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Evangelii

Gaudium

RELaYMalta

February 2014


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CLARIFYING STATEMENT

16. Countless issues involving evangelisation today m

discussed here, but I have chosen not to explore thequestions which call for further reflection and study.

believe that the papal magisterium should be expe

offer a definitive or complete word on every questio

affects the Church and the world. It is not advisable

Pope to take the place of local Bishops in the discerevery issue which arises in their territory. In this sense

conscious of the need to promote a sound

decentralisation.


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CALL TO JOY

10. When the Church summons Christians to take up the taevangelisation, she is simply pointing to the source of authe

personal fulfilment. For here we discover a profound law othat life is attained and matures in the measure that it is offorder to give life to others. This is certainly what mission meaConsequently, an evangelizer must never look like someon

just come back from a funeral! Let us recover and deepenenthusiasm, that delightful and comforting joy of evangelwhen it is in tears that we must sow And may the world owhich is searching, sometimes with anguish, sometimes witenabled to receive the good news not from evangelizers wdejected, discouraged, impatient or anxious, but from minGospel whose lives glow with fervour, who have first receiv

Christ.


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CALL TO JOY, LOVE AND MERCY

3. I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very mo

to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christleast an openness to letting him encounter them; I

of you to do this unfailingly each day. No one shou

that this invitation is not meant for him or her, since

one is excluded from the joy brought by the Lord.

Lord does not disappoint those who take this risk;whenever we take a step towards Jesus, we come

realize that he is already there, waiting for us with o

arms.


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3 Now is the time to say to Jesus: Lord, I have l

myself be deceived; in a thousand ways I have

shunned your love, yet here I am once more, to rmy covenant with you. I need you. Save me onc

again, Lord, take me once more into your redeeembrace. How good it feels to come back to h

whenever we are lost! Let me say this once more

never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tiseeking his mercy. Christ, who told us to forgive o

another seventy times seven (Mt 18:22) has givhis example: he has forgiven us seventy times sev


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3 Time and time again he bears us on his shoul

No one can strip us of the dignity bestowed upon

by this boundless and unfailing love. With a tendewhich never disappoints, but is always capable o

restoring our joy, he makes it possible for us to lift our heads and to start anew. Let us not flee from

resurrection of Jesus, let us never give up, come w

will. May nothing inspire more than his life, whichimpels us onwards!


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DEFINITIONS OF NEW EVANGELISATION

10. those who enjoy life most are those who leasecurity on the shore and become excited by th

mission of communicating life to others.[4]WhenChurch summons Christians to take up the task o

evangelisation, she is simply pointing to the sourc

authentic personal fulfilment. For here we discovprofound law of reality: that life is attained and

matures in the measure that it is offered up in ord

give life to others. This is certainly what mission me
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1415. The Synod reaffirmed that the new

evangelisation is a summons addressed to all and

it is carried out in three principal settings:

- Ordinary pastoral ministry;- The baptised whose lives do not reflect the dem

of Baptism;

- Those who do not know Jesus Christ or who havalways rejected him.


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19. Evangelisation takes place in obedience to th

missionary mandate of Jesus: Go therefore and

disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the namthe Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

teaching them to observe all that I have commayou (Mt28:19-20). In these verses we see how thrisen Christ sent his followers to preach the Gospe

every time and place, so that faith in him mightspread to every corner of the earth.


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110. there can be no true evangelisation with

the explicit proclamation of Jesus as Lord, and

without the primacy of the proclamation of JesuChrist in all evangelising work.


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176. To evangelise is to make the kingdom of Go

present in our world.


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EVANGELISATION PTOCESS

128. always keep in mind the fundamental mes

personal love of God who became man, who gaveup for us, who is living and who offers us his salvation

friendship. This message has to be shared humbly as

testimony on the part of one who is always willing to

the awareness that the message is so rich and so de

always exceeds our grasp. At times the message capresented directly, at times by way of a personal wit

gesture, or in a way which the Holy Spirit may sugge

particular situation..


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128 If it seems prudent and if the circumstance

right, this fraternal and missionary encounter cou

end with a brief prayer related to the concerns wthe person may have expressed. In this way they

have an experience of being listened to andunderstood; they will know that their particular

situation has been placed before God, and that

Gods word really speaks to their lives.


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CONTENT!!!

18. (These are)important practical implications for t

Churchs mission today. All of them help give shape t

definite style of evangelisation which I ask you to ado

every activity which you undertake.

INTRO: THE JOY OF THE GOSPEL

CHAPTER ONE: THE CHURCHS MISSIONARY TRANSFORMATION

CHAPTER TWO: AMID THE CRISIS OF COMMUNAL COMMITMENT

CHAPTER THREE: THE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL

CHAPTER FOUR: THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF EVANGELISATION

CHAPTER FIVE: SPIRIT-FILLED EVANGELISERS
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INTRODUCTION: THE JOY OF THE GOSPEL

8. Thanks solely to this encounteror renewed

encounterwith Gods love, which blossoms intoenriching friendship, we are liberated from our

narrowness and self-absorption. We become fullyhuman Here we find the source and inspiration

our efforts at evangelisation. For if we have recei

the love which restores meaning to our lives, howwe fail to share that love with others?


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CHAPTER TWO: AMID THE CRISIS OF COMMUNAL COM

51. I do exhort all the communities to an ever watc

scrutiny of the signs of the times. This is in fact a gra

responsibility, since certain present realitiesare cap

setting off processes of dehumanisation This involv

only recognising and discerning spirits, but alsoanddecisivechoosing movements of the spirit of good

rejecting those of the spirit of evil.


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CHAPTER THREE: THE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL

112. It is important always to know that the first word

true initiative, the true activity comes from God and

inserting ourselves into the divine initiative, only begg

this divine initiative, shall we too be able to become

him and in himevangelisers.This principle of the pgrace must be a beacon which constantly illuminat

reflections on evangelisation.


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CHAPTER FOUR: THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF EVANGEL

198. I want a Church which is poor and for the poo

their difficulties they know the suffering Christ. We ne

ourselves be evangelised by them. The new evange

an invitation to acknowledge the saving power at w

their lives and to put them at the centre of the Churpilgrim way. We are called to find Christ in them, to l

voice to their causes, but also to be their friends, to l

them, to speak for them and to embrace the myste

wisdom which God wishes to share with us through t


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CHAPTER FIVE: SPIRIT-FILLED EVANGELISERS

259. Spirit-filled evangelisers means evangelisers fear

open to the working of the Holy Spirit. At Pentecost,

turned (the apostles) into heralds of Gods wondrou

The Holy Spirit also grants the courage to proclaim th

newness of the Gospel with boldness (parrhesa) in eand place, even when it meets with opposition. Let

upon him today, firmly rooted in prayer, for without p

our activity risks being fruitless and our message emp

wants evangelisers who proclaim the good news nowith words, but above all by a life transfigured by Go

presence.


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