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Chap., §
1001 Int, 5(11) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 52.~
1002 Int, 5 | with Christ and with the Church takes on historical significance.
1003 Int, 5 | becoming "a model of the Church in the matter of faith,
1004 Int, 5 | intimate mystery of the Church, as she actuates and accomplishes
1005 Int, 5(14) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 64.~
1006 Int, 6 | point of reference for the Church, for individuals and for
1007 Int, 6 | eschatological fulfillment of the Church: "In the most holy Virgin
1008 Int, 6 | the most holy Virgin the Church has already reached that
1009 Int, 6(17) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 63.~
1010 1, 7(20) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 55.~
1011 1, 8(22) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 55.~
1012 1, 10 | solemn documents of the Church, this "glory of grace" is
1013 1, 10(24) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 53.~
1014 1, 11 | the final events of the Church and the world), in which
1015 1, 12 | thus becoming one of the Church's most frequently used prayers.
1016 1, 13(32) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 56.~
1017 1, 13(33) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 56.~
1018 1, 13 | And as the Fathers of the Church teach - she conceived this
1019 1, 17(37) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 58.~
1020 1, 19 | teach the Fathers of the Church and especially St. Irenaeus,
1021 1, 19 | Eve, the Fathers of the Church - as the Council also says -
1022 1, 19(41) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 56, Note
1023 1, 19(42) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 56, and the
1024 1, 22(44) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 60.~
1025 1, 23 | there might be born in the Church the faithful.'"48~And so
1026 1, 23(48) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 54 and 53;
1027 1, 24 | new" continuation in the Church and through the Church,
1028 1, 24 | the Church and through the Church, symbolized and represented
1029 1, 24 | Mother of God, through the Church remains in that mystery
1030 1, 24(49) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 55.~
1031 1, 24 | to be poured out upon the Church, as indicated by statements
1032 1, 24 | Mary's "motherhood" of the Church is the reflection and extension
1033 1, 24 | Council the very moment of the Church's birth and full manifestation
1034 1, 24 | moment of the birth of the Church. The person who links these
1035 1, 24 | present in the mystery of the Church. In the Church too she continues
1036 1, 24 | mystery of the Church. In the Church too she continues to be
1037 1, 24(51) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 59.~
1038 2 | THE CENTER OF THE PILGRIM CHURCH~
1039 2 | 1. The Church, the People of God present
1040 2, 25 | 25. "The Church 'like a pilgrim in a foreign
1041 2, 25 | was already called the Church of God (cf. 2 Esd. 13:1;
1042 2, 25(53) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 8.~
1043 2, 25 | Israel...is also called the Church of Christ (cf Mt 16:18).
1044 2, 25 | has established them as Church, that for each and all she
1045 2, 25 | Council speaks of the pilgrim Church, establishing an analogy
1046 2, 25 | historically takes place. For the Church "is destined to extend to
1047 2, 25 | Holy Spirit, given to the Church as the invisible Comforter (
1048 2, 25 | trial and tribulation, the Church is strengthened by the power
1049 2, 26 | Christ upon the Apostles, the Church became fully aware of these
1050 2, 26 | that journey of faith, the Church's pilgrimage through the
1051 2, 26 | Mary's journey meets the Church's journey of faith. In what
1052 2, 26(61) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 63.~
1053 2, 26 | Upper Room in Jerusalem. The Church is born and then grows through
1054 2, 26 | the very first moment, the Church "looked at" Mary through
1055 2, 26 | Jesus through Mary. For the Church of that time and of every
1056 2, 26 | But above all, in the Church of that time and of every
1057 2, 26 | Jerusalem at the dawn of the Church, her faith, born from the
1058 2, 27 | at the first dawn of the Church, at the beginning of the
1059 2, 27 | mystery of Christ. And the Church was assiduous in prayer
1060 2, 27 | always to be so. For when the Church "enters more intimately
1061 2, 27 | also to the mystery of the Church from the beginning, from
