EVANGELII GAUDIUM

06 CINCONIEGUE, Maryrose C.
07 DE LA ROSA, Jocella B.
08 DE LEON, Val Francis P.

EVANGELII GAUDIUM
English Translation: The Joy of the Gospel
2013apostolic exhortationbyPope Francison "the church's primary
mission of evangelization in the modern world
Described as a "remarkable and radical document, one that ranges
widely and challenges complacency at every level
Ouches on many of thethemes of Francis' papacy, including
obligations Christians have to the poor, and the duty to establish and
maintain just economic, political, and legal orders

POPE FRANCIS
Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Born on December 17,
1936
Served as Pope of the
Catholic Church since
March 19, 2013 to present
The firstJesuitpope

MAIN POINTS
Calls for renewal and rethinking the way every person and every
institution from the Pope and the Roman Curia down to the parish and
its parishioners live their faith and focus their energies
Recognizes the Church must be realistic about the challenges individuals
and the world pose to belief today, but as a Jesuit he encourages an
Ignatian reading of the situation, looking for the people, places and trends
where God is present
Sees the Christian life as being based on knowing and experiencing Gods
love, mercy and salvation offered to all through the death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ

 The importance of homilies as the one opportunity each week most priests
have to encourage Catholics to live the faith
The heart of the Christian moral message is love for one another, which
must motivate Christians to share the Gospel, help the poor and work for
social justice
Warns of spiritual worldliness which leads apparently good Catholics to be
concerned almost exclusively with power or appearances or judging others
rather than recognizing their own sin and reaching out to others with the
same mercy God offers them
Highlights Mary not only as a model of faith and fidelity, but as a strong
woman and mother who shared many of the joys and sorrows facing people
today and, therefore, understands the challenges they face

INTRODUCTION
In the first chapters the Pope cites several Bible passages that show the relationship
between the joy of receiving the Christian faith and the joy of missionary activity.
Pope Francis then offers several themes for the exhortation of the reform of the
Church in her missionary outreach:
= the temptations faced by pastoral workers
= the Church, understood as the entire People of God which evangelizes
= the homily and its preparation
= the inclusion of the poor in society
= peace and dialogue within society
= the spiritual motivations for mission.

CHAPTER I:
THE CHURCH'S MISSIONARY
TRANSFORMATION
Underlines the importance of theparish"because it possesses great
flexibility",and asksoratories, ecclesiastical movements,prelatures, and
other communities in the church, to join the activities of the local parish
Shows the responsibility thatbishopshave for the missionary activities in
their owndiocese
In this context, the Pope says he's ready to reform thePapacyand that
he's "open to suggestions which can help make the exercise of my
ministry more faithful to the meaning which Jesus Christ wished to give
it.

CHAPTER II:
AMID THE CRISIS OF COMMUNAL
COMMITMENT
Divided in two sections:
1. Some challenges of todays world
-- deals with economic matters, poverty, and modern culture
-- also mentions thenew religious movementsandmoral relativism
2. Temptations faced by pastoral workers
-- describes two errors commonly faced by Christians:
a.) attraction of Gnosticism = a faith whose only interest is a certain
experience or a set of ideas and bits of information
b.) self-absorbed prometheanneopelagianism" = those who "feel
superior
to others because they observe certain rules or remain
intransigently faithful to a
particular Catholic style from the past"
with "a narcissistic and authoritarian elitism"

CHAPTER III:
THE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL
Describes thoroughly the importance of thehomily
= should be brief and avoid taking on the semblance of a speech or a lecture
= be prepared with care (preparation for preaching is so important task that a
prolonged time of study, prayer, reflection and pastoral creativity should be
devoted to it)

A preacher who fails to prepare his homily is not spiritual; he is dishonest

and irresponsible.

CHAPTER IV:
THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF EVANGELIZATION

Deals with:
= care for the weakest persons ("the homeless, the addicted, refugees,
indigenous
peoples, the elderly who are increasingly isolated and
abandoned, and many others")
= long term politics, and social dialog: the dialog between faith and reason,
ecumenical dialog, and inter-religious dialog

paragraph 246: He teaches that Catholics have a lot to learn from nonCatholics, particularly fromAnglicansand theOrthodox, and that it would
be very good to make a compromise list of truths that everyone agrees
upon, and use those doctrines to help evangelizeAfricaandAsia.

 paragraph 247: He affirms that "As Christians, we cannot consider

Judaism as a foreign religion; nor do we include the Jews among those
called to turn from idols and to serve the true God (cf. 1 Thes 1:9)
paragraph 254: He teaches that non-Christian rituals of any religion can
have a divine origin, that they are "a communitarian experience of
journeying towards God" and can be "channels which theHoly
Spiritraises up in order to liberate non-Christians
fromatheisticimmanentism"

CHAPTER V:
SPIRIT-FILLED EVANGELIZERS

Deals with the personal relationship with Christ and the imitation of
theVirgin Maryas an icon of joy and missionary activity
She is the Mother of the Church which evangelizes, and without her we
could never truly understand the spirit of the new evangelization. (#284)

I dream of a 'missionary
option',that is,a missionary
impulse capable of
transforming everything, so
that the Churchs customs, ways of
doing things, times and schedules,
language and structures can be
suitably channeled for the
evangelization of todaysworld
rather than for her selfpreservation (#27).

ARCHBISHOP RINO
FISICHELLA

If we were to sum up Pope FrancisEvangelii

Gaudiumin a few words, we could say that it is
an Apostolic Exhortation written around the
theme of Christian joy in order that the Church
may
rediscover
the
original
source
of
evangelization in the contemporary world.
Pope Francis offers this document to the
Church as a map and guide to her pastoral
mission in the near future. It is an invitation to
recover a prophetic and positive vision of reality
without ignoring the current challenges.
Pope Francis instills courage and urges
us to look ahead despite the present crisis,
making the cross and the resurrection of Christ
once again our the victory banner

FUNDAMENTAL PILLARS OF POPES

VISION OF THE NEW EVANGELIZATION
1. The reform of the Church in a missionary key
2. The temptations of pastoral agents
3. The Church understood as the totality of the People of God which evangelizes
4. The homily and its preparation
5. The social inclusion of the poor
6. Peace and social dialogue
7. The spiritual motivations for the Churchs missionary action
CEMENT that binds these together is concentrated in the merciful love of God

SOME QUOTES FROM THE

ENCYCLICAL
Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if
we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met. To some
extent this is because our 'technological society has succeeded in
multiplying occasions of pleasure, yet has found it very difficult to
engender joy' (#7)
God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything
to us (#12)
Evangelization consists mostly of patience and disregard for
constraints of time (#24)

 Marriage now tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional

satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will (#66)
Instead, we waste time talking about 'what needs to be done' in
Spanish we call this the sin of 'habriaquesmo' like spiritual masters and
pastoral experts who give instructions from on high. We indulge in
endless fantasies and we lose contact with the real lives and difficulties
of our people (#96)
Even if it is not always easy to approach young people, progress has
been made in two areas: the awareness that the entire community is
called to evangelize and educate the young, and the urgent need for the
young to exercise greater leadership. (106)

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