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Komunikat Nru 3 mis-Sinodu tal-Isqfijiet dwar l-Evanġelizzazzjoni Ġdida biex innisslu l-Fidi Nisranija

Mibgħut lilna mill-Eċċellenza Tiegħu Monsinjur Mario Grech, Isqof ta' Għawdex.

19 Ottubru 2012

 

 

(1)  H. E. Mons. José Rafael QUIRÓS, (COSTA RICA)

What becomes imperative for the new evangelization is the renewal of the parish as a space that renders possible and organic an authentic experience of meeting with Jesus Christ and of participating in his following as disciples. The parish must articulate itself as a great community of small communities and communal experiences in which it becomes possible to redeem the personalizing value of the meeting.

In this sense, in the context of a society in which anonymity and indifference, the hunger for domination and the affirmation of relationships marked by power, apathy in the defense of the dignity of human beings, the desire to possess and the rampant consumerism that derives from that, appear to us as the characteristics of a lifestyle that is anti-evangelical, the normative character of the first Christian community leads us to re-evaluate the importance of the promotion of an alternative lifestyle, marked by Gospel values, that transforms the community of believers into a motor for the promotion of the confession of faith as a matrix of cultural, ethical, political and economic meaning that is authentically human.

 

(2) H. E. Mons. Yves PATENÔTRE, Archbishop of Sens (FRANCE)

If the phenomenon of secularization exists in our countries of old Christianity, this should not discourage us but rather renew the missionary spirit in us. We must look at today’s world with the gaze of the Father. This world is loved by God. He sees it as the world of his children in the diversity of peoples, cultures and religions. He is the Father of the human family. The divine trace of this paternity is love at the heart of every human being. Christians, by the grace of Revelation, we know that love comes from God, that love is God, how to make it recognized? This was the mission of Jesus. ..... In some way, we are not signs of the Church, but signs of Christ, and in this we will be the Church: face and word of Christ, living and proclaiming the faith of today in the words of yesterday. This reminds me of an always relevant phrase by Cardinal Suhard, the founder of the Mission in France: “This does not mean making the world enter the Church as she is, but making the Church capable of welcoming the world as it is.”

 

(3)  H. E. Mons. Luis A. CASTRO QUIROGA, I.M.C. (COLOMBIA)

 

 

The first Christians, thanks to the power of the first announcement, took Jesus everywhere, but without being able to count on the support of culture, the state, religions or public opinion. This is the situation the Church finds itself in in many places throughout the world. We are called to invent, to build roads and new forms that help to sow the seed of the first announcement of Jesus in the lives of those who no longer believe in him.

 

 

 

(4)  Rev. F. NICOLÁS PACHÓN, S.I., Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

A New Evangelization has to learn from the good and not-so-good points of the First Evangelization. I come from a tradition of Evangelization and Spirituality that encourages “Finding God in all things”.

I am afraid that we, missionaries, have not done it with sufficient depth and, thus, have not enriched the Universal Church as the Church could expect from us. We have looked for Western signs of Faith and Sanctity and have not discovered how God had been at work in other peoples. This impoverishes all. We miss important clues, insights and discoveries.

We have learnt from the past as effective for communicating the Gospel: the way of humility, the awareness of human limitation when it comes to expressing the Spirit, the simplicity of the message, generosity and joy in acknowledging goodness and holiness, our life as a factor of credibility, forgiveness and reconciliation, the message of the Cross in our own self-denial.

 

(5)  Rev. F. Josep M. ABELLA BATLLE, C.M.F., Superior General of Claretians

The call to the New Evangelization is above all an appeal to be joyful and responsible Christians of the 21st century, in a great fidelity to the Gospel and the people of our time as well as with a new style for the mission. We are not talking therefore about a punctual action or a series of activities but rather a “process” in which various elements play a role.

The New Evangelization always sets out from reality, observed with the compassionate heart of Jesus, since it is from the constant dialectic between the Spirit and reality that the novelty and guidelines that will direct it will emerge.....

It requires more attention to be paid to quality rather than to quantity; to what is essential, rather than what is accidental; and it promotes a tireless dialogue.

 

(6)  Card. Stanisław DZIWISZ, Archbishop of Kraków (POLAND)

The new evangelization should dare to restore the question of God and help man to emerge from this “interior desert”.  Thus is born the question of how to lead man out of this desert. One thing is certain. Science is not enough. Documents are not enough. Our Church structures are not enough. These do not quite reach the heart of man.

A characteristic sign of our times is that the Church today speaks much more effectively when she expresses herself with the message of Divine Mercy. It seems that this discussion touches more effectively the heart of the man closed in himself, enmeshed in sin and in outward self-sufficiency but in reality searching for meaning in his life and reasons to hope.

Humanity will not find peace until it returns to the source of mercy”, which is in Jesus (Sister Faustina, Diary, no.699). It seems that man today has managed to preserve within himself a sensitivity toward a disinterested mercy. And this itself - God’s mercy which influences his fate - makes itself heard and touches the deepest chords of the human heart. Devotion to the Divine Mercy has become a means of formation for zealous and responsible Christians. The heart of merciful God speaks to the heart of man.

 

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