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1438 Acta Apostolicae Sedis - Commentarium Officiale lives" 16 and who teils his Church : "There is nothing to fear!". 17 It is precisely this Christ, divine and incarnate, that the Church présents to the world as the supreme exemplar of all human life. In this sense the Church makes her own the présentation of Pontius Pílate : "Ecce homo". 18 The proclamation o f the Millennium will be the proclamation of this man Jesus Christ and in him the exaltation of ali humanity. The Word, who remains forever with his Father and as such is the truth and life of humanity, in taking human flesh becomes the way for humanity. 19 The Christ of the Millennium is the divine Christ of the Gospels who has entered into his glory and who is forever alive in his word and in his Church. He is not a weak and ineifective Christ but a Christ who has triumphed throughout twenty centuries and who remains "the power of God and the wisdom of God". 20 To those who accept him, moreover, he gives the power to become the children of God, to become by adoption what he is by nature—the Son of God. The Christ of the Millennium is the Man who has entered into the history of nations, has uplifted cultures by his message, transformed the destinies of peoples and who, in revealing God to man, has revealed all humanity to itself. 21 5. The Millennium becomes therefore the hour of our Christian identity in ail its Catholic universality. In order to celebrate the Millennium effectively the Church must recali her origin and reflect deeply on her mission. To do this she must retrace the path she has taken up tili now, hearing her apostolic message down the centuries, beginning "in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, yes, even to the ends of the earth". 22 It is truly the appropriate hour to foster a consciousness of our Christian tradition and culture. These éléments have foud expression in the art, architecture, music, literature and other expressions of genius which each generation and ali générations together in the Church have created throughout the centuries in the name of Christ. There are many ways to foster this consciousness but 14 Rev 1:18. 17 V. 17. 15 Jn 19:5. 19 Cf. Saint Augustine, Tract, in Ioannem 34, 9. 20 1 Cor 1:24. " Cf. Gaudium et Spes, 22. 22 Acts 1:8.
Acta Ioannis Pauli Pp. II 1439 certaiiily the means of social communications at our disposai must be utilized to the full. 6. Living in the Spirit sent to her by Christ, the Church looks forward to the Millennium as a time o f vast internal renewal. By his power the Holy Spirit is truly able to effect in the Church a new Pentecost. On the part of ali of us, however, this requires new atti tudes of humility, generosity and openness to the purifying action of the Spirit. The whole concept of renewal must be seen in its relationship to Penance and the Eucharist. In Redemptor Hominis I emphasized "that the Church of the new Advent ... must be the Church of the Eucharist and of Penance." 23 Only with these means will the Church be herself and have the strength to fulfill her mission. The Millen nium is the supreme moment for the glorification of the Cross of Christ and for the proclamation of forgiveness through his blood. I ask ali the Bishops of the Church—and today in a special way the Bishops of the United States—to do everything possible, in preparing for the Millennium, to promote the faithful observance of the centuries-old practice of individuai Confession, guaranteeing thereby the indi viduala right to a personal encounter with the crucified and merciful Christ, and the right of Christ to meet each one of us in the key moment of conversion and pardon. 24 Presiding over every célébration of the Millennium will be the Eucharistie Lord, himself renewing his Church and presenting her to the Father in union with himself. It is mainly through the Eucharist that the Millennium will actúate the power of the Rédemption. In the Eucharist the Church will find the sure source and guarantee of her commitment to the service of humanity. From the Eucharist the Catholic laity will derive the strength to perform with joy and persévérance their specific role in the Church and in the world. Düring the Millennium there must be an ever more generous actuation of everything that the Post-Synodal document on the laity will propose for the life and mission of the laity. 7. In all her activities the Church of the Millennium must be totally absorbed with the task of bringing Christ to the world. This will 23 No. 20. 24 Cf. ibid. 94 - A. A. S.
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Acta Ioannis Pauli Pp. II 1439<br />
certaiiily the means of social communications at our disposai must be<br />
utilized to the full.<br />
6. Living in the Spirit sent to her by Christ, the Church looks<br />
forward to the Millennium as a time o f vast internal renewal. By<br />
his power the Holy Spirit is truly able to effect in the Church a new<br />
Pentecost. On the part of ali of us, however, this requires new atti<br />
tudes of humility, generosity and openness to the purifying action of<br />
the Spirit.<br />
The whole concept of renewal must be seen in its relationship to<br />
Penance and the Eucharist. In Redemptor Hominis I emphasized<br />
"that the Church of the new Advent ... must be the Church of the<br />
Eucharist and of Penance." 23 Only with these means will the Church<br />
be herself and have the strength to fulfill her mission. The Millen<br />
nium is the supreme moment for the glorification of the Cross of Christ<br />
and for the proclamation of forgiveness through his blood. I ask ali<br />
the Bishops of the Church—and today in a special way the Bishops of<br />
the United States—to do everything possible, in preparing for the<br />
Millennium, to promote the faithful observance of the centuries-old<br />
practice of individuai Confession, guaranteeing thereby the indi<br />
viduala right to a personal encounter with the crucified and merciful<br />
Christ, and the right of Christ to meet each one of us in the key<br />
moment of conversion and pardon. 24<br />
Presiding over every célébration of the Millennium will be the<br />
Eucharistie Lord, himself renewing his Church and presenting her to<br />
the Father in union with himself. It is mainly through the Eucharist<br />
that the Millennium will actúate the power of the Rédemption. In the<br />
Eucharist the Church will find the sure source and guarantee of her<br />
commitment to the service of humanity.<br />
From the Eucharist the Catholic laity will derive the strength to<br />
perform with joy and persévérance their specific role in the Church<br />
and in the world. Düring the Millennium there must be an ever more<br />
generous actuation of everything that the Post-Synodal document on<br />
the laity will propose for the life and mission of the laity.<br />
7. In all her activities the Church of the Millennium must be totally<br />
absorbed with the task of bringing Christ to the world. This will<br />
23 No. 20.<br />
24 Cf. ibid.<br />
94 - A. A. S.
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