Living as Missionary Disciples

Church, her divine breath, the wind in her sails, the principle of her unity, the inner source of her light and strength, her support and consoler, her source of charisms and songs, her peace and her joy, her pledge and prelude to blessed and eternal life. The Church needs her perennial Pentecost; she needs fire in her heart, words on her lips, prophecy in her outlook. . . . The Church needs to rediscover the eagerness, the taste and the certainty of the truth that is hers.” 64 With the help of the Holy Spirit, parishes that foster this renewal of faith and the formation of evangelizers can transform the world. Living as missionary disciples, therefore, is a way of being Church. The evangeliza tion principles offered in this resource can provide pastoral leaders with ways to respond with new “ardor, expressions, and methods” that will form and send missionary disciples.

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