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sus Christ, yet the goal is not to make enemies
but to see God’s word accepted and its capac-
ity for liberation and renewal revealed. Finally
an evangelizing community is filled with joy; it
knows how to rejoice always. It celebrates every
small victory, every step forward in the work of
evangelization. Evangelization with joy becomes
beauty in the liturgy, as part of our daily concern
to spread goodness. The Church evangelizes and
is herself evangelized through the beauty of the
liturgy, which is both a celebration of the task
of evangelization and the source of her renewed
self-giving.
II. P
astoral
activity
and
conversion
25. I am aware that nowadays documents do
not arouse the same interest as in the past and
that they are quickly forgotten. Nevertheless, I
want to emphasize that what I am trying to ex-
press here has a programmatic significance and
important consequences. I hope that all com-
munities will devote the necessary effort to ad-
vancing along the path of a pastoral and mis-
sionary conversion which cannot leave things as
they presently are. “Mere administration” can no
longer be enough.
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Throughout the world, let us
be “permanently in a state of mission”.
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 F
ifth
general
conference
of
the
latin
american
and
caribbean
bishops
,
Aparecida Document
, 29 June 2007, 201.
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 Ibid., 551.
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