The Church of the future according to Joseph Ratzinger | Unlock
The future of the Church can come and will come again today only the strength of those who have deep roots and live the fullness of their faith pure. The future will not come from those who only give recipes. Not only will those who adapt to the current moment. Not only will those who criticize others and make themselves as infallible ob measure. Nor will those who choose only the most convenient way, those who avoid the passion of faith and declare false and overcome, tyranny and legalism, all that is demanding for humans, causing him pain and forces him to resign themselves same.
Say positively: the future of the Church, also on this occasion, as always, will be marked again with the seal of the saints. And therefore, by humans ob who perceive more than the phrases that are precisely modern. For those who can see more than others because their life spans wider spaces. The gratuity that frees people can be reached only in the patience of small daily sacrifices himself. [...]
What does this mean for our question? Means that the great words of those who prophesy ob in a Church without God and without faith are empty words. We do not need a church that celebrates worship of the action in "prayer" policies. It is completely superfluous and therefore disappear by itself.
Remain the Church of Jesus Christ, the Church believes in the God who became a human being and that promises us life beyond death. Likewise, the priest who is only a social worker can be replaced by psychotherapists and other experts. But remain still needed a priest who is not an expert, ob which is not advisable when the margin in the exercise of his ministry, ob but who in God's name is it available to others and indulges them in their sorrows, their joys, his hope and anguish.
We took a step further. Also on this occasion, today's crisis will emerge tomorrow that will have lost a church too. Will be small, will have to start everything from scratch. No longer be able to fill many of the buildings built in a more favorable environment. Supporters and they lose many of her privileges in society. -Will be introduced in a much more intense so that even now, as the community of free will, which can only be accessed by means of a decision.
As a small community, with much more strength reclaim the initiative of each of its members. Certainly also meet new ministerial forms and order Christian priests tried to continue doing their job: in many smaller communities ob and social groups in homogeneous pastoral shall be exercised normally that way.
Along with these forms will remain indispensable priest devoted entirely to the exercise of the ministry as far. But these changes we can assume, the Church will find new and with all the determination of which is essential to it, which has always been his heart: faith in the Trinitarian God, in Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, the help of the Spirit that will last till the end. The Church ob will recognize again in faith and prayer your true center and experience the sacraments as a celebration and not as a problem of liturgical structure again.
Will be an interiorized Church, which sighs for its political mandate ob and not flirts with the left or to the right. Too hard will result in him. Indeed, the process of crystallization and clarification will also cost you a lot of precious forces, will make poor, to convert a small church.
The process results even more difficult because it will eliminate both the narrowness of sectarian views as enthusiastic willingness. One can predict that all this will require time. The process will be long and laborious, as was also the very long path that led from false progressismos, ob on the eve of the French Revolution (as also among the bishops was fashionable to ridicule dogmas and perhaps even to suggest that even the existence of God was by no means safe) until the renewal ob of the nineteenth century.
But after the trial of these divisions arise from an interiorized and simplified Church, a great force. Because human beings are indescribably lonely in a fully planned world. Experience, when God has disappeared completely for them, their absolute poverty ob and horrible. And then you will discover the small community of believers as something totally new. As an important hope for them, as a response that always sought groping.
To me it seems certain that the Church awaiting the very difficult ob times. ob Its only real crisis began however. Must expect strong jolts. But I'm ob also totally secure than remain at the end: not the Church's political cult, that already ob Gobel failed, but the Church's faith. Certainly, no longer will never force domi
The future of the Church can come and will come again today only the strength of those who have deep roots and live the fullness of their faith pure. The future will not come from those who only give recipes. Not only will those who adapt to the current moment. Not only will those who criticize others and make themselves as infallible ob measure. Nor will those who choose only the most convenient way, those who avoid the passion of faith and declare false and overcome, tyranny and legalism, all that is demanding for humans, causing him pain and forces him to resign themselves same.
Say positively: the future of the Church, also on this occasion, as always, will be marked again with the seal of the saints. And therefore, by humans ob who perceive more than the phrases that are precisely modern. For those who can see more than others because their life spans wider spaces. The gratuity that frees people can be reached only in the patience of small daily sacrifices himself. [...]
What does this mean for our question? Means that the great words of those who prophesy ob in a Church without God and without faith are empty words. We do not need a church that celebrates worship of the action in "prayer" policies. It is completely superfluous and therefore disappear by itself.
Remain the Church of Jesus Christ, the Church believes in the God who became a human being and that promises us life beyond death. Likewise, the priest who is only a social worker can be replaced by psychotherapists and other experts. But remain still needed a priest who is not an expert, ob which is not advisable when the margin in the exercise of his ministry, ob but who in God's name is it available to others and indulges them in their sorrows, their joys, his hope and anguish.
We took a step further. Also on this occasion, today's crisis will emerge tomorrow that will have lost a church too. Will be small, will have to start everything from scratch. No longer be able to fill many of the buildings built in a more favorable environment. Supporters and they lose many of her privileges in society. -Will be introduced in a much more intense so that even now, as the community of free will, which can only be accessed by means of a decision.
As a small community, with much more strength reclaim the initiative of each of its members. Certainly also meet new ministerial forms and order Christian priests tried to continue doing their job: in many smaller communities ob and social groups in homogeneous pastoral shall be exercised normally that way.
Along with these forms will remain indispensable priest devoted entirely to the exercise of the ministry as far. But these changes we can assume, the Church will find new and with all the determination of which is essential to it, which has always been his heart: faith in the Trinitarian God, in Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, the help of the Spirit that will last till the end. The Church ob will recognize again in faith and prayer your true center and experience the sacraments as a celebration and not as a problem of liturgical structure again.
Will be an interiorized Church, which sighs for its political mandate ob and not flirts with the left or to the right. Too hard will result in him. Indeed, the process of crystallization and clarification will also cost you a lot of precious forces, will make poor, to convert a small church.
The process results even more difficult because it will eliminate both the narrowness of sectarian views as enthusiastic willingness. One can predict that all this will require time. The process will be long and laborious, as was also the very long path that led from false progressismos, ob on the eve of the French Revolution (as also among the bishops was fashionable to ridicule dogmas and perhaps even to suggest that even the existence of God was by no means safe) until the renewal ob of the nineteenth century.
But after the trial of these divisions arise from an interiorized and simplified Church, a great force. Because human beings are indescribably lonely in a fully planned world. Experience, when God has disappeared completely for them, their absolute poverty ob and horrible. And then you will discover the small community of believers as something totally new. As an important hope for them, as a response that always sought groping.
To me it seems certain that the Church awaiting the very difficult ob times. ob Its only real crisis began however. Must expect strong jolts. But I'm ob also totally secure than remain at the end: not the Church's political cult, that already ob Gobel failed, but the Church's faith. Certainly, no longer will never force domi
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