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1 Int, 1 | which is entrusted to the Church, is still very far from
2 Int, 1 | In the name of the whole Church, I sense an urgent duty
3 Int, 1 | Council sought to renew the Church's life and activity in the
4 Int, 1 | The Council emphasized the Church's "missionary nature," basing
5 Int, 2 | all dioceses and parishes, Church institutions and associations.~
6 Int, 2 | external have weakened the Church's missionary thrust toward
7 Int, 2 | believe in Christ. For in the Church's history, missionary drive
8 Int, 2 | predecessors,2 I wish to invite the Church to renew her missionary
9 Int, 2 | missionary activity renews the Church, revitalizes faith and Christian
10 Int, 2 | is in commitment to the Church's universal mission that
11 Int, 2 | primary service which the Church can render to every individual
12 Int, 3 | and do not belong to the Church is constantly on the increase.
13 Int, 3 | Son, the urgency of the Church's mission is obvious.~On
14 Int, 3 | our own times offer the Church new opportunities in this
15 Int, 3 | God is opening before the Church the horizons of a humanity
16 Int, 3 | come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization
17 Int, 3 | Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty:
18 1, 4 | Pontificate, I said that "the Church's fundamental function in
19 1, 4 | mystery of Christ."4~The Church's universal mission is born
20 1, 4 | is only in faith that the Church's mission can be understood
21 1, 4 | an adequate goal of the Church's mission? Does not respect
22 1, 5 | to the beginnings of the Church, we find a clear affirmation
23 1, 5 | fundamental reason why the Church is missionary by her very
24 1, 6 | the "Christ of faith." The Church acknowledges and confesses
25 1, 6(7) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
26 1, 7 | in Christ and live in his Church. Salvation in Christ, as
27 1, 7 | to and proclaimed by the Church, is God's self-communication: "
28 1, 8 | truth.... This is why the Church keeps her missionary spirit
29 1 | The Church As Sign and Instrument of
30 1, 9 | beneficiary of salvation is the Church. Christ won the Church for
31 1, 9 | the Church. Christ won the Church for himself at the price
32 1, 9 | his own blood and made the Church his co-worker in the salvation
33 1, 9 | Christ dwells within the Church. She is his Bride. It is
34 1, 9 | frequent reference to the Church's role in the salvation
35 1, 9 | saved (cf. l Tm 2:4),15 the Church believes that God has established
36 1, 9(15) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 14-17; Decree
37 1, 9(15) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 3.~
38 1, 9(16) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 48; Pastoral
39 1, 9(16) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
40 1, 9(16) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 7, 21.~
41 1, 9 | and the necessity of the Church for salvation. Both these
42 1, 9 | is why he established the Church and made her a part of his
43 1, 9(17) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 13.~
44 1, 10 | Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered
45 1, 10 | revelation or to enter the Church. The social and cultural
46 1, 10 | mysterious relationship to the Church, does not make them formally
47 1, 10 | them formally part of the Church but enlightens them in a
48 1, 10(19) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
49 1, 11 | such by his disciples. The Church offers mankind the Gospel,
50 1, 11 | remains "Good News." The Church cannot fail to proclaim
51 1, 11 | mission?" we reply with the Church's faith and experience that
52 1, 11 | approach it freely. The Church, and every individual Christian
53 1, 11 | mankind.~This is why the Church's mission derives not only
54 1, 11 | incorporated in the Catholic Church ought to sense their privilege
55 1, 11(20) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, 14.~
56 2, 12 | proclaimed to all peoples by the Church, which works and prays for
57 2, 16 | The preaching of the early Church was centered on the proclamation
58 2 | Relation to Christ and the Church~
59 2, 17 | with the thinking of the Church. In fact, there are ideas
60 2, 17 | They stress the image of a Church which is not concerned about
61 2, 17 | serving the kingdom. It is a "Church for others" just as Christ
62 2, 17 | the "man for others." The Church's task is described as though
63 2, 17 | very little room for the Church or undervaluing the Church
64 2, 17 | Church or undervaluing the Church in reaction to a presumed "
65 2, 17 | because they consider the Church herself only a sign, for
66 2, 18 | from Christ or from the Church.~As has already been said,
67 2, 18(22) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 5.~
68 2, 18(23) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
69 2, 18 | separate the kingdom from the Church. It is true that the Church
70 2, 18 | Church. It is true that the Church is not an end unto herself,
71 2, 18 | Christ and the kingdom, the Church is indissolubly united to
72 2, 18 | both. Christ endowed the Church, his body, with the fullness
