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1 Int, 1 | 1. The mission of Christ the Redeemer,
2 Int, 1 | human race shows that this mission is still only beginning
3 Int, 1 | dynamic way on the Trinitarian mission itself. The missionary thrust
4 Int, 2(1) | Paul VI, Message for World Mission Day, 1972, Insegnamenti
5 Int, 2 | to the Church's universal mission that the new evangelization
6 Int, 3 | urgency of the Church's mission is obvious.~On the other
7 Int, 3 | evangelization and to the mission ad gentes. No believer in
8 1, 4 | The Church's universal mission is born of faith in Jesus
9 1, 4 | faith that the Church's mission can be understood and only
10 1, 4 | adequate goal of the Church's mission? Does not respect for conscience
11 1, 5 | embraces all the aspects of his mission of grace, truth and revelation:
12 1, 9 | grow. He carries out his mission through her.~The Council
13 1, 9 | salvation for all, and sent on a mission to the whole world as the
14 1, 11 | mentioned regarding the mission ad gentes? While respecting
15 1, 11 | resurrection.~To the question, "why mission?" we reply with the Church'
16 1, 11 | meaning and joy to our life. Mission is an issue of faith, an
17 1, 11 | of divine filiation. Why mission? Because to us, as to St.
18 1, 11 | This is why the Church's mission derives not only from the
19 2, 13 | kingdom are the purpose of his mission: "I was sent for this purpose" (
20 2, 13 | the very beginning of his mission in the synagogue at Nazareth,
21 2, 13 | Easter, the scope of his mission was focused on Israel. Nevertheless,
22 2, 14 | characteristic of Jesus' mission: healing and forgiving.
23 2, 14 | suffering, and that his mission, from the very beginning,
24 2, 16 | message, his actions and whole mission. The disciples recognize
25 2, 17 | ideas about salvation and mission which can be called "anthropocentric"
26 2, 18 | Christ, which she has "the mission of announcing and inaugurating
27 3 | THE PRINCIPAL AGENT OF MISSION~
28 3, 21 | climax of Jesus' messianic mission, the Holy Spirit becomes
29 3, 21 | the whole of the Church's mission. His action is preeminent
30 3, 21 | action is preeminent in the mission ad gentes, as can clearly
31 3, 23 | necessary to carry out their mission. The reference here is to
32 3, 23 | each version, Mark presents mission as proclamation or kerygma: "
33 3, 23 | sacramental catechesis. In Luke, mission is presented as witness (
34 3, 23 | a word equivalent to "mission." He directly links the
35 3, 23 | He directly links the mission which Jesus entrusts to
36 3, 23 | to his disciples with the mission which he himself has received
37 3, 23 | The ultimate purpose of mission is to enable people to share
38 3, 23 | fundamental unity of the same mission, a pluralism which reflects
39 3, 23 | Evangelists stress that the mission of the disciples is to cooperate
40 3, 23 | disciples is to cooperate in the mission of Christ; "Lo, I am with
41 3, 23 | of the age" (Mt 28:20). Mission, then, is based not on human
42 3 | Spirit Directs the Church's Mission~
43 3, 24 | 24. The mission of the Church, like that
44 3, 24 | the impetus given to the mission which, in accordance with
45 3, 25 | religion, for a truly universal mission.~
46 3, 26 | the central purposes of mission is to bring people together
47 3, 26 | Even before activity, mission means witness and a way
48 3, 27 | Apostles indicates that the mission which was directed first
49 3, 27 | sends its members forth on mission; having fasted, prayed and
50 3, 27 | In its origins, then, mission is seen as a community commitment,
51 3, 27 | beginning of the Church the mission ad gentes, while it had
52 3, 30 | horizons and possibilities for mission are growing ever wider,
53 3, 30 | is the principal agent of mission!~The history of humanity
54 3, 30 | frontiers, both in the initial mission ad gentes and in the new
55 4 | THE VAST HORIZONS OF THE MISSION AD GENTES~
56 4, 31 | Church received a universal mission - one which knows no boundaries -
57 4, 31 | people and nations."49~This mission is one and undivided, having
58 4, 31 | missionary activity which we call mission ad gentes, in reference
59 4, 31 | withdraw from her permanent mission of bringing the Gospel to
60 4, 32 | and countries had become "mission territories"; the situation
61 4, 32 | situation, with one single mission, the same everywhere. The
62 4, 32 | apparent in the "language of mission." For example, there is
63 4, 32 | hesitation to use the terms "mission" and "missionaries," which
64 4, 32 | to use instead the noun "mission" in the singular and the
65 4, 32 | missions into the Church's mission, the insertion of missiology
66 4, 32 | eliminating, the Church's mission and missionaries ad gentes.
