Such communities call quite simply be in their own way an extension on the spiritual and religious level- worship, deepening of faith, fraternal charity, prayer, contact with pastors- of the small sociological community such as the village, etc. I hold all of you dear- you who...are sharers of my gracious lot...to defend the solid grounds on which the gospel rests. In brief, this means that she has a constant need of being evangelized, if she wishes to retain freshness, vigor and strength in order to proclaim the Gospel. It is often said nowadays that the present century thirsts for authenticity. It frequently remains at the level of forms of worship not involving a true acceptance by faith. Why are they in our midst? Let us add that, thanks to the same liturgical renewal, the Eucharistic celebration is not the only appropriate moment for the homily. 71. When the most obscure preacher, catechist or pastor in the most distant land preaches the Gospel, gathers his little community together or administers a sacrament, even alone, he is carrying out an ecclesial act, and his action is certainly attached to the evangelizing activity of the whole Church by institutional relationships, but also by profound invisible links in the order of grace. It is necessary above all to prepare good instructors- parochial catechists, teachers, parents- who are desirous of perfecting themselves in this superior art, which is indispensable and requires religious instruction. St. Leo the Great, Sermo 69, 3; Sermo 70, 1-3; Sermo 94, 3; Sermo 95 2: S.C. 200, pp. The homily has a place and must not be neglected in the celebration of all the sacraments, at paraliturgies, and in assemblies of the faithful. At the deepest level of their being they are caught Up in the dynamism of the Church's life, which is thirsty for the divine Absolute and called to holiness. Thus we have atheists and unbelievers on the one side and those who do not practice on the other, and both groups put up a considerable resistance to evangelization. The Good News proclaimed by the witness of life sooner or later has to be proclaimed by the word of life. 6 Seri Dokumen Gerejawi No. She would have no more authority to proclaim freedom as in the name of God. She puts on their lips the saving Word, she explains to them the message of which she herself is the depositary, she gives them the mandate which she herself has received and she sends them out to preach. Respect for their conscience and convictions, which are not to be treated in a harsh manner. 66. Evangelization, as we have said, is a complex process made up of varied elements: the renewal of humanity, witness, explicit proclamation, inner adherence, entry into the community, acceptance of signs, apostolic initiative. Only continual attention to these two poles of the Church will enable us to perceive the richness of this relationship between the universal Church and the individual Churches. Basically, these inquiries make explicit the fundamental question that the Church is asking herself today and which may be expressed in the following terms: after the Council and thanks to the Council, which was a time given her by God, at this turning-point of history, does the Church or does she not find herself better equipped to proclaim the Gospel and to put it into people's hearts with conviction, freedom of spirit and effectiveness? 128. cit., p. 343; Fifth Lateran Ecumenical Council, Constitution In apostolici culminis, ed. These facts should certainly impel us to employ, for the purpose of transmitting the Gospel message, the modern means which this civilization has produced. The Church cannot accept violence, especially the force of arms- which is uncontrollable once it is let loose- and indiscriminate death as the path to liberation, because she knows that violence always provokes violence and irresistibly engenders new forms of oppression and enslavement which are often harder to bear than those from which they claimed to bring freedom. The Church strives always to insert the Christian struggle for liberation into the universal plan of salvation which she herself proclaims. ", This page was last edited on 25 March 2021, at 09:31. 22. She did this once more at the last Synod, as an appeal not to imprison the proclamation of the Gospel by limiting it to one sector of mankind or to one class of people or to a single type of civilization. The Successor of Peter is thus, by the will of Christ, entrusted with the preeminent ministry of teaching the revealed truth. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the name of the Apostles Peter and Paul, we wish to exhort all those who, thanks to the charisms of the Holy Spirit and to the mandate of the Church, are true evangelizers to be worthy of this vocation, to exercise it without the reticence of doubt or fear, and not to neglect the conditions that will make this evangelization not only possible but also active and fruitful. Another sign of love will be a devotion to the proclamation of Jesus Christ, without reservation or turning back. The obvious importance of the content of evangelization must not overshadow the importance of the ways and means. The Church also has a lively solicitude for the Christians who are not in full communion with her. In the Church's evangelizing activity there are of course certain elements and aspects to be specially insisted on. Cf. Evangelii Nuntiandi Evangelization In The Modern World. We wish to point out, above all today, that neither respect and esteem for these religions nor the complexity of the questions raised is an invitation to the Church to withhold from these non-Christians the proclamation of Jesus Christ. Hence, when preaching liberation and associating herself with those who are working and suffering for it, the Church is certainly not willing to restrict her mission only to the religious field and dissociate herself from man's temporal problems. Evangelii Nuntiandi; Evangelli Gaudium; Recommended Reading: “The Soul of the Apostolate” by by Dom J.B. Chautard. These latter communities will be a place of evangelization, for the benefit of the bigger communities, especially the individual Churches. 