1062 2, 27 | beginning, from the day of the Church's birth. At the basis of
1063 2, 27 | At the basis of what the Church has been from the beginning,
1064 2, 27 | apostolic witness of the Church, and ever remains in the
1065 2, 27 | and ever remains in the Church's heart hidden like a special
1066 2, 27 | apostolic witness of the Church share in that mysterious
1067 2, 27 | mystery spreads, through the Church's apostolic witness and
1068 2, 27 | her special place in the Church's pilgrimage as the new
1069 2, 28 | faith, according to the Church's apostolic witness, in
1070 2, 28 | various groups existing in the Church. It is a faith that is passed
1071 2, 28 | prayer. Therefore, "the Church in her apostolic work also
1072 2, 28 | Virgin, so that through the Church Christ may be born and increase
1073 2, 28 | Christian Millennium, the Church, through the teaching of
1074 2, 28 | Annunciation, is present in the Church's mission, present in the
1075 2, 28 | mission, present in the Church's work of introducing into
1076 2, 28 | as it did throughout the Church's history. It also has a
1077 2, 28 | continues to exist in the Church, which in Christ is "a kind
1078 2, 28 | throughout the earth, the Church "strives energetically and
1079 2, 28(70) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 1.~
1080 2 | 2. The Church's journey and the unity
1081 2, 29 | shepherd."72 The journey of the Church, especially in our own time,
1082 2, 29 | the part of the Catholic Church its culminating expression
1083 2, 29(74) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 68, 69. On
1084 2, 30 | mystery and ministry of the Church, and sometimes also concerning
1085 2, 30 | dialogues begun by the Catholic Church with the Churches and Ecclesial
1086 2, 30 | said for the mystery of the Church and Mary's role in the work
1087 2, 30 | study of both Mary and the Church, clarifying each by the
1088 2, 30 | agreement with the Catholic Church on fundamental points of
1089 2, 31 | profoundly the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church and
1090 2, 31 | Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church and the ancient Churches
1091 2, 31(79) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 66.~
1092 2, 31 | of God, to Christ and the Church: the Virgin is a permanent
1093 2, 31 | tradition of the Syriac Church.82 In his panegyric of the
1094 2, 33 | universal tradition of the Church, there could be exposed
1095 2, 33(85) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 59.~
1096 2, 34 | the different forms of the Church's great tradition, could
1097 2, 34 | hasten the day when the Church can begin once more to breathe
1098 2, 34 | place between the Catholic Church and the Churches and Ecclesial
1099 2, 34 | the way for the pilgrim Church to sing and to live more
1100 2 | Magnificat" of the pilgrim Church~
1101 2, 35 | journey, therefore, the Church seeks to rediscover the
1102 2, 35 | pilgrim in a foreign land, the Church presses forward amid the
1103 2, 35 | trial and tribulation, the Church is strengthened by the power
1104 2, 35(87) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 8.~
1105 2, 35 | re-echoes in the heart of the Church down the centuries. This
1106 2, 37 | 37. The Church, which from the beginning
1107 2, 37 | and the Visitation, the Church derives the truth about
1108 2, 37 | In the Magnificat the Church sees uprooted that sin which
1109 2, 37 | Cross and Resurrection. ~The Church, which even "amid trials
1110 2, 37 | this truth about God, the Church desires to shed light upon
1111 2, 37 | s earthly existence. The Church's journey, therefore, near
1112 2, 37 | poor" (cf. Lk. 4:18), the Church has sought from generation
1113 2, 37 | that same mission. ~The Church's love of preference for
1114 2, 37 | words of the Magnificat, the Church renews ever more effectively
1115 2, 37 | and works of Jesus. ~The Church is thus aware - and at the
1116 2, 37 | Mother and Model that the Church must look in order to understand
1117 3, 38 | 38. The Church knows and teaches with Saint
1118 3, 38 | mediation in Christ.~The Church knows and teaches that "
1119 3, 38(94) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 60.~
1120 3, 38 | himself." Thus we read: "The Church does not hesitate to profess
1121 3, 38(97) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 62.~
1122 3, 38 | mystery of Christ and the Church.~
1123 3, 39 | that mediation which the Church confesses and proclaims
1124 3, 39 | the faithful," since the Church has great trust in her.
