith and the principles of morality are contained here. This
1015 I,8(27) | is frequently used in the mosaics of Romano-Byzantine art
1016 Conclu,73 | important for her than her motherhood.(137) There are good grounds
1017 I,8(27) | form a predominant artistic motif in the sculptures of the
1018 Intro,2(6) | According to the Motu Proprio Apostolica Sollicitudo
1019 II,11 | power," taught unceasingly, moved by the wisdom of the Spirit.(36)
1020 IX,67 | continue to be the prime mover and pre- eminent place for
1021 I,9 | lives, who speaks, rouses, moves, redresses, judges, forgives,
1022 VII,54 | in certain regions with moving fervor and purity of intention,
1023 VI,49 | today is the rewriting and multiplication of catechetical books taking
1024 VI,49 | Therefore, it is not enough to multiply catechetical works. In order
1025 VI,47 | Gospel, are in some areas multiplying and flourishing in a sort
1026 IV,30 | word of faith"(76) not in mutilated, falsified or diminished
1027 IV,34 | contribution here to better mutual understanding. Care will
1028 I,5 | opposed to each other or mutually exclusive, but each of which
1029 VIII,60(107) | Blaise Pascal, Le mystere de Jesus: Pensees 553.~
1030 I,6 | to apply to himself the mysterious words of Jesus: "My teaching
1031 VIII,59 | misused today for ideological mystification, for mass conformity in
1032 IX,68(118) | Modern World Gaudium et Spes, n. 52: AAS 58 (l966) p. 1073;
1033 Conclu,72 | within the Church and in her name- must be very much aware
1034 VI,47 | groups that, under varying names and forms but always with
1035 III,25 | includes and goes beyond a narrow meaning which was once commonly
1036 I,8 | of every kind, race and nation have for 2,000 years in
1037 I,8(20) | In nearly 50 places in the four Gospels,
1038 VIII,60 | let us not give them too negative an idea of faith-as if it
1039 IX,64 | the Church expects you to neglect nothing with a view to a
1040 VI,49 | and His Church, without neglecting or distorting anything,
1041 IX,69 | justification for reproaching it for negligence or deviation in strictly
1042 | neither
1043 VII,53 | inculturation' may be a neologism, but it expresses very well
1044 IV,29 | Apostle Paul liked to call "newness of life,"(69) "a new creation,"(70)
1045 I,8 | ways the exclamation of Nicodemus: "We know that you are a
1046 V,35 | or drugs, or tempted by nihilism and violence, nevertheless
1047 | nobody
1048 IV,33 | etc., for Catholics and non- Catholics alike. Needless
1049 IX,69 | But I am also thinking of non-confessional and public schools. I express
1050 VII,55 | insufficient or at times almost non-existent assimilation, reducing all
1051 VIII,60 | faith-as if it were absolute non-knowing, a kind of blindness, a
1052 IV,29(61) | where one also finds the norm for the essential doctrinal
1053 IV,33 | Christians, complementing the normal catechesis that must in
1054 IX,67 | which all these catechists normally work. I am returning this
1055 II,13 | The Council of Trent is a noteworthy example of this. It gave
1056 | nothing
1057 VIII,60 | having its starting point in nothingness, in plain self- deception,
1058 IX,66 | people like you our first notions of catechism and our preparation
1059 III,20 | advance in fullness and to nourish day by day the Christian
1060 IX,68(118) | Mansi, Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio,
1061 IV,29 | vengeance.(74) Since Rerum novarum especially, social concern
1062 VIII,58 | sciences of man that are nowadays making immense advances,
1063 II,13 | geographical extension and numerical increase, but even more,
1064 II,17(45) | iuvenibus, Ad Populum Dei Nuntitus, 1: loc. cit., pp. 3-4;
1065 IX,70 | will all accomplish their objectives better, and serve the Church
1066 VIII,59 | catechesis has a pressing obligation to speak a language suited
1067 V,35 | kingdom?~There are many observations that could be made about
1068 VII,55 | Christians, or constituting an obstacle to personal dialogue with
1069 V,40 | ever before, because of the obstacles and difficulties of all
1070 Conclu,73 | the Virgin of Pentecost obtain this for us through her
1071 V,39 | own responsibility. It is obvious that a catechesis which
1072 VIII,60 | A more subtle challenge occasionally comes from the very way
1073 V,39(88) | 257-299; Apostolic Letter Octogesima Adveniens: AAS 63 (1971),
1074 | off
1075 II,10 | opposed the apostles took offense at their activity, it was
1076 II,14 | receiving it become punishable offenses. I vigorously raise my voice
1077 IV,30 | order that the sacrificial offering of his or her faith(75)
