The grace that converts and transforms life strengthens us in every trial. It does not point us towards a distant ideal, but towards the encounter with God, who became man out of love. #GeneralAudience #LumenGentium 2/2
There is no human experience that God does not redeem. When lived in union with the passion of the Lord, even suffering can become a path to holiness. #GeneralAudience #LumenGentium 1/2
Wherever we reveal the beauty of Christian life through our choices, we foretell the justice and peace that will be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God. #LumenGentium #GeneralAudience 2/2
The Church is present wherever her children profess and bear witness to the Gospel: in the workplace, civil society, and all human relationships. #LumenGentium #GeneralAudience 1/2
The Holy Spirit continues to grant us special graces to enrich and build up the body of Christ. We should recognize these manifold gifts and express our gratitude to God for allowing us to take part in His work of salvation. #GeneralAudience #LumenGentium
#AcademicTwitter #Berlin #ByzantineStudies #Byzantium #ChurchHistory #Collectivism #Ecclesiology #Eurasianism #FreieUniversitat #Imiaslavie #Karsavin #Khomyakov #LumenGentium #OrthodoxTheology #Palamas #Patristics #PhilosophyOfReligion #PoliticalTheology #PublicOrthodoxy #ReligiousStudies (7/8)
Delighted to share my latest #article on #synodality and #conversion, with a wink to #holiness and #LumenGentium, in the great journal #TheologicalStudies.
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“The Church as sacrament of unity and salvation” — #LumenGentium — “See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah ... I will plant my law within them and inscribe it in...”
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“See, I will save my people” — #VaticanCounilII, #LumenGentium — “In his wisdom and goodness the eternal Father created the whole world according to his supremely free and mysterious purpose and decreed that men should be raised up to share in the…”
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“The eschatological character of the pilgrim Church” — #VaticanII - #LumenGentium — “The Church, to which we are all called in Christ Jesus and in which we acquire holiness through the grace of God, will reach its perfection only in the glory of…”
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Am 21. November 1964 wurde die dogmatische Konstitution #LumenGentium von #Papst Paul VI. promulgiert. Bis heute spielt dieses zentrale Konzilsdokument eine Rolle auch in aktuellen #Kirchenreform- Debatten. #Podcast mit dem Dogmatiker Jan-Heiner Tück und dem Konzilsexperten P. Andreas Batlogg:
#LumenGentium wird heute 60 - 7 Monate vor mir. Das waren tatsächlich die besten Jahrgänge
Vor 60 Jahren beschloss das Zweite Vatikanische #Konzil einen Text, der in der römisch-katholischen #Kirche bis heute nachwirkt. Welches Potenzial in ihm steckt, hat nicht nur #Papst Franziskus erkannt. Dabei war die Kirchenkonstitution #LumenGentium anfangs umstritten:
