Duszpasterstwo Misyjne według papieża Franciszka
Missionary Pastoral Ministry According to Pope Francis

Summary/Abstract: The Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel), is the fruit of the work of the XIII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, held in the Vatican, from 7 to 28 October 2012, on the theme “The New Evangelisation for the Transmission of the Christian Faith”. In it, pope Francis encourages pastoral ministers to inject more missionary spirituality to what is known as their ordinary pastoral ministry. He mentions several important church institutions which aid pastoral ministry: parish (EG 28), diocese (EG 30), and papacy (EG 32), and analyses each of them in the context of missionary pastoral ministry. Church’s mission originates in the peripheries, not in the centre. The pope urges pastoral ministers to disaffiliate themselves from thought patterns, because “(...) a missionary key seeks to abandon the complacent attitude that says: We have always done it this way” (EG 33).

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