QUESTIONNAIRE ON CHAPTER ONE

1. Is the need for and urgency of new evangelization really felt in our ecclesial communities and especially among our priests?

2. Is it frequently preached? Does new evangelization feature at clergy meetings, in pastoral programmes and in continuing formation?

3. Are priests especially involved in promoting a new evangelizing mission — new in its "ardour, methods and expression"(²⁸) — both ad intra and ad extra in the Church?

4. Do the faithful regard the priesthood as a divine gift both for those who receive it and for their communities, or do they regard the priesthood merely as an administrative function? Are prayers for vocations to the priesthood sufficiently encouraged as well as prayers for that generosity which responds affirmatively to a vocation?

5. In preaching the Word of God and in catechesis is the necessary proportion between instruction in the faith and sacramental practice maintained? Is the evangelizing activity of priests characterized by a complementarity between preaching and sacraments, the "munus docendi" and the "munus sanctificandi"?

6. What can be done to help priests become ministers who harmoniously build the prophetic, liturgical and charitable community which is the Church?

7. From the preparations for the Great Jubilee of 2000 do priests derive opportunities and ideas for a realistic programme of new evangelization?