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1 Int, 1 | proclaim the great works of God: "For if I preach the Gospel,
2 Int, 2 | revealing to him the love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ.~
3 Int, 3 | to the definitive Word of God, to the One in whom God
4 Int, 3 | God, to the One in whom God has made himself fully known
5 Int, 3 | search for the truth about God, about man and about the
6 Int, 3 | meaning of life itself.~God is opening before the Church
7 1, 4 | Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the
8 1, 5 | only one able to reveal God and lead to God. In reply
9 1, 5 | to reveal God and lead to God. In reply to the Jewish
10 1, 5 | whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by
11 1, 5 | yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are
12 1, 5 | exist" (1 Cor 8:5-6). One God and one Lord are asserted
13 1, 5 | Christian faith: belief in one God and in one Lord sent by
14 1, 5 | and in one Lord sent by God.~In the Gospel of St. John,
15 1, 5 | again, "no one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in
16 1, 5 | Jn 1:18; cf. Mt 11:27). God's revelation becomes definitive
17 1, 5 | In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers
18 1, 5 | Word of his revelation, God has made himself known in
19 1, 5 | definitive self-revelation of God is the fundamental reason
20 1, 5 | fullness of the truth which God has enabled us to know about
21 1, 5 | the one mediator between God and mankind: "For there
22 1, 5 | mankind: "For there is one God, and there is one mediator
23 1, 5 | is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ
24 1, 5 | enter into communion with God except through Christ, by
25 1, 5 | obstacle on the journey toward God, is the way established
26 1, 5 | is the way established by God himself, a fact of which
27 1, 6 | was in the beginning with God," is the very one who "became
28 1, 6 | Christ, the Son of the living God" (Mt 16:16): Christ is none
29 1, 6 | Nazareth: he is the Word of God made man for the salvation
30 1, 6 | him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and
31 1, 6 | spiritual treasures - that God has bestowed on every people,
32 1, 6 | who is at the center of God's plan of salvation. Just
33 1, 6 | his incarnation the Son of God united himself in some sense
34 1, 6 | Mystery in a manner known to God."8 God's plan is "to unite
35 1, 6 | a manner known to God."8 God's plan is "to unite all
36 1, 7 | new life is a gift from God, and people are asked to
37 1, 7 | proclaimed by the Church, is God's self-communication: "It
38 1, 7 | participation in the very life of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
39 1, 7 | desires to give himself."9~God offers mankind this newness
40 1, 7 | free. He can say 'no' to God. He can say 'no' to Christ.
41 1, 8 | a "new humanity" without God.11~Moreover, the Second
42 1, 8 | searching for concerning God, man and his destiny, life
43 1, 9 | While acknowledging that God loves all people and grants
44 1, 9 | the Church believes that God has established Christ as
45 1, 9 | catholic unity of the people of God, therefore,...all are called,
46 1, 9 | everywhere who by the grace of God are called to salvation."17
47 1, 9 | that we can come to know God's mercy and our own responsibility.
48 1, 9 | to save others. This is God's will, and this is why
49 1, 10| of each of us comes from God and is therefore a universal
50 1, 10| Mystery in a manner known to God."19~
51 1, 11| Gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to everyone
52 1, 11| and reconciled mankind to God.~Confirming his words by
53 1, 11| himself to be the Son of God dwelling in intimate union
54 1, 11| came to reveal the face of God and to merit salvation for
55 1, 11| which has been received from God's bounty in order to be
56 1, 11| the profound demands of God's life within us. Those
57 1, 11| as a fitting response to God. They should be ever mindful
58 2 | CHAPTER II - THE KINGDOM OF GOD~
59 2, 12| 12. "It is 'God, who is rich in mercy' whom
60 2, 12| this way the kingdom of God comes to be fulfilled: the
61 2, 12| Old Testament attests that God chose and formed a people
62 2, 12| plan. But at the same time God is the Creator and Father
63 2, 12| experiences a personal and saving God (cf. Dt 4:37; 7:6-8; Is
64 2, 13| Jesus of Nazareth brings God's plan to fulfillment. After
65 2, 13| preaching the Gospel of God and saying: 'The time is
66 2, 13| fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe
67 2, 13| proclamation and establishment of God's kingdom are the purpose
68 2, 13| our midst. The kingdom of God is at hand (cf. Mk 1:15);
69 2, 13| inaugurates is the kingdom of God. Jesus himself reveals who
70 2, 13| himself reveals who this God is, the One whom he addresses
71 2, 13| Father (cf. Mk 14:36). God, as revealed above all in
72 2, 13| St. John tells us that "God is love" (1 Jn 4:8, 16).
