Saturday, October 17, 2009

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Message for World Mission Sunday

"The nations will walk in his light" (21: 24)

This Sunday dedicated to the missions, I turn first of all you, my brothers in the priestly and episcopal ministry, and also to you, brothers and sisters of the whole People of God, to encourage each one to revive in himself the conscience of the missionary mandate of Christ to "make disciples of all nations" (Mt 28:19), following the footsteps of St. Paul the Apostle to the Gentiles.

"The nations will walk by its light" (Rev 21:24). Objective of the mission of the Church is, indeed, shed the light of the Gospel to all peoples in their historical journey to God, so that in him they may reach their full potential and fulfillment. We feel the desire and passion to enlighten all peoples the light of Christ shining in the face of the Church, to gather everyone in one human family under God's loving fatherhood.

In this perspective the disciples of Christ spread throughout the world work, struggle, groaning under the burden of suffering and donate life. Strongly reaffirm what has been repeatedly told by my predecessors, the Church does not act to extend his power or assert their dominance, but to bring all to Christ, the salvation of the world. We seek only to place ourselves at the service of humanity, especially of suffering and the marginalized, because we believe that "the effort to proclaim the Gospel to the people of our time ... is certainly a service that lends itself to the Christian community and even the whole mankind "(Evangelii nuntiandi, 1), which" has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost the sense of ultimate realities and the very existence "(Redemptoris Missio, 2).

1. All people are called to salvation

All humanity has the radical vocation to return to its source which is God, the only one who find fulfillment through the restoration of all things in Christ. The dispersion, multiplicity, conflict, enmity will be calmed and reconciled through the blood of the Cross, and back to unity.

The new beginning has already started with the resurrection and exaltation of Christ, which draws to itself all things, renewing the share in the eternal joy of God. The future of the new creation is already shining in our world and on, but in the midst of contradictions and sufferings, the hopes of a new life. The mission of the Church is to "spread" of hope to all peoples. This is why Christ calls, justifies, sanctifies and sends his disciples to proclaim the Kingdom of God, that all nations may to be the People of God. Only within such a mission is understood and authenticates the true path in human history. The mission should become a universal fundamental constant in the life of the Church. Proclaiming the Gospel must be for us, as it was for the Apostle Paul, a primary and impelling.

2. Pilgrim Church

universal Church, without borders and without boundaries, feels responsible for proclaiming the Gospel to entire villages (cf. Evangelii nuntiandi, 53). She, the seed of hope by vocation, must continue the service of Christ to the world. Its mission and service are not tailored to the material needs or even spiritual depleted in the box temporal existence, but a transcendent salvation, which is realized in the Kingdom of God (cf. Evangelii nuntiandi, 27). This Kingdom, although in its eschatological fullness and not of this world (cf. Jn 18.36), is also in this world and in history force for justice, peace, true freedom and dignity of each man. The Church seeks to transform the world through the proclamation of the Gospel of love, "to illuminate a dark world and gives us the strength to live and act ... and thus bring the light of God to the world "(Deus Caritas Est, 39). It is this mission and service, with this message, call to engage all members and institutions the Church.

3. "Missio ad gentes"

Thus, the mission of the Church is to call all peoples to salvation by God operated through his incarnate Son. It is therefore necessary to renew the commitment to proclaim the Gospel, which is the leaven of liberty and progress, brotherhood, unity and peace (cf. Ad Gentes, 8). I would "confirm once more that the task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church" (Evangelii nuntiandi, 14), task and mission which the vast and profound changes in today's society becoming more urgent. Is in question of eternal salvation of people, purpose and the actual conduct of human history and the universe. Encouraged and inspired by the Apostle of the Gentiles, we must realize that God has many people in all the cities visited by the apostles of today (cf. Acts 18:10). Indeed, "The promise is for all those who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call" (Acts 2.39).

The whole Church must be committed to the missio ad gentes, until the saving sovereignty of Christ is not fully realized: "At present we see that all things are subject to Him" \u200b\u200b(Heb 2.8).

4. Also called to evangelize through martyrdom

On this day dedicated to the missions, I remember in prayer those who have made his life a unique dedication to the work of evangelization. Special mention is for those local churches and missionaries for those who bear witness and spread the Kingdom of God in times of persecution, with forms of oppression ranging from social discrimination to jail, torture and death. Not a few of them are put to death because of their "Name." It is still a tremendous now that my venerated predecessor, Pope John Paul II: "Memory Jubilee has opened an amazing sight, showing our time particularly rich in witnesses who, one way or another, have learned to live the Gospel in situations of hostility and persecution, often to give his own blood as the supreme proof "(Novo Millennio Ineunte, 41).

participation in the mission of Christ, in fact, affects the life of the preachers of the Gospel, to whom is reserved the same fate as their Master. "Remember the word that I said: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you "(Jn 15:20). The Church follows the same path and suffer the same fate of Christ, because it acts as a logic or relying on human reason of force, but by following the way of the Cross, becoming, in filial obedience to the Father, control and traveling companion of humankind.

In the old Churches and the recently founded remind them that have been placed by the Lord as the salt of the earth and light of the world, called to spread Christ, Light of the Gentiles, until the ends of the earth. The missio ad gentes must be the priority of their pastoral.

A Pontifical Mission Societies extend my thanks and my encouragement for the indispensable work of animation, missionary training and financial assistance to ensure the young Churches. Through these institutions Papal is admirably achieved communion between the Churches, gift exchange, reciprocal concern and common missionary.

