Sentences with phrase «apostolate which»

The second is the true lay apostolate which has to be exercised in one's ordinary life.

There is certainly also a very praiseworthy and important lay apostolate which consists in the direct cooperation with the hierarchy in the most diverse spheres.

Not exact matches

The apostolate of dialogue takes place par excellence in the family and enlivens its sense of mission, which for parents is the divine mandate to carry out the ministry of love, the «love that casts out fear» (1 Cor 13:7).5

The Second Vatican Council said: «Let associations and groups be organised through which the lay apostolate will be able to permeate the whole of society with the spirit of the gospel».

As Vice President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity I got to know their founders and leaders and began to esteem their apostolate — «Catholic Charismatic Renewal», which was developed in the U.S., «Focolare» and «Communione e liberazione» in Italy, Schoenstatt in Germany, «Shalom» in Brazil and others.

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.

I am reminded of the similar contrast in scale between Vatican City State and the world in which the Church exercises her universal mission and apostolate.»

One example of the evidence for the Indian apostolate of Thomas is Didascalia Apostolorum (Teaching of the Apostles), a book probably written around AD 250, which says, «India and all its countries and those bordering on it, even to the farthest sea, received the Apostle's Hand of the Priesthood from Judas Thomas, who was Guide and Ruler in the church which he built and ministered there.»

Only these two decrees formed the subject matter of the work of the Theological Commission of the Council, for the celebrated Schema 13 really fell within the competence of the Commission on the Lay Apostolate and the schema on Ecumenism which was passed, its radiance dimmed a little here and there but not substantially affected, belonged to Cardinal Bea's Secretariat, of which I was not a member.

At Corinth, the oral performance of the letter has particular significance to the Pauline apostolate; since Paul's bodily presence had been deemed weak, Paul establishes a new presence, that of Paul - in - the - letter, which, when embodied by the reciter, gave Paul restored visibility in the community.

There was also the undoubted fact that the «new movements» which the Pope supported — of which the Legion of Christ, with its lay wing Regnum Christi, was one of the mosteffective — were themselves deeply distrusted by those «liberals» who preferred, rather than living lives of holiness and self - denial, to live out their apostolates in the more congenial ways of the national and diocesan bureaucracies, the groves of academe and the haunts of the bienpensant media.

The Church and New Media is an easily readable introduction and demonstration of some of the ways in which this apostolate can flourish.

Very importantly, in this relationship of a total, formed apostolate of men and women, boys and girls together, there begins to grow a love delightful, chaste and respectful which leads to the beauty of fully Catholic marriage, marriage in the fulness of the Faith and its ideals, with the vow «till death do us part» fully understood and given.

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.»

Although in her later years Rosa Bonheur might have made fun of some of the more far - fetched eccentricities of the members of the community, and disapproved of the additional strain which her father's apostolate placed on her overburdened mother, it is obvious that the Saint - Simonian ideal of equality for women — they disapproved of marriage, their trousered feminine costume was a token of emancipation, and their spiritual leader, Le Père Enfantin, made extraordinary efforts to find a Woman Messiah to share his reign — made a strong impression on her as a child, and may well have influenced her future course of behavior.