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501 3, 29 | with other religions is dictated by a twofold respect: "Respect
502 1, 6 | Jesus of history" who would differ from the "Christ of faith."
503 6, 76 | however, overlooking local differences,"162 and to consider the
504 4, 32 | the same everywhere. The difficulty of relating this complex
505 6, 70(143) | Apostolic Letter Mulieris Dignitatem (August 15, 1988), 20: AAS
506 6, 67(135) | pastorale pour les pretres diocesains des Eglises qui dependent
507 6, 73 | Episcopal Conferences and confer diplomas officially recognized by
508 2, 17 | it had to proceed in two directions: on the one hand promoting
509 Int, 2(1) | and institutions, would disappear before the firm conviction
510 5, 47 | Church. They would be greatly disappointed if, having entered the ecclesial
511 5, 45 | and so he does not become discouraged or cease his witness even
512 4, 35 | and could easily lead to discouragement, if it were a question of
513 8, 91 | Jesus, in his "missionary discourse" (cf. Mt 10), teaches them
514 3, 24 | summaries of the "missionary discourses" which were addressed to
515 1, 6 | unity. In the process of discovering and appreciating the manifold
516 6, 69 | and those suffering from discrimination, abandonment and oppression.
517 4, 37 | problems must be studied, discussed and worked out with the
518 3, 25 | cosmos. With the Greeks he discusses philosophy and quotes their
519 5, 51 | reading, catechesis, and discussion on human and ecclesial problems
520 4, 36 | is manifested in fatigue, disenchantment, compromise, lack of interest
521 5, 43 | contrary to the Gospel and disfigures the face of Christ.~
522 5, 55 | and that dialogue does not dispense from evangelization.99~In
523 7, 81 | daughters generously put at her disposal. Here I wish to thank all
524 6, 62 | world where the lessening of distance makes the world increasingly
525 4, 40 | brought are growing ever more distant. Tertullian's saying, that
526 4, 32 | practice certain ecclesial distinctions and categories to which
527 6, 66 | must enrich her with its distinctive characteristics, according
528 4, 33 | of evangelization, we can distinguish three situations.~First,
529 1, 11 | mindful that "they owe their distinguished status not to their own
530 2, 14 | compassion in the face of human distress, but they also signify that
531 6, 75 | recruit missionaries and distribute them in accordance with
532 3, 26 | community is also committed to distributing earthly goods, so that no
533 Int, 2(1) | tensions, which weaken and divide certain local churches and
534 5, 50 | preached by Christians who are divided among themselves weakens
535 5, 50 | must recognize that "the division among Christians damages
536 4, 37 | not integrated into the dominant culture of the nation. Particularly
537 8, 90(176) | promoted by CELAM, Santo Domingo, October 12, 1984: Insegnamenti
538 2, 16 | in God's power and in his dominion over the world (cf. Mt 28:
539 7, 81 | consider the spirit in which donations are made. For this we should
540 5, 55 | through Baptism as through a door." 101 Dialogue should be
541 Int, 3 | the Council it has almost doubled. When we consider this immense
542 1, 11 | from all alienation and doubt, from slavery to the power
543 8 | We often experience the dramatic situation of the first Christian
544 5, 47 | them that, if they feel drawn to Christ, it was he himself
545 2, 14 | emphasize this fact, Jesus drew especially near to those
546 4, 37 | misery, from famine and drought of catastrophic proportions.
