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Unitatis Redintegratio (2nd Vatican Council Decree on Ecumenism) Category: Books Genre: Religion & Spirituality Author: Pope Paul VI Given in Rome at St. Peter's, November 21, 1964 Unitatis Redintegratio  means restoration of unity  Pope Paul VI was the first Pope (so more or less you guys know my age already) I have ever encountered. I was blessed to be carried by him when I was a toddler.  His work, like the Evangelii Nuntiandi , an apostolic exhortation, is the very heart of PREx (Parish Renewal Experience-started in the USA by Rev. Fr. Charles Gallagher, a Jesuit priest), which I first attended in the 1990s. “We wish to confirm once more that the task of evangelizing ALL people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes of present-day society make all the more urgent. Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists to evang...

( source ) SAVED IN HOPE Spe Salvi, referencing the Latin phrase from Romans 8:24, Spe salvi facti sumus, is the second encyclical letter by Pope Benedict XVI promulgated on November 30, 2007, and is about the theological virtue of hope.-  Wikipedia In our Christian tradition, the period including the four Sundays prior to Christmas, the birth of Jesus, is called Advent .  Most of the families even light the advent wreath weekly and have readings around it everyday of the week. At its best, it is a time of preparation, of readying ourselves, of opening ourselves, that we may take in the graces that are offered to us by our dear Lord God Almighty. Advent, from the Latin  advenire , meaning “to come to,” and  adventus  meaning “the coming or arrival, especially of something awaited or momentous.” In other words, LOOKING FORWARD TO SOMETHING... (Father Domie Guzman talked about this last year too) Father Cecilio Magsino opened his first me...