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501 5, 16 | nations, beyond all the frontiers that yet divide our planet,
502 8, 29 | an example of a vocation fruitful not only for the century
503 1, 3 | own age and might bear new fruits.~
504 3, 9 | the end of time. It was a fulfillment-in time and in concrete circumstances -
505 2, 6 | destiny, ploughing the same furrow; I now fall in the field
506 | further
507 6, 21 | of all the Slav nations.~Furthermore, the translation of the
508 7, 27 | is neither absorption nor fusion".43 Unity is a meeting in
509 3, 11 | had to make an effort to gain a good grasp of the interior
510 3, 9(20)| Gal 3:26-28~
511 8, 29 | disquieting clouds were gathering above Constantinople and
512 2, 4 | Cyril. This I will do in general terms, leaving to historical
513 5, 18 | patrimony of good which every generation transmits to posterity,
514 4, 12 | of the East, such as the Georgian and Syriac, which used the
515 5, 17 | Persians, the Abasgians, the Georgians, the Sogdians, the Goths,
516 3, 9 | Italy, from Greece and from Germany, who instruct us in different
517 3, 8 | For them, this task meant giving up not only a position of
518 5, 17 | God from every part of the globe, at every moment of history -
519 3, 11 | down, together with the glorious trophy of their holy relics,
520 5, 17 | Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father";32 "All
521 5, 18 | and brings into being as goodness, truth and beauty. On the
522 2, 6 | his successor his disciple Gorazd. He died on 6 April 885
523 5, 17 | Georgians, the Sogdians, the Goths, the Avars, the Tirsians,
524 1, 2 | dictated by the firm hope of a gradual overcoming in Europe and
525 7, 24 | baptism of Saint Vladimir, Grand Duke of Kiev, will be celebrated.~
526 3, 11 | an effort to gain a good grasp of the interior world of
527 3, 11 | be fully comprehended and grasped by their hearers. The effort
528 2, 7 | holy Brothers suffered a grave crisis, and persecution
529 2, 6 | my day. I know that you greatly love your Mountain; but
530 4, 13 | complex elaborations of Greco-Roman law. In following this programme
531 2, 4(6) | recensuerunt et illustraverunt Fr. Grivec et Fr. Tomsic (Radovi Staroslavenskog
532 4, 14 | there emerged and began - to grow more serious the fatal discord
533 4, 15 | obligations to that Church growing in the lands of the Slavs,
534 4, 13 | society in which they had grown up and which necessarily
535 3, 8 | for the development and growth of the People of God on
536 2, 7 | peoples. Thus he became the guide and legitimate Pastor of
537 2, 5 | and put on the monastic habit before he died shortly afterwards,
538 7, 23 | which belongs to the second half of the ninth century, can
539 4, 14 | Church of Rome on the one hand, and the Churches which
540 1, 3 | circumstances in which it so happens that there falls the eleventh
541 8, 28 | understand with what profound happiness I will share in this celebration
542 1, 2 | precisely in 1980, of the happy and promising theological
543 5, 17 | countless modulations, tones and harmonies for the praise of God from
544 8, 30 | strength to overcome all hatred and to conquer evil with
545 2, 7 | foreigners and local people, the healthy and the sick"11 made up
546 3, 11 | comprehended and grasped by their hearers. The effort to learn the
547 8, 30 | peace which enfolds human hearts, communities, the earth
548 8, 30 | salvation, came down from heaven and by the power of the
549 5, 17 | decree only three languages (Hebrew, Greek and Latin), deciding
550 4, 12 | nevertheless remain men of Hellenic culture and Byzantine training.