547 1, 4(5) | Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed: DS 150.~
548 2, 12 | personal and saving God (cf. Dt 4:37; 7:6-8; Is 43:1-7)
549 7, 84(169) | propagazione del vangelo, Trentola Ducenta, 1952 2, p. 35.~
550 6, 68 | candidates, and should be duly prepared for the particular
551 1, 6 | fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile
552 1, 11 | himself to be the Son of God dwelling in intimate union with the
553 8, 90 | to mission. This was the earnest desire of the Council, which
554 2, 13 | within his homeland. Before Easter, the scope of his mission
555 3, 25 | important centers of the eastern Mediterranean and then to
556 2, 14 | close to them, going to eat in their homes (cf. Lk 5:
557 4, 36 | the Church" (sentire cum Ecclesia).~Internal and external
558 5, 55(99) | Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Ecclesiam Suam (August 6, 1964): AAS
559 6, 69 | recent congregations.~(a) Echoing the Council, I invite institutes
560 7, 86 | whole People of God must be educated.~We cannot be content when
561 7, 83 | and their associates, to educators and teachers, and to theologians,
562 5, 47 | sacrament which signifies and effects rebirth from the Spirit,
563 7, 78 | to teach them about the efficacy of suffering, and to encourage
564 6, 75 | order to ensure a united effort in confronting great questions
565 6, 67(135) | les pretres diocesains des Eglises qui dependent de la Congregation
566 5, 60 | the handicapped and the elderly, projects for the promotion
567 2, 12 | comes to realize that her election has a universal meaning (
568 4, 32 | and of reducing, or even eliminating, the Church's mission and
569 5, 56 | at the same time for the elimination of prejudice, intolerance
570 5, 44 | mission. The Church cannot elude Christ's explicit mandate,
571 6, 67 | the most universal and all embracing mission of salvation 'to
572 4, 39 | unto death, from which he emerged a victor through his resurrection."63
573 3, 23 | 20).~As for the different emphases found in each version, Mark
574 6, 71 | laity in particular,147 emphasizing the specific contribution
575 6, 66 | their founding charism, must employ all means necessary to ensure
576 6, 66 | they have been the means employed by the Congregation of Propaganda
577 8, 88 | thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form
578 8, 88 | Father's plan. This is an emptying of self which is permeated
579 1, 5 | the truth which God has enabled us to know about himself.~
580 7, 83 | vocations ad gentes and encouraging cooperation in the work
581 3, 26 | open and missionary: they enjoyed "favor with all the people" (
582 8, 90 | which hoped to be able "to enlighten all people with the brightness
583 5, 56 | to the spirit which must enliven dialogue in the context
584 2, 18 | Holy Spirit dwells in her, enlivens her with his gifts and charisms,
585 5, 54 | too needs to be "healed, ennobled and perfected."96~This kind
586 4, 35 | mission ad gentes faces an enormous task, which is in no way
587 5, 52 | universal Church herself is enriched with forms of expression
588 7, 82 | communities also can be an enriching experience and can strengthen
589 7, 83 | men and women religious, ensuring that some priests or other
590 4, 35 | question of a merely human enterprise. In certain countries missionaries
591 3, 25 | In these speeches Paul enters into "dialogue" with the
592 6, 65 | devotes the special chapter entitled "Missionaries."128 This
593 Conc, 92 | his salvific power,"178 I entrust the Church and, in particular,
594 5, 49 | Church in non-Christian environments and among non-Christian
595 8, 91 | countries the missionary epic of the early Church. You
596 5, 41 | than the manifestation or epiphany of God's plan and its fulfillment
597 2, 14 | 15:2), treating them as equals and friends (cf. Lk 7:34),
598 1, 8 | their dignity as persons, equipped with reason and free will
599 5, 53 | working, and therefore of equipping themselves to communicate
600 3, 23 | explicitly of a "mandate," a word equivalent to "mission." He directly
601 4, 37 | Cultural sectors: the modern equivalents of the Areopagus.~After
602 5, 55 | gaps, insufficiencies and errors."98 All of this has been
603 5, 54 | exclusively the result of erudite research. The safeguarding
604 5, 53(92) | task of assimilating the essence of the Gospel message and
605 5, 58 | Rather, her mission consists essentially in offering people an opportunity
606 | etc
607 1, 4 | Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father....
608 5, 59 | that gives attention to ethical and religious values. To
609 2, 13 | not merely by reason of ethnic background.~The kingdom
610 4, 40 | to be found no longer in Europe but on the continents which
611 4, 37(61) | Symposium of the Council of the European Episcopal Conferences, October
612 6, 67(135) | de la Congregation pour l'Evangélisation des Peuples," Rome, 1989.~
613 3, 23 | namely sin.~John is the only Evangelist to speak explicitly of a "
614 5, 58 | generate among the peoples she evangelizes a drive toward progress.
615 Conc, 92 | guided by the Spirit.~On the eve of the third millennium
616 4, 37 | from whatever content is eventually expressed, but from the
617 Int, 2 | Christian communities is more evident in the life of nations,
618 2, 14 | to free people from these evils. In Jesus' eyes, healings
619 6, 65 | vocation and no longer to know exactly what the Church expects
620 5, 43 | a personal and communal examination of conscience in order to
621 5, 56 | the Spirit, as well as to examine more deeply her own identity
622 4, 37 | converts and outstanding examples of Christian presence.~(
623 | except
624 5, 59 | for human beings, and an excess of affluence is as harmful
625 5, 59 | affluence is as harmful as excessive poverty. This is a "development
626 1, 5 | kinds and degrees are not excluded, they acquire meaning and
627 8, 89 | the world - a love without exclusion or partiality.~Finally,
628 5, 54 | community itself, and not be exclusively the result of erudite research.