1125 3, 40 | the midst of the infant Church: "Behold your mother." Thus
1126 3, 40 | between this Mother and the Church. For the infant Church was
1127 3, 40 | the Church. For the infant Church was the fruit of the Cross
1128 3, 40 | not but pour out upon the Church, from the very beginning,
1129 3, 40 | motherhood remains in the Church as maternal mediation: interceding
1130 3, 40 | continues in the history of the Church and the world. We read that
1131 3, 40 | continues unceasingly in the Church as the mediation which intercedes,
1132 3, 40 | which intercedes, and the Church expresses her faith in this
1133 3, 40(105) | 62; in her prayer too the Church recognizes and celebrates
1134 3, 41 | the union of the pilgrim Church on earth with the eschatological
1135 3, 41 | which thus expresses the Church's faith: "Preserved free
1136 3, 41 | expressions in the history of the Church, both in the East and in
1137 3, 41(108) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 59; cf. Pope
1138 3, 41 | expressed the faith of the Church, according to which Mary
1139 3, 41(109) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 53.~
1140 3, 41(111) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 55.~
1141 3, 41(116) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 62.~
1142 3 | Mary in the life of the Church and of every Christian~
1143 3, 42 | Christ in the life of the Church. "Through the gift...of
1144 3, 42 | intimately united with the Church: the Mother of God is a
1145 3, 42 | of God is a figure of the Church in the matter of faith,
1146 3, 42 | the midst of the pilgrim Church from generation to generation
1147 3, 42 | reasons Mary is honored in the Church "with special reverence.
1148 3, 42 | Mother of Christ and the Church.120 As Virgin and Mother,
1149 3, 42 | Mother, Mary remains for the Church a "permanent model." It
1150 3, 42 | also in the mystery of the Church. For the Church too is "
1151 3, 42 | mystery of the Church. For the Church too is "called mother and
1152 3, 42(121) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Centium, 63.~
1153 3, 43 | 43. The Church "becomes herself a mother
1154 3, 43 | unto the Cross, so too the Church becomes a mother when, accepting
1155 3, 43 | maternal" characteristic of the Church was expressed in a particularly
1156 3, 43 | interesting sign of the early Church's awareness of her own motherhood,
1157 3, 43 | enabled and still enables the Church to see the mystery of her
1158 3, 43 | said that from Mary the Church also learns her own motherhood:
1159 3, 43 | Father's will."124 If the Church is the sign and instrument
1160 3, 43 | the Incarnation, so the Church is always at the service
1161 3, 43 | the example of Mary, the Church remains the virgin faithful
1162 3, 43 | faithful to her spouse: The Church herself is a virgin who
1163 3, 43 | her Spouse."125 For the Church is the spouse of Christ,
1164 3, 43 | Lamb" (Rev. 21:9). If the Church as spouse "keeps the fidelity
1165 3, 43 | the Holy Spirit.~But the Church also preserves the faith
1166 3, 43 | cf. Lk. 2:19, 51), the Church is committed to preserving
1167 3, 44 | Mary's relationship to the Church as an exemplar, the Church
1168 3, 44 | Church as an exemplar, the Church is close to her and seeks
1169 3, 44 | present in the mystery of the Church as a model. But the Church'
1170 3, 44 | Church as a model. But the Church's mystery also consists
1171 3, 44 | model and figure of the Church; she is much more. For, "
1172 3, 44 | and daughters of Mother Church. The Church's motherhood
1173 3, 44 | daughters of Mother Church. The Church's motherhood is accomplished
1174 3, 44 | with her "cooperation." The Church draws abundantly from this
1175 3, 44 | rebirth and development of the Church's sons and daughters, as
1176 3, 44(127) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 64.~
1177 3, 44 | Mary too, together with the Church, received on the day of
1178 3, 45 | which in the history of the Church has been practiced and expressed
1179 3, 45(131) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 62.~
1180 3, 46 | In the light of Mary, the Church sees in the face of women
1181 3, 46(133) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
1182 3, 47 | Mary is the Mother of the Church, "that is, Mother of the
1183 3, 47 | new Eve, the Mother of the Church, carries on in heaven her
1184 3, 47 | the truth concerning the Church. When speaking of the Constitution
1185 3, 47 | mystery of Christ and of the Church."136 Mary is present in
1186 3, 47 | Mary is present in the Church as the Mother of Christ,
1187 3, 47 | each and every one in the Church, and embraces each and every
1188 3, 47 | and every one through the Church. In this sense Mary, Mother
1189 3, 47 | sense Mary, Mother of the Church, is also the Church's model.
