A missionary impulse capable of transforming everything
I dream of a 'missionary option', that is, a 'missionary impulse capable of transforming everything', so that the Church's customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures 'can be suitably channeled for the evangelization of today's world...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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The Australasian Catholic record
Year: 2020, Volume: 97, Issue: 3, Pages: 259-274 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDB Roman Catholic Church RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Impulsive personality
Religious aspects
Christianity
B Circular letters B Conversion Christianity Psychological aspects B Letter writing; Religious aspects Christianity B Missions Psychological aspects B Christian Communities |
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| Summary: | I dream of a 'missionary option', that is, a 'missionary impulse capable of transforming everything', so that the Church's customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures 'can be suitably channeled for the evangelization of today's world rather than for her self-preservation'. The renewal of structures demanded by pastoral conversion can only be understood in this light: as part of an effort to make them more mission-oriented, to make ordinary pastoral activity on every level more inclusive and open, to inspire in pastoral workers a constant desire to go forth and in this way to elicit a positive response from all those whom Jesus summons to friendship with himself. As John Paul II once said to the Bishops of Oceania: 'All renewal in the Church must have mission as its goal if it is not to fall prey to a kind of ecclesial introversion'.-Evangelii Gaudium, n. 27, my emphasis. |
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| ISSN: | 0727-3215 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Australasian Catholic record
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