1078 IX,67 | parish should be considered old-fashioned, if not doomed to disappear,
1079 IV,32 | facile irenics made up of omissions and concessions on the level
1080 IV,29 | concern of catechesis not to omit but to clarify properly
1081 VI,49 | deliberately or unconsciously omitting elements essential to the
1082 III,18 | moments-a very remarkable one-in the whole process of evangelization. ~
1083 VII,52 | catechesis to remain above one-sided divergent trends-to avoid "
1084 IV,30 | body and soul to the glory oœ heaven, and to her role
1085 III,19 | the help of grace, with opening the heart, with converting,
1086 II,11 | Lord Jesus Christ quite openly."(39) His numerous letters
1087 VIII,61 | the area of questions of opinion or of discussion among experts.
1088 IV,33 | Bishops can consider it opportune or even necessary to have
1089 VI,46 | The Church now has many opportunities for considering these questions-as,
1090 VIII,60 | we must not fall into the opposite extreme, as too often happens.
1091 IV,29 | Pius X explicitly listed oppressing the poor and depriving workers
1092 VI,48 | hearers, and reserved to ordained ministers. The homily should
1093 V,37 | at inserting him or her organically into the life of the Church,
1094 IV,31 | of catechesis should be organized in one way rather than another.
1095 II,16 | Church, catechists, and also organizers of social communications,
1096 III,22 | off orthopraxis against orthodoxy: Christianity is inseparably
1097 III,22 | It is useless to play off orthopraxis against orthodoxy: Christianity
1098 VI,47 | Bible-study groups, which ought to go beyond exegesis and
1099 | ours
1100 | ourselves
1101 VIII,61 | of their catechesis, with outlandish theories, useless questions
1102 IV,27 | thought, the spirit and the outlook of the Bible and the Gospels
1103 IV,32 | even very many, of the outstanding elements and endowments
1104 | over
1105 V,39 | which without any illusory over-simplification presents the Christian meaning
1106 VIII,56 | to assist catechesis in overcoming them. ~
1107 VIII,58 | for catechesis cannot be overstated. In fact, it is natural
1108 VII,52 | catechetical teaching unduly with overt or masked ideological views,
1109 III,25 | which a person is one day overwhelmed and brought to the decision
1110 IX,63 | growing daily more complex and overwhelming. A thousand duties call
1111 II,14(44) | Art. 18, The International Pact on Civil and Political Rights (
1112 II,12(41) | of Clement of Alexandria (Paedagogus), of Cyprian (Testimonia
1113 IX,63 | catechesis, the catechists par excellence. Together with
1114 II,14(44) | Security and Cooperation, Para. VII.~
1115 I,9 | fact that His words, His parables and His arguments are never
1116 VIII,59 | burning question today. It is paradoxical to see that, while modern
1117 I,8(24) | also Mt. 10:25; 26:18 and parallel passages.~
1118 II,17 | stagnation, lethargy and eventual paralysis. Improvisation begets confusion
1119 IX,68(118) | 45, 47; Sixth Council of Paris (829), Book 1, Chapter 7:
1120 VIII,61 | accordance with immediate, partial, often superficial, and
1121 Intro,2 | Church when he addressed the participants in the first International
1122 VI,49 | books taking place in many parts of the Church. Numerous
1123 VIII,61 | of an "unstable balance" passing from theology to catechesis
1124 IX,62 | from me in my ministry as pastor of the universal Church,
1125 V,40 | must be translated with patience and wisdom and without betrayal;
1126 Conclu,72 | paths, to make a humble, patient and persevering effort to
1127 VI,50 | whole world to undertake, patiently but resolutely, the considerable
1128 IV,29 | altogether new. As early as the patristic age, St. Ambrose and St.
1129 IV,27 | must be impregnated and penetrated by the thought, the spirit
1130 VI,48 | celebration of baptisms, penitential liturgies, marriages and
1131 VIII,60(107) | Pascal, Le mystere de Jesus: Pensees 553.~
1132 Conclu,73 | Disciple ~73. May the Virgin of Pentecost obtain this for us through
1133 VIII,59 | many other categories of people-the language of students, intellectuals
1134 VIII,58 | natural that techniques perfected and tested for education
1135 IX,68 | pedagogical means, help parents to perform their task: The service
1136 VI,47 | but irreplaceable for the periodic and vigorous renewal of
1137 II,11 | Christians scattered by persecution "went about preaching the
1138 IX,68 | without words but which perseveres throughout a day-to-day
1139 Conclu,72 | make a humble, patient and persevering effort to know the mystery
1140 IX,68 | institutions that, through person-to-person contacts, through meetings,