73 2, 18 | and the Spirit outside the Church's visible boundaries, confers
74 2, 18 | necessary role; hence the Church's special connection with
75 2, 18(24) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 4.~
76 2, 19 | which is at the heart of the Church, must not be detached from
77 2, 19 | link between Christ, the Church and evangelization,"26 also
78 2, 19 | evangelization,"26 also said that the Church "is not an end unto herself,
79 2 | The Church at the Service of the Kingdom~
80 2, 20 | 20. The Church is effectively and concretely
81 2, 20 | Preaching constitutes the Church's first and fundamental
82 2, 20 | children of God" (Jn 1:12).~The Church, then, serves the kingdom
83 2, 20 | human institutions.~The Church serves the kingdom by spreading
84 2, 20 | beyond the confines of the Church among peoples everywhere,
85 2, 20 | of Christ present in the Church and straining towards eschatological
86 2, 20 | strengthen and extend them. The Church is the sacrament of salvation
87 2, 20(29) | Eschatological Character of the Church: Kingdom and Church."~
88 2, 20(29) | the Church: Kingdom and Church."~
89 2, 20 | of gospel values.30 The Church contributes to mankind's
90 2, 20 | salvation.~Finally, the Church serves the kingdom by her
91 2, 20(30) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
92 3, 21 | to the apostles, to the Church. Nevertheless, in and through
93 3, 21 | agent of the whole of the Church's mission. His action is
94 3, 21 | clearly be seen in the early Church: in the conversion of Cornelius (
95 3, 23 | on the foundation of the Church and on her teaching (cf.
96 3, 23 | because of what we are as a Church whose innermost life is
97 3 | The Spirit Directs the Church's Mission~
98 3, 24 | 24. The mission of the Church, like that of Jesus, is
99 3, 24 | addressed to the Jews during the Church's infancy (cf. Acts 2:22-
100 3, 24 | 11, 28). From now on the Church opens her doors and becomes
101 3 | Holy Spirit Makes the Whole Church Missionary~
102 3, 26 | a community," to be the Church. After Peter's first proclamation
103 3, 27 | responsibility of the local church, which needs "missionaries"
104 3, 27 | communities and the Apostolic Church.~Reading the Acts of the
105 3, 27 | at the beginning of the Church the mission ad gentes, while
106 3, 28 | in a special way in the Church and in her members. Nevertheless,
107 3, 28(36) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 3, 11, 15; Pastoral
108 3, 28(36) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
109 3, 28 | manner known to God."37 The Church "is aware that humanity
110 3, 28(37) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
111 3, 28(40) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
112 3, 28(42) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 17; Decree
113 3, 28(42) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 3, 15.~
114 3, 29(43) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 4.~
115 3, 29 | variety of peoples. The Church's relationship with other
116 3, 29 | and who is at work in the Church. He is therefore not an
117 3, 29(47) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 16.~
118 3, 29 | of Christ, which is the Church. Indeed, it is always the
119 3, 29 | when he gives life to the Church and impels her to proclaim
120 3, 29 | and peoples, guiding the Church to discover these gifts,
121 3, 29 | the responsibility of the Church, to which Christ gave his
122 3, 29(48) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
123 3, 30 | demands a resurgence of the Church's missionary activity. The
124 3, 30 | missionary outreach, and the Church, guided by the Spirit, has
125 3, 30 | Africa and Oceania. Today the Church must face other challenges
126 3, 30 | churches and the universal Church, are called to have the
127 4, 31 | earth. In the apostles, the Church received a universal mission -
128 4, 31 | bring (cf. Jn 10:10). The Church was "sent by Christ to reveal
129 4, 31 | subject. This is one of the Church's fundamental activities:
130 4, 31 | essential and never-ending. The Church, in fact, "cannot withdraw
131 4, 31 | entrusts each day to his Church."50~
132 4, 31(49) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 10.~
133 4, 32 | missionary" to describe all the Church's activities.~This uneasiness
134 4, 32 | of the missions into the Church's mission, the insertion
135 4, 32 | a marginal task for the Church but is situated at the center
136 4, 32 | or even eliminating, the Church's mission and missionaries
137 4, 32 | gentes. To say that the whole Church is missionary does not preclude
138 4, 33 | diversity of activities in the Church's one mission is not intrinsic
139 4, 33 | the situation which the Church's missionary activity addresses:
140 4, 33(51) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 6.~
141 4, 33 | In these communities the Church carries out her activity
142 4, 33 | themselves members of the Church, and live a life far removed
143 4, 34 | from Christ," in whom the Church "has not yet taken root"53
144 4, 34 | and the presence of the Church are either absent or insufficient.
