Baptism

The Church becoming synodal, part 1: Lumen gentium and the inverted pyramid Posted on: 6th January 2021 |Author: Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ Category: Church and Papacy Tags: synod, synodality, pope francis, Vatican II ‘Pope Francis has underlined how “synodality” grounds, shapes and empowers both the life of the Church and the witness and service it is called to render to the human family’, writes Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ – but what does the term really mean? He explores the roots of synodality in Vatican II, and the way in which it necessitates the participation of all the baptised in the life of the Church, in this first part of a rich presentation of a synodal Church. When the term ‘synodality’ is applied to the Church, it is not meant to designate a mere decision-making process. It is not about collaborative decision-making that reviews alternatives, makes choices, distributes responsibilities and carries out programmes. Rather, synodality expresses a fundamental characte...

Pope: Mary is the road we must travel to reach Jesus - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-01/pope-mary-is-the-road-we-must-travel-to-reach-jesus.html Pope: Mary is the road we must travel to reach Jesus In a homily read by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, Pope Francis reflects on three words that find their fulfilment in Mary, the Mother of God: to bless, to be born, and to find. By Vatican News staff reporter Holy Mass for the Solemnity of Mary, the Most Holy Mother of God, was celebrated on the morning of New Year’s Day by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, standing in for Pope Francis, who is suffering a painful attack of sciatica. In his homily, which was read by Cardinal Parolin, Pope Francis focused on three words from the day’s readings: to bless, to be born, and to find, which he said “find their fulfillment in the Mother of God.” To bless Beginning with the first Reading, where God commands Moses to bless the people, Pope Francis...

Twenty “missionaries” killed in the world in 2020 The Vatican’s news agency has drawn up a list of pastoral workers, men and women they describe as “missionaries”, who were killed in the world during 2020. By Vatican News staff writer The annual list says that the 20 “missionaries” killed include 8 priests, 1 male religious, 3 nuns, 2 seminarians and 6 lay people. Fides uses the term "missionary" for all the baptized, aware of what Pope Francis explains in his Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii gaudium: “In virtue of their baptism, all the members of the People of God have become missionary disciples.” In fact “Every Christian,” the Pope says, “is a missionary to the extent that he or she has encountered the love of God in Christ Jesus: we no longer say that we are ‘disciples’ and ‘missionaries’, but rather that we are always ‘missionary disciples’”. The highest number of casualties this year were in the Americas, with 5 priests and 3 lay people killed. Africa comes next w...

Why Was Jesus Baptized? : Why was Jesus baptized? John the Baptist's baptism was for the repentance of sin, but Jesus was sinless. First, His Baptism settled the question in the hearts of the people that John might be the Christ. Secondly, it revealed Who is the Person of Christ. He is the Son of God. But Christ's Baptism also reveals who we are to become! Today's Gospel for the Baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan is discussed in Fr. John Paul Shea's homily.

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