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In the end, why Practical Catholic Evangelization?
For, “those who sincerely accept the Good News, through the power of this acceptance and of shared faith therefore gather together in Jesus’ name in order to seek together the kingdom, build it up and live it. They make up a community which is in its turn evangelizing. The command to the Twelve to go out and proclaim the Good News is also valid for all Christians, though in a different way…Those who have received the Good News and who have been gathered by it into the community of salvation can and must communicate and spread it…Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize, that is to say, in order to preach and teach, to be the channel of the gift of grace, to reconcile sinners with God, and to perpetuate Christ’s sacrifice in the Mass, which is the memorial of His death and glorious resurrection.”Ā EvangeliiĀ Nuntiandi (Pope Paul VI, 1975)
Practical. Catholic. Evangelization. 