Pope Francis and The Joy of the Gospel: Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii GaudiumEnrique Soros
The doctrine, the principles of the Church, don't change, but since the world changes constantly, the Church must find pastoral ways to reach out to the world accordingly.
Are we open to the signs of the time?
Are we open to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit?
The Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis presents to us a giant challenge: embracing all human beings, to bring them closer to the redemption of Jesus Christ.
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Enrique Soros is Argentinean and lives for 17 years in Washington, D.C. He is a member of CLAdeES, Latin American Center for Evangelization, institution that with CELAM, Latin American Bishops Council, offers several web courses, among them, one on the Apostolic Letter The Joy of the Gospel. Enrique is responsible for this course in the United States.
He is Press Liaison between CELAM and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, he coordinates the digital project of CELAM Migrantes Hoy www.migranteshoy.celam.org and works with other CELAM projects.
He is the author of the book Conquering all Hearts and as a journalist he contributes articles to several international news agencies, like Zenit, AICA, Catholic.net and Aleteia.
He is a member of the Informatic Network for the Church in Latin America, a joint project of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and CELAM and of Press People Club. He is Vice-chair of the Association of Ecclesial Movements and New Communities in the Archdiocese of Washington.
Enrique belongs to the Schoenstatt Movement, coordinates the International Schoenstatt Communicators Association, is a member of the Washington Archdiocesan Catechetical Leaders Association, and works in several mission and pastoral projects in the United States and Latin America.
Enrique's email address is: e@schoenstatt.biz
Evangelism? It is to present Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit to sinful people, in order that they may come to put their trust in Christ. Is communicating the gospel of Jesus Christ.
6 Tasks of Catechesis and the New Religion Curriculum: Catechesis Comprises Six Fundamental Tasks: Knowledge of the Faith, Liturgical Education, Moral Formation,Teaching to Pray, Education for Community Life,
Missionary Initiation
This slideshow introduces the cultural need and Church teaching on evangelization. It is the Evangelical Catholic\'s introductory presentation when training Catholic leaders.
Pope Francis and The Joy of the Gospel: Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii GaudiumEnrique Soros
The doctrine, the principles of the Church, don't change, but since the world changes constantly, the Church must find pastoral ways to reach out to the world accordingly.
Are we open to the signs of the time?
Are we open to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit?
The Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis presents to us a giant challenge: embracing all human beings, to bring them closer to the redemption of Jesus Christ.
The author of this power point, Enrique Soros, offers presentations of this work at institutions.
This presentation may be downloaded for free.
Changes are not authorized without consent of the author.
This power point may be sent for free by email in its primary version, which keeps animations and characteristics of the original show. They are not active on this web page.. You may request it to e@schoenstatt.biz.
About the author:
Enrique Soros is Argentinean and lives for 17 years in Washington, D.C. He is a member of CLAdeES, Latin American Center for Evangelization, institution that with CELAM, Latin American Bishops Council, offers several web courses, among them, one on the Apostolic Letter The Joy of the Gospel. Enrique is responsible for this course in the United States.
He is Press Liaison between CELAM and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, he coordinates the digital project of CELAM Migrantes Hoy www.migranteshoy.celam.org and works with other CELAM projects.
He is the author of the book Conquering all Hearts and as a journalist he contributes articles to several international news agencies, like Zenit, AICA, Catholic.net and Aleteia.
He is a member of the Informatic Network for the Church in Latin America, a joint project of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and CELAM and of Press People Club. He is Vice-chair of the Association of Ecclesial Movements and New Communities in the Archdiocese of Washington.
Enrique belongs to the Schoenstatt Movement, coordinates the International Schoenstatt Communicators Association, is a member of the Washington Archdiocesan Catechetical Leaders Association, and works in several mission and pastoral projects in the United States and Latin America.
Enrique's email address is: e@schoenstatt.biz
Evangelism? It is to present Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit to sinful people, in order that they may come to put their trust in Christ. Is communicating the gospel of Jesus Christ.
6 Tasks of Catechesis and the New Religion Curriculum: Catechesis Comprises Six Fundamental Tasks: Knowledge of the Faith, Liturgical Education, Moral Formation,Teaching to Pray, Education for Community Life,
Missionary Initiation
This slideshow introduces the cultural need and Church teaching on evangelization. It is the Evangelical Catholic\'s introductory presentation when training Catholic leaders.
Genesis 3:16-19. The Fall of Man and the Savior. I. THE PAIN CONNECTION II. THE SUBJECTION CONNECTION III. THE CURSE CONNECTION IV. THE SORROW CONNECTION V. THE THORN CONNECTION VI. THE SWEAT CONNECTION VII. THE DEATH CONNECTION
John 3:1-5. A New Life In Christ. In the new life we have been born again. In the new life we are a new creation. In the new life we crucify the flesh with its passions and desires. In the new life we are transformed by the renewing of our minds. In the new life we are renewed by the Holy Spirit. In the new life we are dead to sin but alive to God. In the new life we are washed from our sins. in the new life we put to death the old man and put on the new man. In the new life we died and our life is hidden with Christ in God. In the new life we were brought back from death in sin.
