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japhy
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Posted: Fri Aug 10th, 2007 12:27 am |
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This excerpt is from Communionis Notio, a Curial Letter "On Some Aspects of the Church Understood as Communion" sent by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in 1992 to Bishops around the world. If the sentiment sounds familiar, that's because this document was quoted from in the recent CDF document Responsa ad quaestiones (and its commentary). You see, the Church has a way of teaching the same thing generation after generation...
Anyway, this excerpt, no. 18 of the letter, is from section five, subtitled "Ecclesial Communion and Ecumenism". Pay close attention to what I've emphasized (with bold -- the italics are retained from the original):18. This situation seriously calls for ecumenical commitment on the part of everyone, with a view to achieving full communion in the unity of the Church; that unity "which Christ bestowed on his Church from the beginning. This unity, we believe, subsists in the Catholic Church as something she can never lose, and we hope that it will continue to increase until the end of time" (Unitatis Redintegratio, 4c). In this ecumenical commitment, important priorities are prayer, penance, study, dialogue and collaboration, so that, through a new conversion to the Lord, all may be enabled to recognise the continuity of the Primacy of Peter in his successors, the Bishops of Rome, and to see the Petrine ministry fulfilled, in the manner intended by the Lord, as a worldwide apostolic service, which is present in all the Churches from within, and which, while preserving its substance as a divine institution, can find expression in various ways according to the different circumstances of time and place, as history has shown. [Source: The Cross Reference]
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BettyBoopToo
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Posted: Fri Aug 10th, 2007 04:43 am |
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Thanks Jeff for sharing this with us.
This is where I stand and applaud our Holy Father For his wonderful writings that are right in line with this one. 
Please pray for christian Unity  
Betty
Last edited on Fri Aug 10th, 2007 04:44 am by BettyBoopToo
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japhy
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Posted: Fri Aug 10th, 2007 08:58 am |
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It's one of the reasons I love places like the Coming Home Network and the Catholic Answers Forum. With a name like "Coming Home", sure, some people will think Catholics are (for lack of a better word) pretentious, but the more they actually listen (let he who has ears hear!) and study the history of the Church, the more likely it is they will recognize that Jesus (although the foresaw it) did not want his Church to become divided and factious, and that there still exists that same Church today -- not just a church that happens to fit the description, but the same Church.
Pray with Jesus for true Christian unity, ut unum sint!
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Posted: Fri Aug 10th, 2007 11:42 am |
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japhy wrote: It's one of the reasons I love places like the Coming Home Network and the Catholic Answers Forum. With a name like "Coming Home", sure, some people will think Catholics are (for lack of a better word) pretentious, but the more they actually listen (let he who has ears hear!) and study the history of the Church, the more likely it is they will recognize that Jesus (although the foresaw it) did not want his Church to become divided and factious, and that there still exists that same Church today -- not just a church that happens to fit the description, but the same Church.
Pray with Jesus for true Christian unity, ut unum sint!
Jeff
Amen! I'm with you here 100%. I thought Chesterton stated it nicely!
"He has come too near to the truth, and has forgotten that truth is a magnet, with the powers of attraction and repulsion.... The moment men cease to pull against {the Catholic Church} they feel a tug towards it. The moment they cease to shout it down they begin to listen to it with pleasure. The moment they try to be fair to it they begin to be fond of it. But when that affection has passed a certain point it begins to take on the tragic and menacing grandeur of a great love affair....When he has entered the Church, he finds that the Church is much larger inside than it is outside."
G. K. Chesterton
The Catholic Church and Conversion
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