Sentences with phrase «christian apostolate»

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The promotion of missions and other popular programmes in parishes and in the workplace can help the faithful to rediscover the gift of baptismal faith and the task of giving witness, knowing that the Christian vocation «by its very nature is also a vocation to the apostolate».

In other traditions, the continuation of the apostolate is more diffused among the corporate body of Christians.

In some Christian traditions, the episcopacy is considered to be a continuation in history of the apostolate with the bishops regarded as successors of the apostles.

There is also a special Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity, and one on the Missions in which the Church tells Christians — that is herself — that in the age of declining colonialism and Europeanism, too, the missions have a permanent duty also in the non-Western countries for which every Christian is responsible in his own way.

For we begin to be Christians living in the grace of God only if we are honest even when it is no longer the best policy, and we exercise our true apostolate precisely when we appear to be stupid and without much social prestige.

The urgent prompting of a formed apostolate is «seek you first the knowledge and love of that Eternal Word, and his gift of holiness (justice), and all other things will be added unto you»... including the social care, and the Christian commitment.

Theodore Hesburgh said, «Here is an apostolate that no secular university today can undertake» for they are largely cut off from the tradition of adequate knowledge which comes only through faith in the mind and faith in God, the highest wisdom of Christian philosophy and Catholic theology.»