1190 3, 47 | the Church, is also the Church's model. Indeed, as Paul
1191 3, 47 | Paul VI hopes and asks, the Church must draw "from the Virgin
1192 3, 47 | Mother of Christ with the Church, there is further clarified
1193 3, 47 | For Mary, present in the Church as the Mother of the Redeemer,
1194 3, 47(138) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
1195 3, 47 | the Most Holy Virgin the Church has already reached that
1196 3, 47 | throughout her life, the Church maintains with the Mother
1197 3, 47(140) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 65.~
1198 3, 48 | proclaim a Marian Year in the Church, in this period before the
1199 3, 48 | mystery of Christ and his Church. For this is a fundamental
1200 3, 48 | himself wishes "to say to the Church" in the present phase of
1201 3, 48 | mystery of Christ and of the Church, the topic to which the
1202 3, 48(142) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 66-67.~
1203 3, 49 | fullness of time," and that the Church is the sign of this fullness.
1204 3, 49 | As the People of God, the Church makes her pilgrim way towards
1205 3, 49 | beginning of "the time of the Church," when in expectation of
1206 3, 49 | constantly "precedes" the Church in her journey through human
1207 3, 49 | of this Marian Year the Church is called not only to remember
1208 3, 50(144) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 69.~
1209 3, 50 | aided the beginning of the Church by her prayers may now,
1210 3, 50(146) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 69.~
1211 Conc, 51 | addressed to Mary by the Church is the following:~"Loving
1212 Conc, 51 | God, in the heart of the Church. How wonderfully far God
1213 Conc, 52 | between the two Millennia, the Church, for her part, with the
1214 Conc, 52 | this prayer attests, the Church sees the Blessed Mother
Redemptoris missio
Chap., §
1215 Int, 1 | which is entrusted to the Church, is still very far from
1216 Int, 1 | In the name of the whole Church, I sense an urgent duty
1217 Int, 1 | Council sought to renew the Church's life and activity in the
1218 Int, 1 | The Council emphasized the Church's "missionary nature," basing
1219 Int, 2 | all dioceses and parishes, Church institutions and associations.~
1220 Int, 2 | external have weakened the Church's missionary thrust toward
1221 Int, 2 | believe in Christ. For in the Church's history, missionary drive
1222 Int, 2 | predecessors,2 I wish to invite the Church to renew her missionary
1223 Int, 2 | missionary activity renews the Church, revitalizes faith and Christian
1224 Int, 2 | is in commitment to the Church's universal mission that
1225 Int, 2 | primary service which the Church can render to every individual
1226 Int, 3 | and do not belong to the Church is constantly on the increase.
1227 Int, 3 | Son, the urgency of the Church's mission is obvious.~On
1228 Int, 3 | our own times offer the Church new opportunities in this
1229 Int, 3 | God is opening before the Church the horizons of a humanity
1230 Int, 3 | come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization
1231 Int, 3 | Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty:
1232 1, 4 | Pontificate, I said that "the Church's fundamental function in
1233 1, 4 | mystery of Christ."4~The Church's universal mission is born
1234 1, 4 | is only in faith that the Church's mission can be understood
1235 1, 4 | an adequate goal of the Church's mission? Does not respect
1236 1, 5 | to the beginnings of the Church, we find a clear affirmation
1237 1, 5 | fundamental reason why the Church is missionary by her very
1238 1, 6 | the "Christ of faith." The Church acknowledges and confesses
1239 1, 6(7) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
1240 1, 7 | in Christ and live in his Church. Salvation in Christ, as
1241 1, 7 | to and proclaimed by the Church, is God's self-communication: "
1242 1, 8 | truth.... This is why the Church keeps her missionary spirit
1243 1 | The Church As Sign and Instrument of
1244 1, 9 | beneficiary of salvation is the Church. Christ won the Church for
1245 1, 9 | the Church. Christ won the Church for himself at the price
1246 1, 9 | his own blood and made the Church his co-worker in the salvation
1247 1, 9 | Christ dwells within the Church. She is his Bride. It is
1248 1, 9 | frequent reference to the Church's role in the salvation