1141 IX,63 | will lead you to transmit personally to your faithful the doctrine
1142 III,25 | keeps the entirely pastoral perspective with which the synod viewed
1143 I,9 | the unique consistency and persuasiveness of His teaching can only
1144 V,43 | renewed, so that it may pervade the temporal realities in
1145 I,8 | tenderness.(21) Even the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the doctors
1146 IX,67 | as it were shaken by the phenomenon of urbanization. Perhaps
1147 II,11(36) | Cf. Acts 6:8ff.; cf. also Philip catechizing the minister
1148 VIII,60 | faith. Certain contemporary philosophical schools, which seem to be
1149 VIII,60 | which Pascal, taking up a phrase of St. Augustine, wrote
1150 IX,69 | from without by exerting physical or moral pressure, especially
1151 V,41 | and young people who are physically or mentally handicapped
1152 VIII,61 | must have the wisdom to pick from the field of theological
1153 II,11 | to Rome, where the last picture of him that we have in Acts
1154 VI,47 | diocesan, regional or national pilgrimages, which gain from being centered
1155 VIII,60 | point in nothingness, in plain self- deception, in fallible
1156 III,22 | Experience ~22. It is useless to play off orthopraxis against
1157 V,41 | of their teachers. It is pleasant to see that Catholic organizations
1158 VII,54 | desire to do penance or to please the Lord. Underlying most
1159 I,8 | captivating is it. And I am pleased to evoke it in my turn at
1160 Conclu,72 | aware of acting as a living, pliant instrument of the Holy Spirit.
1161 II,13 | catechesis. It is worthwhile pointing out some of the many lessons
1162 I,7 | same time distinguishes two poles in Christ's mission.~Jesus
1163 Conclu,73 | 1979, the second year of my pontificate. ~
1164 V,35 | World, more than half of the population is under 25 or 30 years
1165 V,39(88) | Pope Paul VI, Encyclical Populorum Proressio: AAS 59 (1967),
1166 I,8(27) | The portrayal of Christ as Teacher goes
1167 III,19 | family background or of the positivist spirit of their education.
1168 V,38 | authentic love and as the possibility of uniting the human race-all
1169 II,12 | Rome to Origen,(41) the post-apostolic age saw the birth of remarkable
1170 VIII,57 | the secularized world, the post-Christian era. Fashion changes, but
1171 IX,68 | makes real religious growth practically impossible, "the church
1172 VII,54 | most of these prayers and practices, besides elements that should
1173 II,12(41) | Demonstratio Apostolicae Praedicationis and Adversus Haereses),
1174 IX,67 | to be the prime mover and pre- eminent place for catechesis.
1175 III,19 | catechesis. Again, many pre-adolescents and adolescents who have
1176 IX,68 | Family catechesis therefore precedes, accompanies and enriches
1177 VIII,59 | problem very close to the preceding one is that of language.
1178 IX,69 | Commandments of God and the precepts of the Church, does not
1179 V,40 | with the greatest possible precision the complex characteristics
1180 IX,64 | because of some unfortunate preconceived idea, leave the faithful
1181 IX,66 | intercession of those whom my predecessors have raised to the glory
1182 I,8(27) | centuries. It was to form a predominant artistic motif in the sculptures
1183 IX,69 | Catholic parents should prefer it, is precisely the quality
1184 IV,31 | sort of language proves preferable for transmitting this content
1185 III,18 | object of inquiry during the preparatory work and throughout the
1186 VI,46 | television, radio, the press, records, tape recordings-the
1187 IX,69 | exerting physical or moral pressure, especially in the case
1188 VIII,58 | the faith. Among the many prestigious sciences of man that are
1189 VIII,59 | pretext whatever, even a pretended scientific one. Deceitful
1190 IX,68 | legislation endeavors even to prevent education in the faith,
1191 II,14 | his or her conscience or prevented from acting in conformity
1192 I,7 | manner and with an authority previously unknown: "Crowds gathered
1193 IX,68 | to catechesis is beyond price. ~
1194 Intro,4 | care in my ministry as a priest and as a Bishop.~I ardently
1195 V,39 | that many vocations to the priesthood and religious life have
1196 IX,63 | beyond all others the ones primarily responsible for catechesis,
1197 II,16 | for pastoral concern but principally a source of joy and hope.
1198 Conclu,72 | turns to Him who is the principle inspiring all catechetical
1199 III,22 | basis solely of some simple private experience, that is to say,
1200 IV,26 | heart, is in catechesis probed unceasingly by reflection
