Friday, November 18, 2011

THE CHURCH IS MISSION- Pope Benedict XVI (Christ to the World July-October 2011)

“The mission of proclaiming the word of God is the task of all of the disciples of Jesus Christ based on their Baptism” (Post – Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini, n.94). However in order that they may be a decisive commitment to evangelization, it is necessary that individual Christians and communities truly believe that “the word of God is the saving truth which men and women in every age need” (ibid., n.95).If this conviction of faith is not profoundly rooted in our own lives, we shall not be able to feel the urgency and beauty of proclaiming it. In fact, every Christian must make his or her own pressing need to work for the edification of the Kingdom of God. Everything in the Church is at the service of evangelization: every sector of her activity and also each and every one, in the various duties that they are called to carry out. All must be involved in the mission ad gentes: bishops, priests, men and women religious and lay people.” No believer in Christ can feel dispensed from this responsibility which comes from the fact of our sacramentally belonging to the Body of Christ”(ibid.,n.94).It is therefore necessary to ensure that all the sectors of pastoral work, catechesis and charity are characterized by the missionary dimension :the Church is mission.” (Address to participants in the Ordinary Assembly of the Superior Council of the Pontifical Mission Societies. May 14, 2011.

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