82. This mandate is not accomplished without her, and still less against her. "[125] While we still work to obtain full unity from the Lord, we wish to see prayer intensified. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum, 4: AAS 58 (1966), pp. The title, taken from the opening words of the original Latin text, means "in proclaiming the Gospel". It engenders interior attitudes rarely observed to the same degree elsewhere: patience, the sense of the cross in daily life, detachment, openness to others, devotion. - The Church is the depositary of the Good News to be proclaimed. 31. This is the desire that we rejoice to entrust to the hands and the heart of the Immaculate Blessed Virgin Mary, on this day which is especially consecrated to her and which is also the tenth anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council. When they are put at the service of the Gospel, they are capable of increasing almost indefinitely the area in which the Word of God is heard; they enable the Good News to reach millions of people. And He proclaims: "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled. 24. 92. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 8: AAS 57 (1965), p. 11; Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, 5: AAS 58 (1966), pp 951-952. We wish to speak about what today is often called popular religiosity. The simple compositional structure of Evangelii nuntiandi shows the dimensions of a document that,. The 1974 Synod considered the question of evangelisation in the modern world but failed to produce an agreed document. Publisher. Thus one too frequently hears it said, in various terms, that to impose a truth, be it that of the Gospel, or to impose a way, be it that of salvation, cannot but be a violation of religious liberty. Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, 5, 11-12: AAS 58 (1966), pp. For that would be to betray the call of God, who wishes the seed to bear fruit through the voice of the ministers of the Gospel; and it will depend on us whether this grows into trees and produces its full fruit. Preložil pracovný krúžok v Ríme pod vedením Andreja Pauliniho, SDB. Nevertheless the Church does not feel dispensed from paving unflagging attention also to those who have received the faith and who have been in contact with the Gospel often for generations. 106. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, 11: AAS 58 (1966), p. 960; cf. 2. Moreover we make our own the desire of the Fathers of the Third General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, for a collaboration marked by greater commitment with the Christian brethren with whom we are not yet united in perfect unity, taking as a basis the foundation of Baptism and the patrimony of faith which is common to us. "[112] Peter is filled with the Holy Spirit so that he can speak to the people about Jesus, the Son of God. The whole of the New Testament, and in a special way the Acts of the Apostles, bears witness to a privileged and in a sense exemplary moment of this missionary effort which will subsequently leave its mark on the whole history of the Church. 40. Cf. 8. "[36] It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes of present-day society make all the more urgent. Cf. Cf. Knowing that the Gospel message is not reserved to a small group of the initiated, the privileged or the elect, but is destined for everyone, she shares Christ's anguish at the sight of the wandering and exhausted crowds, "like sheep without a shepherd" and she often repeats His words: ''I feel sorry for all these people. Thus she seeks to deepen, consolidate, nourish and make ever more mature the faith of those who are already called the faithful or believers, in order that they may be so still more. We have remarked that the Church is entirely and completely evangelizing. in Evangelia 19, 1: PL 76, 1154. Cf. For the Church, evangelizing means bringing the Good News into all the strata of humanity, and through its influence transforming humanity from within and making it new: "Now I am making the whole of creation new. The phenomenon of the non practicing is a very ancient one in the history of Christianity; it is the result of a natural weakness, a profound inconsistency which we unfortunately bear deep within us. They include links of the eminently evangelical order, which is that of charity: how in fact can one proclaim the new commandment without promoting in justice and in peace the true, authentic advancement of man? "What is the state of the Church ten years after the Council?" Saint Justin, I Apol. 77. She is the People of God immersed in the world, and often tempted by idols, and she always needs to hear the proclamation of the "mighty works of God"[41] which converted her to the Lord; she always needs to be called together afresh by Him and reunited. Very positive efforts have in fact already been made in this sphere. The Church's evangelizing action cannot ignore these two worlds, nor must it come to a standstill when faced with them; it must constantly seek the proper means and language for presenting, or representing, to them God's revelation and faith in Jesus Christ. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, 4:AAS 58 (1966), pp. Nevertheless this always remains insufficient, because even the finest witness will prove ineffective in the long run if it is not explained, justified - what Peter called always having "your answer ready for people who ask you the reason for the hope that you all have"[52] - and made explicit by a clear and unequivocal proclamation of the Lord Jesus. Without Him the most highly developed schemas resting on a sociological or psychological basis are quickly seen to be quite valueless. The Church is deeply aware of her duty to preach salvation to all. It risks being vain and sterile. 2 Cor 4:5; Saint Augustine Sermo XLVI, De Pastoribus: ccl XLI, pp. Evangelii nuntiandi (Evangelization in the Modern World) is an apostolic exhortation issued on 8 December 1975 by Pope Paul VI on the theme of Catholic evangelization. This evangelizing preaching takes on many forms, and zeal will inspire the reshaping of them almost indefinitely. By reason of these aspects, we readily call it "popular piety," that is, religion of the people, rather than religiosity. October 1974 was coming to an end when the Synod of Bishops' Assembly on the challenging theme of … But above all it is necessary to be convinced of this and to devote oneself to it with love. It poses three burning questions, which the 1974 Synod kept constantly in mind: - In our day, what has happened to that hidden energy of the Good News, which is able to have a powerful effect on man's conscience? She carries out this first proclamation of Jesus Christ by a complex and diversified activity which is sometimes termed "pre-evangelization" but which is already evangelization in a true sense, although at its initial and still incomplete stage. The first is respect for the religious and spiritual situation of those being evangelized. What identifies our priestly service, gives a profound unity to the thousand and one tasks which claim our attention day by day and throughout our lives, and confers a distinct character on our activities, is this aim, ever present in all our action: to proclaim the Gospel of God.[104]. Even persecution, by scattering the apostles, helped to spread the Word and to establish the Church in ever more distant regions. It brings with it a wisdom that is not of this world. We are well aware that modern man is sated by talk; he is obviously often tired of listening and, what is worse, impervious to words. That very day about three thousand were added to their number.... Day by day the Lord added to their community those destined to be saved. 101. - To what extent and in what way is that evangelical force capable of really transforming the people of this century? Consequently evangelization cannot but include the prophetic proclamation of a hereafter, man's profound and definitive calling, in both continuity and discontinuity with the present situation: beyond time and history, beyond the transient reality of this world, and beyond the things of this world, of which a hidden dimension will one day be revealed - beyond man himself, whose true destiny is not restricted to his temporal aspect but will be revealed in the future life. It echoes the voice of our brethren assembled for the Third General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. It is a question of people's salvation. Paul VI, Address for the Day of Development at Bogota (23 August 1968): AAS 60 (1968), p. 627; Cf. ISBN-13. "[63] "We must say and reaffirm that violence is not in accord with the Gospel, that it is not Christian; and that sudden or violent changes of structures would be deceitful, ineffective of themselves, and certainly not in conformity with the dignity of the people."[64]. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 47-52: AAS 58 (1966): pp. This fidelity both to a message whose servants we are and to the people to whom we must transmit it living and intact is the central axis of evangelization. Let us state this fact with joy at a time when there are not lacking those who think and even say that ardor and the apostolic spirit are exhausted, and that the time of the missions is now past. 36. Catholic Church. 51. By doing this we can already give a greater common witness to Christ before the world in the very work of evangelization. cit., p. 608; Constitution Postquam ad universalis, ed. Bull Apostolorum Limina, VII: AAS 66 (1974), p. 305. Through this wordless witness these Christians stir up irresistible questions in the hearts of those who see how they live: Why are they like this? What we have just recalled comes out more than once in the Synod debates. "They will never have a preacher unless one is sent,"[81] wrote he who was without doubt one of the greatest evangelizers. Also significant is the preoccupation of the last Synod in regard to two spheres which are very different from one another but which at the same time are very close by reason of the challenge which they make to evangelization, each in its own way. Our words come from the wealth of the Synod and are meant to be a meditation on evangelization. Mt. 15. From this flows the second conviction: if each individual evangelizes in the name of the Church, who herself does so by virtue of a mandate from the Lord, no evangelizer is the absolute master of his evangelizing action, with a discretionary power to carry it out in accordance with individualistic criteria and perspectives; he acts in communion with the Church and her pastors. Above all the Gospel must be proclaimed by witness. Pope Paul VI’s 1974 Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi, on evangelization in the modern world, commemorates the 