629 7, 85 | form of provincialism or exclusiveness, or feelings of self-sufficiency.
630 4, 34 | of the very activity that exemplifies it.~Also to be noted is
631 4, 32 | missionary does not preclude the existencec of a specific mission ad
632 3, 28 | the very source of man's existential and religious questioning,
633 2, 13 | miracles (cf. Mt 11:4-5) and exorcisms (cf. Mt 12:25-28), in the
634 6, 61 | s universal mission were expanded, and the way was prepared
635 3, 25 | account people's hopes and expectations, their anguish and sufferings,
636 7, 82 | people. But Christians are expected above all to be aware of
637 6, 65 | exactly what the Church expects of them today.~The following
638 5, 58 | presses, universities and experimental farms. But a people's development
639 5, 51 | isolationism or ideological exploitation.83 And the Synod of Bishops
640 Int, 2 | encourage theologians to explore and expound systematically
641 Int, 2 | theologians to explore and expound systematically the various
642 8, 88 | is permeated by love and expresses love. The mission follows
643 5, 55 | Indeed Christ himself "while expressly insisting on the need for
644 5, 49 | associations), and to be extended to others through witness
645 2, 12 | cares and provides for them, extending his blessing to all (cf.
646 3, 21 | human minds and hearts and extends through history. In all
647 6, 73 | them."155~Even with the extension of the services rendered
648 6, 72 | as missionaries is very extensive. "Their own field...is the
649 4, 34 | for missionary activity ad extra, and vice versa.~
650 5, 51(84) | Extraordinary Assembly of 1985, Final
651 2, 13 | offers a new element of extreme importance. The eschatological
652 4, 32 | religious situation which is extremely varied and changing. Peoples
653 2, 14 | from these evils. In Jesus' eyes, healings are also a sign
654 5, 42(69) | Nuntiandi, 41: loc. cit., 31 f.~
655 4, 35 | 35. The mission ad gentes faces an enormous task, which
656 4, 36 | and Christian communities failing to follow the model of Christ
657 5, 47 | prejudice or because of the failings of Christians, they find
658 6, 63 | already converted, but that a fair share both of personnel
659 6, 75 | missionary activity, to cooperate faithfully with this Dicastery, which
660 2, 19 | kingdom. One need not fear falling thereby into a form of "
661 5, 53 | which they work, become familiar with the most important
662 4, 37 | and inhuman misery, from famine and drought of catastrophic
663 5, 58 | universities and experimental farms. But a people's development
664 3, 30 | them with generosity and farsightedness. Results have not been lacking.
665 4, 38 | times are both momentous and fascinating. While on the one hand people
666 3, 27 | forth on mission; having fasted, prayed and celebrated the
667 1, 5 | God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in
668 4, 36 | within. It is manifested in fatigue, disenchantment, compromise,
669 5, 60(114) | Address to the residents of "Favela Vidigal" in Rio de Janeiro,
670 2, 13 | forgiveness and freely bestows the favors asked of him.~St. John tells
671 2, 19 | the kingdom. One need not fear falling thereby into a form
672 7, 85 | provincialism or exclusiveness, or feelings of self-sufficiency. Local
673 5, 55 | interreligious dialogue. Instead, she feels the need to link the two
674 6, 67 | evangelization of those of their fellow-citizens who do not belong to Christ'
675 4, 33 | ecclesial structures. They are fervent in their faith and in Christian
676 2, 19 | unto herself, but rather is fervently concerned to be completely
677 7, 83 | specialize in the different fields of missiology.~Activities
678 Int, 2 | Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, fifteen years after the Apostolic
679 5, 55(100) | Letter to the Fifth Plenary Assembly of Asian
680 5, 59 | a wave of consumerism.~"Fight hunger by changing your
681 1, 11 | wondrous prospect of divine filiation. Why mission? Because to
682 3, 29 | alternative to Christ, nor does he fill a sort of void which is
683 3, 24 | Acts 1:8; 2:17-18). It fills them with a serene courage
684 7, 81 | 81. The material and financial needs of the missions are
685 2, 17 | religions are capable of finding common ground in the one
686 Int, 2(1) | would disappear before the firm conviction that the salvation
687 7, 82 | faith and love of Christ. Firsthand knowledge of the missionary
688 7, 80 | me, and I will make you fishers of men" (Mt 4:19). May they
