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To: piusv

So are you saying that you do not believe in evangelization? It’s the command given at the end of the Mass.

“Ete misa est.”
“Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord.”
“Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.”
“Go forth, the Mass is ended.”

To which the congregation replies, “Thanks be to God.”

THE FIRST WORD OF JESUS in the Gospel was “come”; the last word of Jesus was “go.” ~Ven. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen


8 posted on 09/28/2014 11:07:29 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: piusv
I don't necessarily agree with this Focolare stuff, but definitely agree with this:

EVANGELIZATION

 

Zealous proclamation of the Gospel in order to bring others to Christ and his Church. In the words of Pope Paul VI, "Evangelizing means to bring the Good News into all the strata of humanity, and through its influence transforming humanity from within and making it new, 'Now I am making the whole of creation new' (Revelation 21:5). But there is no new humanity if there are not first of all new persons renewed by baptism, and by lives lived according to the Gospel" (Evangelii Nuntiandi, 18). Evangelization, therefore, includes three distinctive elements: 1. interior conversion to Christ and his Church; 2. affecting not only the individual person but the whole culture; and 3. as a result, changing this culture and its institutions to make them Christian and Catholic. (Etym. Latin evangelium; from Greek euangelion, good news, reward for bringing good news, from euangelos, bringing good news: eu-, good, + angelos, messenger.)

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

 


9 posted on 09/28/2014 11:09:50 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

And exactly how did you come to that conclusion from my post?

Actually I believe in that “solemn nonsense” Francis calls proselytism.


11 posted on 09/28/2014 11:46:24 AM PDT by piusv
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To: Salvation

AMEN!


16 posted on 09/28/2014 12:48:38 PM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Salvation; Biggirl; piusv
So are you saying that you do not believe in evangelization? It’s the command given at the end of the Mass.

It's too bad that Pope Francis doesn't believe in, nor preach, that command, which to him is "solemn nonsense". He didn't preach it to the Jews in Buenos Aries, nor did he preach it the muslims at Lampedusa, nor the visiting evangelicals in Rome.

18 posted on 09/28/2014 2:12:59 PM PDT by ebb tide
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