1201 V,45 | their experience and their problems-no less than for children,
1202 I,8 | for so I am"(24); and He proclaims the singularity, the uniqueness
1203 VI,49 | successful works have been produced and are a real treasure
1204 VIII,61(108) | Pope Paul VI, Sollemnis Professio Fidei, 4: AAS 60 (1968),
1205 IX,68 | The parents themselves profit from the effort that this
1206 VIII,60 | St. Augustine, wrote so profoundly: "You would not be searching
1207 III,21 | systematic, not improvised but programmed to reach a precise goal;
1208 II,15 | in the Church's pastoral programs. The more the Church, whether
1209 VIII,57 | suspicion" in the name of the progress it has made in the field
1210 Conclu,72 | desire according as each one progresses in the charity that makes
1211 IX,65 | members in the pastoral projects of the local Churches, I
1212 Conclu,72 | The Spirit is thus promised to the Church and to each
1213 II,17 | catechetical activity and promising initiatives, but also the
1214 V,43 | whether as receivers or as promoters of catechetical activity.
1215 IX,67(117) | Generalis Misalis Romani, promulgated by a Decree of the Sacred
1216 II,17 | important for the Church to give proof today, as she has done at
1217 Intro,2(6) | According to the Motu Proprio Apostolica Sollicitudo of
1218 V,39(88) | VI, Encyclical Populorum Proressio: AAS 59 (1967), pp. 257-
1219 II,17 | operation new methods and new prospects for catechetical instruction. ~
1220 VI,47 | danger that has unfortunately proved only too real-of disappointing
1221 IX,71 | Here also the material aid provided by the richer Churches to
1222 V,36 | revelation of a good and provident Father in heaven to whom
1223 IX,68(118) | Since the High Middle Ages, provincial councils have insisted on
1224 IV,31(81) | Acts 2:28, quoting Ps. 16:11.~
1225 VIII,58 | other sciences-biology, psychology, sociology-are providing
1226 III,25(56) | Cf. 1 Pt. 3:15.~
1227 V,38 | Adolescents ~38. Next comes puberty and adolescence, with all
1228 II,13 | Canisius, it involved the publication of catechisms that were
1229 VI,49 | brought with it articles and publications which are ambiguous and
1230 Intro,4 | hand and was preparing to publish them when he was suddenly
1231 II,14 | and receiving it become punishable offenses. I vigorously raise
1232 IX,69 | the other elements of the pupil's knowledge and education;
1233 VII,53 | Gospel message cannot be purely and simply isolated from
1234 IV,32 | efforts-including the effort of self- purification in the humility and the
1235 VII,54 | underlying them needs to be purified or rectified in many aspects.
1236 VII,54 | regions with moving fervor and purity of intention, even if the
1237 Conclu,73(134)| Heb. 10:5; S. Th., III, Q. 12, a. 2; a. 3, ad 3.~
1238 III,21 | the tendency in various quarters to minimize its importance. ~
1239 V,44 | Quasi-Catechumens ~44. Among the adults who
1240 II,11(36) | catechizing the minister of the Queen of the Ethiopians: Acts
1241 VI,49 | acquaintance with its anxieties and questionings, struggles and hopes;~b)
1242 VI,46 | opportunities for considering these questions-as, for instance, on Social
1243 V,38 | ignore the adolescent's great questions-self-giving, belief, love and the means
1244 III,19 | Spirit; and opposition is quickly created by the prejudices
1245 VIII,61(109) | VI, Apostolic Exhortation Quinque Iam Anni: AAS 63 (1971),
1246 II,12(41) | of Cyprian (Testimonia ad Quirinum), of Origen (Contra Celsum),
1247 IV,29 | and St. John Chrysostom-to quote only them-gave prominence
1248 Conclu,72 | realization, based on the text quoted above and on many other
1249 IV,31(81) | Acts 2:28, quoting Ps. 16:11.~
1250 V,38 | possibility of uniting the human race-all this can provide the basis
1251 VII,52 | revelation tells of the radical chance of man and the universe,
1252 VII,52 | catechesis then becomes radically distorted. The synod rightly
1253 II,14 | punishable offenses. I vigorously raise my voice in union with the
1254 II,13 | which is a work of the first rank as a summary of Christian
1255 III,25 | that catechesis necessarily rationalizes, dries up and eventually
1256 III,21 | improvised but programmed to reach a precise goal; It must
1257 IV,32 | catechesis. This movement reached its full prominence in the
1258 I,5 | of God's eternal design reaching fulfillment in that Person.
1259 IX,65 | should make you even more readily available for the Church'
1260 IV,27 | richer and more effective for reading the texts with the intelligence
1261 IX,69 | moreover an occasion for me to reaffirm my firm conviction that
