{"id":4078,"date":"2006-03-15T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T11:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/moving-on-2.html"},"modified":"2006-03-15T11:57:06","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T11:57:06","slug":"moving-on-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/moving-on-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Moving on"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s General Audience, Pope Benedict kissed a baby<\/a> (Whatever. Bitter? Me?) and revealed the course of the teaching he’ll offer for the next few months – the relationship between Christ and His Church<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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The Church, said Benedict XVI, \u201cwas built on the foundation of the Apostles as a community of faith, of hope and of charity. Through the Apostles, we go back to Jesus himself. The Church started when some fishermen from Galilee met Jesus and allowed themselves to be conquered by his look, by his voice, by his warm and strong invitation: \u201cFollow me, I will make you fishers of men!\u201d (Mk 1:17; Mt 4:19)\u201d. The mission which started thus \u201cis not however isolated, it has a place in the mystery of communion, which involves the entire People of God, and is implemented in steps spanning the old to the new Covenant. Something that must be said in this regard is that the message of Jesus is completely misunderstood if separated from the context of faith and hope of the chosen people: like the Baptist, his immediate precursor, Jesus turns first and foremost to Israel (cfr Mt 15:24), for the \u201charvest\u201d in the eschatological time which has come with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Describing as \u201cbaseless\u201d an \u201cindividualistic interpretation of the proclamation about the Kingdom made by Christ\u201d, the pope-theologian stressed that the \u201cevident sign of the intention of the Nazarene was to unite the community of the covenant\u201d in the \u201cinstitution of the Twelve\u201d. If their number is a clear reference to the ancient tribes of Israel, \u201cby their very existence, the Twelve \u2013 called from diverse origins \u2013 become an appeal to all Israel to convert and to allow itself to be gathered into the new covenant, a full and perfect fulfillment of the old one. By entrusting them with the task of celebrating his memory in the Supper before his Passion, Jesus showed that he wanted to transfer to the whole community, in the person of his leaders, the mandate of being a sign and instrument of eschatological oneness throughout history, started in him. In this light, one understands how the Resurrected One conferred upon them \u2013 with the effusion of the Spirit \u2013 the power to forgive sins (cfr Jn 20:23). The 12 Apostles are thus the most evident sign of the will of Jesus regarding the existence and mission of His Church, the guarantee that between Christ and the Church, there is no contraposition.\u201d He added: \u201cBetween the Son of God made man and this Church, there is a profound, inseparable and mysterious continuity, and through this, he remains ever present in his people, and in a special way in the successors of the Apostles.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The Pope pointed out that Jesus’ message "is completely misunderstood" if it is separated "from the context of the faith and hope of the chosen people." This, he said, is because "Jesus addressed Himself first of all to Israel in order to ‘gather them’ together in the eschatological time that had arrived with Him.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cJesus’ preaching,\u201d he said, \u201clike John’s, is both a call of grace and a sign of contradiction and judgment for the entire people of God."<\/p>\n

Benedict continued, saying that although the preaching of Jesus is "always a call to individual conversion, … to interpret Christ’s announcement of the Kingdom in individualistic terms would be unilateral and groundless," because in biblical tradition and despite its novelty, "it is clear that the entire mission of the Son-made-flesh has a community goal."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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