Chapter
1 Intro | have exhorted the People of God to correspond with joyful
2 Intro | consolation of the Church of God and of all those who are
3 1 | and inward witness that God the Creator renders to Himself
4 1 | midst of His creation: "And God saw that it was good."[6]
5 1 | the mode of revelation, God disposes the mind and heart
6 1 | enters into possession of God, known and loved as the
7 1 | something of the joy of God. ~ ~But how can we ignore
8 1 | solidarity is already the work of God; it corresponds to Christ'
9 1 | proclaimed the kingdom of God. ~ ~But the theme of our
10 1 | link that joined him to God. Hope, and the value of
11 1 | longer sufficiently ensured. God seems to him abstract and
12 1 | being able to express it, God's silence weighs heavily
13 1 | the image and likeness of God, and therefore instinctively
14 1 | brought by the knowledge of God and by the certainty of
15 1 | becoming more present to God, by turning away from sin,
16 1 | ourselves becoming attentive to God's plan, listening to the
17 2 | Christ glorified. As soon as God the Father begins to manifest
18 2 | the midst of the People of God, before its identity has
19 2 | to come: the only Son of God promised for the redeeming
20 2 | to detach them from their God. This joy, ever threatened
21 2 | in the merciful love of God for His beloved people,
22 2 | the joy of living with God and for God. It is a question
23 2 | living with God and for God. It is a question finally
24 2 | with a mystical love by God Himself. ~ ~The ultimate
25 2 | that time the People of God will be led, in the death
26 2 | the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you."[15] ~ ~
27 3 | peace which is given by God and which spreads out like
28 3 | coming on earth of Emmanuel, God with us. John the Baptist,
29 3 | field. He immediately grasps God's attitude towards creation
30 3 | spiritual joys of the kingdom of God: the joy of people who enter
31 3 | spiritual joys, as a gift of God. And He did not rest until ''
32 3 | by Him, and gave glory to God.[23] For the Christian as
33 3 | intimate words of the Son of God made man. If Jesus radiates
34 3 | that He has always known as God in the bosom of the Father: "...
35 3 | This joy of living in God's love begins here below.
36 3 | the joy of the kingdom of God. But it is granted on a
37 3 | yours is the kingdom of God. Happy you who are hungry
38 3 | possession of the Triune God, known by faith and loved
39 3 | sadness, which is according to God and not according to the
40 3 | the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him,
41 4 | from the very sources of God's Word. For twenty centuries,
42 4 | and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior...henceforth all
43 4 | all other creatures, that God accomplishes wonderful things:
44 4 | meditates on the least signs of God, pondering them in her heart.
45 4 | the beloved Daughter of God and, in Christ, the Mother
46 4 | my soul shall exult in my God; for he has clothed me with
47 4 | Precious in the eyes of God is the death of His saints,
48 4 | salvation, holding Him in whom God reconciles the world to
49 4 | to show how the love of God for Himself procures the
50 4 | and like a pure mirror of God's glory. He could even express
51 4 | abandonment into the hands of God to whom she entrusts her
52 4 | experience of the feeling of God's absence, a feeling which
53 4 | when it is given to men by God? It will make us like Him
54 4 | the image and likeness of God."[54] Already here below
55 5 | your heart divided when God's call reaches you. Quite
56 5 | his place at the right of God's throne. Think of the way
57 5 | The invitation given by God the Father to share fully
58 5 | abundantly to all the riches of God's mercy. "The promise that
59 5 | those whom the Lord our God will call to himself."[56] ~ ~
60 5 | cannot think of the People of God in an abstract way. Our
61 5 | evening of their lives. God's joy is knocking at the
62 5 | sphere of the People of God. By bringing their lives
63 5 | conscience, which is the echo of God's voice, they are on the
64 5 | joy. ~ ~But the People of God cannot go forward without
65 5 | it is the immense love of God which is summoning towards
66 6 | the whole of the People of God, we wish to take the time
67 6 | Church, as the People of God on pilgrimage towards the
68 6 | without end the gift of God, the Truth and the Life.
69 6 | historical stage of the People of God. ~ ~
70 7 | journey of the whole People of God. The grace of the Jubilee
71 7 | and of a journey towards God, in faith, hope and love.
72 7 | pilgrimage is, for the People of God as a whole, and for each
73 7 | creature and as a child of God. ~ ~Was it not an inner
74 7 | outpouring of the gift of God. Let Him then come, the
75 7 | this world, in the heart of God's mystery which is still
76 7 | comes down from above, from God. Of this only lasting city
77 7 | has pleased the Wisdom of God to place the Rome of Peter
78 7 | the Apostles, this love of God and of men which has been
79 7 | Church and the glory of God the Father! ~ ~
80 Conclu| simple reasons for joy? God has so loved the world that
81 Conclu| Son; through His Spirit, God's presence does not cease
82 Conclu| the state of grace with God, is truly able to fill the
83 Conclu| world and which speaks of God's silence! ~ ~Joy always
84 Conclu| certain outlook on man and on God. "When your eye is sound,
85 Conclu| dissociated from sharing. In God Himself, all is joy because
86 Conclu| alliance of love between God and His people: the sign
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