1262 VI,47 | unfortunately proved only too real-of disappointing their members
1263 IX,67 | non-practicing. Accordingly, realism and wisdom demand that we
1264 II,17 | value; the synod fathers realistically recognized, not only an
1265 VII,55 | forcefully recalled. We must be realists. The blossoms, if we may
1266 V,44 | those who were born and reared in areas not yet Christianized,
1267 V,45 | giver as well as the great receiver of catechesis.~
1268 | recently
1269 IX,68 | family events (such as the reception of the sacraments, the celebration
1270 II,14 | admittedly being given growing recognition, at least on the level of
1271 II,14 | their limitations, one can recognize the desires of the consciences
1272 V,39 | forbearance, justice, commitment, reconciliation, a sense of the Absolute
1273 VI,46 | the press, records, tape recordings-the whole series of audio-visual
1274 VI,46 | television, radio, the press, records, tape recordings-the whole
1275 VII,55 | civilization that was mainly oral, recourse was had very freely to memorization.
1276 IX,69 | the young, for instance, recreation, social background and work
1277 VII,54 | needs to be purified or rectified in many aspects. I have
1278 VII,53 | it is no surprise that it rectifies many of its elements. There
1279 IX,67 | for catechesis. It must rediscover its vocation, which is to
1280 I,9 | who speaks, rouses, moves, redresses, judges, forgives, and goes
1281 IV,29 | care should be taken not to reduce Christ to His humanity alone
1282 IV,33 | limited: it must never mean a "reduction" to a common minimum. Furthermore,
1283 V,38 | leading the adolescent to reexamine his or her life and to engage
1284 Intro,2(6) | and "synod hall" always refer, unless otherwise indicated,
1285 V,43 | throughout the world: I am referring to the central problem of
1286 Intro,4 | exhortation takes up again the reflections that were prepared by Pope
1287 III,21 | precisely because it is this reflective study of the Christian mystery
1288 IV,32 | Spirit of Christ does not refrain from using as means of salvation; "
1289 II,17 | that "routine, with its refusal to accept any change, and
1290 VII,53 | everywhere transforms and regenerates. When that power enters
1291 VI,47 | for example, diocesan, regional or national pilgrimages,
1292 VII,54 | the faithful in certain regions with moving fervor and purity
1293 IV,28 | rite has in our time been reintroduced into the initiation of catechumens.(58)
1294 IX,66 | built up without them. I rejoice at the efforts made by the
1295 III,21 | the synod, Pope Paul VI rejoiced "to see how everyone drew
1296 I,7 | Nevertheless, the Gospels clearly relate occasions when Jesus "taught." "
1297 V,36 | integrated into a living relationship with God. It is a work of
1298 IX,70 | apostolate, charity and relief work, or a Christian presence
1299 V,39 | their friends, they have to rely on themselves and their
1300 III,20 | surrendering to the word of God and relying on it, but it also means,
1301 V,37 | dimension that keeps it from remaining merely doctrinal, and it
1302 Conclu,72 | as my predecessor Paul VI remarked in his Apostolic Exhortation
1303 III,20 | Jesus Christ, but let us remember that this "yes" has two
1304 Conclu,72 | things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to
1305 IX,63 | Council has already explicitly reminded you of your task in the
1306 IV,27 | themselves; but it is also a reminder that catechesis will be
1307 VIII,60 | certainly have the advantage of reminding us that faith concerns things
1308 VII,53 | of catechesis through a renunciation or obscuring of its message,
1309 IX,68 | must strive to follow and repeat, within the setting of family
1310 III,18 | specific character which was repeatedly the object of inquiry during
1311 II,10 | this in his Gospel when he reports the words of Jesus: "No
1312 IX,69 | there were justification for reproaching it for negligence or deviation
1313 Intro,4 | Popes in response to the request which was expressly formulated
1314 VII,55 | the history of salvation require a precise knowledge of them?
1315 Intro,4 | stimulate creativity-with the required vigilance-and should help
1316 Intro,3 | that win admiration. The requisite discernment could then be
1317 IV,29 | for vengeance.(74) Since Rerum novarum especially, social
1318 VI,48 | adapted to the hearers, and reserved to ordained ministers. The
1319 VI,50 | undertake, patiently but resolutely, the considerable work to
1320 VII,51 | is a sign of life and a resource. That is how it was considered
1321 VIII,57 | which each person feels respected in his or her most basic
