Evangelii

Gaudium
Solitario, Yvanna Nicole
Dela Pena, Miles Mathew
Cabatic, Jovy
Francisco, Angela
Ducay, Sheana Rose
Tolilic, Zian Lyle
Santo, Danica
Aliman, Raindale
• Latin for 'The Joy of the Gospel' Apostolic
exhortation of Pope Francis

• Date: 24 November 2013

• Subject: On the proclamation of the

Gospel in today's world

• Pages: 217

• Number 1 of 4 of the pontificate

 POPE FRANCIS
• Birth name: Jorge Mario
Bergoglio
• Born: 17 December 1936 (age
82) Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Nationality: Argentine (with
Vatican citizenship)
• Parents: Mario José Bergoglio
and Regina María Sívori
• He began his papacy on 13
March 2013
• 266th pope of the Roman Catholic
Church.
• Bergoglio, the first pope from the
Americas, took his papal title after St.
Francis of Assisi of Italy.
• Named Person of the Year by Time
magazine in 2013,
• Pope Francis has embarked on a tenure
characterized by humility and outspoken
support of the world's poor and
marginalized people, and has been
involved actively in areas of political
diplomacy and environmental advocacy.
Introduction
• In the first chapters the Pope cites several Bible passages
that show the relationship between the joy of receiving the
Christian faith and the joy of missionary activity.

• Francis then offers several themes for the exhortation of the

reform of the Church in her missionary outreach; the
temptations faced by pastoral workers; the Church,
understood as the entire People of God which evangelizes;
the homily and its preparation; the inclusion of the poor in
society; peace and dialogue within society; the spiritual
motivations for mission.
 Chapter I: The Church's
Missionary Transformation
• Importance of the parish, which "can assume quite different
contours depending on the openness and missionary
creativity of the pastor and community", and asks oratories,
ecclesiastical movements, prelatures, and other
communities in the Church to join the activities of the local
parish.

• Shows the responsibility that bishops have for the missionary

activities in their own diocese.
• The Pope says, "Since I am called to put into practice what I
ask of others, I too must think about a conversion of the
papacy", and that he is, as he notes Pope John Paul II had
been, "open to suggestions which can help make the
exercise of my ministry more faithful to the meaning which
Jesus Christ wished to give it and to the present needs of
evangelization".
Chapter II: Amid the Crisis of
Communal Commitment
•There are two sections.

the first one, some challenges of today’s world, deals

with economic matters, poverty, and modern culture.
-It also mentions the new religious movements and
moral relativism.
• The second section, Temptations faced by pastoral workers,
describes two errors commonly faced by Christians:
• First the "attraction of Gnosticism" that offers "a faith whose
only interest is a certain experience or a set of ideas and bits
of information";
• The second is "the self-absorbed promethean
neopelagianism" of those who "feel superior to others
because they observe certain rules or remain intransigently
faithful to a particular Catholic style from the past" with "a
narcissistic and authoritarian elitism". He also noted that "In
some people we see an ostentatious preoccupation for the
liturgy".
Chapter III: The Proclamation
of the Gospel
• Francis describes thoroughly the importance of the
homily, which "should be brief and avoid taking on the
semblance of a speech or a lecture", and should be
prepared with care: "Preparation for preaching is so
important a task that a prolonged time of study, prayer,
reflection and pastoral creativity should be devoted to it.
A preacher who does not prepare is not 'spiritual'; he is
dishonest and irresponsible with the gifts he has
received".
• "Missionary discipleship": "In virtue of their baptism, all the
members of the People of God have become missionary
disciples. All the baptized, whatever their position in the Church
or their level of instruction in the faith, are agents of
evangelization, and it would be insufficient to envisage a plan of
evangelization to be carried out by professionals while the rest
of the faithful would simply be passive recipients. The new
evangelization calls for personal involvement on the part of
each of the baptized. Every Christian is challenged, here and
now, to be actively engaged in evangelization"
 Chapter IV: The Social
Dimension of Evangelization
•The fourth chapter deals with many topics:
• care for the weakest persons ("the homeless, the
addicted, refugees, indigenous peoples, the
elderly who are increasingly isolated and
abandoned, and many others"),
• long term politics, and
• social dialogue: the dialogue between faith and
reason, ecumenical dialogue, and inter-religious
dialogue.
• Francis calls for ecumenical unity and trust among Christian
missionaries because they must speak in one voice:
• "Given the seriousness of the counter-witness among Christians,
particularly in Asia and Africa, the search for paths to unity
becomes all the more urgent....
• If we concentrate on the convictions we share, and if we keep in
mind the principle of the hierarchy of truths, we will be able to
progress decidedly toward common expressions of proclamation,
service and witness."
• "As Christians, we cannot consider Judaism as a foreign religion; nor
do we include the Jews among those called to turn from idols and to
serve the true God.
• With them, we believe in the one God who acts in history, and with
them we accept his revealed word."
• "While it is true that certain Christian beliefs are unacceptable to
Judaism, and that the Church cannot refrain from proclaiming Jesus
as Lord and Messiah, there exists as well a rich complementarity
which allows us to read the texts of the Hebrew Scriptures together
and to help one another to mine the riches of God’s word.
• We can also share many ethical convictions and a common concern
for justice and the development of peoples".
• He teaches that non-Christian rituals of any
religion can have a divine origin, that they are "a
communitarian experience of journeying
towards God" and can be "channels which the
Holy Spirit raises up in order to liberate non-
Christians from atheistic immanentism or from
purely individual religious experiences".
Chapter V: Spirit-filled
Evangelizers
• Personal relationship with Christ and the imitation of the
Virgin Mary as an icon of joy and missionary activity.

• The Pope highlights Mary not only as a model of faith and

fidelity, but as a strong woman and mother who shared
many of the joys and sorrows facing people today and,
therefore, understands the challenges they face.
Sources:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lesxS8B8FTo
• https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/11/26/evangelii-gaudium-a-
summary-of-the-key-issues-raised-by-pope/
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