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1 Abbr,II | Council, Decree on Priestly Life and Ministry Presbyterorum
2 Pref, 0, 0, 0,3 | through the whole of his life, my venerable predecessor
3 Pref, 0, 0, 0,5 | the renewal of ecclesial life desired by the Second Vatican
4 Intro, 0, 0, 4,18 | consciousness. The right to life, work, education, the foundation
5 Intro, 0, 0, 4,18 | participation in public life, and to religious liberty
6 Intro, 0, 0, 5,20 | gives fuller meaning to his life, is thus indispensable.~
7 Intro, 0, 0, 5,21 | nations) from disturbing the life of communities, overthrowing
8 Intro, 0, 0, 5,21 | often imposes a vision of life which does not respect the
9 Intro, 0, 0, 6,23 | from political and social life".(40) Evangelization encounters
10 Intro, 0, 1, 1,24 | consistently with it in his life. In such Christians this
11 Intro, 0, 1, 2 | The internal life of the ecclesial community~
12 Intro, 0, 1, 2,27 | to consider also the very life of the ecclesial community
13 Intro, 0, 1, 2,27 | Church. In fact:~– liturgical life is more profoundly understood
14 Intro, 0, 1, 2,27 | and summit of ecclesial life;~– the people of God has
15 Intro, 0, 1, 3,30 | in the entire Christian life of which catechists do not
16 Intro, 0, 1, 6,33 | trinitarian experience of life in Christ as the center
17 Intro, 0, 1, 6,33 | Christ as the center of the life of faith;~– It needs to
18 I, 0, 1, 7,34 | devoted his entire earthly life: he made known the joy of
19 I, 0, 1, 7,34 | which it embraces,(69) the life of fraternal charity of
20 I, I, 0, 10,39 | the times and the present life of man, since it is in these
21 I, I, 0, 11,41 | human history, assumes human life and death, and brings about
22 I, I, 0, 11,41 | who Jesus Christ is, his life and ministry, and to present
23 I, I, 0, 11,41 | principal source for the life and teaching of the Incarnate
24 I, I, 0, 14,48 | faith and the Christian life, by means of "catechesis" (118)
25 I, I, 0, 15,50 | name, the teaching, the life, the promises, the Kingdom
26 I, I, 0, 15,50(126) | institutes of consecrated life in light of their consecration
27 I, I, 0, 15,50 | grow in their Christian life. (128)~The ministry of the
28 I, I, 0, 16,51 | are "introduced into the life of faith, of the liturgy
29 I, I, 0, 17,55 | Faith involves a change of life, a "metanoia", (148) that
30 I, I, 0, 17,55 | This transformation of life manifests itself at all
31 I, I, 0, 17,55 | existence: in his interior life of adoration and acceptance
32 I, I, 0, 17,55 | in his married and family life; in his professional life;
33 I, I, 0, 17,55 | life; in his professional life; in fulfilling economic
34 I, I, 0, 18,56 | which lasts for the whole of life. (157) He who comes to faith
35 I, I, 0, 18,56(156) | level of knowledge and in life, to the seed of faith sown
36 I, I, 0, 18,56 | for the whole Christian life of the Lord's disciple. (166)~
37 I, I, 0, 18,56 | apprenticeship in the Christian life, thereby promoting a spiritual
38 I, I, 0, 18,57 | and providing Christian life with a basic structure;
39 I, I, 0, 19,58 | of the Church and live a life far removed from Christ
40 I,II, 0, 20,60 | catechesis in the ordinary life of the Church and its role
41 I,II, 1, 1,63 | apprenticeship in the whole Christian life", (192) are initiated into
42 I,II, 1, 1,63 | an evangelical style of life. This means "initiating
43 I,II, 1, 1,63 | the fullness of Christian life". (193)~
44 I,II, 1, 2,66(199) | to discover and bring to life the immense richness of
45 I,II, 1, 3,67 | of the entire Christian life, it is a "complete Christian
46 I,II, 1, 3,67 | of the faith and in the life of faith, in such a manner
47 I,II, 1, 3,67 | nurtures the roots of his faith life and enables him to receive
48 I,II, 1, 3,67 | nourishment in the ordinary life of the Christian community.~
49 I,II, 1, 3,68 | formation for the Christian life it comprises but surpasses
50 I,II, 2, 1,69 | basis for the Christian life of the followers of Jesus.
51 I,II, 2, 1,69 | community of faith and Christian life welcomes the catechumen
52 I,II, 2, 1,70 | mature also in its interior life of love of God and of the
53 I,II, 2, 2,71 | family, ecclesial or social life and to help live them in
54 I,II, 3, 2,75 | 75. The life and faith of students who
55 I,II, 3, 2,75 | to the various visions of life particularly evident in
56 I,III, 0, 3,78 | the style of evangelic life which communicates the joy