I. Introduction:
There are many sacraments of forgiveness and reconciliation in the history of Catholicism.:
• Baptism: forgiveness of sins on the past and reconciled with God.
• Impose the hand of Bishop on heretics and schismatics who renounced
• Eucharistic liturgy was the sign of reunion with Christ despite their sinfulness- unite with other in faith and forgiveness.
o the bread and wine were often seen as a sin offering.
• Middle Ages: devout participation in sacrifice as a purification from personal sinfulness.
• anointing of the sick as an occasion of spiritual healing than physical
• indulgences as cancel the divine punishment
• throughout the history: prayer, reading of scripture, fasting and physical self- discipline, almsgiving and other charity work are as the sacramental actions.
All of these, there is one stood out. It combined an admission of guilt: interior and exterior acts and assurance of divine forgiveness.
o In modern church it was administered privately by a priest and received by Catholic perhaps one a year.
o In patristic period it was public presided over by bishop and for the notorious sinners and one in lifetime.
o In medieval ages the assurance can be given by a lay afterward by the clergy alone.
The works of repentance
o Presence time was the brief prayer
o ancient time were usually lengthy acts of mortification.
There are two elements that always found that were the confession or repentance and forgiveness.
Christian Community: The Foundation of Discipleship (Building A Better Discip...Jonathan Sullivan
Faith is nurtured and sustained in the context of a community of believers. This session will explore how the Church in various contexts (family, parish, school, etc.) sets the stage for a life of discipleship.
This is the third in a five-part webinar series on Christian discipleship. Slides and other handouts can be found at http://bit.ly/BetterDisciple.
Lay Vocation and Mission: Rerum Novarum to Evangelii Gaudium & Blessed AlberioneSr Margaret Kerry
Shown during the 2014 gathering of Pauline sisters this PowerPoint presents some of the Church documents that influenced Blessed James Alberione in his founding of the lay Association of Pauline Cooperators. It also shows the history of the development of the lay vocation & mission in the Catholic Church and the renewed ecclesiology of Vatican II and post-Vatican II studies.
The Emerging Church and The One Project? is a series of PowerPoint presentations asking the question if there is in fact a connection between the two. The purpose of the presentations are not to lambast those who want to lift Jesus up, but rather to allow leaders of the One Project to tell us in their own words (and the words of those promoting the project) what their goals and aspirations really are, and how these goals have been enacted in their past experiences.
Presentation 1 of 10 is a summary of the Emerging Church as defined on Wikipedia. This is a summary of the 17 page article found there which is taken from many leading proponents of the Emerging Church here in America.
Presentations 2 through 4 deal with Leonard Sweet, a leader in the Emerging Church movement and a professor at George Fox University, and many of the nearly 50 books he has authored which express his various viewpoints.
Presentations 5 through 9 deal with the five main leaders of The One Project, four of which graduated with or started DMin degrees from George Fox University under the mentorship of Leonard Sweet. In each presentation an objective look is taken at material in print telling of each leaders work and ministry up to 2012. The question will naturally follow; is this the direction we should be leading our young people in the Adventist Church?
Presentation 10 deals with the One Project gathering in Seattle, February of 2012, looking at the claims of the Project “Jesus. All” and comparing this to what really took place at the gathering. Yes, there was some good points made, and we need to lift Jesus up, but…. We also take a look at a little of the evidence suggesting The One Project is a response to GYC.
For a fully interactive edition of all 10 presentations with video clips, contact: theemergingoneproject@gmail.com
Perspectives Lesson Five: Unleashing the Gospel -- 202002MarkTab Ministries
Delivered to the Perspectives class in Statesboro, GA on February 20, 2020
In this lesson we will see how God launched the World Christian movement. We will discover that the Church is a double structure that endures to this day. We will watch how ordinary people chose a strategy of suffering which they learned from Jesus and will consider how we can live with that same apostolic passion. We will examine the biblical grounds of hope for an enormous in-gathering at the end of the age.
Winter, Ralph. Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: Reader and Study Guide - eBook . William Carey Library. Kindle Edition.
2. Our first task in approaching
another people, another culture, another faith,
is to take off our shoes,
for the place where we are standing is holy.
Else we may forget that before we came,
God was already present.
Motto of the Volunteer Missionary Movement (founded 1969)
3. The World of Vatican II
“What is effectively the centre of gravity of Christianity in the
West has shifted more and more, and 1970 reached a critical
point: by then 51% of all Catholics were living in the southern
continents…By the year 2000 a good 70% of all Catholics will
be living in the southern hemisphere…
The church there has the opportunity of becoming the church
of the poor and for the poor, not merely on paper but in deed
and truth.”