551 1, 3 | of the last decades have helped to revive in the Church
552 8, 29 | Pope it received a native hierarchy, rooted in the apostolic
553 2, 4 | philosophy in the School of higher learning in Constantinople,
554 8, 30 | still continue, without hindrance, to accept with enthusiasm
555 5, 17 | and deaf! Tell me: do you hold this because you consider
556 8, 31 | sustainer and teacher of all holiness, I desire to entrust the
557 8, 29 | Saint Methodius paid solemn homage to their dead pastor for
558 5, 18 | great or small, and from the honest acknowledgment of the qualities
559 3, 8 | up not only a position of honour but also the contemplative
560 7, 25 | adequate foundation for its hoped - for spiritual renewal.~
561 2, 5 | center of Nitra, gave them a hospitable reception. From here, after
562 8, 29 | above Constantinople and hostile tensions were increasingly
563 3, 8 | kindred and your father's house to the land that I will
564 8, 32 | future! However much it may humanly speaking seem filled with
565 2, 7 | reason, "men and women, humble and powerful, rich and poor,
566 6, 21 | language, which became for many hundreds of years not only the ecclesiastical
567 7, 23 | last being a part of modern Hungary. Included in the sphere
568 5, 17 | who held a rather narrow idea of the Church and were opposed
569 4, 15 | with those who opposed his ideas or his pastoral initiatives
570 2, 4 | Crimea at Kherson, they identified what they believed to be
571 8, 30 | have been overcome and when ideological conflicts have been conquered
572 | if
573 7, 25 | unity of the Continent can ignore.~After eleven centuries
574 2, 4 | without however thereby ignoring the life-so closely liked
575 2, 5 | younger brother, now gravely ill, scarcely had time to take
576 2, 4(6) | Fontes, recensuerunt et illustraverunt Fr. Grivec et Fr. Tomsic (
577 3, 11 | proclaim the word of God in images and concepts that would
578 5, 18 | life, forms as it were an immense and many-coloured collection
579 2, 4 | a senior official of the imperial administration. The family'
580 3, 8 | continent, came before him and implored him to come to his country
581 8, 30 | what the whole Church today implores from you and grant also
582 4, 13 | situations, did not seek to impose on the peoples assigned
583 7, 27 | run the risk of becoming impoverished.~By exercising their own
584 5, 18 | Gospel does not lead to the impoverishment or extinction of those things
585 5, 16 | her interior renewal, of impressing upon her a fresh missionary
586 5, 16 | upon her a fresh missionary impulse for the proclamation of
587 4, 14 | precursors of ecumenism, inasmuch as they wished to eliminate
588 1, 1 | nations, and mindful of their incalculable contribution to the work
589 8, 30 | of the Holy Spirit became incarnate in the womb of the Virgin
590 6, 21 | the life of the Church.~By incarnating the Gospel in the native
591 2, 5 | Greater Moravia - a State then including various Slav peoples of
592 4, 12 | regarded as a threat to a still incomplete unity. One can also understand
593 8, 30 | its peoples, so that when incomprehension and mutual distrust have
594 8, 29 | and hostile tensions were increasingly threatening the peace and
595 3, 10 | Brothers - as their biographies indicate-undertook the difficult task of translating
596 6, 21 | culture and, directly or indirectly, for the culture of the
597 5, 19 | truth and his love.~All individuals, all nations, cultures and
598 2, 5 | bore with strong faith and indomitable hope in God. They had in
599 3, 10 | difficulties and problems inevitable for peoples who were defending
600 4, 14 | block to the world, and inflicts damage on the most holy
601 2, 5 | crossroads of the mutual influences between East and West. They
602 6, 21 | For by their original and ingenious creation of an alphabet
603 3, 8 | Macedonian, therefore an inhabitant of the European continent,
604 2, 5 | difficulties which the preceding initial Christianization, carried
605 4, 14 | opportunities offer, are initiated and organized to promote
606 5, 16 | capable of preparing and initiating a period of springtime and
607 4, 15 | his ideas or his pastoral initiatives and who cast doubt on their
608 2, 5 | through Venice, where the innovating elements of the mission
609 5, 18 | dimension of catholicity, inscribed by Christ the Lord in the
610 7, 27(43)| 26 February 1984), No. 2: Insegnamenti VII, 1 (1984), p. 532.~
611 5, 16 | foster and take to herself, insofar as they are good, the abilities,
612 2, 4(6) | Radovi Staroslavenskog Instituta, Knjiga 4, Zagreb 1960),
613 7, 23 | of information with the institution in the Polish territories
614 5, 20 | transmitted through preaching and instruction in accordance with the eternal
615 5, 16 | Also very expressive and instructive for the Church today is
616 4, 12 | make it into an effective instrument for bringing the divine
617 7, 23 | of the Polish tribes.41 Insufficient data exist for it to be
618 5, 18 | truth, preserved by her intact in its divine content, in
619 5, 16 | convoked the Council with the intent and the conviction that
620 1, 3 | historical and cultural interest in them. Their special charisms
621 7, 23 | there was still a strong intermingling of the elements of both
622 7, 26 | religious, cultural, civil and international nature, is seeking a vital
623 3, 10 | Slav peoples, faithfully interpreting the aspirations and human
624 2, 4 | towards the year 840 he interrupted his career and retired to
625 2, 6 | free only on the personal intervention of Pope John VIII. The new
626 2, 7 | loyalty, apostolic zeal and intrepid magnanimity gained Methodius
627 1, 1 | development and respect for the intrinsic dignity of every nation,
628 5, 17 | had already in the past introduced and now possessed a liturgy
629 2, 6 | on the charge of having invaded the episcopal jurisdiction
630 8, 30 | coexistence in mutual respect and inviolate liberty.~
631 3, 9 | Constantine and Methodius were invited to go there. Their profoundly
632 8, 32 | hands, Heavenly Father, invoking upon it the intercession
633 1, 2 | Orthodox Churches on the Island of Patmos.~
634 5, 18 | Holy Spirit. This dimension issues quite spontaneously from
635 2, 4 | life-so closely liked to it-of his brother Saint Cyril.
