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Centesimus annus
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1 5, 46 | in accordance with the missionary nature of his vocation.
Dominum et vivificantem
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2 1, 9 | translated into the great missionary mandate addressed to the
3 1, 25(96) | Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity, Ad Gentes,~
Ecclesia de Eucharistia
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4 2, 21(37) | Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
Fides et ratio
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5 3, 24 | to Athens on one of his missionary journeys. The city of philosophers
6 6, 69(92) | Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, 22.~
Redemptor hominis
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7 1, 4 | apostolic, or in other words her missionary, dynamism, professing and
8 2, 11(67) | Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, 11:
9 2, 12 | achieved. This is apostolic and missionary unity, missionary and apostolic
10 2, 12 | apostolic and missionary unity, missionary and apostolic unity. Thanks
11 2, 12 | Apostles has marked the missionary attitude, the attitude of
12 2, 12 | attitude, the attitude of the missionary. Suffice it to mention Saint
13 2, 12 | Areopagus at Athens74. The missionary attitude always begins with
14 4, 19 | This teaching, both in its missionary and its ordinary aspect,
Redemptoris Mater
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15 2, 28 | churches," of parish and missionary communities, religious institutes
Redemptoris missio
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16 Int, 1 | earth in order to show this missionary concern. My direct contact
17 Int, 1 | even more of the urgency of missionary activity, a subject to which
18 Int, 1 | emphasized the Church's "missionary nature," basing it in a
19 Int, 1 | Trinitarian mission itself. The missionary thrust therefore belongs
20 Int, 2 | much fruit in the realm of missionary activity. There has been
21 Int, 2 | is a new awareness that missionary activity is a matter for
22 Int, 2 | meant to help overcome it. Missionary activity specifically directed "
23 Int, 2 | have weakened the Church's missionary thrust toward non-Christians,
24 Int, 2 | in the Church's history, missionary drive has always been a
25 Int, 2 | publication of the Decree on Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, fifteen
26 Int, 2 | the Church to renew her missionary commitment. The present
27 Int, 2 | and Christian life. For missionary activity renews the Church,
28 Int, 2 | proclaim the urgency of missionary evangelization is the fact
29 Int, 2 | and ambiguities regarding missionary activity ad gentes, and
30 Int, 2 | and sisters dedicated to missionary activity and all those who
31 Int, 2 | who assist them; to foster missionary vocations; to encourage
32 Int, 2 | systematically the various aspects of missionary activity; to give a fresh
33 Int, 2 | give a fresh impulse to missionary activity by fostering the
34 Int, 2 | authorities of countries to which missionary activity is being directed
35 1, 4 | some people wonder: Is missionary work among non-Christians
36 1, 4 | Why then should there be missionary activity?~
37 1, 5 | reason why the Church is missionary by her very nature. She
38 1, 7 | 7. The urgency of missionary activity derives from the
39 1, 8 | why the Church keeps her missionary spirit alive, and even wishes
40 1, 9(15) | Gentium, 14-17; Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
41 1, 9(16) | Spes, 43; Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
42 2, 20 | foundations and purposes of missionary activity, but rather strengthen
43 3, 22 | apostles, conclude with the "missionary mandate": "All authority
44 3, 23 | different versions of the "missionary mandate" contain common
45 3, 23 | Mk 15:39) In Matthew, the missionary emphasis is placed on the
46 3, 23 | resurrection (cf. Acts 1:22). The missionary is invited to believe in
47 3, 23 | Jn 17:18). The entire missionary sense of John's Gospel is
48 3, 23 | This is a very important missionary text. It makes us understand
49 3, 23 | pay heed to the variety or missionary charisms and to the diversity
50 3, 24 | the places to which their missionary journey is to take them.