1249 1, 9 | saved (cf. l Tm 2:4),15 the Church believes that God has established
1250 1, 9(15) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 14-17; Decree
1251 1, 9(15) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 3.~
1252 1, 9(16) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 48; Pastoral
1253 1, 9(16) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
1254 1, 9(16) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 7, 21.~
1255 1, 9 | and the necessity of the Church for salvation. Both these
1256 1, 9 | is why he established the Church and made her a part of his
1257 1, 9(17) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 13.~
1258 1, 10 | Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered
1259 1, 10 | revelation or to enter the Church. The social and cultural
1260 1, 10 | mysterious relationship to the Church, does not make them formally
1261 1, 10 | them formally part of the Church but enlightens them in a
1262 1, 10(19) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
1263 1, 11 | such by his disciples. The Church offers mankind the Gospel,
1264 1, 11 | remains "Good News." The Church cannot fail to proclaim
1265 1, 11 | mission?" we reply with the Church's faith and experience that
1266 1, 11 | approach it freely. The Church, and every individual Christian
1267 1, 11 | mankind.~This is why the Church's mission derives not only
1268 1, 11 | incorporated in the Catholic Church ought to sense their privilege
1269 1, 11(20) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, 14.~
1270 2, 12 | proclaimed to all peoples by the Church, which works and prays for
1271 2, 16 | The preaching of the early Church was centered on the proclamation
1272 2 | Relation to Christ and the Church~
1273 2, 17 | with the thinking of the Church. In fact, there are ideas
1274 2, 17 | They stress the image of a Church which is not concerned about
1275 2, 17 | serving the kingdom. It is a "Church for others" just as Christ
1276 2, 17 | the "man for others." The Church's task is described as though
1277 2, 17 | very little room for the Church or undervaluing the Church
1278 2, 17 | Church or undervaluing the Church in reaction to a presumed "
1279 2, 17 | because they consider the Church herself only a sign, for
1280 2, 18 | from Christ or from the Church.~As has already been said,
1281 2, 18(22) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 5.~
1282 2, 18(23) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
1283 2, 18 | separate the kingdom from the Church. It is true that the Church
1284 2, 18 | Church. It is true that the Church is not an end unto herself,
1285 2, 18 | Christ and the kingdom, the Church is indissolubly united to
1286 2, 18 | both. Christ endowed the Church, his body, with the fullness
1287 2, 18 | and the Spirit outside the Church's visible boundaries, confers
1288 2, 18 | necessary role; hence the Church's special connection with
1289 2, 18(24) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 4.~
1290 2, 19 | which is at the heart of the Church, must not be detached from
1291 2, 19 | link between Christ, the Church and evangelization,"26 also
1292 2, 19 | evangelization,"26 also said that the Church "is not an end unto herself,
1293 2 | The Church at the Service of the Kingdom~
1294 2, 20 | 20. The Church is effectively and concretely
1295 2, 20 | Preaching constitutes the Church's first and fundamental
1296 2, 20 | children of God" (Jn 1:12).~The Church, then, serves the kingdom
1297 2, 20 | human institutions.~The Church serves the kingdom by spreading
1298 2, 20 | beyond the confines of the Church among peoples everywhere,
1299 2, 20 | of Christ present in the Church and straining towards eschatological
1300 2, 20 | strengthen and extend them. The Church is the sacrament of salvation
1301 2, 20(29) | Eschatological Character of the Church: Kingdom and Church."~
1302 2, 20(29) | the Church: Kingdom and Church."~
1303 2, 20 | of gospel values.30 The Church contributes to mankind's
1304 2, 20 | salvation.~Finally, the Church serves the kingdom by her
1305 2, 20(30) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
1306 3, 21 | to the apostles, to the Church. Nevertheless, in and through
1307 3, 21 | agent of the whole of the Church's mission. His action is
1308 3, 21 | clearly be seen in the early Church: in the conversion of Cornelius (
1309 3, 23 | on the foundation of the Church and on her teaching (cf.