636 3, 9 | teachers have reached us from Italy, from Greece and from Germany,
637 7, 23 | be possible to link this item of information with the
638 4 | IV. THEY PLANTED THE CHURCH
639 8, 32 | all people in the heavenly Jerusalem. Amen!~To you, dear brothers
640 3, 9 | Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither
641 5, 19(35)| Cf. Ps 112 [113]:4; Jl 2-13.~
642 7, 27 | urgency so that all people joined more closely today by various
643 5, 19 | manifested in the active joint responsibility and generous
644 2, 4 | Brothers on their missionary journey to the West, until they
645 4, 13 | likewise submitted to his judgment, in order to obtain his
646 8, 32 | at Saint Peter's, on 2 June, the Solemnity of the Most
647 2, 6 | having invaded the episcopal jurisdiction of another. He was set free
648 4, 15 | defended-convinced of his just-right before the ecclesiastical
649 4, 13 | Christian Churches can never justify discord, disagreement and
650 5, 20 | their modern descendants keep in grateful and everlasting
651 2, 4 | staying in the Crimea at Kherson, they identified what they
652 5, 19 | Brothers: God "merciful and kind",35 "waiting for all people
653 3, 8 | from your country and your kindred and your father's house
654 6, 22 | languages, thanks to its close kinship with them. These merits
655 3, 10 | Sacred Scriptures, which they knew in Greek, into the language
656 2, 4(6) | Staroslavenskog Instituta, Knjiga 4, Zagreb 1960), p. 184.~
657 6, 21 | continued by Byzantium. Everyone knows how important this heritage
658 2, 5 | Pannonia where the Slav Prince Kocel, who had fled from the important
659 2, 5(7) | XIV, 2-4; ed. cit., pp. l99f.~
660 3, 11 | in every continent, have labored to translate the Bible and
661 4, 13 | and ecclesiastical rights laid down by Conciliar Canons.
662 6, 22 | language in the West. It also lasted longer than Latin in part
663 5, 19 | time he does not cease to lavish on us a manifold grace,
664 2, 6 | ecclesiastical and Byzantine civil laws called the Nomocanon. Concerned
665 5, 18 | Parousia.~The Gospel does not lead to the impoverishment or
666 3, 11 | their hearers. The effort to learn the language and to understand
667 2, 4 | in the School of higher learning in Constantinople, where
668 2, 6 | Pannonia, and named Papal Legate "ad gentes" (for the Slav
669 7, 27 | the conditions of this age lend special urgency so that
670 5, 16 | decreed that they should at length be unified again (cf. Jn
671 1, 1(2) | 30 September 1880), in Leonis XIII Pont. Max. Acta, II,
672 7, 27 | of man on the worldwide level. The Church, conscious of
673 8, 30 | mutual respect and inviolate liberty.~
674 2, 4 | appointments, such as that of Librarian of the Archive attached
675 2, 4 | however thereby ignoring the life-so closely liked to it-of his
676 | like
677 2, 4 | ignoring the life-so closely liked to it-of his brother Saint
678 2, 6 | Methodius was called ad limina Apostolorum, to present
679 4, 13(21)| Brothers. Prohibitions or limitations in the use of the new liturgy
680 8, 29 | brotherhood and communion linking the Churches of the East
681 7, 27 | as it were the connecting links or spiritual bridge between
682 7, 23 | Prince of the Vislits in the Lite of Methodius is the most
683 6, 21 | contribution to the culture and literature of all the Slav nations.~
684 8, 29(46)| 9-10: ed. cit., p. 237; Lk 23:46; Ps 31 [30]: 6.~
685 4, 12 | language in the liturgy and lo make it into an effective
686 7, 27(44)| Ibid., No. 1: loc. cit., p. 531.~
687 5, 18 | it into contact with the lofty thoughts and just expectations
688 5, 17 | To the historical and logical arguments which they brought