145 4, 34 | Gospel, building up the local Church and promoting the values
146 4, 34 | entrusts each day to his Church"55 does not become an indistinguishable
147 4, 34 | is the first task of the Church, which has been sent forth
148 4, 34 | the mission ad gentes, the Church's very missionary dimension
149 4, 34 | saving activities of the Church. Each of them influences,
150 4, 35 | of all proportion to the Church's human resources.~The difficulties
151 4, 36 | Other great obstacles to the Church's missionary work include
152 4, 36(57) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 6.~
153 4, 36 | service they render to the Church's mission in order to discover
154 4, 36 | path of "thinking with the Church" (sentire cum Ecclesia).~
155 4, 36 | principal agents of the Church's mission, but Jesus Christ
156 4 | Parameters of the Church's Mission Ad Gentes~
157 4, 37 | perspective. Indeed, the Church refuses to allow her missionary
158 4, 37 | the presence of the local church.60 Even in traditionally
159 4, 37(59) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 6.~
160 4, 37 | missionary responsibility of the Church are not credible unless
161 4, 37 | in Asia, toward which the Church's mission ad gentes ought
162 4, 37 | exchanges, and calling the Church to hospitality, dialogue,
163 4, 37 | catastrophic proportions. The Church must make them part of her
164 4, 37 | Christian message and the Church's authentic teaching. It
165 4, 37 | modern world toward which the Church's missionary activity ought
166 4, 38 | represents an opportunity. The Church has an immense spiritual
167 4, 39 | proclaiming Jesus Christ. The Church must be faithful to Christ,
168 4, 39 | his resurrection."63 The Church is thus obliged to do everything
169 4, 39 | all people everywhere. The Church strives for this in all
170 4, 39 | person.~On her part. the Church addresses people with full
171 4, 39(63) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 5; cf. Dogmatic
172 4, 39(63) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 8.~
173 4, 39 | rather promotes it. The Church proposes; she imposes nothing.