51 3, 24 | records six summaries of the "missionary discourses" which were addressed
52 3 | Spirit Makes the Whole Church Missionary~
53 3, 26 | Acts 2:46), were open and missionary: they enjoyed "favor with
54 3, 28(36) | Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
55 3, 28(42) | Gentium, 17; Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
56 3, 29(43) | Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
57 3 | Missionary Activity Is Only Beginning~
58 3, 30 | resurgence of the Church's missionary activity. The horizons and
59 3, 30 | points which have encouraged missionary outreach, and the Church,
60 4, 31 | activity. First, there is the missionary activity which we call mission
61 4, 31 | specific way this is the missionary work which Jesus entrusted
62 4, 31(49) | Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
63 4, 32 | then.~On the other hand, missionary work has been very fruitful
64 4, 32 | appropriate to speak of specific missionary activity or specifically "
65 4, 32 | activity or specifically "missionary" areas, or whether we should
66 4, 32 | speak instead of a single missionary situation, with one single
67 4, 32 | singular and the adjective "missionary" to describe all the Church'
68 4, 32 | given a fresh impetus to missionary activity itself, which is
69 4, 32 | that the whole Church is missionary does not preclude the existencec
70 4, 33 | situation which the Church's missionary activity addresses: peoples,
71 4, 33(51) | Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
72 4, 34 | 34. Missionary activity proper, namely
73 4, 34 | that this specifically "missionary work that Jesus entrusted
74 4, 34 | evangelization and specific missionary activity are not clearly
75 4, 34 | gentes, the Church's very missionary dimension would be deprived
76 4, 34 | assists the others. The missionary thrust fosters exchanges
77 4, 34 | non-Christians at home. Hence missionary activity ad intra is a credible
78 4, 34 | sign and a stimulus for missionary activity ad extra, and vice
79 4, 36 | obstacles to the Church's missionary work include past and present
80 4, 36 | lack of interest in the missionary task is a widespread indifferentism,
81 4, 36(57) | Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
82 4, 37 | a) Territorial limits.~Missionary activity has normally been
83 4, 37 | the geographical limits of missionary activity. Certainly, a universal
84 4, 37 | Church refuses to allow her missionary presence to be hindered
85 4, 37 | But it is also true that missionary activity ad gentes, being
86 4, 37(59) | Cf. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
87 4, 37 | that statements about the missionary responsibility of the Church
88 4, 37 | the frontiers toward which missionary activity must be directed.
89 4, 37 | powerful effect on the overall missionary picture. Where before there
90 4, 37 | people.~In the modern age, missionary activity has been carried
91 4, 37 | toward which the Church's missionary activity ought to be directed;
92 4, 39 | 39. All forms of missionary activity are marked by an
93 4, 39(63) | Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
94 4, 39 | for various reasons oppose missionary activity, the Church repeats:
95 4, 40 | 40. Today missionary activity still represents
96 4, 40 | mankind. The results of missionary activity in modern times
97 5, 41 | 41. "Missionary activity is nothing other
98 5, 41(68) | Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
99 5, 42 | is the very life of the missionary, of the Christian family,
100 5, 42 | a new way of living. The missionary who, despite all his or
101 5, 42 | possible way of being a missionary.~The evangelical witness
102 5, 42(70) | Spes, 43; Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
103 5, 44 | and mercy."72 All forms of missionary activity are directed to
104 5, 44(73) | Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
105 5, 44 | center in Christ, so too all missionary activity is directed to
106 5, 44 | a communion between the missionary and his hearers, a communion
107 5, 44(74) | Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
108 5, 45 | merely personal act. The missionary is present and carries out
109 5, 45 | enthusiasm and fervor in the missionary. As already mentioned, the
110 5, 45 | Christ to non-Christians, the missionary is convinced that, through
111 5, 45 | from sin and death. The missionary's enthusiasm in proclaiming
112 5, 48 | and determining goal of missionary activity, so much so that
113 5, 48(78) | Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
114 5, 48 | universal Church and becomes missionary in its own turn. Here we
115 5, 48 | the precise stage at which missionary activity properly so-called
116 5, 48(79) | Cf. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
117 5, 49 | people of God and to all its missionary forces. Every church, even
118 5, 49 | up of recent converts, is missionary by its very nature, and
119 5, 49 | required in order to become missionary, and this holds true both
120 5, 49 | measured in the light of this missionary imperative. Only by becoming
121 5, 49 | imperative. Only by becoming missionary will the Christian community
122 5, 49 | and its strength of faith.~Missionary personnel coming from other
123 5, 49 | particular, it falls to missionary personnel - in accordance
124 5, 49 | groups, and to encourage a missionary sense within the particular
125 5, 50 | ecumenical activity and missionary activity makes it necessary
126 5, 50 | unity of Christians, so that missionary activity can be more effective.