67 4, 32 | existencec of a specific mission ad gentes, just as saying
68 4 | Mission Ad Gentes Retains Its Value~
69 4, 33 | activities in the Church's one mission is not intrinsic to that
70 4, 33 | is not intrinsic to that mission, but arises from the variety
71 4, 33 | circumstances in which that mission is carried out. 51 Looking
72 4, 33 | to other groups. This is mission ad gentes in the proper
73 4, 33 | commitment to the universal mission. In these communities the
74 4, 34 | activity proper, namely the mission ad gentes, is directed to "
75 4, 34 | specific nature of this mission ad gentes consists in its
76 4, 34 | indistinguishable part of the overall mission of the whole People of God
77 4, 34 | of the earth. Without the mission ad gentes, the Church's
78 4, 35 | 35. The mission ad gentes faces an enormous
79 4, 35 | changing situations the mission seems destined to have ever
80 4, 36 | they render to the Church's mission in order to discover the
81 4, 36 | principal agents of the Church's mission, but Jesus Christ and his
82 4 | Parameters of the Church's Mission Ad Gentes~
83 4, 37 | s universal mandate, the mission ad gentes knows no boundaries.
84 4, 37 | parameters within which that mission is exercised, in order to
85 4, 37 | territorial dimension of the mission ad gentes,59 a dimension
86 4, 37 | Certainly, a universal mission implies a universal perspective.
87 4, 37 | special structures of the mission ad gentes, with groups and
88 4, 37 | toward which the Church's mission ad gentes ought to be chiefly
89 4, 37 | climate. Today the image of mission ad gentes is perhaps changing:
90 4, 39 | whose body she is, and whose mission she continues. She must
91 4, 39 | possible to carry out her mission in the world and to reach
92 4, 39 | for their freedom.64 Her mission does not restrict freedom
93 4, 39 | impoverished in its ecclesial mission."66~
94 4, 40 | from being a reality. The mission ad gentes is still in its
95 5 | CHAPTER V - THE PATHS OF MISSION~
96 5, 41 | order to achieve this goal?~Mission is a single but complex
97 5, 42 | and irreplaceable form of mission: Christ, whose mission we
98 5, 42 | of mission: Christ, whose mission we continue, is the "witness"
99 5, 44 | the permanent priority of mission. The Church cannot elude
100 5, 44 | the heart of the Church's mission and life, as the hinge on
101 5, 44 | In the complex reality of mission, initial proclamation has
102 5, 47 | those areas involved in the mission ad gentes, tend to separate
103 5, 48 | together in unity."78~The mission ad gentes has this objective:
104 5, 48 | activity, so much so that the mission is not completed until it
105 5, 49 | of the Church's universal mission, is the clearest sign of
106 5, 49 | combined with concern for the mission ad gentes. In this way,
107 5, 52 | effective instrument of mission.~Thanks to this action within
108 5, 52 | working in the Church's mission ad gentes, the Christian
109 5, 55 | the Church's evangelizing mission. Understood as a method
110 5, 55 | not in opposition to the mission ad gentes; indeed, it has
111 5, 55 | special links with that mission and is one of its expressions.
