Pave Benedikts pinsepreken
Pave Benedikt feira messen på Petersplassen tidligere i dag og snakka bl.a. om at Kirken er både lokal og universell
«I would like to reflect on a particular aspect of the Holy Spirit, on the intertwining of multiplicity and unity,» he said. «In the event of Pentecost it is made clear that multiple languages and different cultures belong to the Church; they can understand and make each other fruitful. St. Luke clearly wants to convey a fundamental idea, namely, in the act itself of her birth the Church is already ‘catholic,’ universal.
«She speaks all languages from the very beginning, because the Gospel that is entrusted to her is destined for all peoples, according to the will and the mandate of the risen Christ.»
«The Church that is born at Pentecost is not above all a particular community – the Church of Jerusalem – but the universal Church, that speaks the language of all peoples,» the Holy Father explained. «From her, other communities in every corner of the world will be born, particular Churches that are all and always actualizations of the one and only Church of Christ. The Catholic Church is therefore not a federation of churches, but a single reality: The universal Church has ontological priority. A community that is not catholic in this sense would not even be a Church.»
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