1322 VI,47 | and bearing fruit if it respects their individual nature.
1323 II,15 | God, who never fails to respond. ~
1324 V,45 | Christian lives.~It must be restated that nobody in the Church
1325 II,14 | command given by the Lord and resting above all on those who in
1326 VIII,61 | offer to the bewildered and restless world of our time is to
1327 IX,67 | along the path aiming to restore to the parish, as needed,
1328 II,16 | primary responsibility that rests on him in this field: In
1329 VI,49 | methods has often enough resulted in certain catechetical
1330 Conclu,72(131)| Retractationum Liber I, 23, 2: PL 32, 621.~
1331 III,21 | be utilized and I shall return to them in Chapter VI-but
1332 Intro,2 | September 25, 1971,(4) and he returned explicitly to the subject
1333 IX,67 | catechists normally work. I am returning this time, taking a more
1334 I,9 | Christ, the Teacher who reveals God to man and man to himself,
1335 VIII,58 | continually being subjected to review, with a view to making them
1336 VII,54 | even if they need to be revised or improved, have something
1337 II,17 | broadening of its concept, by the revision of its methods, by the search
1338 VI,47 | Christian life-they should be revived and brought up to date.
1339 VI,49 | catechetics today is the rewriting and multiplication of catechetical
1340 IV,30 | whole and entire, in all its rigor and vigor. Unfaithfulness
1341 V,40 | catechesis is to be carried out rigorously and seriously, it is today
1342 I,5 | for us and who now, after rising, is living with us forever.
1343 IV,28 | presented greater difficulty or risked being ignored.(59) This
1344 IV,28 | Prayer. This expressive rite has in our time been reintroduced
1345 IX,67(117) | the Sacred Congregation of Rites on April 6, 1969, 33, and
1346 III,23 | very soon turns into hollow ritualism if it is not based on serious
1347 II,13 | St. Charles Borromeo, St. Robert Bellarmine and St. Peter
1348 VIII,60 | unceasingly built on the immovable rock of this Word. It is the
1349 I,8(27) | sculptures of the great Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals of
1350 IX,67(117) | Institutio Generalis Misalis Romani, promulgated by a Decree
1351 I,8(27) | frequently used in the mosaics of Romano-Byzantine art of the third and fourth
1352 VII,54 | something Christian at their root? ~
1353 IV,28(59) | popular professions of faith, rooted in the traditional Christian
1354 I,9 | who lives, who speaks, rouses, moves, redresses, judges,
1355 VIII,59 | the contrary, the supreme rule is that the great advances
1356 III,24 | the same step. Catechesis runs the risk of becoming barren
1357 IV,30 | content. In order that the sacrificial offering of his or her faith(75)
1358 IX,68(118) | Book 1, Chapter 7: Mansi, Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima
1359 IX,67(117) | Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium, 35, 52: AAS 56 (
1360 I,8 | Even the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the doctors of the law,
1361 III,19 | Finally, even adults are not safe from temptations to doubt
1362 VIII,56 | service of all, "light" and "salt."(100) Undoubtedly this
1363 IV,26 | message-the Good News of salvation-that has been heard once or hundreds
1364 IV,29 | have at the same time been sanctified and who make up the family
1365 I,9 | the Teacher who saves, sanctifies and guides, who lives, who
1366 I,9 | himself, the Teacher who saves, sanctifies and guides,
1367 V,38 | loving plan of Christ the Savior as the incarnation of the
1368 III,20 | being a Christian means saying "yes" to Jesus Christ, but
1369 II,11 | and even simple Christians scattered by persecution "went about
1370 IV,34 | scientific. In any case, such schoolbooks can obviously not be considered
1371 VIII,58 | Among the many prestigious sciences of man that are nowadays
1372 VIII,58 | attainments of the other sciences-biology, psychology, sociology-are
1373 VIII,59 | students, intellectuals and scientists; the language of the illiterate
1374 VIII,57 | it does not remain in a scornful attitude of "suspicion"
1375 I,8(27) | predominant artistic motif in the sculptures of the great Romanesque
1376 Conclu,72 | exceptionally favorable season of the Spirit," as my predecessor
1377 IX,64 | chaplains to primary or secondary schools or universities,
1378 Conclu,72 | and of every catechist.~Secondly, the deep desire to understand
1379 Conclu,72 | teacher within, who, in the secret of the conscience and the
1380 II,16 | Church as a whole and in each sector of the Church a lively and