1310 3, 23 | because of what we are as a Church whose innermost life is
1311 3 | The Spirit Directs the Church's Mission~
1312 3, 24 | 24. The mission of the Church, like that of Jesus, is
1313 3, 24 | addressed to the Jews during the Church's infancy (cf. Acts 2:22-
1314 3, 24 | 11, 28). From now on the Church opens her doors and becomes
1315 3 | Holy Spirit Makes the Whole Church Missionary~
1316 3, 26 | a community," to be the Church. After Peter's first proclamation
1317 3, 27 | responsibility of the local church, which needs "missionaries"
1318 3, 27 | communities and the Apostolic Church.~Reading the Acts of the
1319 3, 27 | at the beginning of the Church the mission ad gentes, while
1320 3, 28 | in a special way in the Church and in her members. Nevertheless,
1321 3, 28(36) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 3, 11, 15; Pastoral
1322 3, 28(36) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
1323 3, 28 | manner known to God."37 The Church "is aware that humanity
1324 3, 28(37) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
1325 3, 28(40) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
1326 3, 28(42) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 17; Decree
1327 3, 28(42) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 3, 15.~
1328 3, 29(43) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 4.~
1329 3, 29 | variety of peoples. The Church's relationship with other
1330 3, 29 | and who is at work in the Church. He is therefore not an
1331 3, 29(47) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 16.~
1332 3, 29 | of Christ, which is the Church. Indeed, it is always the
1333 3, 29 | when he gives life to the Church and impels her to proclaim
1334 3, 29 | and peoples, guiding the Church to discover these gifts,
1335 3, 29 | the responsibility of the Church, to which Christ gave his
1336 3, 29(48) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
1337 3, 30 | demands a resurgence of the Church's missionary activity. The
1338 3, 30 | missionary outreach, and the Church, guided by the Spirit, has
1339 3, 30 | Africa and Oceania. Today the Church must face other challenges
1340 3, 30 | churches and the universal Church, are called to have the
1341 4, 31 | earth. In the apostles, the Church received a universal mission -
1342 4, 31 | bring (cf. Jn 10:10). The Church was "sent by Christ to reveal
1343 4, 31 | subject. This is one of the Church's fundamental activities:
1344 4, 31 | essential and never-ending. The Church, in fact, "cannot withdraw
1345 4, 31 | entrusts each day to his Church."50~
1346 4, 31(49) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 10.~
1347 4, 32 | missionary" to describe all the Church's activities.~This uneasiness
1348 4, 32 | of the missions into the Church's mission, the insertion
1349 4, 32 | a marginal task for the Church but is situated at the center
1350 4, 32 | or even eliminating, the Church's mission and missionaries
1351 4, 32 | gentes. To say that the whole Church is missionary does not preclude
1352 4, 33 | diversity of activities in the Church's one mission is not intrinsic
1353 4, 33 | the situation which the Church's missionary activity addresses:
1354 4, 33(51) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 6.~
1355 4, 33 | In these communities the Church carries out her activity
1356 4, 33 | themselves members of the Church, and live a life far removed
1357 4, 34 | from Christ," in whom the Church "has not yet taken root"53
1358 4, 34 | and the presence of the Church are either absent or insufficient.
1359 4, 34 | Gospel, building up the local Church and promoting the values
1360 4, 34 | entrusts each day to his Church"55 does not become an indistinguishable
1361 4, 34 | is the first task of the Church, which has been sent forth
1362 4, 34 | the mission ad gentes, the Church's very missionary dimension
1363 4, 34 | saving activities of the Church. Each of them influences,
1364 4, 35 | of all proportion to the Church's human resources.~The difficulties
1365 4, 36 | Other great obstacles to the Church's missionary work include
1366 4, 36(57) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 6.~
1367 4, 36 | service they render to the Church's mission in order to discover
1368 4, 36 | path of "thinking with the Church" (sentire cum Ecclesia).~
1369 4, 36 | principal agents of the Church's mission, but Jesus Christ
1370 4 | Parameters of the Church's Mission Ad Gentes~
1371 4, 37 | perspective. Indeed, the Church refuses to allow her missionary
1372 4, 37 | the presence of the local church.60 Even in traditionally
1373 4, 37(59) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 6.~
1374 4, 37 | missionary responsibility of the Church are not credible unless
1375 4, 37 | in Asia, toward which the Church's mission ad gentes ought
1376 4, 37 | exchanges, and calling the Church to hospitality, dialogue,
1377 4, 37 | catastrophic proportions. The Church must make them part of her
1378 4, 37 | Christian message and the Church's authentic teaching. It
1379 4, 37 | modern world toward which the Church's missionary activity ought
1380 4, 38 | represents an opportunity. The Church has an immense spiritual
1381 4, 39 | proclaiming Jesus Christ. The Church must be faithful to Christ,
1382 4, 39 | his resurrection."63 The Church is thus obliged to do everything
1383 4, 39 | all people everywhere. The Church strives for this in all
1384 4, 39 | person.~On her part. the Church addresses people with full
1385 4, 39(63) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 5; cf. Dogmatic
1386 4, 39(63) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 8.~
1387 4, 39 | rather promotes it. The Church proposes; she imposes nothing.