57 I,III, 0, 3,78 | profoundest experience of life. (232) The profession of
58 I,III, 0, 3,79 | transmitting faith and new life, the Church acts as a mother
59 I,III, 0, 5,82 | the Christian entrusts his life. Initiatory catechesis—both
60 I,III, 0, 5,83 | sacrament of salvation" for the life of the world. He who makes
61 I,III, 0, 6,84 | other factors of Christian life". (250) In virtue of its
62 I,III, 0, 6,84 | strengthens the faith develops a life in harmony with the Spirit
63 I,III, 0, 7,85 | catechesis nourishes not only the life of faith but equips it to
64 I,III, 0, 7,85 | necessary for a true liturgical life~– Moral formation~Conversion
65 I,III, 0, 7,85 | of the entire Christian life reaches its summit. This
66 I,III, 0, 8 | and education in community life and to mission~
67 I,III, 0, 8,86 | participate actively in the life and mission of the Church.
68 I,III, 0, 8,86 | Education for Community Life~a) Christian community life
69 I,III, 0, 8,86 | Life~a) Christian community life is not realized spontaneously.
70 I,III, 0, 8,86 | teaching of Christ on community life, recounted in the Gospel
71 I,III, 0, 8,86 | written word of God, the life of grace, faith, hope and
72 I,III, 0, 8,86 | religious and apostolic life and to awaken special missionary
73 I,III, 0, 9,87 | maturation of the Christian life requires that it be cultivated
74 I,III, 0, 9,87 | of the faith, liturgical life, moral formation, prayer,
75 I,III, 0, 9,87 | mission; the sacramental life gives strength for moral
76 I,III, 0, 9,87 | experience of the Christian life. (275) Liturgical formation,
77 I,III, 0, 9,87 | of the faith, liturgical life, the following of Christ
78 I,III, 0, 9,87 | the liturgy, all personal life becomes a spiritual oblation.
79 I,III, 0, 11,91(292) | imperfect (in the Christian life), it is for the more mature
80 I,III, 0, 11,91 | school for the Christian life", (295) and to allow itself
81 II | Message~"And this is eternal life, that they know thee the
82 II | raised on the third day to life in accordance with the Scriptures" (
83 II, I, 0, 14,95 | explained;~– shines forth in the life of the Church, in her two-thousand-year
84 II, I, 0, 16,98 | man, happiness, the moral life, death etc. without in any
85 II, I, 0, 16,98 | Gospels, which narrate the life of Jesus, are central to
86 II, I, 0, 16,98 | which also transmits the life of Jesus, his message and
87 II, I, 0, 17,99 | mystery of Christian faith and life". (320)~
88 II, I, 0, 17,100 | shows the most intimate life of God, starting with his
89 II, I, 0, 18,102 | death, promises eternal life. (333) This complete salvation
90 II, I, 0, 18,102 | beginning certainly in this life, but which achieves its
91 II, I, 0, 18,102 | proclamation of another's life, that is of man's sublime
92 II, I, 0, 21,108 | of the Gospel; (359) the life of Jesus, Son of God, born
93 II, I, 0, 21,108 | revelation, interprets human life in our age, the signs of
94 II, I, 0, 24,115 | magna carta of the Christian life proclaimed by Jesus in the
95 II, I, 0, 24,115 | and in all of the Church's life. This prayer, given by Jesus
96 II, I, 0, 24,115(396) | charter of the Christian life and contains all the appropriate
97 II, I, 0, 25,116 | is not... isolated from life or artificially juxtaposed
98 II, I, 0, 25,116 | the ultimate meaning of life and it illumines the whole
99 II, I, 0, 25,116 | it illumines the whole of life with the light of the Gospel,
100 II, I, 0, 25,116 | Jesus Christ. In his earthly life he lived his humanity fully: "
101 II, I, 0, 25,116 | is to experience the new life of grace. (404)~
102 II, I, 0, 25,117 | transform their ways of life". (405) In this sense:~–
103 II, I, 0, 25,117 | interpret present-day human life in the light of the experiences
104 II, I, 0, 25,117 | eschatology) are always sources of life and light for the human
105 II, I, 0, 25,117 | in presenting what makes life worthy of the Gospel (407)
106 II,II, 1, 2,122 | dimensions of the Christian life: the profession of faith;
107 II,II, 1, 2,122 | by him in the sacramental life;~– loving him with all one'
108 II,II, 1, 2,122 | profound unity of the Christian life. It maintains an explicit
109 II,II, 1, 2,122 | bear fruit into eternal life". (426)~Structured around
110 II,II, 1, 3,123 | the Way, the Truth and the Life" (Jn 14,6). Centred on him,
111 II,II, 1, 3,123 | The vocation of Man and life in the Spirit"... and others. (431)
112 II,II, 1, 4,124 | common to the Christian life without "presenting as doctrines