174 4, 39 | missionary activity, the Church repeats: Open the doors
175 4, 39 | missionaries, for "each individual church that would voluntarily cut
176 4, 39 | itself off from the universal Church would lose its relationship
177 4, 40 | greatest challenge for the Church. As the end of the second
178 4, 40 | certainly positive. The Church has been established on
179 5, 41 | What paths does the Church follow in order to achieve
180 5, 41 | present situation of the Church and the world.~
181 5, 41(68) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 9; cf. Chapter
182 5, 42 | Holy Spirit accompanies the Church along her way and associates
183 5, 42 | realities. But everyone in the Church, striving to imitate the
184 5, 42(70) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 28, 35, 38;
185 5, 42(70) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
186 5, 42(70) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 11-12.~
187 5, 43 | and sisters in Christ.~The Church is called to bear witness
188 5, 43 | simplicity of life. The Church and her missionaries must
189 5, 44 | priority of mission. The Church cannot elude Christ's explicit
190 5, 44 | lies at the heart of the Church's mission and life, as the
191 5, 44(73) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 13.~
192 5, 44(74) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 13-14.~
193 5, 45 | evangelizing activity of the whole Church.76 Sooner or later, his
194 5, 46 | becoming his disciple.~The Church calls all people to this
195 5, 47 | not only because of the Church's practice, but also by
196 5, 47 | of Christ, which is the Church.~All this needs to be said,
197 5, 47 | grasp the true nature of the Church as a mystery of faith and
198 5, 47 | himself who desired that the Church should be the "place" where
199 5, 47 | convert is a gift to the Church and represents a serious
200 5, 47 | Gospel lived out in the Church. They would be greatly disappointed
201 5, 47(77) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 6-9.~
202 5, 48 | Baptism give entry into a Church already in existence or
203 5, 48 | building a new particular church which functions normally
204 5, 48(78) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 2; cf. Dogmatic
205 5, 48(78) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 9.~
206 5, 48 | the whole mystery of the Church is contained in each particular
207 5, 48 | contained in each particular church, provided it does not isolate
208 5, 48 | communion with the universal Church and becomes missionary in
209 5, 48(79) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, Chapter III,
210 5, 49 | implanting and developing the Church. This phase of ecclesial
211 5, 49 | belongs to the universal Church and to the particular churches,
212 5, 49 | missionary forces. Every church, even one made up of recent
213 5, 49 | elsewhere as part of the Church's universal mission, is
214 5, 49 | The effectiveness of the Church's organizations, movements,
215 5, 49 | and the expansion of the Church in non-Christian environments
216 5, 49 | gentes. In this way, every church will make its own the solicitude
217 5, 50 | threat for the Catholic Church and for all the ecclesial
218 5, 51 | sign of vitality within the Church, an instrument of formation
219 5, 51 | particular and the universal Church, in heartfelt communion
220 5, 51 | heartfelt communion with the Church's pastors and the Magisterium,
221 5, 51 | Bishops stated: "Because the Church is communion, the new 'basic
222 5, 51 | truly live in unity with the Church, are a true expression of
223 5, 51 | hope for the life of the Church."84~
224 5, 52 | activity among the nations, the Church encounters different cultures
225 5, 52 | involvement has marked the Church's pilgrimage throughout
226 5, 52 | urgent.~The process of the Church's insertion into peoples'
227 5, 52 | Christian message and also the Church's reflection and practice.
228 5, 52 | Through inculturation the Church makes the Gospel incarnate
229 5, 52 | Through inculturation the Church, for her part, becomes a
230 5, 52 | churches, the universal Church herself is enriched with
231 5, 52 | involves those working in the Church's mission ad gentes, the
232 5, 52(89) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 22.~
233 5, 53 | other90 and with the whole Church, convinced that only through
234 5, 53 | attention both to the universal Church and to the particular churches
235 5, 54 | communion with the universal Church."94 Bishops, as guardians
236 5, 54 | voices in the universal Church."97 In effect, inculturation
237 5, 54(96) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 17.~
238 5, 55 | dialogue is a part of the Church's evangelizing mission.