127 5, 51 | Christian formation and missionary outreach. These are groups
128 5, 51 | Magisterium, with a commitment to missionary outreach and without yielding
129 5, 52 | 52. As she carries out missionary activity among the nations,
130 5, 52 | accompanies the whole of missionary life. It involves those
131 5, 52(89) | Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
132 5, 55(98) | Gentium, 16; Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
133 5, 55(99) | Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
134 5, 55(101)| Gentium, 14; cf. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
135 5, 55(102)| Redintegratio, 3; Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
136 5, 56(104)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
137 5, 57(107)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
138 5, 59 | religious values. To the poor, missionary activity brings light and
139 5, 60 | that reveal the soul of all missionary activity: love, which has
140 6 | LEADERS AND WORKERS IN THE MISSIONARY APOSTOLATE~
141 6, 61 | missionaries there can be no missionary activity. Jesus chooses
142 6, 61 | prepared for the outstanding missionary work of Paul, who by God'
143 6, 61 | In the early Church's missionary expansion, we find alongside
144 6, 62 | urgent today. The Church is missionary by her very nature, for
145 6, 62 | Precisely" so that this missionary zeal may flourish among
146 6, 62 | possible in the universal missionary work of the Church. They
147 6, 62 | churches the authentic and full missionary nature of the Church finds
148 6, 62(117)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
149 6 | Primarily Responsible for Missionary Activity~
150 6, 63 | Lord gave the universal missionary mandate to the College of
151 6, 63(119)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
152 6, 63 | pay special attention to missionary activity, the greatest and
153 6, 63(122)| Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
154 6, 63 | own contribution to the missionary task.124~Each bishop too,
155 6, 63 | church, has a wide-ranging missionary duty. It falls to him "as
156 6, 63 | diocesan apostolate, to promote missionary activity, to direct and
157 6, 64 | but also and primarily to missionary activity as such. I appeal
158 6, 64 | various obstacles and increase missionary vocations.~
159 6, 65 | among those involved in the missionary apostolate a place of fundamental
160 6, 65 | changes occurring within the missionary field, no longer to understand
161 6, 65 | of all, Christ stirs up a missionary vocation in the hearts of
162 6, 65(128)| Cf. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
163 6, 65 | commitment which involves the missionary's whole person and life,
164 6, 66 | 66. Missionary institutes, drawing from
165 6, 66 | themselves.132~In general, missionary institutes came into being
166 6, 66 | they founded, while new missionary institutes have arisen in
167 6, 66 | relevance of the specific missionary vocation of these institutes.
168 6, 66 | necessary,"133 not only for missionary activity ad gentes, in keeping
169 6, 66 | but also for stirring up missionary fervor both in the churches
170 6, 66 | the model of the Church's missionary commitment, which always
171 6, 66(133)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
172 6, 67(134)| Ordinis, 10; cf. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
173 6, 67 | must be filled with special missionary zeal and commitment. The
174 6, 68 | of faith. Of course, the missionary service of the diocesan
175 6, 68(138)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
176 6, 68(139)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
177 6 | The Missionary Fruitfulness of Consecrated
178 6, 69 | to play a special part in missionary activity, in a manner appropriate
179 6, 69 | Whether they pursue a strictly missionary goal or not, such institutes
180 6, 69(141)| Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
181 6, 70 | word of appreciation to the missionary religious sisters, in whom
182 6, 71 | the role of the laity in missionary activity.144 In the Exhortation
183 6, 71 | hence the priestly ministry, missionary activity, which is carried
184 6, 71 | in its description of the missionary character of the entire
185 6, 71 | specific contribution to missionary activity which they are
186 6, 71(148)| Cf. Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
187 6, 72 | ecclesial movements" filled with missionary dynamism. When these movements
188 6, 72 | new evangelization and for missionary activity properly so-called.
