Chrisms of the Holy Spirit: Tools for the New Evangelization

Renewing the Renewal inspires, energizes, and compels those who are living in the Spirit to go as missionaries into the deep—the mainstream of the Catholic Church as it illustrates reasonable plans, attainable goals, and doable methods for how to go into the deep so that the nets we cast ensure a bountiful catch for Christ. Real-life stories lead the way giving step-by-step guidelines and examples of what to do and how to do it. Each chapter includes questions or exercises that encourage prayer and reflection and lead individuals, prayer groups, and renewal movements to take action steps leading to renewal of the mainstream Catholic Church.

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The book includes the Charism Inventory for Catholics with question inventory, answer form, and answer key. It is important, therefore, to realize the high stakes involved in the call to evangelize. Motivation to evangelize wanes when there is no proclamation of the biblical truths regarding heaven and hell. Ralph Martin points out that the watering down of these biblical truths led to a decline of evangelization after Vatican II.

He says that these truths need to be stated clearly in order to motivate those called to evangelize: The reasons for the command [to evangelize] — namely, that the eternal destinies of human beings are really at stake and for most people the preaching of the gospel can make a life-or-death, heaven-or-hell difference — need to be unashamedly stated. This is certainly why Jesus often spoke of the eternal consequences of not accepting his teaching — being lost forever, hell — and did not just give the command to evangelize.

This does not mean that the evangelist always confronts secularism with arguments laced with fire and brimstone. The love and mercy of God, the saving grace of Jesus, and the joy of life in the Holy Spirit are biblical truths that need emphasis in our day. The message of the existence of a loving God who longs for a relationship with human beings who were created in love is an attractive and compelling message.

Cantalamessa points out that there is an inner longing for life beyond this life that is intrinsic in all human beings. Presenting a positive view of life after death and living a life that is permeated with resurrection hope is an important aspect of evangelization: Cantalamessa addresses the obstacle of rationalism in his final Advent sermon of Rationalism insists that actions and beliefs should be governed by reason alone, and that reason is the primary source of knowledge and truth.

Cantalamessa is not denying that reason is important; he recognizes that as Christians we are called to use our reason and that reason is not in conflict with faith.

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His point is that reason cannot reign supreme over God and that without recognition of the power and sovereignty of God, reason falls short. John Paul II, who wrote about the relationship between faith and reason in his encyclical letter Faith and Reason, Fides et Ratio, promulgated in September In this encyclical St. Reason has its place but reason alone is not sufficient: The world and all that happens within it, including history and the fate of peoples, are realities to be observed, analyzed and assessed with all the resources of reason, but without faith ever being foreign to the process.

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Faith intervenes not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts. This is to say that with the light of reason human beings can know which path to take, but they can follow that path to its end, quickly and unhindered, only if with a rightly tuned spirit they search for it within the horizon of faith. The artificial attempt to separate faith and reason takes away from the God-given capacity of human beings to understand the truth about the world and its Creator.

In a note of comment on this address, written in the preface to its third edition in , the author explains what he intends with such an expression.

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This so-called Reason is in Scripture designated 'the wisdom of the world'; that is, the reasoning about Religion based upon secular maxims, which are intrinsically foreign to it. Cantalamessa proposes an additional political metaphor, that of isolationism, as an example of an alternate way in which rationalism distorts the use of reason: Newman's analysis has new and original features; he brings to light the so to speak imperialist tendency of reason to subject every aspect of reality to its own principles.

One can, however, consider rationalism also from another point of view, closely connected with the preceding one. To stay with the political metaphor used by Newman, we can describe it as the attitude of isolationism, of reason's shutting itself in on itself. This does not consist so much of invading the field of another, but of not recognizing the existence of another field outside its own. In other words, in the refusal that some truth might exist outside that which passes through human reason. Cantalamessa is referring here to the widespread tendency to recognize as real only that which can be proven by the scientific method; anything beyond the scope of scientific proof is ignored or denied.

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Another aspect of the usurpation of reason relates to morality. Newman points out that the moral principles of human beings are not necessarily tied up with their intellectual principles.

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A very intelligent person who possesses a great ability to exercise reason might lead a deplorable moral life. According to Fides et Ratio, w hen we are dealing with God, the truth about God, and the way of life that God wants for his people, we are dealing with something that goes beyond reason: On the basis of this deeper form of knowledge, the Chosen People understood that, if reason were to be fully true to itself, then it must respect certain basic rules. There are different forms of relativism.

Protagorean relativism holds that what is perceived is true to the person who perceives it and that truth does not exist independently of what the perceiver says is true. There are no objective standards that can be used to determine truth; knowledge and sense perception are relative to the perceiver. A saying attributed to the Sophist Protagoras describes the mentality of many modern men and women: The lack of conviction among so many people that there exist objective standards of truth makes it difficult to appeal to natural law or to revelation as a measure of truth.

We must make sure that they are open to this question and to the yearning concealed within it. Acutely aware of the difficulty of the task that the Church faces in responding to the call to the new evangelization — within and without — Cantalamessa, like Newman, advises his listeners to maintain hope and joy.



He offers many insights into the content and the methods that are necessary for the success of the new evangelization. Alan Neame Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, , Tanslated from Chi ha parlato nel Figlio: Il mistero della parola di Dio Milan: Editrice Ancora , Alpha International, , 2. Oxford University Press, Instituto Fe y Vida , , Orbis Books, , Eerdmans Publishing, , Its function is rather to find meaning, to discover explanations which might allow everyone to come to a certain understanding of the contents of faith. NY, , Susan has a concentration in spirituality with a focus on the work of St.

John of the Cross. She worked for fifteen years as part of an international mission team giving retreats, training, and spiritual direction to leaders of Christian communities in Central America, Mexico, Spain, Europe, and the Middle East. Susan is fluent in Spanish. She worked as director of a bi-lingual Religious Education Program at St. Gabriel Catholic Church in Southwest Detroit from to Introduction A simple Franciscan friar made a decision over thirty years ago to leave his academic post and dedicate his life to preaching.

Since that time he has impacted the lives of thousands of men and women all over the world with his preaching, teaching and writing.