689 6, 22 | the West. It also lasted longer than Latin in part until
690 7, 27 | all Christians a great "longing for union" and for unity
691 1, 3 | of that Councils we can look in a new way-a more mature
692 3, 9 | peoples and to share their lot in everything.~
693 5, 18 | respect proper to fraternal love-for every person and every nation,
694 8, 30 | without end;~-that you have so loved the world as to grant it
695 2, 7 | orthodox doctrine, his balance, loyalty, apostolic zeal and intrepid
696 3, 8 | Word of God: "Come over to Macedonia and help us.14~Divine Providence,
697 3, 8 | at Troas in Asia Minor, a Macedonian, therefore an inhabitant
698 1, 3 | Council. In the light of the magisterium and pastoral orientation
699 1, 1(2) | XXIII, Apostolic Letter Magnifici Eventus (11 May 1963) to
700 7, 23 | varying degrees, and was mainly concentrated in the territories
701 4, 13(21)| alliances, and to the need to maintain harmony.~
702 3, 10 | they always succeeded in maintaining perfect orthodoxy and consistent
703 2, 5 | today known as Saint Mary Major, and recommended that their
704 7, 25 | various missionaries, the majority of the Slav population in
705 5, 18 | Christ the Lord in the very make-up of the Church, is not something
706 3, 9 | nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are
707 3, 9 | power of their missionary mandate came from the depths of
708 5, 18 | the Pantocrator, who will manifest himself in his total splendour
709 5, 19 | catholicity of the Church is manifested in the active joint responsibility
710 2, 5 | concluded in a most favorable manner. Methodius however had to
711 5, 18 | as it were an immense and many-coloured collection of tesserae that
712 7, 24 | sovereign, Mieszko, who married the Bohemian princess Dubravka,
713 2, 4 | Clement, Pope of Rome and martyr, who had been exiled to
714 1, 1(2) | 1880), in Leonis XIII Pont. Max. Acta, II, PP. 125 137;
715 | me
716 7, 25 | understood and when its value and meaning are properly considered,
717 | meantime
718 5, 17 | one single liturgy, or a melodious chorus sustained by the
719 4, 14 | Churches of which they were members, namely, between the Church
720 8, 30 | centuries ago!~-May their membership of the Kingdom of your Son
721 8, 31 | May it never fade from the memories of our contemporaries! We
722 6, 21 | Methodius were especially meritorious for the formation and development
723 8, 30 | in the enjoyment of the messianic peace which enfolds human
724 4, 13 | Slavonic language, and the methods which they were using in
725 7, 23 | worthy of note that about the middle of the tenth century, at
726 7, 24 | first historical sovereign, Mieszko, who married the Bohemian
727 4, 12 | Christianity, after the migrations of the new peoples, had
728 4, 12 | to the advanced cultural milieu of Constantinople. They
729 3, 10 | own identity against the military and cultural pressure of
730 8, 28 | called, after nearly two millennia, to occupy the episcopal
731 3, 8 | Paul had at Troas in Asia Minor, a Macedonian, therefore
732 3, 10 | withdraw from the trial. Misunderstanding, overt bad faith and even,
733 4, 15 | did not hesitate to face misunderstandings, conflicts and even slanders
734 3, 9(18)| Mk 16:15.~
735 5, 17 | multitudes, rising in countless modulations, tones and harmonies for
736 2, 4 | and retired to one of the monasteries at the foot of Mount Olympus
737 2, 4 | he retired secretly to a monastery on the Black Sea coast.
738 5, 18 | together make up the living mosaic of the Pantocrator, who
739 7, 24 | Kiev, and then spread from Moscow eastwards. In a few years,
740 5, 19 | that is properly hers, with motherly care, every real human value.