689 1, 11 | brothers and sisters and as a fitting response to God. They should
690 3, 30 | preparing to celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of
691 4, 37 | constantly increasing. They have fled from conditions of political
692 4, 32 | urbanization, mass migration, the flood of refugees, the dechristianization
693 6, 62 | this missionary zeal may flourish among the people of their
694 6, 73 | lands.... Churches that are flourishing today would not have been
695 4, 37 | today everything is in flux. One thinks, for example,
696 8, 89 | giving one's life, is a focal point for him. Only profound
697 5, 51 | listens to the word of God, focuses its prayer on the Eucharist,
698 2, 15 | Jesus sums up the whole Law, focusing it on the commandment of
699 5, 49 | sheep, that are not of this fold." (Jn 10:16)~
700 3, 26 | and the conversions that followed, the first community takes
701 8, 90 | stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles"! (1 Cor 1:23)
702 8, 88 | same path and leads to the foot of the cross.~The missionary
703 4, 35 | not only is evangelization forbidden but conversion as well,
704 3, 28 | Spirit of God with marvelous foresight directs the course of the
705 1, 4 | Christ has united himself forever through this mystery."6
706 5, 53 | different cultures and not forgetting the dangers of alterations
707 2, 15 | people slowly learn to love, forgive and serve one another. Jesus
708 2, 14 | Jesus' mission: healing and forgiving. Jesus' many healings clearly
709 1, 10 | Church, does not make them formally part of the Church but enlightens
710 2, 12 | attests that God chose and formed a people for himself, in
711 8 | to receive the gifts of fortitude and discernment, which are
712 5, 56 | with truth, humility and frankness, knowing that dialogue can
713 4, 37 | assistance and, in a word, fraternity. Among migrants, refugees
714 4, 39 | and guarantee of all the freedoms that ensure the common good
715 1, 9 | through her.~The Council makes frequent reference to the Church'
716 1, 10 | do not permit this, and frequently they have been brought up
717 6, 68 | while drawing from them freshness and liveliness of faith.
718 2, 14 | treating them as equals and friends (cf. Lk 7:34), and making
719 5, 55(99) | atteggiamento della Chiesa di fronte ai seguaci di altre religioni:
720 7, 83 | certainly involved on these fronts but her primary task lies
721 3, 22 | who will enable them to fulfill the mandate they have received.~
722 8, 90 | condition for everyone in fulfilling the mission of salvation
723 1, 5 | made himself known in the fullest possible way. He has revealed
724 1, 4 | the Church's fundamental function in every age, and particularly
725 4, 39 | an awareness that one is furthering human freedom by proclaiming
726 6, 61 | forth to the nations (cf. Gal 1:15-16).~In the early Church'
727 5, 55 | even when they contain "gaps, insufficiencies and errors."98
728 3, 24 | the first Council, which gathers the members of the different
729 1, 4 | ours, is to direct man's gaze, to point the awareness
730 7, 83 | missions must always be geared to these specific goals;
731 4, 37 | Areopagus has been neglected. Generally, preference has been given
732 5, 58 | has always been able to generate among the peoples she evangelizes
733 4, 37 | particular, the younger generation is growing up in a world
734 5, 54 | Christian 'mystery' in the genius of your people in order
735 3, 24 | it is not necessary for a Gentile to submit to the Jewish
736 7, 84 | infancy are imbued with a genuinely universal and missionary
737 3, 25 | drive to press on, not only geographically but also beyond the frontiers
738 4, 37 | faith.~Thus the criterion of geography, although somewhat imprecise
739 2, 14 | spiritual dimensions. Two gestures are characteristic of Jesus'
740 3, 26 | communities, made up of "glad and generous hearts" (Acts
741 5, 55 | Asia: "Although the Church gladly acknowledges whatever is
742 8, 90 | brightness of Christ, which gleams over the face of the Church,
743 2, 13 | cf. Mt 6:10); faith can glimpse it already at work in signs
744 4, 37 | into what is known as a "global village." The means of social
745 3, 29 | world before Christ was glorified,"43 and who "has filled
746 6, 69 | churches, so as to "bear glorious witness among non-Christians
747 5, 43 | by not seeking her own glory and material wealth; by
748 7, 83 | geared to these specific goals; namely, informing and forming
749 2, 14 | by being close to them, going to eat in their homes (cf.