73 2, 13| repent" and to "believe" in God's merciful love. The kingdom
74 2, 13| person learns to turn to God in the intimacy of prayer
75 2, 14| own person.~The kingdom of God is meant for all mankind,
76 2, 14| making them feel loved by God, thus revealing his tender
77 2, 14| brought by the kingdom of God come to the human person
78 2, 14| sin and rebellion against God - are signs that indeed "
79 2, 14| that indeed "the kingdom of God has come upon you" (Mt 12:
80 2, 15| with one another and with God.~The kingdom is the concern
81 2, 15| acknowledging and promoting God's activity, which is present
82 2, 15| In a word, the kingdom of God is the manifestation and
83 2, 15| manifestation and the realization of God's plan of salvation in all
84 2 | In the Risen Christ God's Kingdom Is Fulfilled and
85 2, 16| raising Jesus from the dead, God has conquered death, and
86 2, 16| into heaven he shares in God's power and in his dominion
87 2, 16| news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ" (
88 2, 16| preaching the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord
89 2, 16| kingdom of Christ and of God" (Eph 5:5; cf. Rev 11:15;
90 2, 16| proclamation of the kingdom of God (the content of Jesus' own "
91 2, 17| progress. The kingdom of God, however, "is not of this
92 2, 18| This is not the kingdom of God as we know it from Revelation.
93 2, 18| person of Christ, Son of God and Son of Man, who came '
94 2, 18| 10:45)."22 The kingdom of God is not a concept, a doctrine,
95 2, 18| the image of the invisible God.23 If the kingdom is separated
96 2, 18| no longer the kingdom of God which he revealed. The result
97 2, 18| ordered toward the kingdom of God of which she is the seed,
98 2, 18| connection with the kingdom of God and of Christ, which she
99 2, 20| power to become children of God" (Jn 1:12).~The Church,
100 2, 20| which help people to accept God's plan. It is true that
101 2, 20| dimensions of the kingdom of God29 do not weaken the foundations
102 2, 20| pilgrimage of conversion to God's plan through her witness
103 2, 20| kingdom by its very nature is God's gift and work, as we are
104 2, 20| delivers the kingdom to God the Father" and "God will
105 2, 20| to God the Father" and "God will be everything to everyone" (
106 3, 23| this man was the Son of God!" (Mk 15:39) In Matthew,
107 3, 23| that is, conversion to God's love and mercy, the experience
108 3, 23| they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you
109 3, 24| like that of Jesus, is God's work or, as Luke often
110 3, 25| Acts 17:18, 26- 28). The God whom Paul wishes to reveal
111 3, 25| their lives; indeed, this God has created them and mysteriously
112 3, 25| are to recognize the true God, they must abandon the false
113 3, 25| themselves to the One whom God has sent to remedy their
114 3, 28| attain truth, goodness and God himself.36~The Spirit offers
115 3, 28| savoring of the mystery of God's design"; indeed, "we are
116 3, 28| Mystery in a manner known to God."37 The Church "is aware
117 3, 28| stirred by the Spirit of God and can therefore never
118 3, 28| history: "The Spirit of God with marvelous foresight
119 4, 31| communicate the love of God to all people and nations."49~
120 4, 32| commitment of the whole People of God. Nevertheless, care must
121 4, 34| mission of the whole People of God and as a result become neglected
122 4, 36| lacking within the People of God; indeed these difficulties
123 4, 37| Christ and the kingdom of God must become the means for
124 4, 38| Christian path to meeting God, to prayer, to asceticism,
125 4, 39| this, a right given her by God for the accomplishment of
126 4, 39| lose its relationship to God's plan and would be impoverished
127 5, 41| manifestation or epiphany of God's plan and its fulfillment
128 5, 41| history; in this history God, by means of missions, clearly
129 5, 42| the model, is a sign of God and of transcendent realities.
130 5, 42| questions which lead to God and to the Gospel. A commitment
131 5, 44| being loved and saved by God. "Evangelization will always
132 5, 44| all people, as a gift of God's grace and mercy."72 All
133 5, 44| the mystery of the love of God, who invites him to enter
134 5, 44| sin and death; through him God bestows "new life" that
135 5, 44| enter into communion with God the Father through Christ.75~
136 5, 45| We had courage in our God to declare to you the Gospel
137 5, 45| declare to you the Gospel of God in the face of great opposition" (
138 5, 45| knowing the truth about God, about man, and about how
139 5, 45| truth, but the "word of God," which has an intrinsic
140 5, 46| proclamation of the Word of God has Christian conversion
141 5, 46| Conversion is a gift of God, a work of the Blessed Trinity.