189 6, 72 | express themselves.~Within missionary activity, the different
190 6, 72 | their nature and aims. Lay missionary associations, international
191 6, 73 | honor. The Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church speaks
192 6, 73 | worthy of praise, to whom missionary work among the nations owes
193 6, 73(154)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
194 6, 73 | and experienced during my missionary journeys, represent the
195 6, 73(157)| Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
196 6 | and Other Structures for Missionary Activity~
197 6, 75 | 75. Leaders and agents of missionary pastoral activity should
198 6, 75 | 21). The fruitfulness of missionary activity is to be found
199 6, 75 | congregation responsible for missionary activity it falls "to direct
200 6, 75 | evangelizing peoples and of missionary cooperation, with due regard
201 6, 75(159)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
202 6, 75(160)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
203 6, 75 | organizations involved in missionary activity, to cooperate faithfully
204 6, 75 | necessary to plan and direct missionary activity and cooperation
205 6, 75 | churches and the various missionary forces. In an ecclesiology
206 6, 75 | which the entire Church is missionary, but in which specific vocations
207 6, 75 | vocations and institutions for missionary work ad gentes remains indispensable,
208 6, 75(161)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
209 6, 76 | directing and coordinating missionary activity on the national
210 6, 76 | same Conferences, so that missionary concern will not be left
211 6, 76 | institutions involved in missionary activity should join forces
212 6, 76(162)| Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
213 6, 76 | cooperation between the various missionary institutions, both in formation
214 6, 76(165)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
215 7 | CHAPTER VII - COOPERATION IN MISSIONARY ACTIVITY~
216 7, 77 | share responsibility for missionary activity. "Missionary cooperation"
217 7, 77 | for missionary activity. "Missionary cooperation" is the expression
218 7, 77 | in this right and duty.~Missionary cooperation is rooted and
219 7, 77 | they may play their part in missionary work among the nations."166~
220 7, 77 | pray for the missions and missionary vocations. They help missionaries
221 7, 77(166)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
222 7, 79 | expressed above all by promoting missionary vocations. While acknowledging
223 7, 79 | ways of being involved in missionary activity, it is necessary
224 7, 79 | of place, especially in missionary institutes and congregations.
225 7, 79 | vocations is at the heart of missionary cooperation. Preaching the
226 7, 79 | recommend this concern for missionary vocations. Conscious of
227 7, 79 | Christians to contribute to missionary activity and to the development
228 7, 79 | contributions are on the increase, missionary vocations, which are the
229 7, 80 | special contribution to the missionary cause of the Church by fostering
230 7, 80 | the Church by fostering missionary vocations among their sons
231 7, 81 | especially in poor countries. The missionary Church gives what she receives,
232 7 | New Forms of Missionary Cooperation~
233 7, 82 | Christians an authentic missionary spirit.~International tourism
234 7, 82 | Firsthand knowledge of the missionary life and of new Christian
235 7, 82 | generously to these situations.~Missionary cooperation can also involve
236 7 | Missionary Promotion and Formation
237 7, 83 | 83. Missionary formation is the task of
238 7, 83 | spread information through missionary publications and audiovisual
239 7, 83 | own, it is important that missionary institutes devote personnel
240 7, 83 | an incomplete picture of missionary activity, as if it consisted
241 7, 83 | defending human rights. The missionary Church is certainly involved
242 7, 83 | just for bread and freedom. Missionary activity must first of all
243 7, 84 | Holy Childhood and the Missionary Union - have the common
244 7, 84 | of fostering a universal missionary spirit among the People
245 7, 84 | among the People of God. The Missionary Union has as its immediate
246 7, 84 | purpose the promotion of missionary consciousness and formation
247 7, 84 | communities. In addition, the Missionary Union seeks to promote the
248 7, 84 | genuinely universal and missionary spirit; they are also the
249 7, 84 | Another purpose of the Missionary Societies is the fostering
250 7, 84(170)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
251 7, 85 | 85. Cooperating in missionary activity means not just
252 7, 85 | begrudgingly conceding vocations to missionary institutes, religious congregations
253 7, 86 | more committed to a new missionary advent. We must increase
254 7, 86 | for the entire Church, the missionary task must remain foremost,
255 8 | CHAPTER VIII - MISSIONARY SPIRITUALITY~
256 8, 87 | 87. Missionary activity demands a specific
257 8 | are essential elements of missionary spirituality.~An example
258 8, 88 | essential characteristic of missionary spirituality is intimate
259 8, 88 | the foot of the cross.~The missionary is required to "renounce
260 8, 88 | Savior. This is the goal of missionary spirituality: "To the weak
261 8, 88(172)| Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad
262 8, 88 | because he is "sent" that the missionary experiences the consoling
263 8, 89 | 89. Missionary spirituality is also marked
264 8, 89 | 10). Those who have the missionary spirit feel Christ's burning
265 8, 89 | Church as Christ did.~The missionary is urged on by "zeal for
266 8, 89 | when it was rejected.~The missionary is a person of charity.