750 3, 23 | in word or deed.~The four Gospels therefore bear witness to
751 5, 58 | promoters of development by governments and international experts
752 5, 58 | and do not yet know, the grandeur of man created in God's
753 8 | must pray that God will grant us boldness in preaching
754 8, 88 | equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking
755 Conc, 92 | the mystery of Christ by gratefully cooperating in the work
756 7, 84(168) | Paul VI, Apostolic Epistle Graves et Increscentes (September
757 5, 47 | the Church. They would be greatly disappointed if, having
758 3, 24(33) | The Greek word "parrhesia" also means
759 3, 25 | to the cosmos. With the Greeks he discusses philosophy
760 1, 8 | fullness, everything that it is gropingly searching for concerning
761 6, 76 | Conferences and their various groupings have great importance in
762 2, 15 | human relationships; it grows gradually as people slowly
763 4, 39 | remains the premise and guarantee of all the freedoms that
764 4, 37 | information and education, of guidance and inspiration in their
765 5, 54 | In this regard, certain guidelines remain basic. Properly applied,
766 4, 40(67) | Cf. De praescriptione haereticorum, XX: CCL, I, 201f.~
767 5, 60 | leprosaria, homes for the handicapped and the elderly, projects
768 2, 18 | and was fulfilled. This happened not only through his words
769 5, 59 | excess of affluence is as harmful as excessive poverty. This
770 5, 50 | Ecumenical activity and harmonious witness to Jesus Christ
771 5, 54 | frankly, may then be raised harmoniously in the chorus of other voices
772 6, 63 | Apostles with Peter as its head, so this same responsibility
773 6, 63 | the College of Bishops, headed by the successor of Peter.119
774 5, 54 | sin, it too needs to be "healed, ennobled and perfected."96~
775 Bles | Beloved Sons and Daughters, ~Health and the Apostolic Blessing!~
776 5, 60 | society through schools, health-care centers, leprosaria, homes
777 3, 26 | bring people together in hearing the Gospel, in fraternal
778 7, 80 | that their son or daughter hears his call.~I ask young people
779 5, 51 | the universal Church, in heartfelt communion with the Church'
780 4, 39 | earthly homeland than of their heavenly one."65 This same advice
781 5, 59 | perspective of the "new heavens and a new earth" (cf. Is
782 1, 11 | science of well-being. In our heavily secularized world a "gradual
783 3, 23 | it encourages us to pay heed to the variety or missionary
784 7, 81 | Mission Day, which seeks to heighten awareness of the missions,
785 1, 5 | Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom
786 4, 37 | especially in the southern hemisphere, are having a powerful effect
787 4, 38 | patrimony to offer humankind, a heritage in Christ, who called himself "
788 5, 45 | lay people - often unknown heroes who give their lives to
789 4, 32 | example, there is a certain hesitation to use the terms "mission"
790 6, 62 | their own country," it is highly appropriate that young churches
791 4, 37 | missionary presence to be hindered by geographical boundaries
792 5, 46 | which neither limits nor hinders God's gift. At the same
793 5, 55 | traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam as a reflection
794 5, 44 | mission and life, as the hinge on which all evangelization
795 6, 66 | Christian countries, and historically they have been the means
796 6, 63 | activity, the greatest and holiest duty of the Church."123
797 4, 39 | individuals and cultures, and she honors the sanctuary of conscience.
798 3, 25 | taking into account people's hopes and expectations, their
799 2, 17 | even cultural, but within a horizon that is closed to the transcendent.