113 II,II, 1, 6,127 | Scripture in the Church's life. Together with tradition,
114 II,II, 1, 7,129 | out in the practice and life of the Church, in her belief
115 II,II, 1, 7,130 | profession, celebration, life and prayer.~The wealth of
116 II,II, 1, 7,130 | the Old Testament, the life of Jesus Christ and the
117 II,II, 2, 3,133 | original expressions of life, of celebrations and of
118 III, 0, 2, 6,137 | teaching "by means of his whole life". (477) He stimulated them
119 III, I, 0, 8,139 | transforms events in the life of his people into lessons
120 III, I, 0, 8,139 | to the diverse ages and life situations. Thus he entrusts
121 III, I, 0, 9,140 | during his brief but intense life, the disciples had direct
122 III, I, 0, 9,140 | liberates from evil and promotes life; a pressing invitation to
123 III, I, 0, 10,141 | catechists; a variety of ways of life and original forms of religious
124 III, I, 0, 10,141 | itineraries of the Christian life; a precious patrimony of
125 III, I, 0, 12,143 | is to be proposed for the life and in the life of people;~–
126 III, I, 0, 12,143 | for the life and in the life of people;~– it values the
127 III, I, 0, 14,145 | the whole of the Church's life", and therefore for catechesis: "
128 III, I, 0, 16,147 | the religious dimension of life, while on the other, it
129 III,II, 0, 17,148 | of methods is a sign of life and richness" as well as
130 III,II, 0, 19,150 | events in the Church's life as well as events from daily
131 III,II, 0, 19,150 | well as events from daily life) so as to discern the meaning
132 III,II, 0, 19,151 | doctrine...) and applies it to life; the other is called "existential" (
133 III,II, 0, 20,152 | educate them in a new way of life. Thus, the person becomes
134 III,II, 0, 20,152 | discover more and more in his life God's plan for him.~
135 III,II, 0, 20,153(10) | the "great questions" of life, reality and especially
136 III,II, 0, 21,154 | become a source of Christian life on the personal level and
137 III,II, 0, 21,155 | journey and subsequently in life (redditio).(16)~This process
138 III,II, 0, 22,156 | and transparent witness of life, constitutes the soul of
139 III,II, 0, 23,157 | ordinary state of Christian life, individually or in age
140 III,II, 0, 25,159 | participation in ecclesial life. It finds its goal and fullest
141 IV, 0, 0, 27,163 | plain and confirming by his life that the Kingdom of God
142 IV, 0, 0, 27,163 | Jesus concluded his earthly life by sending his disciples
143 IV, 0, 0, 28,165 | Attention to the diverse life situations of people (36)
144 IV, I, 0, 30,168 | indeed it is from the whole life of the Church that catechesis
145 IV,II, 0, 33,171 | the other, every phase of life is open to the challenge
146 IV,II, 0, 33,171 | catechesis for other times of life.~This chapter seeks to set
147 IV,II, 1, 1,172 | they have encountered in life. Their questions of faith
148 IV,II, 1, 2,173 | personal, social, and spiritual life. Adult catechesis requires
149 IV,II, 1, 3,175 | formation and development of life in the Risen Christ by adequate
150 IV,II, 1, 4,176 | particularly significant events in life, such as Marriage, the Baptism
151 IV,II, 1, 4,176 | out the true meaning of life;~– is for special events
152 IV,II, 1, 4,176 | for special events in the life of the Church and society.~
153 IV,II, 2, 1,177 | grace of the beginnings of life, from which "valuablepossibilities
154 IV,II, 2, 1,177 | children. Those who have given life to children and have enriched
155 IV,II, 2, 2,178 | necessarily linked with their life situation and conditions.
156 IV,II, 2, 2,178 | his introduction into the life of the Church is possible.(68)~–
157 IV,II, 2, 2,178 | anthropological basis for the life of faith, a sense of trust,
158 IV,II, 3, 1,181 | together as the period of life which precedes the taking
159 IV,II, 4, 3,188 | an intense experience of life, which, in a certain sense,
160 IV,II, 4, 3,188 | tradition of faith, a teacher of life, and a worker of charity.
161 IV,III, 0, 7,192 | in simplicity, trust in life, a sense of solidarity,
162 IV,III, 0, 7,192 | can dominate the rhythm of life. Mobility is easy. There
163 IV,IV, 0, 8,194 | live it out in every-day life. It enables them to give
164 IV,IV, 0, 9,195 | vital dimension in Catholic life, there exists in Christian
165 IV,IV, 0, 9,195 | for God and the religious life which are full of fervour
166 IV,IV, 0, 9,195 | acceptance of the Cross in daily life, detachment, openness to