1388 4, 39 | missionary activity, the Church repeats: Open the doors
1389 4, 39 | missionaries, for "each individual church that would voluntarily cut
1390 4, 39 | itself off from the universal Church would lose its relationship
1391 4, 40 | greatest challenge for the Church. As the end of the second
1392 4, 40 | certainly positive. The Church has been established on
1393 5, 41 | What paths does the Church follow in order to achieve
1394 5, 41 | present situation of the Church and the world.~
1395 5, 41(68) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 9; cf. Chapter
1396 5, 42 | Holy Spirit accompanies the Church along her way and associates
1397 5, 42 | realities. But everyone in the Church, striving to imitate the
1398 5, 42(70) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 28, 35, 38;
1399 5, 42(70) | Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium
1400 5, 42(70) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 11-12.~
1401 5, 43 | and sisters in Christ.~The Church is called to bear witness
1402 5, 43 | simplicity of life. The Church and her missionaries must
1403 5, 44 | priority of mission. The Church cannot elude Christ's explicit
1404 5, 44 | lies at the heart of the Church's mission and life, as the
1405 5, 44(73) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 13.~
1406 5, 44(74) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 13-14.~
1407 5, 45 | evangelizing activity of the whole Church.76 Sooner or later, his
1408 5, 46 | becoming his disciple.~The Church calls all people to this
1409 5, 47 | not only because of the Church's practice, but also by
1410 5, 47 | of Christ, which is the Church.~All this needs to be said,
1411 5, 47 | grasp the true nature of the Church as a mystery of faith and
1412 5, 47 | himself who desired that the Church should be the "place" where
1413 5, 47 | convert is a gift to the Church and represents a serious
1414 5, 47 | Gospel lived out in the Church. They would be greatly disappointed
1415 5, 47(77) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 6-9.~
1416 5, 48 | Baptism give entry into a Church already in existence or
1417 5, 48 | building a new particular church which functions normally
1418 5, 48(78) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 2; cf. Dogmatic
1419 5, 48(78) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 9.~
1420 5, 48 | the whole mystery of the Church is contained in each particular
1421 5, 48 | contained in each particular church, provided it does not isolate
1422 5, 48 | communion with the universal Church and becomes missionary in
1423 5, 48(79) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, Chapter III,
1424 5, 49 | implanting and developing the Church. This phase of ecclesial
1425 5, 49 | belongs to the universal Church and to the particular churches,
1426 5, 49 | missionary forces. Every church, even one made up of recent
1427 5, 49 | elsewhere as part of the Church's universal mission, is
1428 5, 49 | The effectiveness of the Church's organizations, movements,
1429 5, 49 | and the expansion of the Church in non-Christian environments
1430 5, 49 | gentes. In this way, every church will make its own the solicitude
1431 5, 50 | threat for the Catholic Church and for all the ecclesial
1432 5, 51 | sign of vitality within the Church, an instrument of formation
1433 5, 51 | particular and the universal Church, in heartfelt communion
1434 5, 51 | heartfelt communion with the Church's pastors and the Magisterium,
1435 5, 51 | Bishops stated: "Because the Church is communion, the new 'basic
1436 5, 51 | truly live in unity with the Church, are a true expression of
1437 5, 51 | hope for the life of the Church."84~
1438 5, 52 | activity among the nations, the Church encounters different cultures
1439 5, 52 | involvement has marked the Church's pilgrimage throughout
1440 5, 52 | urgent.~The process of the Church's insertion into peoples'
1441 5, 52 | Christian message and also the Church's reflection and practice.