Walbert Buhlmann, OFM, The Church of the Future, 1986
4. The Coming of the Third Church
“since Peter went to Rome, no Pope had ever left Europe. But
Paul [VI] visited all six continents as a sign that now the
church has really become a church of the six continents…
We now know that the one universal Church with its strong
centralized power (Vatican I) exists concretely in countless
local churches all of which have the right and duty not to be
any longer ‘only’ missions, carbon copies of the European
church, but to stand on their own feet and be allowed to
contribute their full say within the framework of the whole
church.”
5. Decree Ad Gentes on the Mission
Activity of the Church
• Principles
• Mission Work
• Particular Churches
• Missionaries
• Planning Missionary Activity
• Cooperation
6. Preface
“.. this sacred synod, … desires to sketch the principles of
missionary activity and to rally the forces of all the faithful in
order that the people of God, marching along the narrow way
of the Cross, may spread everywhere the reign of Christ, Lord
and overseer..”
7. Principles of Mission
“The pilgrim Church is missionary by her very nature, since it
is from the mission of the Son and the mission of the Holy
Spirit that she draws her origin, in accordance with the decree
of God the Father.”
“Since this mission goes on and in the course of history
unfolds the mission of Christ Himself, who was sent to preach
the Gospel to the poor, the Church, prompted by the Holy
Spirit, must walk in the same path on which Christ walked: a
path of poverty and obedience, of service and self - sacrifice
to the death, from which death He came forth a victor by His
Resurrection.”
8. “.. division among Christians damages the most holy cause of
preaching the Gospel to every creature and blocks the way to
faith for many. Hence, by the very necessity of mission, all
the baptised are called together into one flock, and thus they
will be able to bear unanimous witness before the nations to
Christ their Lord.”
9. “.. circumstances are sometimes such that, for the time being,
there is no possibility of expounding the Gospel directly and
forthwith. Then, of course, missionaries can and must at least
bear witness to Christ by charity and by works of mercy, with
all patience, prudence and great confidence. Thus they will
prepare the way for the Lord and make Him somehow
present.”
10. Mission Work
Christian Witness
respect, charity, education, uplifting human dignity
Preaching the Gospel and Gathering together the People of
God
ban on force or enticement, involving ‘entire community of
the faithful’ in the catechumenate
Forming a Christian Community
nurture ecumenical spirit, special attention to the role of laity
and catechists, fostering religious life
11. Particular Churches
“Let the young church keep up an intimate communion with
the whole Church.”
“The church has not been really founded, and is not yet fully
alive, nor is it a perfect sign of Christ, unless there is a laity
worthy of the name working along with the hierarchy…
Therefore, even at the very founding of a Church, great
attention is to be paid to establishing a mature, Christian
laity.”
12. Missionaries
“Vatican II taught me the narrowness of my previous
assumption that my task as a missionary was mainly to get
new converts for the Church. I now see my call as one of
sharing in the mission of Jesus to proclaim and promote the
mission of God – which mean working to bring about a world
of justice, respect for human rights, reconciliation,
community-building, all animated by generous and realistic
love.”
Donal Dorr, St Patrick’s Missionary
13. “As you sit watching the sinking sun you wonder if there were still time for
missionaries somewhere, somehow to be able just once to carry out the
missionary work as it should be carried out:
To approach each culture with the respect due to it
To approach the people of any culture or nation, not as individuals, but as
community.
To plan to stay not one day longer than is necessary in any one place.
To give the people nothing, literally nothing, but the unchanging, supracultural,
uninterpreted gospel before baptism.
To insist that they themselves be their own future missionaries.
To link them with the outside church in unity, and the outside world in charity
and justice.
And then the final step.
The final missionary step as regards the people of any nation or culture, and the
most important lesson we will ever teach them – is to leave them.”
Vincent J. Donovan, Christianity Rediscovered
14. Cooperation
“As members of the living Christ, incorporated into Him and
made like unto Him through baptism and through
confirmation and the Eucharist, all the faithful are duty-
bound to cooperate in the expansion and spreading out of
His Body, to bring it to fullness as soon as may be.”
“The grace of renewal cannot grow in communities unless
each of these extends the range of its charity to the ends of
the earth, and devotes the same care to those afar off as it
does to those who are its own members.”
15. T Howland Shanks SJ, (1992),
“Salt, leaven and light. These images all suggest not
opposition to the world, but permeation, pervasion,
insertion. The mission of the followers of Jesus is to be
active in the world, not to withdraw from it or to
control it. Nor do these images suggest that the
mission is to make all the world Christian. Salt does
not turn all the food into salt, and leaven does not
change all the dough into yeast.
Salt, Leaven & Light, The community called church,
with reference to Matt. 5:13-16 and Luke 13:20-21:
16. “Further, if salt, leaven and light are effective, they
no longer stand out from that which they permeate or
blend in with it. They transform from within. These
images do not focus on Christian uniqueness or
distinctiveness, but on the contribution Christians can
make in the transformation of the whole”
17. “This time is dark only for those who do not believe
the Lord is present in it.”
Gustavo Gutierrez
18. Which aspects of the new evangelization
proclamation
dialogue
work for social justice
use of media
respecting the freedom of individuals
involving the laity
do you see as the most important?
Why?
What else needs to be done?