741 4, 13 | sint 22 is their missionary motto in accordance with the Psalmist'
742 2, 4 | monasteries at the foot of Mount Olympus in Bithynia, then
743 7, 24 | From here too Christianity moved to other territories, until
744 4, 14 | Council " the 'ecumenical movement' means those activities
745 5, 17 | the voices of unnumbered multitudes, rising in countless modulations,
746 5, 16 | not yet heard the Sacred Mysteries celebrated in their native
747 3, 9 | came from the depths of the mystery of the Redemption, and their
748 5, 17 | world, who held a rather narrow idea of the Church and were
749 4, 12 | the traditions of many national Churches of the East, such
750 3, 11 | prejudice, and from any nationalistic arrogance. This communion
751 8, 28 | race to be called, after nearly two millennia, to occupy
752 4, 13 | they had grown up and which necessarily remained familiar and dear
753 | nevertheless
754 4, 12 | peoples, had amalgamated the newly arrived ethnic groups with
755 | next
756 6, 22 | Latin in part until the nineteenth century - and exercised
757 2, 5 | and religious center of Nitra, gave them a hospitable
758 1, 1(2) | Apostolic Epistle Antiquae Nobilitatis (2 February 1969) for the
759 | nobody
760 2, 6 | Byzantine civil laws called the Nomocanon. Concerned for the survival
761 | Nonetheless
762 1, 1 | by my Predecessors, and notably by Leo XIII, who over a
763 7, 23 | However, it is worthy of note that about the middle of
764 | nothing
765 3, 11 | transpose correctly Biblical notions and Greek theological concepts
766 1, 3 | anniversary. And a particular obligation to do so is felt by the
767 2, 6 | all the accusations, he obtained from the Pope the publication
768 7, 27 | which", as I said on the occasion of my visit to Bari, "is
769 3, 9 | circumstance and on all similar occasions is admirably expressed by
770 2, 4 | the Byzantine Empire, and occupied a notable position in the
771 8, 28 | nearly two millennia, to occupy the episcopal see that once
772 4, 14 | division which unfortunately occurred in the course of the Church'
773 4, 14 | Church and as opportunities offer, are initiated and organized
774 2, 4 | 4. Following the example offered by the Epistle Grande Munus,
775 3, 9 | showing them what is good and offering concrete help for attaining
776 8, 29 | They celebrated a sacred office in Latin, Greek and Slavonic",47
777 4, 14 | Bulgaria, which had just officially accepted Christianity, canonically
778 | often
779 7, 24 | thanks to Saint Clement of Okhrid, dynamic centers of monastic
780 2, 4 | monasteries at the foot of Mount Olympus in Bithynia, then known
781 2, 7 | foundation and the more ancient ones.~For this reason, "men and
782 7, 27 | local Church must remain open and alert to the other Churches
783 4, 14 | still persists "not only openly contradicts the will of
784 7, 27 | society. This calls for openness to others, mutual understanding,
785 4, 14 | needs of the Church and as opportunities offer, are initiated and
786 3, 10 | evangelized. Situations of opposition often weighed upon them
787 2, 5 | liturgical books, which he ordered to be solemnly placed on
788 1, 3 | magisterium and pastoral orientation of that Councils we can
789 8, 31 | of the Church is always oriented and directed with unfailing
790 2, 7 | respecting their cultural originality remains a living model for
791 2, 7 | men and slaves, widows and orphans, foreigners and local people,
792 5, 18 | is not something static, outside history and flatly uniform.
793 7, 25 | century.~Their work is an outstanding contribution to the formation
794 3, 10 | trial. Misunderstanding, overt bad faith and even, for
795 6, 21 | cultures of the Slav nations owe their "beginning" or development
796 7, 25 | ninth century still retained pagan customs and beliefs. Only
797 8, 29 | disciples of Saint Methodius paid solemn homage to their dead
798 3, 10 | all their uncertain and painful complexity. But this did
799 5, 18 | the living mosaic of the Pantocrator, who will manifest himself
800 2, 6 | Diocese of Pannonia, and named Papal Legate "ad gentes" (for
801 5, 18 | only at the moment of the Parousia.~The Gospel does not lead
802 3, 11 | Church from all forms of particularism, ethnic exclusivism or racial
803 8, 29 | own times. His blessed "passing" in the spring of the year
804 1, 1 | this way I followed the path already traced out by my
805 8, 30 | voice of your call along the paths shown to them for the first
806 1, 2 | Churches on the Island of Patmos.~
807 4, 13 | believers subject to the Patriarchate of Constantinople, they
808 1, 1 | proclaimed Saint Benedict Patron of Europe.~
809 7, 27 | the champions and also the patrons of the ecumenical endeavor
810 8, 29 | life:~-I desire also to pause in the Basilica of Saint
811 3, 10 | price which they had to pay for the spreading of the