5. Conclusion

The missionary spirit has always been a sign of vitality of our churches (cf. Redemptoris Missio, 2). It is necessary, however, reaffirm that evangelization is the work of the Spirit and that, even prior to action, is to witness and irradiation of light of Christ (cf. Redemptoris Missio, 26) by the local Church, which sends its missionaries to go beyond its borders. Therefore I ask all Catholics to pray the Holy Spirit to increase the Church's passion for the mission to spread the Kingdom of God, and claiming to missionaries, missionaries and Christian communities involved at the forefront of this mission, sometimes in hostile pursuit.

At the same time, I invite everyone to give a credible sign of communion between the Churches, with financial assistance, especially at the stage of crisis affecting humanity, for local churches to put in a position to enlighten the world with the Gospel of charity.

guide us in our missionary activity the Virgin Mary, Star of Evangelization, which has given the world to Christ as a light to the nations, to bring salvation "to the ends of the earth" (Acts 13.47).

To all my blessing.

Benedict XVI, Vatican June 29, 2009

Source: Ciudadredonda.org


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Friday, October 16, 2009

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Rebel against poverty ...

by PROCLADE Foundation

ciudadredonda.org article extracted from
October 15, 2009

The lack of political will is demonstrated more than ever, when all efforts to end poverty threatened by an international crisis . High food prices, the low level of education, high cost of drugs, precarious access to health, and the impending reduction of aid become more vulnerable to those living in poverty. We are facing a crisis INTEGRAL, whose solution is not economic but systemic approaches.


The promises of the international community remain on paper, but this only serves: A promise not feed, no cure, no protection. Rebel against Poverty! .

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feeds 50,000 people die daily as a result of extreme poverty and the gap between rich and poor continues to grow. We have the ability to change this reality and do it in that period. Last year we went, hundreds of thousands of people in Spain and 116 million people worldwide. Is it in your hands we are many more who join us in this fight. We are the first generation able to eradicate poverty, so more than one thousand organizations that are part of the English Alliance Against Poverty back out into the streets to demand that the rulers honor their commitment and show us more facts and fewer words?.

need your support to keep pushing more than ever at this year's setbacks intolerable. Therefore, we request your presence at the demonstration to be held in your area in the week of the international fight to eradicate poverty.

On the website you can find www.pobrezacero.org campaign manifesto with 10 proposals for action that we take each one of us. Likewise, you can access the web http://www.rebelatecontralapobreza.org/




PEACE AND WELL ...


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God does not judge anyone

source: Ciudadredonda.org

There is a question about the goodness of God as old as religion itself: How can a God who is all good to send someone to hell eternity? How can God be all mercy and love, if there is eternal punishment?

Actually, this is a false question . God does not send anyone to hell and God does not sentence eternal punishment. God gives us life, and the choice of whether or not to accept up to us

Jesus tells us that God does not judge anyone. Are we whom we judge ourselves. God does not create hell or send anyone to him. But this does not mean that hell exists and is not a possibility for us. Here is basically how Jesus explains this:

God sends his life into the world and we can choose that life or reject it. We are judging ourselves by making that choice. If we choose life, we are choosing finally the sky. If we deny life, just living out of life and that ultimately it is hell. But we who make that choice, God sends us anywhere. Also, hell is not a positive punishment created by God to make us suffer. Hell is the absence of something, namely, the absence or non-living into the life that we offer.

affirm this is not to say that hell is not real or that it is a real possibility for everyone. Hell is real, but is not a punishment created by God to impose justice or revenge, or to show the callous and unrepentant that they were wrong, they made a mistake. Hell is the absence of life, love, forgiveness, community, but God does not send anyone there. we end up there, out of love and community, but we who choose, whether culpably reject those values \u200b\u200bwhen we offer Throughout our life. Hell, once said John Shea, is never a surprise to wait for a happy person is the full flowering of a life that rejects the love, forgiveness, and community.

French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre once said, with the famous phrase, that hell is "other." What is true is just the opposite. Hell is what we experience when we choose ourselves ahead of the community of life with others. is assumed that human life is life together, shared existence, participation within a community of life that includes the Trinity itself.

God is love, says the Scripture, and those who remain in love abide in God, and God abides in them. In this context, love should not be understood primarily as romantic love. The text says that "those who fall in love" are those who dwell in God (although that can happen too.) Fundamentally, we must formulate the text differently, to come and say, "God is shared existence, and those who share life with others and live within the life of God." But the opposite is also true: When we share our lives, just outside life. That, essentially, is hell.

What is-what is-hell? Images chosen by the Bible to "describe" the hell are arbitrary and vary widely. The popular mind tends to think of hell as fire, eternal fire, but that's just an image, not necessarily the dominant one in the Scripture. Among other things, the Scripture speaks of hell as a "feel the wrath of God," a "being outside" the wedding and the dance, as a "mourn and gnashing of teeth" as a being destined for Gehenna (a famous garbage dump outside Jerusalem), as being eaten by worms, like fire, like a miss and miss the banquet, as a living outside the Kingdom, as living within a heart embittered and perverted, and as a be missing out on life. the end, all these images converge at the same point: Hell is the pain and bitterness, the fire that we experienced when we culpably outside the community of life. And it is always self-inflicted. Never is imposed by God. God does not deliver death or sent anyone to hell.

When Jesus speaks of God never claims that God give both: life and death, but only God gives life . Death comes from somewhere else, as they are lying, rationalizing, bitterness, hardness of heart and hell. To say that God did not create hell or has not sent anyone there does not detract the existence of evil and sin or the danger of eternal punishment, only pinpoints their origins and make it clear who is the judge and who is the sentencing. God does things either. not create hell or send anyone to him. We are who do both.

As Jesus tells us in the Gospel of St. John. "God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned; he that believeth not is condemned already for not believing in the only Son of God. The trial is this: that light is come into the world, people preferred darkness to light ... I do not judge anyone. "

God does not need.


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