{"id":3642,"date":"2020-03-12T19:44:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/15.188.244.8.xip.io\/audience-of-sending-of-families-in-missio-ad-gentes-jan-17-2011\/"},"modified":"2020-03-12T19:44:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:44:43","slug":"audience-of-sending-of-families-in-missio-ad-gentes-jan-17-2011","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neocatechumenaleiter.org\/en\/words-of-the-popes\/benedict-xvi\/audience-of-sending-of-families-in-missio-ad-gentes-jan-17-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Audience of sending of families in \u201cMissio ad gentes\u201d Jan 17, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Audience of sending of families in \u201cMissio ad gentes\u201d Jan 17, 2011 <\/h1>\n\n
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Benedict XVI<\/h4>\n\n
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Vatican City – Paul VI Hall, January 17, 2011 (*)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

“The proclamation of the Gospel is a \ncommitment of all Christians, as a consequence of Baptism \u201d, what \nthe Pope reminded the members of the Neocatechumenal Way, received\n in an audience the morning of Monday, January 17, in the Paul VI Hall.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

We publish below the speech delivered by Benedict XVI:<\/em><\/p>\n\n

“Dear friends,
\nI am glad to receive you and to offer you a warm welcome. I greet in particular\n Kiko Arg\u00fcello and Carmen Hern\u00e1ndez, the Initiators of the Neocatechumenal Way, \nand Fr Mario Pezzi. I thank them for their greeting\n to me and for their presentation. I greet all of \nyou here with deep affection: priests, seminarians, families \nand members of the Way. I thank the Lord for giving us the \nopportunity for this meeting, in which you renew your \nties with the Successor of Peter, accepting once again the mandate that \nthe Risen Christ gave to his disciples: \u201cGo into all the world and preach \nthe Gospel to the whole creation\u201d (Mk 16:15<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n

For more than 40 years the \nNeocatechumenal Way has been contributing to the revival and consolidation of Christian Initiation in dioceses\n and parishes, encouraging a gradual and radical\n rediscovery of the riches of Baptism and helping people to savour \ndivine life, the heavenly life that the Lord inaugurated with his Incarnation,\n coming into our midst, being born as one of us. This gift of God to \nhis Church puts itself \u201cat the service of the Bishop as one of the forms of \ndiocesan implementation of Christian Initiation and of ongoing education \nin faith\u201d (Statute, art. 1 \u00a7 2<\/em>). This service, \nas my Predecessor the Servant of God Paul VI reminded you at his first \nmeeting with you in 1974, \u201cwill be able to renew in today\u2019s \nChristian community those effects of maturity and deepening \nwhich in the early Church were acquired in the period of preparation\n for Baptism\u201d (Insegnamenti di Paolo VI, XII [1974], 406).(At the end of the General Audience of May 8, 1974: \nL\u2019Osservatore Romano, May 12, 1974, p.\n 4).<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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The\n process of drafting the Statute of the Neocatechumenal Way has\n been successfully completed over the past few years and, after a suitable trial period \n\u201cad experimentum\u201d, it was definitively approved in\n June 2008. Another significant step has been taken in the past few days with the\n approval of the Catechetical Directory of the Neocatechumenal Way \nby the competent Dicasteries of the Holy See. Today, with these seals\n of the Church, the Lord confirms and entrusts to you anew this \nprecious instrument \u2014 which is the Way \u2014 so that you may contribute with \nfresh zeal and enthusiasm to the radical and joyful rediscovery of the \ngift of Baptism and make your original contribution to the cause of the new evangelization, \nin filial obedience to the Holy See and to \nthe Church\u2019s Pastors. The Church has recognized the Neocatechumenal Way as \na special gift inspired by the Holy Spirit: as such, it naturally endeavours to \nfit into the great harmony of the Ecclesial Body. In this\n light I urge you to seek profound communion with the Pastors\n and with all the members of the particular Churches and of the \nvery different ecclesial contexts in which you are called to work.\n Indeed fraternal communion among the disciples of Jesus is the first \nand greatest testimony to the Name of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n

Today I am particularly glad to be able to send \nmore than 200 new families to different parts of the world. \nThey have made themselves available with great generosity and are leaving for the mission, \njoining in spirit the almost 600 families that are already working on the five \ncontinents. Dear families, may the faith you have received as gift be \nthe light that is placed on the lampstand, which can show people the way \nto Heaven. With the same sentiment, I shall send out 13 new \n\u201cmissiones ad gentes\u201d, which will be called to create a new ecclesial presence \nin the highly secularized milieus of various countries and in places where\n Christ\u2019s message has not yet arrived. May you always be aware \nof the living presence of the Risen Lord and of the company of so many brothers and sisters beside you,\n as well as of the Pope\u2019s prayers.<\/p>\n\n

I greet\n affectionately the priests from the Redemptoris Mater Diocesan seminaries\n of Europe and the more than 2,000 seminarians \npresent here. You are a special and an eloquent sign \nof the fruits of goodness that can be born rediscovering the grace of \nyour Baptism. We look to you with special hope: be priests \nin love with Christ and his Church, who can broadcast to the world the \njoy of having encountered the Lord and of being able to serve him.
\nI also greet the itinerant catechists and those of the Neocatechumenal \nCommunities of Rome and Lazio and, with special affection,\n the \u201ccommunitates in missionem\u201d. You have forfeited, so to speak, the\n security of the communities you come from to go to more distant \nand uncomfortable places, accepting to be sent out to help parishes in \ndifficulty and to seek the lost sheep, to bring them back to \nChrist\u2019s fold. In the suffering or aridity that you may experience, feel \nunited with the suffering of Christ on the Cross and with his desire to\n reach out to so many brothers and sisters who are far from the faith and the truth, \nto bring them back to the Father\u2019s house.<\/p>\n\n

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As I\n wrote in the Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini, \u201cthe Church\u2019s mission \ncannot be considered as an optional or supplementary element\n in her life. Rather it entails letting the Holy Spirit assimilate us to Christ himself \n… to share the word with your entire life\u201d (cf. ibid., n. 93<\/em>).\n All the people of God are a “sent” people and the announcement of the \nGospel is a commitment of all Christians, as a consequence \nof Baptism (cf. ib., 94<\/em>). I ask you to reflect on the Exhortation\n Verbum Domini, focusing in a special way on what it says in the third \npart of the Document on \u201cThe Church\u2019s mission: to proclaim \nthe word of God to the world\u201d (n. 90-98<\/em>). Dear friends, \nlet us share in the concern of the Lord Jesus for salvation of the Lord Jesus, in the \nmission that he entrusts to the whole Church. May the Blessed Virgin Mary \nwho inspired your Way and who has given you the family of Nazareth as a model for\n your communities, grant you to live your faith in humility, \nsimplicity and praise and may she intercede for all of you and accompany you in \nyour mission. May you also be sustained by my blessing, which I cordially \nimpart to you and to all the members of the Neocatechumenal Way, \nscattered across the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Audience of sending of families in \u201cMissio ad gentes\u201d Jan 17, 2011 Benedict XVI Vatican City – Paul VI Hall, January 17, 2011 (*) “The proclamation of the Gospel is a commitment of all Christians, as a consequence of Baptism \u201d, what the Pope reminded the members of the Neocatechumenal Way, received in an audience the morning of Monday, January 17, in the Paul VI Hall. We publish below the<\/p>\n

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