800 5, 58 | development through schools, hospitals, printing presses, universities
801 6, 64 | Puebla is exemplary: "The hour has finally come for Latin
802 7, 83 | especially in seminaries and in houses of formation for men and
803 7, 81 | catechists and seminarians, housing), but also to support works
804 4, 38 | spiritual patrimony to offer humankind, a heritage in Christ, who
805 5, 60 | their loving presence and humble service to people, are working
806 8, 88 | being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient
807 6, 72 | dynamism. When these movements humbly seek to become part of the
808 8 | the path of suffering and humiliation. The Spirit transformed
809 3, 30 | preparing to celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of the evangelization
810 7, 83 | elsewhere: the poor are hungry for God, not just for bread
811 1, 7 | whole New Testament is a hymn to the new life of those
812 5, 59 | s world, is based on the idea that increasing wealth and
813 7, 86 | faith, and to this high ideal the whole People of God
814 2, 13 | actions, lies in his total identification with the message he announces;
815 2, 16 | with whom the kingdom was identified. Now, as then, there is
816 5, 48 | in which it is hard to identify the precise stage at which
817 7, 83 | training cannot and should not ignore the Church's universal mission,
818 4, 37 | are areas which need to be illuminated with the light of the Gospel.~
819 6, 75 | has behind it a long and illustrious history, is called to play
820 5, 42 | the Church, striving to imitate the Divine Master, can and
821 5, 43 | poorest of the poor and by imitating Christ's own simplicity
822 7, 84 | Missionary Union has as its immediate and specific purpose the
823 5, 53 | churches and countries, must immerse themselves in the cultural
824 7, 82 | help of personnel from the immigrants' own countries and of returning
825 1, 8 | All should have such immunity from coercion by individuals,
826 4, 36 | certain "excuses which would impede evangelization. The most
827 5, 49 | light of this missionary imperative. Only by becoming missionary
828 5, 50 | kind of communion, though imperfect, exists among all those
829 5, 49 | still much to be done in implanting and developing the Church.
830 3, 29 | proclaim Christ, and when he implants and develops his gifts in
831 5, 55 | should be conducted and implemented with the conviction that
832 6, 64 | Conferences to act generously in implementing the provisions of the norms
833 4, 37 | Certainly, a universal mission implies a universal perspective.
834 4, 39 | The Church proposes; she imposes nothing. She respects individuals
835 4, 39 | God's plan and would be impoverished in its ecclesial mission."66~
836 4, 37 | geography, although somewhat imprecise and always provisional,
837 5, 58 | international experts who are impressed at the remarkable results
838 4, 32 | situation has certainly not improved in the years since then.~
839 4, 36 | not make us pessimistic or inactive. What counts, here as in
840 4, 39 | the minority, but of an inalienable right of each and every
841 2, 16 | Jesus he has definitely inaugurated his kingdom. During his
842 2, 13 | The kingdom which Jesus inaugurates is the kingdom of God. Jesus
843 2, 18 | mission of announcing and inaugurating among all peoples."25~
844 8 | call, they proved to be incapable of understanding his words
845 5 | Incarnating the Gospel in Peoples' Culture~
846 Int, 2 | fresh enthusiasm and new incentive. Faith is strengthened when
847 2, 20 | plan. It is true that the inchoate reality of the kingdom can
848 1, 4 | to all, "for each one is included in the mystery of the redemption
849 7, 82 | 82. Today, cooperation includes new forms - not only economic
850 4, 35 | message seems irrelevant or incomprehensible, and conversion is seen
851 1, 11 | within us. Those who are incorporated in the Catholic Church ought
852 4, 36 | Christians. It is based on incorrect theological perspectives
853 6, 73 | new evangelization, have increased the numbers of their catechists
854 7, 84(168) | Apostolic Epistle Graves et Increscentes (September 5, 1966): AAS
855 5, 54 | Kampala: "It will require an incubation of the Christian 'mystery'
856 6, 71 | The mission ad gentes is incumbent upon the entire People of
857 7, 85 | about their freedom to grow independently of external influences,
858 5, 52(88) | Address to the Bishops of India, Delhi, February 1, 1986,
859 3, 27 | The Acts of the Apostles indicates that the mission which was
860 5, 47 | a kind of external sign indicating conversion and attesting
861 4, 37 | cultural areas which lack indigenous Christian communities. In
862 2, 18 | the kingdom, the Church is indissolubly united to both. Christ endowed
863 4, 34 | Church"55 does not become an indistinguishable part of the overall mission
864 5, 47 | Christian faithful, both individually and as communities, to bear