10th anniversary of the closing of Vatican II.He wrote it at the request of the 1974 Synod of Bishops. May it mean for us- as it did for John the Baptist, for Peter and Paul, for the other apostles and for a multitude of splendid evangelizers all through the Church's history- an interior enthusiasm that nobody and nothing can quench. A sign of love will be the concern to give the truth and to bring people into unity. Their own field of evangelizing activity is the vast and complicated world of politics, society and economics, but also the world of culture, of the sciences and the arts, of international life, of the mass media. Receptivity to the wealth of the individual Church corresponds to a special sensitivity of modern man. For evangelization must touch life: the natural life to which it gives a new meaning, thanks to the evangelical perspectives that it reveals; and the supernatural life, which is not the negation but the purification and elevation of the natural life. Such a witness is already a silent proclamation of the Good News and a very powerful and effective one. All of this is begun during the life of Christ and definitively accomplished by His death and resurrection. 44. 74. In the second section, Paul VI and the Synod of Bishops propose a definition of evangelization in contrast to all of the other possible conceptions of the term. "[110] To the disciples whom He was about to send forth He says, breathing on them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. Let it suffice, in this meditation, to mention a number of methods which, for one reason or another, have a fundamental importance. Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, 35: AAS 58 (1966), p. 983. Evangelii nuntiandi is Latin and derives its name from the first words of the text: The value of the last Synod was to have constantly invited us to evangslii these elements rather than to place them in opposition one to the other, in order to reach a full understanding of the Church’s evangelizing activity. 947, 951-952. Besides, it is added, why proclaim the Gospel when the whole world is saved by uprightness of heart? The power of evangelization will find itself considerably diminished if those who proclaim the Gospel are divided among themselves in all sorts of ways. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, 1, 9, 48; AAS 57 (1965), pp. We shall briefly recall these tasks. [23], 10. The admission of Paul to the rank of the apostles and his charism as the preacher to the pagans (the non Jews) of Jesus' Coming underlined this universality still more. Take a Christian or a handful of Christians who, in the midst of their own community, show their capacity for understanding and acceptance, their sharing of life and destiny with other people, their solidarity with the efforts of all for whatever is noble and good. Having said this, we rejoice that the Church is becoming ever more conscious of the proper manner and strictly evangelical means that she possesses in order to collaborate in the liberation of many. In union with the Successor of Peter, the bishops, who are successors of the apostles, receive through the power of their episcopal ordination the authority to teach the revealed truth in the Church. It will always be a privileged occasion for communicating the Word of the Lord. Is she ever more committed to the effort to search for the restoration of the complete unity of Christians, a unity that makes more effective the common witness, "so that the world may believe"[119] We are all responsible for the answers that could be given to these questions. 77. [117] The Holy Spirit is the soul of the Church. That model evangelizer, the Apostle Paul, wrote these words to the Thessalonians, and they are a program for us all: "With such yearning love we chose to impart to you not only the gospel of God but our very selves, so dear had you become to us. Evangelii Nuntiandi (December 8, 1975) [ Croatian - English - French - German - Hungarian - Italian - Latin - Portuguese - Spanish ] Gaudete in Domino (May 9, 1975) [ English - German - Italian - Latin - Spanish ] It is through them that she proclaims "from the housetops"[72] the message of which she is the depositary. Even in the face of natural religious expressions most worthy of esteem, the Church finds support in the fact that the religion of Jesus, which she proclaims through evangelization, objectively places man in relation with the plan of God, with His living presence and with His action; she thus causes an encounter with the mystery of divine paternity that bends over towards humanity. A mark of our identity which no doubts ought to encroach upon and no objection eclipse is this: as pastors, we have been chosen by the mercy of the Supreme Pastor,[105] in spite of our inadequacy, to proclaim with authority the Word of God, to assemble the scattered People of God, to teed this People with the signs of the action of Christ which are the sacraments, to set this People on the road to salvation, to maintain it in that unity of which we are, at different levels, active and living instruments, and unceasingly to keep this community gathered around Christ faithful to its deepest vocation. Paul VI, Address to the College of Cardinals (22 June 1973): AAS 65 (1973), p. 383. The world which, paradoxically, despite innumerable signs of the denial of God, is nevertheless searching for Him in unexpected ways and painfully experiencing the need of Him- the world is calling for evangelizers to speak to it of a God whom the evangelists themselves should know and be familiar with as if they could see the invisible. He acted as the synod's general rapporteur or recording secretary and participated extensively in the original drafting of Evangelii nuntiandi. But above all each individual gains them through a total interior renewal which the Gospel calls metanoia; it is a radical conversion, a profound change of mind and heart.