239 5, 55(98) | Council, Declaration on the Church's Relation to Non-Christian
240 5, 55(98) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 16; Decree
241 5, 55(98) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 9; Paul VI, Apostolic
242 5, 55 | economy of salvation, the Church sees no conflict between
243 5, 55 | bishops of Asia: "Although the Church gladly acknowledges whatever
244 5, 55(99) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 11, 41; Secretariat
245 5, 55 | confirmed the need for the Church, into which people enter
246 5, 55 | the conviction that the Church is the ordinary means of
247 5, 55(101)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 14; cf. Decree
248 5, 55(101)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 7.~
249 5, 55(102)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 7.~
250 5, 56 | Through dialogue, the Church seeks to uncover the "seeds
251 5, 56(104)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 11, 15 .~
252 5, 56 | positive challenge for the Church: they stimulate her both
253 5, 56(105)| Council, Declaration on the Church's Relation to Non-Christian
254 5, 57(107)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 41.~
255 5, 58 | most urgently needed. The Church has always been able to
256 5, 58 | Socialis, I stated that "the Church does not have technical
257 5, 58 | development."109 It is not the Church's mission to work directly
258 5, 58 | evangelization."110~The Church and her missionaries also
259 5, 58 | money or technology. The Church forms consciences by revealing
260 5, 59 | the gospel message, the Church offers a force for liberation
261 5, 59 | The contribution of the Church and of evangelization to
262 5, 59 | motto which has appeared in Church circles and which shows
263 5, 60 | pastoral visit to Brazil: "The Church all over the world wishes
264 5, 60 | the world wishes to be the Church of the poor...she wishes
265 5, 60 | spirit of the Beatitudes, the Church is called to be on the side
266 6, 61 | the first to work in the Church's universal mission. They
267 6, 61 | that the horizons of the Church's universal mission were
268 6, 61 | Gal 1:15-16).~In the early Church's missionary expansion,
269 6, 61 | typical example is the local church at Antioch which, after
270 6, 61 | Acts 13:2-3). The early Church experiences her mission
271 6, 62 | valid and urgent today. The Church is missionary by her very
272 6, 62 | reaches the very heart of the Church. It follows that the universal
273 6, 62 | follows that the universal Church and each individual church
274 6, 62 | Church and each individual church is sent forth to the nations.
275 6, 62 | universal missionary work of the Church. They should themselves
276 6, 62 | bond between the universal Church and the particular churches
277 6, 62 | missionary nature of the Church finds practical expression: "
278 6, 62 | increasingly smaller, the Church's communities ought to be
279 6, 62 | the younger, so that each church can draw on the riches of
280 6, 62(117)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 20.~
281 6, 63 | the faith, to console the Church, to meet people. They are
282 6, 63(119)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 38.~
283 6, 63(121)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 23.~
284 6, 63 | and holiest duty of the Church."123 The same responsibility
285 6, 63(122)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 38.~
286 6, 63 | the pastor of a particular church, has a wide-ranging missionary
287 6, 64 | 64. Each particular church must be generous and open
288 6, 64 | clergy in the world. 127~The Church's mission is wider than
289 6, 65 | to know exactly what the Church expects of them today.~The
290 6, 65 | same time raises up in the Church those institutes which undertake
291 6, 65 | responsibility of the whole Church, as their special task."129~
292 6, 65(128)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, Chapter IV, 23-
293 6, 66 | institute exists for the Church and must enrich her with
294 6, 66(132)| Bishops and Religious in the Church Mutuae Relationes (May 14,
295 6, 66 | it is the model of the Church's missionary commitment,
296 6, 66(133)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 27.~
297 6, 67 | share in concern for the Church's mission: "The spiritual
298 6, 67 | to the aid of the whole Church, in readiness to preach
299 6, 67(134)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 39.~
300 6, 67 | open to the needs of the Church and the world, with concern
301 6, 67 | the concern of the whole Church for all of humanity.~Especially
302 6, 68 | direct it toward the entire Church."137 Today it is clear how
303 6, 68 | of the new setting of the Church which welcomes them, and
304 6, 68(138)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 38; Sacred Congregation
305 6, 68(139)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 20.~
306 6, 69 | dedication to the service of the Church deriving from their very
307 6, 69 | more authentic service. The Church needs to make known the
308 6, 69(141)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 40.~
309 6, 71 | spoke explicitly of the Church's "permanent mission of
