The New Evangelization

Evangelization in Action

Spirit Networking

Are you a Christian? Yes or No?
Write on a piece of paper the new commandment that
Christ gave us.

(Don't try to look it up. You're a Christian remember?
You should know this. Really. It's important! It makes
or should make a difference in the way you view every
person and every issue.)

Okay, got your answer?

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Evangelization in Action: The Reason

Beloved, let us love one another,

because love is of God;

everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.

Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.

In this way the love of God was revealed to us:

God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

In this is love: not that we have loved God,

but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another.

No one has ever seen God.

Yet, if we love one another,

God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us.

This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us,

that he has given us of his Spirit.

Moreover, we have seen and testify that the Father sent his Son as savior of

the

world.

Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,

God remains in him and he in God.

We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us.

od is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God

and God in him.

In this is love brought to perfection among us, that we have confidence on the

day

of judgment because as he is, so are we in this world.

There is no fear in love,

but perfect love drives out fear

because

fear has to do with punishment,

and so one who fears is not yet perfect in love.

We love because he first loved us.

If anyone says, "I love God," but hates his brother,

he is a liar;

for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen

cannot love God whom he has not seen.

This is the commandment we have from him:

whoever loves God must also love his brother.

1 John 4:7-21

Evangelization in Action: Application

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith

Can that faith save him?

If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day,

and one of you says to them,

"Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,"

but you do not give them the necessities of the body,

what good is it?

So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Indeed someone might say,

"You have faith and I have works."

Demonstrate your faith to me without works,

You believe that God is one. You do well.

Even the demons believe that and tremble.

Do you want proof, you ignoramus, that faith without works is useless?

Was not Abraham our father justified by works

when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar?

You see that faith was active along with his works,

and faith was completed by the works.

James 2:14-22

Amen, amen,
I say to you,
whoever believes in me will do the
works that I do,
and will do greater ones than these,..

John 14:15

What is The New Evangelization?

Just

so we are all clear on this, here

are

the thoughts of

some

real

authorities on th

is question

From the FAQ section of the

former

evangelization web site for the Archdiocese of Chicago

Francis Cardinal George

the Catholic Archbishop of Chicago,

has

helped

to clarify these issues as he

presents his own definitions.

Primary Evangelization:

The goal of primary evangelization is the

transplanting of Catholicism through

missionary activity. Proclaiming the

Kerygma

that Jesus Christ is Lord to those who have never heard it

was

the particular task of the mission

ad gentes

and took place outside of

Christian lands which were

marked by

catechesis within already

established parochial and pastoral structures.

Secondary Evangelization or Re-Evangelization:

through this effort,

lapsed or inactive Catholics are

called

to a renewed faith and a

conversion

that brings them new strength in their relationship to Christ

and His

Church. Parish missions were often the preferred means for the

conversion of the baptized.

Occasionally,

missiologists also spoke of

“auto-

evangelization.” This was a reminder that evangelizers

must

themselves

evangelized before they proclaim the Gospel.

New Evangelization:

Inspired by Pope John Paul II’s beliefs and

writings,

this fresh effort encompasses

post-Vatican II renewal of

Church identity

and mission. This new vision of evangelization integrates

the

person and

his/her culture, moving out from the heart of Christian

proclamation to

area of life seldom

recognized as terrain ripe for

evangelization.

Cardinal George suggests that the New Evangelization has a specific

meaning beyond the outreach to

inactive Catholics. The Holy Father has

spoken of those persons, groups, and societies that were once

Christian

but are no longer. The new ecclesial response must enfold Catholics who

have joined other

Christian groups and non-Christian movements. The

New Evangelization must address inadequate

catechetical and liturgical

formation within the Catholic Church itself; it must confront the growing

secularization of professions and contemporary culture as a whole.

From

December

2000 address to Catechists and Religion Teachers

Joseph

Cardinal Ratzinger

called

The New Evangelization: Building the

Civilization

of Love

Now Pope Benedict XVI, began

as follows:

Human life cannot be realized by itself. Our life is an open question,

an incomplete project, still to

brought to fruition and realized.

Each man's fundamental question is: How will this be realized—

becoming man? How does one learn the art of living? Which is the

path toward happiness?

To evangelize means: to show this path—to teach the art of living.

Now what could be more beautiful? Why wouldn't we all want to

be evangelizers

and help those we love

find the path

to happiness?

To read the full address, go to the

EWTN website