167 IV,IV, 0, 13,201 | which translates these into life". (108) Thus it is necessary
168 IV,IV, 0, 13,201 | and the truth, and the life' (Jn 14:6)". (109)~
169 IV, V, 0, 17,205 | thus, generates a dynamic life which is unified by the
170 IV, V, 0, 17,205 | the gap between belief and life, between the Christian message
171 IV, V, 0, 18,206 | expression of the community's life, one which must mature within
172 IV, V, 0, 19,207 | better correlating faith and life. Neither can inculturation
173 IV, V, 0, 19,207 | acquiring new motivations in life, education of conscience,
174 IV, V, 0, 22,211 | popularizing such models of life as urban life, migratory
175 IV, V, 0, 22,211 | models of life as urban life, migratory or tourist influxes,
176 IV, V, 0, 24,213 | all areas of the Christian life. Precisely because of the
177 V, I, 0, 29,220 | actively incorporated into the life of the community. The Christian
178 V, I, 0, 30,223 | catechesis for the Christian life of the diocese;~– that he
179 V, I, 0, 31,225(165) | concrete circumstances of life" (ibid.).~
180 V, I, 0, 32,226 | The witness of Christian life given by parents in the
181 V, I, 0, 32,226 | traces which last throughout life. This childhood religious
182 V, I, 0, 32,227 | radiated so that family life is transformed into a journey
183 V, I, 0, 32,227 | the school of Christian life. As the children grow, exchange
184 V, I, 0, 33,228 | calls those in consecrated life to catechetical activity
185 V, I, 0, 33,228 | of societies of apostolic life derives from their specific
186 V, I, 0, 33,228 | characterizes the religious life, constitutes a gift to the
187 V, I, 0, 33,228 | within a permanent state of life recognized by the Church,
188 V, I, 0, 33,228 | that characterizes the life consecrated to God". (176)
189 V, I, 0, 33,228 | Christian, those in consecrated life "incarnate the Church in
190 V, I, 0, 33,228(178) | between the diverse states of life of the Christian"; cf. CCC
191 V, I, 0, 34,230 | word and the testimony of life, acquires a specific property
192 V, I, 0, 34,230 | sharing the same form of life as those whom they catechize,
193 V, I, 0, 34,230 | the Gospel in the concrete life of men and women. Catechumens
194 V,II, 0, 36,233 | from or unrelated to the life of the community.~
195 V,II, 0, 38,235 | Christ; making known his life by setting it in the context
196 V,II, 0, 40,238 | educator of man and of the life of man". (213)~
197 V,II, 0, 41,239 | from his own witness of life. Every theme covered by
198 V,II, 0, 42,240 | the Old Testament, the life of Christ and the history
199 V,II, 0, 42,240 | the Liturgy, the moral life and prayer.~In its own level
200 V,II, 0, 42,241 | message with the concrete life of man "both to inspire
201 V,II, 0, 43,242 | these facts of collective life can greatly influence the
202 V,II, 0, 46,247(235) | prayer groups, the fraternal life, spiritual sharing and spiritual
203 V,III, 0, 50,254 | permeate themselves with a new life. The Christian community
204 V,III, 0, 51,255 | aspects and functions of the life of the entire Church may
205 V,III, 0, 53,257 | teaching, education and life experience.~Today, the parish
206 V,III, 0, 54,259 | the same time in that new life which has been given them
207 V,III, 0, 55,261 | aspects of the Christian life: "In fact they have the
208 V,III, 0, 55,261 | experience in the apostolic life as well as having the opportunity
209 V,III, 0, 55,262 | celebration and commitment in life). (278) Catechesis, whatever
210 V,III, 0, 55,262 | factors of the Christian life". (280)~b) This is not an
211 V,III, 0, 55,262(279)| essential part in the apostolic life of the laity.~
212 V,III, 0, 56,263 | because men want to live the life of the Church with greater
213 V,III, 0, 56,263 | seek a more human way of life which large ecclesial communities
214 V,III, 0, 56,264 | strive to deepen community life so as to ensure a basis
215 V,III, 0, 56,264 | basis for the Christian life of the faithful, without
216 V,IV, 1, 1,267 | Catechesis is so basic to the life of every particular Church,
217 V,IV, 3, 1,279 | these facts of collective life can greatly influence the
218 V,IV, 4, 1,283 | be "linked with the real life of the generation to which
219 V,IV, 4, 1,283 | at true conversion and a life more in conformity with
220 Conclu, 0, 4, 2,286 | experience of ecclesial life among different peoples
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