1381 IX,68 | widespread unbelief or invasive secularism makes real religious growth
1382 VIII,57 | there was much talk of the secularized world, the post-Christian
1383 VI,50 | a more organic and more secure renewal of these aspects
1384 II,14(44) | the Conference on European Security and Cooperation, Para. VII.~
1385 V,35 | by uncertainty and fear, seduced by the escapism of indifference
1386 III,20 | knowledge and in life, to the seed of faith sown by the Holy
1387 | seem
1388 | seems
1389 IV,30 | his own initiative, make a selection of what he considers important
1390 IV,29 | demands-demands that involve self-denial but also joy-made by what
1391 V,39 | other explanation, such as self-sacrifice, detachment, forbearance,
1392 V,39 | catechesis which denounces selfishness in the name of generosity,
1393 VIII,59 | field of communication, semantics and symbology, attribute
1394 V,45 | This is true even of young seminarians and young religious, and
1395 II,12(40) | baptism by nourishing their sensus fidei through instruction
1396 I,9 | His arguments are never separable from His life and His very
1397 III,18 | recall that there is no separation or opposition between catechesis
1398 Intro,2(6) | Apostolica Sollicitudo of Sept. 15, 1965, the Synod of
1399 Intro,2 | Catechetical Congress on September 25, 1971,(4) and he returned
1400 I,5 | in following Christ, the sequela Christi.~The primary and
1401 VIII,57 | in their faith, to affirm serenely their Christian and Catholic
1402 V,40 | carried out rigorously and seriously, it is today more difficult
1403 Conclu,73(137)| Cf. Sermo 25, 7: PL 46, 937-938.~
1404 II,10 | call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master
1405 II,10 | No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not
1406 Intro,2 | venerated predecessor Paul VI served the Church's catechesis
1407 VIII,58 | only to the extent that it serves the faith that is to be
1408 V,38 | the first experiences of setbacks and of disappointments.
1409 V,38 | the biological impulses of sexuality, the time of the desire
1410 V,38 | expressing it constituted by sexuality-such a catechesis can be decisive.
1411 IX,67 | parish has been as it were shaken by the phenomenon of urbanization.
1412 IX,69 | if, no matter how much it shone for its high level of teaching
1413 VI,46 | greatest hope. Experience shows, for example, the effect
1414 VII,55 | spontaneity, between dialogue and silence, between written work and
1415 I,9 | continual teaching: His silences, His miracles, His gestures,
1416 II,13 | time a like enthusiasm and similar activity.~The missions are
1417 VIII,61 | and even his weakness and sinfulness, his life and death. He
1418 I,8 | and He proclaims the singularity, the uniqueness of His character
1419 IV,29 | of human beings who are sinners and yet have at the same
1420 IV,29 | their just wages among the sins that cry to God for vengeance.(74)
1421 IX,71 | richer Churches to their poor sisters can show the greatest effectiveness,
1422 IV,31 | happen that in the present situation of catechesis reasons of
1423 V,43 | catechesis without the direct and skilled participation of adults,
1424 VIII,56 | the best creations of man slip away from him and turn against
1425 II,11 | 11. The apostles were not slow to share with others the
1426 V,44 | Christian country or in sociologically Christian surroundings,
1427 VIII,58 | sciences-biology, psychology, sociology-are providing it with valuable
1428 VII,53 | spontaneously from any cultural soil; it has always been transmitted
1429 III,22 | whole truth on the basis solely of some simple private experience,
1430 VIII,60 | catechumens the simple but solid certainties that will help
1431 Intro,4 | Church should strengthen the solidity of the faith and of Christian
1432 III,18 | landmarks-they are already solidly established in Church documents-that
1433 VIII,61(108) | Pope Paul VI, Sollemnis Professio Fidei, 4: AAS
1434 Intro,2(6) | Motu Proprio Apostolica Sollicitudo of Sept. 15, 1965, the Synod
1435 VIII,59 | problem and contributed to its solution for his own time with his
1436 IV,28(59) | song-message: "This is not only a song: it is also a profession
1437 IV,28(59) | regarding the Bogurodzica song-message: "This is not only a song:
1438 IV,30 | Virgin, raised body and soul to the glory oœ heaven,
1439 IX,62 | catechizing.(112) Yes, I wish to sow courage, hope and enthusiasm
1440 III,20 | life, to the seed of faith sown by the Holy Spirit with
1441 II,15 | people and energy, without sparing effort, toil or material
1442 III,18 | doctrine imparted, generally speaking, in an organic and systematic
