Reflections
“The kingdom of God is within you.”We all heard of the term new evangelization. Although this concept was coined only by John Paul II, this idea started with Paul VI’s Evangelii Nuntiandi and picked up by Benedict XVI. Even Pope Francis joins his predecessors by tackling the challenge of New Evangeliza- tion in his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium. New evan- gelization primarily looks into de-Christianized and secularized societies. As Pope Benedict XVI puts it, this is bringing the gos- pel "to those regions awaiting the first evangelization and to those regions where the roots of Christianity are deep but who have experienced a serious crisis of faith due to secularization."The call of the new evange- lization is our shared call. Pope John Paul II in Redemptoris Mis- sio affirmed that “Those who are incorporated in the Catho- lic Church ought to sense their privilege and for that very rea- son their greater obligation of bearing witness to the faith and to the Christian life as a service to their brothers and sisters and as a fitting response to God (11). But the call to this mission re- quires that our own faith should be deep and that the Kingdom of God has taken its roots pro- foundly in our lives.
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