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Montfort Missionaries
 Model: Way of Being and Living, Way of Acting
Situation:
Beginnings opposed
Year by Jews
33-100 & Gentiles

Thrust of To proclaim Christ as

Mission: RISEN & LORD

Priority Small Communities of

Model: Loving & Sharing
Montfort Missionaries
 Model: Way of Being and Living, Way of Acting
Situation:
Persecutions from
67 - 300 Jews & Romans

To witness to the faith unto

Thrust of death: caring for
Mission: martyrs’ tombs

Priority Church of the

Model: Martyrs
Montfort Missionaries
 Model: Way of Being and Living, Way of Acting
Situation:
Christians in fear,
312 dispersed, hiding
Edict of Constantine

To put order into creed code

Thrust of -cult to organize
Mission: and to expand

Priority The institutional Church

Model: “Roman” perfect society
Montfort Missionaries
 Model: Way of Being and Living, Way of Acting
Situation:
New converts did not
600- 1200 know prayers, illiterate
“barbarians”

To teach people how to

Thrust of read & write:
Mission: agriculture spirituality

Priority Monasteries –
Model: Light of the Dark Ages
Montfort Missionaries
 Model: Way of Being and Living, Way of Acting
Situation:
All Europe was
1200 - 1500 Christian, Renaissance

To preside over civilization,

arts, education, war & peace
Thrust of commerce, exploration &
Mission: colonization.

Priority Christendom crowning

emperors: crusades,
Model: guilds, universities
Montfort Missionaries
 Model: Way of Being and Living, Way of Acting
Situation:
Counter-Reformation
vs. Protestants
1500 - 1900
Council of Trent

To safeguard doctrine,
Thrust of defend authority,
Mission: preserve institution

Priority Closed and Defensive

Model: “Katoliko Sarado”
Montfort Missionaries
 Model: Way of Being and Living, Way of Acting
Situation:
John XXIII
1958 Signs of the Times

To uphold dignity &

Thrust of freedom of women,
Mission: laborers, nations

Priority Church open to and

in Dialogue with the
Model: Modern World
Montfort Missionaries
 Model: Way of Being and Living, Way of Acting
Situation:
Vatican II
1962-1965

AGGIORNAMENTO
To return to the sources,
Thrust of Renew inspiration,
Mission: change methods

Priority Community of the

People of God
Model: in the modern world
Montfort Missionaries
 Model: Way of Being and Living, Way of Acting
Situation: Emergence of small
groups from the poor,
lay people:
1965 Reading the Word

To bring the Gospel to daily

life: liturgy, politics,
Thrust of economics, culture
Mission: Total Human Development
Latin America
Communidades
Priority Christianas de Base
Model: Africa
Small Christian Communities
Montfort Missionaries
Mindanao
 Model: Way of Being and Living, Way of Acting
Situation:
Puebla
CELAM III
1979

Option for the Poor

Thrust of New model of being church
Mission:

Priority Basic Ecclessial Communities

Model: (BEC)
Montfort Missionaries
 Model: Way of Being and Living, Way of Acting
Situation:
Synod of Laity
1987

Thrust of Lay Empowerment

Mission:

Priority Charismatic, Servant,

Model: Church of the Poor
Montfort Missionaries
 Model: Way of Being and Living, Way of Acting
Situation:
On-going Analysis
Contemporary

To discern signs of the times:

Thrust of Reflect and Act
Mission:

Priority
New models ever changing
Model:
Montfort Missionaries