812 4, 12 | groups with the Latin - peaking population already living
813 3, 10 | themselves to understanding and penetrating the language, customs and
814 7, 24 | the Slavs of the Balkan peninsula the efforts of the holy
815 6, 21 | territory inhabited by Slav peoples-contains both a model of what today
816 5, 19 | succumb to weakness and perish, and to fall into the temptation
817 5, 17 | as " the Armenians, the Persians, the Abasgians, the Georgians,
818 4, 14 | history and which sadly still persists "not only openly contradicts
819 2, 6 | was set free only on the personal intervention of Pope John
820 7, 27 | and Methodius, in their personality and their work, are figures
821 3, 9 | with a great respect for persons and a disinterested concern
822 2, 4 | six months later, and was persuaded to accept the task of teaching
823 2, 5 | be ordained priests. This phase of their efforts concluded
824 5, 17(32)| XVI, 58: ed. cit., p. 208; Phil 2:11.~
825 2, 4 | accept the task of teaching philosophy in the School of higher
826 2, 6 | Emperor and the Patriarch Photius, who at that time was in
827 4, 15 | conflicts and even slanders and physical persecution, rather than
828 3, 9 | Emperor: "However tired and physically worn out I am, I will go
829 3, 8 | Empire and undertaking a long pilgrimage in the service of the Gospel
830 6, 21 | which they carried out as pioneers in territory inhabited by
831 1, 1(2) | II, PP. 125 137; cf. also PIUS XI, Letter Quod S. Cyrillum (
832 5, 16 | frontiers that yet divide our planet, which is intended by the
833 4 | IV. THEY PLANTED THE CHURCH OF GOD~
834 6, 22 | Eastern Rite, this language played a role equal to that of
835 5, 20 | one, to those of these men pleasing to God".40~
836 4, 13 | endowments the Catholic "pleroma", was in perfect harmony
837 2, 6 | shared the same destiny, ploughing the same furrow; I now fall
838 1, 1(2) | September 1880), in Leonis XIII Pont. Max. Acta, II, PP. 125
839 2, 7 | recognition and trust of Roman Pontiffs, of Patriarchs of Constantinople,
840 1, 2 | eleventh centenary of the Pontifical Letter Industriae Tuae,4
841 8, 32 | 1985, the seventh of my Pontificate.~JOHN PAUL II~ ~
842 2, 7 | humble and powerful, rich and poor, free men and slaves, widows
843 3, 11 | Pope John VIII in 879. Both Popes wished to compare the doctrine
844 5, 17 | past introduced and now possessed a liturgy written and celebrated
845 4, 13 | today their apostolate also possesses the eloquence of an ecumenical
846 8, 30 | realize all their human possibilities on the foundation of their
847 5, 18 | generation transmits to posterity, together with the priceless
848 2, 4 | to be relieved of these posts, in order to be able to
849 2, 7 | men and women, humble and powerful, rich and poor, free men
850 2, 5 | Church of Saint Mary ad Praesepe, today known as Saint Mary
851 1, 2 | especially through the prayers and work of these saints,
852 3, 8 | a mysterious and fertile pre-condition for the development and
853 3, 9 | Resurrection told the Apostles: "Preach the Gospel to the whole
854 5, 18 | revealed by Jesus Christ and preached by the Church through the
855 2, 7 | brother Constantine, as the preacher of the Gospel and teacher "
856 3, 9 | nations".19 In so doing, the preachers and teachers of the Slav
857 4, 13 | working in such complex and precarious situations, did not seek
858 4, 14 | Methodius as the authentic precursors of ecumenism, inasmuch as
859 2, 6 | Slavonic by Pope John's predecessor Hadrian II.~When in 881
860 1, 1 | already traced out by my Predecessors, and notably by Leo XIII,
861 2, 4 | reaching the rank of Archon or Prefect in one of the frontier Provinces
862 3, 11 | ethnic exclusivism or racial prejudice, and from any nationalistic
863 1, 1(2) | Eventus (11 May 1963) to the Prelates of the Slav Nations: AAS
864 7, 23 | Bohemia of the dynasty of the Premyslids, Bozyvoj (Borivoj), was
865 5, 16 | that it would be capable of preparing and initiating a period
866 8, 30 | salvation and, in their presence, bore testimony~-that you
867 3, 10 | the military and cultural pressure of the new Romano-Germanic
868 4, 13(21)| than anything else to the pressures of the moment, to changing
869 2, 4 | and, simultaneously, the prestigious position of Secretary to
870 4, 12 | Rome had begun to appear as pretexts for disunity, even though
871 3, 11 | Church's chief episcopal See.~Previously, Constantine and his fellow
872 3, 10 | universal Church. This was the price which they had to pay for
873 5, 18 | posterity, together with the priceless gift of life, forms as it
874 4, 13 | can be said that Jesus' priestly prayer - ut unum sint 22
875 2, 5 | their followers be ordained priests. This phase of their efforts
876 2, 7 | Emperors and of various Princes of the young Slav peoples.