865 1, 6 | Incarnate Word - a single and indivisible person. One cannot separate
866 6, 69 | 69. From the inexhaustible and manifold richness of
867 4, 34 | culture has not yet been influenced by the Gospel.54 It is distinct
868 7, 83 | specific goals; namely, informing and forming the People of
869 4, 37 | mass media are left to the initiative of individuals or small
870 5, 58 | God, sets him free from injustices and assists his overall
871 3, 23 | we are as a Church whose innermost life is unity in love, even
872 5, 56 | on the road of religious inquiry and experience, and at the
873 4, 36 | evangelization. The most insidious of these excuses are certainly
874 6, 68 | Pius XII, with prophetic insight, encouraged bishops to offer
875 6, 71 | obligation is all the more insistent in circumstances in which
876 5, 55 | himself "while expressly insisting on the need for faith and
877 2, 13 | love. The kingdom will grow insofar as every person learns to
878 Conc, 92 | maternal love which should inspire all who cooperate in the
879 6, 71 | which he pointed out some instances of lay missions. In modern
880 3, 28 | of his Spirit, not only instilling a desire for the world to
881 Int, 3 | No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid
882 5, 55 | when they contain "gaps, insufficiencies and errors."98 All of this
883 4, 35 | resources.~The difficulties seem insurmountable and could easily lead to
884 4, 37 | It is also necessary to integrate that message into the "new
885 4, 37 | minority population not integrated into the dominant culture
886 5, 52 | her part, becomes a more intelligible sign of what she is, and
887 Conc, 92 | is invited to live more intensely the mystery of Christ by
888 2, 20 | serves the kingdom by her intercession, since the kingdom by its
889 5, 55 | identical, as though they were interchangeable.~I recently wrote to the
890 4, 33 | care.~Thirdly, there is an intermediate situation, particularly
891 2, 12 | becomes his witness and interpreter among the nations. In the
892 2, 13 | learns to turn to God in the intimacy of prayer as to a Father (
893 2, 19 | evangelical," since they are intimately bound up with the "Good
894 4, 37 | of poverty - often on an intolerable scale - which have been
895 5, 56 | elimination of prejudice, intolerance and misunderstandings. Dialogue
896 4, 34 | Hence missionary activity ad intra is a credible sign and a
897 1, 6 | 6. To introduce any sort of separation between
898 Int | INTRODUCTION~
899 5, 56 | of principles nor false irenicism, but instead a witness given
900 4, 35 | the Gospel message seems irrelevant or incomprehensible, and
901 5, 60(116) | Isaac of Stella, Sermon 31, PL
902 5, 55 | of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam as a reflection of that
903 5, 58(110) | to Clergy and Religious, Jakarta, October 10, 1989, 5: L'
904 6, 61 | within the group, such as James, John and above all Peter,
905 5, 60(114) | Favela Vidigal" in Rio de Janeiro, July 2, 1980, 4: AAS 72 (
906 2, 12 | Is 2:2-5; 25:6-8; 60:1-6; Jer 3:17; 16:19).~
907 6, 76 | missionary activity should join forces and initiatives as
908 7, 82 | economics, culture and journalism, as well as experts of the
909 4, 36 | and professional Christian journalists to intensify the service
910 7, 86 | prepares to celebrate the jubilee of the year 2000, the whole
911 3, 24 | bound by the traditions of Judaism and the law of circumcision?
912 1, 11 | not be saved, they will be judged more severely."20~
913 5, 60 | the sole criterion for judging what is to be done or not
914 4, 37 | communications fully confirms this judgment.~There are many other forms
915 4, 37 | countries, it does not seem justified to regard as identical the
916 6, 61 | who is so prominent as to justify the expression: "Peter and
917 1, 8 | This is why the Church keeps her missionary spirit alive,
918 5, 52(88) | Address to the Bishops of Kenya, Nairobi, May 7, 1980, 6:
919 7, 83 | promotion of the missions a key element in the normal pastoral
920 6, 71 | Christ as Priest, Prophet and King."149 Therefore, "they are
921 2, 17 | describe themselves as "kingdom-centered." They stress the image
922 5, 52(88) | to the Bishops of Zaire, Kinshasa, May 3, 1980, 4-6: AAS 72 (
923 3, 26 | in "fraternal communion" (koinonia) means to be "of one heart
924 1, 7(10) | celebration of the Eucharist in Krakow, June 10, 1979: AAS 71 (
925 7, 79 | preachers; the harvest needs laborers. The mission is carried
926 Int, 1 | boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I
927 7, 80 | Peter and to Andrew at the lakeside: "Follow me, and I will
928 5, 43 | fidelity to their native land, people and national culture,
929 4, 37 | communicating, with new languages, new techniques and a new
930 6, 76 | inculturation. In fact, large-scale and regular activity is
931 4, 34 | directs them toward the larger world, with positive influences
932 | latter
933 7, 84(169) | P Manna, Le nostre "Chiese" e la propagazione