[25]. The Church remains in the world when the Lord of glory returns to the Father. Eph 4:24, 2:15; Col 3:10; Gal 3:27; Rom 13:114; 2 Cor 5:17. "[26] "And he won the approval of all, and they were astonished by the gracious words that came from his lips. de capto Eutropio, 6: PG 52, 462. But this encounter will not take place if the Gospel is not proclaimed. 1 Pt 2:9. 47. 6. 49. Our appeal here is inspired by the fervor of the greatest preachers and evangelizers, whose lives were devoted to the apostolate. The split between the Gospel and culture is without a doubt the drama of our time, just as it was of other times. She is the community of believers, the community of hope lived and communicated, the community of brotherly love, and she needs to listen unceasingly to what she must believe, to her reasons for hoping, to the new commandment of love. [68] It is therefore primarily by her conduct and by her life that the Church will evangelize the world, in other words, by her living witness of fidelity to the Lord Jesus- the witness of poverty and detachment, of freedom in the face of the powers of this world, in short, the witness of sanctity. As such they have a special importance in the context of the witness which, as we have said, is of prime importance in evangelization. Let us now consider the very persons of the evangelizers. 0819823252. Associated with the bishops in the ministry of evangelization and responsible by a special title are those who through priestly ordination "act in the person of Christ. Cf. EVANGELII NUNTIANDI. On June 22, 1973, we said to the Sacred College of Cardinals: "The conditions of the society in which we live oblige all of us therefore to revise methods, to seek by every means to study how we can bring the Christian message to modern man. This preaching, inserted in a unique way into the Eucharistic celebration, from which it receives special force and vigor, certainly has a particular role in evangelization, to the extent that it expresses the profound faith of the sacred minister and is impregnated with love. Such an adherence, which cannot remain abstract and unincarnated, reveals itself concretely by a visible entry into a community of believers. He never betrays or hides truth out of a desire to please men, in order to astonish or to shock, nor for the sake of originality or a desire to make an impression. Istituto per le Scienze Religiose, Bologna 1973, p. 278; Ecumenical Council of Vienne, Constitution Ad providam Christi, ed. It would not be an exaggeration to say that there exists a powerful and tragic appeal to be evangelized. This is all presupposed within communities constituted by the Church, especially individual Churches and parishes. Cf. The latter plan touches the very concrete situations of injustice to be combated and of justice to be restored. 7. They are teachers of the faith. Evangelization loses much of its force and effectiveness if it does not take into consideration the actual people to whom it is addresses, if it does not use their language, their signs and symbols, if it does not answer the questions they ask, and if it does not have an impact on their concrete life. But, at the same time, a Church toto orbe diffusa would become an abstraction if she did not take body and life precisely through the individual Churches. To all creation! Other religious, in great numbers, give themselves directly to the proclamation of Christ. ; people who already happen to be united in the struggle for justice, brotherly aid to the poor, human advancement. Evangelii nuntiandi (Evangelization in the Modern World; abbreviation: EN) is an apostolic exhortation issued on 8 December 1975 by Pope Paul VI on the theme of Catholic evangelization. She is providing these Christian "liberators" with the inspiration of faith, the motivation of fraternal love, a social teaching which the true Christian cannot ignore and which he must make the foundation of his wisdom and of his experience in order to translate it concretely into forms of action, participation and commitment. It runs the risk of perishing from suffocation or starvation if it is not fed and sustained each day. These, among many others, are the fundamental conditions which we consider it important to emphasize. 61. English. Religious, for their part, find in their consecrated life a privileged means of effective evangelization. Cf. 81, 125, 129, 133; Clement of Alexandria, Stromata I, 19, 91; 94; S. Ch. Such obstacles are also present today, and we shall limit ourself to mentioning the lack of fervor. 66. And all the aspects of His mystery - the Incarnation itself, His miracles, His teaching, the gathering together of the disciples, the sending out of the Twelve, the cross and the resurrection, the permanence of His presence in the midst of His own - were components of His evangelizing activity. One cannot fail to stress the evangelizing action of the family in the evangelizing apostolate of the laity. Dimensions. - The Church is an evangelizer, but she begins by being evangelized herself. APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION OF HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI. 84. Evangelii nuntiandi (Evangelization in the Modern World; abbreviation: EN) is an apostolic exhortation issued on 8 December 1975 by Pope Paul VI on the theme of Catholic evangelization. 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