877 7, 24 | who married the Bohemian princess Dubravka, took place principally
878 5, 16 | years ago, had as one of its principal tasks that of reawakening
879 3, 8 | Byzantium, imbued with Christian principles. A similar request has addressed
880 6, 21 | the first liturgical books printed in this language. Up to
881 8, 30 | render to you due praise in private and in public life!~-May
882 2, 5 | spent amidst journeys, privations, sufferings, hostility and
883 5, 16 | missionary impulse for the proclamation of the eternal message of
884 4, 13 | the doctrine which they professed and taught, the liturgical
885 8, 31 | of this common treasure, professes her spiritual solidarity
886 3, 9 | invited to go there. Their profoundly Christian response to the
887 7, 26 | in their own identity and progress in it.42~
888 4, 13(21)| meeting with the Brothers. Prohibitions or limitations in the use
889 8, 30 | co-heir of the unfailing promises which you have made to humanity!~
890 1, 2 | in 1980, of the happy and promising theological dialogue between
891 4, 14 | initiated and organized to promote Christian unity".24 Thus
892 7, 26 | eminently and unceasingly promoted and extended that culture.
893 5, 16 | cannot make us forget the prophetic insight of Pope John XXIII,
894 4, 15 | ecclesiastical and civil authorities, protecting in particular the liturgy
895 3, 11 | defend its legitimacy and prove its value, Saint Methodius,
896 4, 14 | the will of Christ, (but) provides a stumbling block to the
897 2, 4 | Prefect in one of the frontier Provinces where many Slavs lived.
898 3, 9 | the resources of energy, prudence, zeal and charity needed
899 4, 13 | motto in accordance with the Psalmist's words: "Praise the Lord,
900 6, 21 | established themselves. Here were published the first liturgical books
901 6, 21 | Methodius together with their pupils, conferred a capacity and
902 3, 11 | elevate and sublimate every purely natural legitimate sentiment
903 3, 11 | traditions, once having purified and enlightened them by
904 5, 16 | Taking them to herself she purifies, strengthens, and enobles
905 3, 10 | were then forming.~For the purposes of evangelization, the two
906 2, 4 | contemplative life, far from the pursuit of ambition. Thus he retired
907 5, 18 | honest acknowledgment of the qualities and rights of brethren in
908 5, 18 | Spirit. This dimension issues quite spontaneously from mutual
909 1, 1(2) | cf. also PIUS XI, Letter Quod S. Cyrillum (13 February
910 3, 11 | particularism, ethnic exclusivism or racial prejudice, and from any
911 2, 4(6) | Fr. Grivec et Fr. Tomsic (Radovi Staroslavenskog Instituta,
912 5, 17 | the sun to rise and the rain to fall on all people without
913 5, 20 | merciful God, in our own time, raised up for the good work, for
914 2, 4 | did take up, reaching the rank of Archon or Prefect in
915 4, 12 | gave relatively young and rapidly expanding societies a sense
916 2, 6 | ecclesiastical title of the re-established Episcopal See of Sirmium.
917 2, 4 | fact Methodius did take up, reaching the rank of Archon or Prefect
918 1, 3 | eleven centuries. And we can read in their lives and apostolic
919 2, 5 | Cyril and Methodius, who readily accepted, set out and, probably
920 8, 31 | solidarity with them and reaffirms her own responsibility towards
921 8, 31 | of the past, the present reality and in order to discern
922 3, 11 | sound familiar to them. They realized that an essential condition
923 5, 16 | principal tasks that of reawakening the self-awareness of the
924 5, 16 | period of springtime and rebirth in the life of the Church.~
925 2, 4 | Grande Munus, I wish to recall the life of Saint Methodius,
926 1, 3 | Basilica of Saint Clement.~Recalling the holy lives and apostolic
927 2, 4(6) | Thessalonicenses, Fontes, recensuerunt et illustraverunt Fr. Grivec
928 | recent
929 2, 5 | gave them a hospitable reception. From here, after some months,
930 5, 18 | culture throughout history recognizes and brings into being as
931 8, 29 | of the Slavs, I desire to recommend to the Most Blessed Trinity
932 2, 5 | as Saint Mary Major, and recommended that their followers be
933 7, 25 | which no serious attempt to reconstruct in a new and relevant way
934 8, 29 | his Life in Old Slavonic46 recounts he uttered before he died,
935 2, 4 | that distant region. They recovered his relics and took them
936 3, 11 | to all people in order to redeem all. And in particular for
937 5, 16 | will of God the Creator and Redeemer to be the common dwelling
938 7, 27 | of humanity today is to rediscover unity and communion for
939 7, 27 | of East and West, for the rediscovery through prayer and dialogue
940 4, 14 | eliminate effectively or to reduce any divisions, real or only
941 5, 17 | against him Cyril replied by referring to the inspired basis of
942 4, 15 | This task was perfectly reflected in the Creed of the 150
943 1, 2 | subject of my prayer and reflection. The first was the eleventh
944 1, 3 | result of the liturgical reform, the feast was transferred
945 2, 4 | after having resolutely refused a brilliant political future.
