Help people in spiritual pain, and so it became clear that the Daughters of St. Paul were it for me (
evangelization with media).
Not exact matches
They are willing to engage in joint
evangelization efforts
with the indigenous churches in reaching their own people, or to focus through cross-cultural evangelism on areas not yet reached by the national churches.
Young local Churches begin as «mission territory,» and their bishops are chosen in consultation
with what's now called the «Congregation for the
Evangelization of Peoples» (but which everyone in Rome still refers to by its old name, «Propaganda,» or simply «Prop»).
They were brought into sharp contrast by the two «world evangelism» conferences sponsored just a few weeks apart in 1980: the meeting of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism in Melbourne in May,
with the theme, «Your Kingdom Come,» and the Consultation on World
Evangelization, sponsored by the Lausanne Committee, in Pattaya, Thailand, in June,
with the theme «How Shall They Hear?»
It is Christ's victory over evil and the promise of eternal life
with God, however, that is at the center of
evangelization.
The vibrant American Church became fractious: Many priests and religious abandoned their spiritual callings for the world; some theologians dispensed
with their obligations to work
with the Magisterium;
evangelization suffered; loyalty to Church teaching was rejected in favor of a misguided notion of «conscience;» and dogma and truth were repudiated.
His pastoral letter, «Horizons of Faith,» treats what Catholics are calling the Fifth Centenary of the
Evangelization of the Americas
with admirable clarity and nuance.
Also, while he is no doubt right to set himself against «entertainment worship» and other atrocities of the church - growth phenomenon, his suspicion of anything popular poses problems for
evangelization and does not jibe
with the enduring popularity through the centuries of the very liturgy that he champions.
Although
with a less dramatic involvement in native thought and culture than Ricci's, both Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries in the 19th century often managed to combine a commitment to
evangelization in the name of Jesus
with a deep (and ever deepening) respect for the native culture and indigenous traditions of the nations to which they had been sent.
EB: For them,
evangelization is a word that rhymes
with conquest.
Catholic University of America in Washington was the site of a meeting
with hundreds of educators, and, echoing the language of John Paul II's Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990), Benedict underscored that Catholic schools are «integral to the mission of the Church,» and «the primary mission of the Church is
evangelization.»
Moreover, as it warned in an editorial on the 1974 International Congress on World
Evangelization in Lausanne, evangelism must not be confused
with the Christian responsibility for genuine social concern.»
Pope Benedict was there for the opening of the conference, driving home the imperative of
evangelization and the indispensability of personal encounter
with God in Christ.
Most of our missionaries are recent college graduates who return to the college campus and invite students into a personal relationship
with Jesus Christ and his Church and inspire and equip them for a lifetime of Christ - centered
evangelization, discipleship, and friendships in which they teach other to do the same.
With an inborn resistance to formal worship styles and looking to music as a means to
evangelization, Pentecostals remained open to innovation through the interwar years and into the 1950s.
This is the beauty that we can see
with the eyes of faith, and
evangelization in this culture that denies transcendence means spreading this «sacramental» way of seeing the world around us.
The seminaries have,
with one or two exceptions, been thoroughly and appropriately reformed for the New
Evangelization, and some are more full than they've been in forty years.
I think we make a mistake when we identify the «new
evangelization» too closely
with techniques or technologies or programs.
It includes both formation through
evangelization and enculturation — the processes by which we are converted and initiated into the church and its tradition and thereby come to acknowledge ourselves as a people in covenant
with God — and education, or those processes of actualization that help us to live out our baptism by making the church's faith more vital, conscious and active in our lives; by deepening our relationship to God; and by realizing our vocation in the world so that God's saving activity may be manifested in persons and in the church.
And he calls the Church to take the ministry of marriage preparation
with ever greater seriousness, seeing it as an essential instrument of
evangelization, especially for those who have trouble understanding that commitment is liberating.
The church may be familiar to many students, but for others it is the cutting edge of newness, and it presents us
with an effective means of
evangelization.
Writing about Patriarch Kirill's visit to Rome late last May, Magister comments, «one great ally has already united
with the pope from outside of the Catholic Church, in this enterprise of a new
evangelization.
By the members of the Synod embracing their role as a band of joyful missionary disciples, we here in Southeast Michigan will be strengthened for our vocation «to be all in»
with the New
Evangelization, to have full confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit to heal and transform, to put uncompromising trust in the Lordship of Jesus over every time and place.
In his homily at the October 7 Mass that combined Hildegard's honor
with the opening of the synod, Benedict noted that saints like her are the «pioneers and bringers of the new
evangelization» because they «show the beauty of the Gospel to those who are indifferent or even hostile» and invite «tepid believers to live
with the joy of faith.»
It was fostered during long years of association
with him while serving on the Board of Directors of William Carey International University; and while supporting his leadership in the A.D 2000 movement to complete the task of world
evangelization.
Yet, under the most trying circumstances, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk and his colleagues, both clergy and laity, have gotten on
with the New
Evangelization in their war - torn country, providing a model of spiritual vitality and effective public engagement that a lot of Latin - rite Catholicism would do well to study and then emulate.
From HQ: How do you view or balance the idea of
evangelization or otherwise spreading the Good News
with the colonial / imperialist history that has accompanied such efforts in the past and is still an influence today?
It might be that the deepest issue at stake in the new
evangelization has to do
with the Church's attempt at a reconciliation
with the Jews.
Guadalupe provides the spark which will allow the people to rise out of the realm of death like the Phoenix rising out of the ashes of the past — not just a return to the past but the emergence of a spectacular newness.10 In sharp contrast to the total rupture
with the past which was initiated by the conquest -
evangelization enterprise, Guadalupe provided the necessary sense of continuity which is basic to human existence.
He is taking a task of
evangelization about it
with his clients, showing them, for instance, that if the computer were damaged, they may lose messages accumulated during four years, and it is good for them to have it in the cloud.
With its «Six D's of Distruption,» his keynote sounded more like Silicon Valley evangelization than what we always associate with a legal IT audie
With its «Six D's of Distruption,» his keynote sounded more like Silicon Valley
evangelization than what we always associate
with a legal IT audie
with a legal IT audience.
Developing, in collaboration
with dioceses and other institutions and organizations, formation programs for the New
Evangelization.
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