1443 I,9 | and guides, who lives, who speaks, rouses, moves, redresses,
1444 III,18 | Directory.(47) It is for specialists to clarify more and more
1445 IV,33 | important that in addition a specifically Catholic catechesis should
1446 II,15 | results of which would be more spectacular, the more she finds in catechesis
1447 II,12 | course down the centuries; it sped on and triumphed, to use
1448 VI,46 | The achievements in these spheres are such as to encourage
1449 VIII,61 | in very frank terms: they spoke of the danger of an "unstable
1450 I,6 | extent that he is Christ's spokesman, enabling Christ to teach
1451 VII,55 | balance between reflection and spontaneity, between dialogue and silence,
1452 III,25 | kills all that is living, spontaneous and vibrant in the kerygma.
1453 VII,53 | centuries; it does not spring spontaneously from any cultural soil;
1454 II,14 | it is certainly a duty springing from a command given by
1455 VI,47 | flourishing in a sort of springtime that is very comforting
1456 II,17 | catechesis.(46) Routine leads to stagnation, lethargy and eventual paralysis.
1457 IX,69 | study are bound to bear the stamp of their studies, to be
1458 VI,50 | Directory, which remains the standard of reference.(93)~ln this
1459 VIII,61 | superficial, and even illusory standards and measures of his being-
1460 VIII,60 | under the guidance of a star,(106) the search of which
1461 V,36 | learns to lisp will be the start of a loving dialogue with
1462 VIII,60 | believer, far from having its starting point in nothingness, in
1463 Conclu,73 | are good grounds for the statement made in the synod hall that
1464 VIII,61 | their research and their statements have on catechetical instruction,
1465 II,14 | is being violated by many States, even to the point that
1466 IV,34 | the witness of believers stating their faith to other believers
1467 IV,31 | by the humble concern to stay closer to a content that
1468 III,24 | who have taken the same step. Catechesis runs the risk
1469 II,11 | moment of their institution: Stephen, "full of grace and power,"
1470 Intro,4 | initiatives in hand, should stimulate creativity-with the required
1471 V,43 | continually be enlightened, stimulated and renewed, so that it
1472 VIII,57 | and fraternal dialogue, stimulating for all, too often flounders
1473 II,13 | the Second Vatican Council stir up in our time a like enthusiasm
1474 II,16 | devoted to catechesis if it stirred up in the Church as a whole
1475 VIII,61 | is no surprise that every stirring in the field of theology
1476 I,7 | accusation and condemnation: "He stirs up the people, teaching
1477 V,43 | would be quite useless if it stopped short at the threshold of
1478 III,21 | sufficiently complete, not stopping short at the initial proclamation
1479 III,22 | Christ Jesus, a revelation stored in the depths of the Church'
1480 II,15 | she finds in catechesis a strengthening of her internal life as
1481 III,21 | them in Chapter VI-but I am stressing the need for organic and
1482 II,12 | remarkable works. Next we see a striking fact: Some of the most impressive
1483 IX,68 | Christian parents must strive to follow and repeat, within
1484 VIII,60 | seem to be exercising a strong influence on some theological
1485 IX,67 | as needed, more adequate structures and, above all a new impetus
1486 VI,49 | anxieties and questionings, struggles and hopes;~b) they must
1487 VIII,59 | of people-the language of students, intellectuals and scientists;
1488 III,25 | the kerygma. The truths studied in catechesis are the same
1489 VI,50 | generations of the future to a sturdy faith. ~This brief mention
1490 VIII,57(101) | VI, Encyclical Ecclesiam Suam, Part Three, AAS 56 (1964),
1491 Intro,2 | returned explicitly to the subject in his Apostolic Exhortation
1492 VIII,58 | teaching are continually being subjected to review, with a view to
1493 IV,31 | dictated by more or less subjective theories or prejudices stamped
1494 I,9 | crucifix is one of the most sublime and popular images of Christ
1495 I,8 | it has often been evoked subsequently in iconography since earliest
1496 VIII,60 | Certainty of Faith ~60. A more subtle challenge occasionally comes
1497 IX,66 | wish that many others may succeed them and that they may increase
1498 VIII,58 | with varying degrees of success.~There is also a pedagogy
1499 VI,49 | the Church. Numerous very successful works have been produced
1500 II,11 | They transmitted to their successors the task of teaching. They
1501 Intro,4 | publish them when he was suddenly called to God. To all of
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