946 4, 12 | differences sometimes came to be regarded as a threat to a still incomplete
947 4, 13(21)| concerned at conflicting reports regarding the teaching and activity
948 7, 23 | ecclesiastically to the Bishop of Regensburg and the metropolis of Salzburg.
949 4, 12 | uniformity thus achieved gave relatively young and rapidly expanding
950 2, 4 | known that he wished to be relieved of these posts, in order
951 7, 26 | peoples, but together with religion they eminently and unceasingly
952 8, 30 | bless this work of yours!~Remember, O Almighty Father, the
953 1, 1 | Cyril and Methodius, are remembered by the Church together with
954 5, 20 | grateful and everlasting remembrance the one who became the link
955 5, 17 | Syrians and many others".29~Reminding them that God causes the
956 8, 30 | earthly homeland!~-May they render to you due praise in private
957 1, 3 | Methodius encourage us to give renewed expression to the Church'
958 7, 27 | overcoming tensions and repairing the divisions and antagonisms
959 5, 19 | waiting for all people to repent,) that all may be saved
960 5, 17 | brought against him Cyril replied by referring to the inspired
961 5, 17 | nations.~In Venice, before the representatives of the ecclesiastical world,
962 1, 1(2) | and of the Czechoslovakian Republic: AAS 19 (1927), pp. 93-96;
963 3, 8 | homeland, which God sometimes requires of those he has chosen,
964 2, 4 | terms, leaving to historical research the detailed discussion
965 3, 10 | and who were attempting to resist forms of life which they
966 4, 14 | from Salonika preserved a resolute and vigilant fidelity to
967 2, 4 | Holy Orders, after having resolutely refused a brilliant political
968 3, 10 | them from their tenacious resolve to help and to serve the
969 4, 15 | By thus acting, he always resorted, as did Constantine the
970 5, 16 | their own mentality and respected the actual conditions of
971 4, 13 | and Methodius were ever respectful of the obligations of their
972 3, 9 | Their profoundly Christian response to the invitation in this
973 4, 13 | it is an invitation to restore, in the peace of reconciliation,
974 2, 6 | at least in substance, restored the prerogatives granted
975 3, 9 | the power of his Cross and Resurrection told the Apostles: "Preach
976 7, 25 | the ninth century still retained pagan customs and beliefs.
977 1, 3 | last decades have helped to revive in the Church not only the
978 4, 14 | and vigilant fidelity to right doctrine and to the tradition
979 7, 25 | 25. Rightly therefore Saints Cyril and
980 5, 17 | that God causes the sun to rise and the rain to fall on
981 5, 17 | of unnumbered multitudes, rising in countless modulations,
982 7, 27 | itself, it too would run the risk of becoming impoverished.~
983 7, 24 | passed through neighboring Romania and reached the ancient
984 3, 10 | cultural pressure of the new Romano-Germanic Empire, and who were attempting
985 7, 27 | on itself, it too would run the risk of becoming impoverished.~
986 7, 24 | and reached the ancient Rus' of Kiev, and then spread
987 7, 27 | being the universal sign and sacrament of salvation and of the
988 4, 14 | Church's history and which sadly still persists "not only
989 8, 29 | I commend my spirit": we salute the eleventh centenary of
990 7, 23 | Regensburg and the metropolis of Salzburg. However, it is worthy of
991 2, 4 | Patriarch on a mission to the Saracens. On the completion of this
992 2, 7 | that I might by all means save some".12~To tell the truth,
993 5, 19 | repent,) that all may be saved and come to the knowledge
994 2, 4 | individual points.~The city which saw the birth of the two holy
995 5, 17 | 17. We can say without fear of contradiction
996 2, 5 | brother, now gravely ill, scarcely had time to take religious
997 5, 16 | After his children were scattered, he decreed that they should
998 8, 28 | these peoples on to the scene of the history of salvation
999 2, 4 | teaching philosophy in the School of higher learning in Constantinople,
1000 5, 17 | inspired basis of Sacred Scripture: "Let every tongue confess