934 7, 84 | 84. The leading role in this work of promotion
935 4, 37 | the cultural center of the learned people of Athens, and today
936 2, 13 | insofar as every person learns to turn to God in the intimacy
937 | least
938 7, 80 | one of their children to leave for the missions, when they
939 5, 48 | deals with this subject at length,79 and since the Council,
940 5, 60 | schools, health-care centers, leprosaria, homes for the handicapped
941 6, 67(135) | de la vie pastorale pour les pretres diocesains des Eglises
942 5, 55 | all people, this does not lessen her duty and resolve to
943 6, 61 | alongside the apostles, other lesser figures who should not be
944 7, 78 | through God's grace. In his Letters, St. Paul often asks the
945 4, 32 | specific vocation to be "life-long missionaries ad gentes."~
946 5, 59 | hunger by changing your lifestyle" is a motto which has appeared
947 8, 90 | call to holiness is closely linked to the universal call to
948 3, 24 | proclaim Jesus and invite those listening to "be converted," that
949 5, 51 | Christ and live in him, as it listens to the word of God, focuses
950 5, 53(92) | less in the semantic or literary sense than in the sense
951 2, 17 | ends up either leaving very little room for the Church or undervaluing
952 6, 74 | leaders of prayer, song and liturgy; leaders of basic ecclesial
953 6, 68 | from them freshness and liveliness of faith. Of course, the
954 5, 49 | community, first in its own locality, and then elsewhere as part
955 6, 66 | came into being in churches located in traditionally Christian
956 5, 46 | her proper calling. This lofty reality is expressed in
957 3, 29 | existing between Christ and the Logos. Whatever the Spirit brings
958 6, 68 | among the priests of the long-established churches, and that it will
959 3, 25 | ignorance and satisfy the longings of their hearts. These are
960 7, 86 | 86. If we look at today's world, we are
961 8, 91 | apostles: "that which we have looked upon...concerning the word
962 4, 33 | mission is carried out. 51 Looking at today's world from the
963 2, 20 | activities, however, she never loses sight of the priority of
964 6, 66 | their pastors - to seek the lowliest and most demanding places.~
965 3, 25 | different peoples. To the Lycaonians, who practiced a cosmic
966 1, 5 | telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles
967 3, 25 | Christ. The speeches in Lystra and Athens (cf. Acts 14:
968 3, 29(45) | Non-Christian Religions, Madras, February 5, 1986: AAS 78 (
969 Int, 2 | and in continuity with the magisterial teaching of my predecessors,2
970 1, 8(11) | Encyclical Letter Mater et Magistra (May 15, 1961) IV AAS 53 (
971 5, 55 | their religions are the main and essential expression,
972 6, 76 | concern in their own sphere, maintaining contact with Episcopal Conferences
973 6, 69 | among non-Christians to the majesty and love of God, as well
974 3, 29(45) | to the Peoples of Asia, Manila, February 21, 1981, 2-4:
975 5, 55 | should not be confused, manipulated or regarded as identical,
976 7, 84(169) | P Manna, Le nostre "Chiese" e la
977 4, 32 | which is not considered a marginal task for the Church but
978 2, 14 | especially near to those on the margins of society, and showed them
979 3, 23 | emphases found in each version, Mark presents mission as proclamation
980 5, 54(94) | inculturation "in the context of marriage and the family."~
981 Int, 2 | world which has experienced marvellous achievements but which seems
982 4, 37 | anonymity experienced by masses of people.~In the modern
983 4, 37 | of urbanization and the massive growth of cities, especially
984 5, 58 | sons and daughters, the mastery of man over nature created
985 4, 38 | deeper into consumerism and materialism, on the other hand we are
986 Conc, 92 | Mary is the model of that maternal love which should inspire
987 3, 23 | Son of God!" (Mk 15:39) In Matthew, the missionary emphasis
988 5, 58 | consciences and the gradual maturing of ways of thinking and
989 7, 79 | vocations, which are the real measure of self-giving to one's
990 5, 49 | apostolic works must be measured in the light of this missionary
991 6, 69 | monastic institutions, to the medieval Orders, up to the more recent
992 6, 65 | Missionaries must always meditate on the response demanded
993 4, 38 | new forms and methods of meditation and prayer. Not only in
994 3, 25 | important centers of the eastern Mediterranean and then to Rome and the
995 8, 91 | paths of mission: poverty, meekness, acceptance of suffering
996 4, 37 | already lives in a few "megalopolises," where human problems are
997 6, 73(158) | S. C. de Propaganda Fide Memoria Rerum, III/2 (1976), 821-
998 1, 11 | status not to their own merits but to Christ's special
999 7, 84 | often pointed out in my Messages for World Mission Day. The
1000 2, 13 | between the message and the messenger, between saying, doing and
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