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implore. The apostles never forgot the moment
when Jesus touched their hearts: “It was about
four o’clock in the afternoon” (
Jn
1:39). Togeth-
er with Jesus, this remembrance makes present
to us “a great cloud of witnesses” (
Heb
12:1),
some of whom, as believers, we recall with great
joy: “Remember your leaders, those who spoke
to you the word of God” (
Heb
13:7). Some of
them were ordinary people who were close to us
and introduced us to the life of faith: “I am re-
minded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt
first in your grandmother Lois and your mother
Eunice” (
2 Tim
1:5). The believer is essentially
“one who remembers”.
III. T
he new evangelization
for the transmis
-
sion of
the
faith
14. Attentive to the promptings of the Holy
Spirit who helps us together to read the signs of
the times, the XIII Ordinary General Assembly
of the Synod of Bishops gathered from 7-28 Oc-
tober 2012 to discuss the theme:
The New Evan-
gelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith
.
The Synod reaffirmed that the new evangeliza-
tion is a summons addressed to all and that it is
carried out in three principal settings.
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15. In first place, we can mention the area of
ordinary pastoral ministry
, which is “animated by
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7.
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