112 5, 55 | of its expressions. This mission, in fact, is addressed to
113 5, 55 | two in the context of her mission ad gentes. These two elements
114 5, 56 | dialogue in the context of mission. Those engaged in this dialogue
115 5, 58 | 58. The mission ad gentes is still being
116 5, 58 | It is not the Church's mission to work directly on the
117 5, 58 | development. Rather, her mission consists essentially in
118 5 | Source and Criterion of Mission~
119 5, 60 | an integral part of their mission. The Conference of Latin
120 5, 60 | poor are those to whom the mission is first addressed, and
121 5, 60 | the sign and proof of the mission of Jesus."115~In fidelity
122 5, 60 | remains the driving force of mission, and is also "the sole criterion
123 6, 61 | that they may share in his mission and continue in his saving
124 6, 61 | in the Church's universal mission. They constitute a "collegial
125 6, 61 | collegial subject" of that mission, having been chosen by Jesus
126 6, 61 | of the Church's universal mission were expanded, and the way
127 6, 61 | early Church experiences her mission as a community task, while
128 6, 62 | to further its universal mission remains valid and urgent
129 6, 62 | group to the one and common mission of proclaiming and living
130 6, 63 | evangelization and the universal mission. I have traveled all over
131 6, 64 | world. 127~The Church's mission is wider than the "communion
132 6, 66 | particular spirit and a specific mission"; the guardians of this
133 6 | Priests for the Universal Mission~
134 6, 67 | concern for the Church's mission: "The spiritual gift that
135 6, 67 | for any narrow and limited mission, but for the most universal
136 6, 67 | universal and all embracing mission of salvation 'to the end
137 6, 67 | the universal scope of the mission that Christ entrusted to
138 6, 68(137)| Message for World Mission Day, 1982: Insegnamenti
139 6, 70 | fruitful. It is precisely the mission ad gentes that offers them
140 6, 71 | the Church's "permanent mission of bringing the Gospel to
141 6, 71 | faithful in this regard. The mission ad gentes is incumbent upon
142 6, 71 | their part, in the threefold mission of Christ as Priest, Prophet
143 6, 72 | should be involved in the mission ad gentes as cooperators
144 6, 73 | all to the catechists in mission lands.... Churches that
145 6, 74 | serving the Church and her mission; namely, other Church personnel:
146 6, 75 | visible and organic, her mission requires an external and
147 6, 75 | In order to re-launch the mission ad gentes, a center of outreach,
148 6, 75 | decisively oriented toward the mission in its various forms. To
149 7, 77 | fruitful part of the Church's mission. The Second Vatican Council
150 7, 77 | Sharing in the universal mission therefore is not limited
151 7, 78 | beginning of the Church's mission - is celebrated in some
152 7, 79 | harvest needs laborers. The mission is carried out above all
153 7, 81 | than in receiving.~World Mission Day, which seeks to heighten
154 7, 82 | numerous are the citizens of mission countries and followers
155 7, 82 | forming which call for the mission ad gentes, and the local
156 7, 83 | ignore the Church's universal mission, ecumenism, the study of
157 7, 83 | in the Church's universal mission, promoting vocations ad
158 7 | Responsibility of the Pontifical Mission Societies~
159 7, 84 | belongs to the Pontifical Mission Societies, as I have often
160 7, 84 | in my Messages for World Mission Day. The four Societies -
161 7, 84 | service to the Church's mission, without which authentic
162 7, 85 | context of the universal mission, and none should be closed
163 7, 85 | evangelization, may think that their mission is now at home, and thus
164 7, 86 | evangelization and to the worldwide mission, and leads us to pray as
165 8 | difficult and new paths of mission.~Today, as in the past,
166 8 | Today, as in the past, that mission is difficult and complex,
167 8, 88 | understand or carry out the mission unless we refer it to Christ
168 8, 88 | and expresses love. The mission follows this same path and
169 8, 90 | 90. The call to mission derives, of its nature,
170 8, 90 | everyone in fulfilling the mission of salvation in the Church."174~
171 8, 90 | to the universal call to mission. Every member of the faithful
172 8, 90 | called to holiness and to mission. This was the earnest desire
173 8, 90 | The renewed impulse to the mission ad gentes demands holy missionaries.
174 8, 91 | view that the future of mission depends to a great extent
175 8, 91 | teaches them the paths of mission: poverty, meekness, acceptance
176 Conc, 92 | in the Church's apostolic mission for the rebirth of humanity.
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