310 6, 71 | the foundation of a new church requires the Eucharist and
311 6, 71(147)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 17, 33ff.~
312 6, 71(148)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 35-36, 41.~
313 6, 71(151)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 31; cf. CIC,
314 6, 72 | international levels. Within the Church, there are various types
315 6, 73 | Missionary Activity of the Church speaks of them as "that
316 6, 73 | of the faith and of the Church by their strenuous efforts." 154
317 6, 73(154)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 17.~
318 6, 73 | both within and outside the Church, there is always need for
319 6, 73(157)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 17.~
320 6, 74 | other ways of serving the Church and her mission; namely,
321 6, 74 | her mission; namely, other Church personnel: leaders of prayer,
322 6, 74 | works; administrators of Church resources; leaders in the
323 6, 74 | part of their time to the Church, living their faith authentically.~
324 6, 75 | communion.~But since the Church is also a communion which
325 6, 75 | for the building up of the Church."159~To the congregation
326 6, 75(159)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 28.~
327 6, 75(160)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 29.~
328 6, 75 | programs of action which the Church needs in order to be more
329 6, 75 | communion in which the entire Church is missionary, but in which
330 6, 75(161)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 29: Cf. John
331 6, 76(162)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 31.~
332 6, 76(165)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 34; Paul VI,
333 7, 77 | they are members of the Church by virtue of their Baptism,
334 7, 77 | become a fruitful part of the Church's mission. The Second Vatican
335 7, 77(166)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 35; cf. CIC,
336 7, 78 | Pentecost - the beginning of the Church's mission - is celebrated
337 7, 79 | sign of the vitality of a church.~
338 7, 80 | missionary cause of the Church by fostering missionary
339 7, 80 | generous participation in Church activities provide families
340 7, 81 | not only to set up the Church with minimal structures (
341 7, 81 | countries. The missionary Church gives what she receives,
342 7, 81 | indispensable for building up the Church and for showing love.~In
343 7, 81 | date in the life of the Church, because it teaches how
344 7, 83 | is the task of the local Church, assisted by missionaries
345 7, 83 | the life of the universal Church and in voicing the experiences
346 7, 83 | and should not ignore the Church's universal mission, ecumenism,
347 7, 83 | People of God to share in the Church's universal mission, promoting
348 7, 83 | human rights. The missionary Church is certainly involved on
349 7, 84 | universality and of service to the Church's mission, without which
350 7, 84(170)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 38.~
351 7, 85 | other parts and to the whole Church, in such a way that the
352 7, 85 | the different parts of the Church there are bonds of intimate
353 7, 85 | laity, to be open to the Church's universality, and to avoid
354 7, 85(171)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 13.~
355 7, 86 | a development which the Church seeks to encourage. Today
356 7, 86 | Gospel, or for whom the Church is scarcely present, are
357 7, 86 | require the uniting of all the Church's resources. As she prepares
358 7, 86 | the year 2000, the whole Church is even more committed to
359 7, 86 | believer, as for the entire Church, the missionary task must
360 8, 88(172)| Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 24.~
361 8 | Loving the Church and Humanity As Jesus Did~
362 8, 89 | for souls, and love the Church as Christ did.~The missionary
363 8, 89 | bearing in himself the Church's spirit, her openness to
364 8, 89 | Christ he must love the Church: "Christ loved the Church
365 8, 89 | Church: "Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for
366 8, 89 | Only profound love for the Church can sustain the missionary'
367 8, 89 | separated from fidelity to the Church."173~
368 8, 90 | mission of salvation in the Church."174~The universal call
369 8, 90 | gleams over the face of the Church, by preaching the Gospel
370 8, 90 | every creature." 175 The Church's missionary spirituality
371 8, 90(175)| Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 1.~
372 8, 91 | this two-thousand-year-old Church of ours: being young in
373 8, 91 | missionary epic of the early Church. You will also be a leaven
374 Conc, 92 | Today, as never before, the Church has the opportunity of bringing
375 Conc, 92 | Christ's Ascension, the Church must gather in the Upper
376 Conc, 92 | third millennium the whole Church is invited to live more
377 Conc, 92 | the work of salvation. The Church does this together with
378 Conc, 92 | the example of Mary, the Church's Mother and model: Mary
379 Conc, 92 | all who cooperate in the Church's apostolic mission for
380 Conc, 92 | presence of Christ, the Church journeys through time toward
381 Conc, 92 | power,"178 I entrust the Church and, in particular, those
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