The cons. life in the miss. ad gentes today
   Chapter, Paragraph
 1   2  |      into a timely topic. The word "gentes" can be found in
 2   2  |       24:47; see RM 23).~This word is the translation of the
 3   2  |    designated in Greek by the word "laos"). The Greek also
 4   2  |    Decree Ad gentes alone the word "gentes" appears more than
 5   5  |       the proclamation of the word (DV 8, EN 75), a topic that
 6   5  | charism.~The Spirit makes the word of our missionary proclamation
 7   5  |   signs fruitful as well. Our word resounds in the senses,
 8   6  |      very first action of the Word who was sent and became
 9   6  |       the proclamation of the word has a central place. Today
10   6  |    missionary theology of the word is quite developed. In missionary
11   6  |   without the "witness of the word", there is not a true evangelisation (


Missio ad gentes and the excl. missionary inst.
   Chapter, Paragraph
12   1,1|       the strict sense of the word.~Three components were closely
13   3,1|       new significance to the word itself: "The pilgrim Church


Pr. and prosp. common to all inst. of cons. life in the miss. ad gentes
   Chapter, Paragraph
14   2,2|     we become missionaries in word or deed" (cf. RM 23) by
15   2,3|    the strongest sense of the word in relation to non-Christians,


The witn. of cons. life in the local church
   Chapter, Paragraph
16   2,A|    among whom the seed of the Word has been sown.~