1442 5, 52 | Through inculturation the Church makes the Gospel incarnate
1443 5, 52 | Through inculturation the Church, for her part, becomes a
1444 5, 52 | churches, the universal Church herself is enriched with
1445 5, 52 | involves those working in the Church's mission ad gentes, the
1446 5, 52(89) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 22.~
1447 5, 53 | other90 and with the whole Church, convinced that only through
1448 5, 53 | attention both to the universal Church and to the particular churches
1449 5, 54 | communion with the universal Church."94 Bishops, as guardians
1450 5, 54 | voices in the universal Church."97 In effect, inculturation
1451 5, 54(96) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 17.~
1452 5, 55 | dialogue is a part of the Church's evangelizing mission.
1453 5, 55(98) | Council, Declaration on the Church's Relation to Non-Christian
1454 5, 55(98) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 16; Decree
1455 5, 55(98) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 9; Paul VI, Apostolic
1456 5, 55 | economy of salvation, the Church sees no conflict between
1457 5, 55 | bishops of Asia: "Although the Church gladly acknowledges whatever
1458 5, 55(99) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 11, 41; Secretariat
1459 5, 55 | confirmed the need for the Church, into which people enter
1460 5, 55 | the conviction that the Church is the ordinary means of
1461 5, 55(101) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 14; cf. Decree
1462 5, 55(101) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 7.~
1463 5, 55(102) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 7.~
1464 5, 56 | Through dialogue, the Church seeks to uncover the "seeds
1465 5, 56(104) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 11, 15 .~
1466 5, 56 | positive challenge for the Church: they stimulate her both
1467 5, 56(105) | Council, Declaration on the Church's Relation to Non-Christian
1468 5, 57(107) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 41.~
1469 5, 58 | most urgently needed. The Church has always been able to
1470 5, 58 | Socialis, I stated that "the Church does not have technical
1471 5, 58 | development."109 It is not the Church's mission to work directly
1472 5, 58 | evangelization."110~The Church and her missionaries also
1473 5, 58 | money or technology. The Church forms consciences by revealing
1474 5, 59 | the gospel message, the Church offers a force for liberation
1475 5, 59 | The contribution of the Church and of evangelization to
1476 5, 59 | motto which has appeared in Church circles and which shows
1477 5, 60 | pastoral visit to Brazil: "The Church all over the world wishes
1478 5, 60 | the world wishes to be the Church of the poor...she wishes
1479 5, 60 | spirit of the Beatitudes, the Church is called to be on the side
1480 6, 61 | the first to work in the Church's universal mission. They
1481 6, 61 | that the horizons of the Church's universal mission were
1482 6, 61 | Gal 1:15-16).~In the early Church's missionary expansion,
1483 6, 61 | typical example is the local church at Antioch which, after
1484 6, 61 | Acts 13:2-3). The early Church experiences her mission
1485 6, 62 | valid and urgent today. The Church is missionary by her very
1486 6, 62 | reaches the very heart of the Church. It follows that the universal
1487 6, 62 | follows that the universal Church and each individual church
1488 6, 62 | Church and each individual church is sent forth to the nations.
1489 6, 62 | universal missionary work of the Church. They should themselves
1490 6, 62 | bond between the universal Church and the particular churches
1491 6, 62 | missionary nature of the Church finds practical expression: "
1492 6, 62 | increasingly smaller, the Church's communities ought to be
1493 6, 62 | the younger, so that each church can draw on the riches of
1494 6, 62(117) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 20.~
1495 6, 63 | the faith, to console the Church, to meet people. They are
1496 6, 63(119) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 38.~
1497 6, 63(121) | Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 23.~
1498 6, 63 | and holiest duty of the Church."123 The same responsibility
1499 6, 63(122) | Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, 38.~
1500 6, 63 | the pastor of a particular church, has a wide-ranging missionary
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