142 5, 46| neither limits nor hinders God's gift. At the same time,
143 5, 46| preaching the Gospel of God and saying: 'The time is
144 5, 46| fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe
145 5, 46| hear the "Good News" of the God who reveals and gives himself
146 5, 46| If you knew the gift of God," and in the unconscious
147 5, 47| cannot enter the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5). In Baptism, in
148 5, 47| born anew to the life of God's children, united to Jesus
149 5, 48| and Lord. This is part of God's plan, for it pleases him "
150 5, 49| sign of the presence of God in the world"80 and which
151 5, 49| to the whole people of God and to all its missionary
152 5, 49| be presented as a gift of God to be lived out in community (
153 5, 50| of reconciliation which God is bringing about in our
154 5, 50| common profession of faith in God and in Jesus Christ before
155 5, 51| it listens to the word of God, focuses its prayer on the
156 5, 54| involve the whole people of God, and not just a few experts,
157 5, 55| other religions. In Christ, God calls all peoples to himself
158 5, 55| other religions can receive God's grace and be saved by
159 5, 55| faith and baptism which God wills for all people."100
160 5, 58| live and act as a son of God, sets him free from injustices
161 5, 58| revealing to peoples the God whom they seek and do not
162 5, 58| grandeur of man created in God's image and loved by him,
163 5, 58| of all men and women as God's sons and daughters, the
164 5, 58| man over nature created by God and placed at man's service,
165 5, 59| gives everyone a place in God's plan, which is the building
166 5, 59| development derives from God, and from the model of Jesus -
167 5, 59| from the model of Jesus - God and man - and must lead
168 5, 59| and must lead back to God.111 That is why there is
169 5, 60| the image and likeness of God to be his children, but
170 5, 60| violated. For this reason, God has become their defender
171 6, 61| missionary work of Paul, who by God's will was called and sent
172 6, 69| the majesty and love of God, as well as to unity in
173 6, 69| action in order to extend God's kingdom. In recent times
174 6, 69| a total gift of self to God and in complete readiness
175 6, 70| are consecrated to love of God and neighbor, especially
176 6, 71| upon the entire People of God. Whereas the foundation
177 6, 71| of the entire People of God and of the apostolate of
178 6, 71| to seek the kingdom of God by engaging in temporal
179 6, 71| accordance with the will of God."151~
180 6, 72| represent a true gift of God both for new evangelization
181 7, 77| the marvelous things which God had wrought through their
182 7, 78| will be effective through God's grace. In his Letters,
183 7, 78| accepted and offered to God with love, derives from
184 7, 78| offer their sufferings to God for missionaries. By making
185 7, 81| that we have received from God - life itself as well as
186 7, 81| as an offering made to God, in the Eucharistic celebration
187 7 | Formation Among the People of God~
188 7, 83| and forming the People of God to share in the Church's
189 7, 83| the poor are hungry for God, not just for bread and
190 7, 84| spirit among the People of God. The Missionary Union has
191 7, 85| Christ's disciples must "obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:
192 7 | God Is Preparing a New Springtime
193 7, 86| unjustified: we have faith in God our Father and Lord, in
194 7, 86| the redemption draws near, God is preparing a great springtime
195 7, 86| ideal the whole People of God must be educated.~We cannot
196 7, 86| ignorance of the love of God. For each believer, as for
197 7, 86| humanity and corresponds to God's mysterious and merciful
198 8, 87| particular to all those whom God has called to be missionaries.~
199 8 | then, we must pray that God will grant us boldness in
200 8, 88| though he was in the form of God, did not count equality
201 8, 88| not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but
202 8, 89| into one the children of God who are scattered abroad" (
203 8, 89| sisters that they are loved by God and are capable of loving,
204 8, 89| ideology. He is a sign of God's love in the world - a
205 8, 91| in generous devotion to God and neighbor. In a word,
206 8, 91| thus can you be a sign of God in the world and re-live
207 8, 91| problems in the light of God's word and in personal and
208 8, 91| witness to the experience of God, and must be able to say
209 8, 91| concretely that the kingdom of God has already come, and that
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