267 8, 89 | life for his neighbor. The missionary is the "universal brother,"
268 8, 89 | the Church can sustain the missionary's zeal. His daily pressure,
269 8, 89 | 2 Cor 11:28). For every missionary "fidelity to Christ cannot
270 8 | The True Missionary Is the Saint~
271 8, 90 | the call to holiness. A missionary is really such only if he
272 8, 90 | creature." 175 The Church's missionary spirituality is a journey
273 8, 90 | sisters: let us remember the missionary enthusiasm of the first
274 8, 90 | Cor 1:23) Underlying this missionary dynamism was the holiness
275 8, 91 | in your own countries the missionary epic of the early Church.
276 8, 91 | will also be a leaven of missionary spirit for the older churches.~
277 8, 91 | pastoral formation. The missionary must be a "contemplative
278 8, 91 | contemplation. Unless the missionary is a contemplative he cannot
279 8, 91 | to you" (1 Jn 1:1-3).~The missionary is a person of the Beatitudes.
280 8, 91 | evangelize, Jesus, in his "missionary discourse" (cf. Mt 10),
281 8, 91 | living the Beatitudes, the missionary experiences and shows concretely
282 8, 91 | characteristic of every authentic missionary life is the inner joy that
283 Conc, 92 | see the dawning of a new missionary age, which will become a
284 Conc, 92 | courage to carry out the missionary mandate. We too, like the
285 Conc, 92 | themselves to carrying out the missionary mandate in today's world.
Slavorum apostoli
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286 2, 4 | two holy Brothers on their missionary journey to the West, until
287 2, 5 | sounds of that language. The missionary activity of the two Brothers
288 2, 7 | forced to abandon their missionary field. Nonetheless, their
289 3, 9 | truth and the power of their missionary mandate came from the depths
290 3, 10 | spreading of the Gospel, the missionary enterprise, the courageous
291 3, 11 | of the success of their missionary activity was to transpose
292 3, 11 | was truly worthy of the missionary spirit. Exemplary too was
293 4, 13 | give an account of their missionary work to the Roman Pontiff.
294 4, 13 | ut unum sint 22 is their missionary motto in accordance with
295 4, 14 | to complete their great missionary tasks and to remain in full
296 4, 15 | him and sent him out as a missionary together with Cyril. Then
297 5, 16 | impressing upon her a fresh missionary impulse for the proclamation
298 5, 17 | inspired the apostolic and missionary work of Constantine the
299 5, 20 | situation. Thanks to the missionary efforts of both Saints,
300 7, 23 | 23. The apostolic and missionary activity of Saints Cyril
301 7, 26 | in the specific area of missionary activity that the example
302 7, 26(42) | Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, 38.~
Ut unum sint
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303 1, 5 | she is permanently open to missionary and ecumenical endeavour,
304 3, 98 | been characterized by a missionary outlook. In the verse of
Veritatis splendor
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305 3, 93 | solemn proclamation and missionary commitment usque ad sanguinem,
306 3, 107 | authenticity and unleash all its missionary force when it is carried
307 3, 108 | its fruits of holiness and missionary zeal, there is the Spirit
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