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    Querida Amazonia (Beloved Amazon): Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation for a church with an Amazonian face
    Querida Amazonia (Beloved Amazon): Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation for a church with an Amazonian face
    Querida Amazonia (Beloved Amazon): Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation for a church with an Amazonian face
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    Querida Amazonia (Beloved Amazon): Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation for a church with an Amazonian face

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    This exhortation is an invitation to the people of God to prayerfully seek justice and solidarity with all the Amazonian peoples. Pope Francis weaves insights from the Vatican's Amazon synod with his past writings — including drawing heavily from his 2015 encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" — and e

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHijezGlobal
    Release dateFeb 12, 2020
    ISBN9781678147280
    Querida Amazonia (Beloved Amazon): Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation for a church with an Amazonian face
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    Pope Francis

    Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936, the son of Italian immigrants. He was ordained a priest in the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1969 and made a bishop in 1992. He became Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was named a cardinal in 2001. In March 2013 he was elected Bishop of Rome, the 266th pope of the Catholic Church.

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      Querida Amazonia (Beloved Amazon) - Pope Francis

      QUERIDA AMAZONIA(Beloved Amazon)

      Querida Amazonia (Beloved Amazon)

      POST-SYNODAL APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION

      Of the Holy Father Francis to the people of God and to all persons of goodwill.

      Pope Francis

      QUERIDA AMAZONIA ( BELOVED AMAZON)

      Copyright © 2020 by Libreria Editrice Vaticana

      ISBN-13: 9781678147280

      HijezGlobal Press

      Universitatstr. 13  103-1, 03046 Cottbus, Germany

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Querida Amazonia (Post-synodal apostolic exhortation to the people of God and to all person of goodwill) / Pope Francis P. cm.

      1. The beloved Amazon region stands before the world in all its splendour, its drama and its mystery. God granted us the grace of focusing on that region during the Synod held in Rome from 6-27 October last, which concluded by issuing its Final Document, The Amazon: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology.

      The significance of this Exhortation

      2. During the Synod, I listened to the presentations and read with interest the reports of the discussion groups. In this Exhortation, I wish to offer my own response to this process of dialogue and discernment. I will not go into all of the issues treated at length in the final document. Nor do I claim to replace that text or to duplicate it. I wish merely to propose a brief framework for reflection that can apply concretely to the life of the Amazon region a synthesis of some of the larger concerns that I have expressed in earlier documents, and that can help guide us to a harmonious, creative and fruitful reception of the entire synodal process.

      3. At the same time, I would like to officially present the Final Document, which sets forth the conclusions of the Synod, which profited from the participation of many people who know better than myself or the Roman Curia the problems and issues of the Amazon region, since they live there, they experience its suffering and they love it passionately. I have preferred not to cite the Final Document in this Exhortation, because I would encourage everyone to read it in full.

      4. May God grant that the entire Church be enriched and challenged by the work of the synodal assembly. May the pastors, consecrated men and women and lay faithful of the Amazon region strive to apply it, and may it inspire in some way every person of good will.

      Dreams for the Amazon region

      5. The Amazon region is a multinational and interconnected whole, a great biome shared by nine countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, Venezuela and the territory of French Guiana. Yet I am addressing the present Exhortation to the whole world. I am doing so to help awaken their affection and concern for that land which is also ours, and to invite them to value it and acknowledge it as a sacred mystery. But also because the Church’s concern for the problems of this area obliges us to discuss, however briefly, a number of other important issues that can assist other areas of our world in confronting their own challenges.

      6. Everything that the Church has to offer must become incarnate in a distinctive way in each part of the world, so that the Bride of Christ can take on a variety of faces that better manifest the inexhaustible riches of God’s grace. Preaching must become incarnate, spirituality must become incarnate, ecclesial structures must become incarnate. For this reason, I humbly propose in this brief Exhortation to speak of four great dreams that the Amazon region inspires in me.

      7. I dream of an Amazon region that fights for the rights of the poor, the original peoples and the least of our brothers and sisters, where their voices can be heard and their dignity advanced.

      I dream of an Amazon region that can preserve its distinctive cultural riches, where the beauty of our humanity shines forth in so many varied ways.

      I dream of an Amazon region that can jealously preserve its overwhelming natural beauty and the superabundant life teeming in its rivers and forests.

      I dream of Christian communities capable of generous commitment, incarnate in the Amazon region, and giving the Church new faces with Amazonian features.

      CHAPTER ONE

      A SOCIAL DREAM

      8. Our dream is that of an Amazon region that can integrate and promote all its inhabitants, enabling them to enjoy good living. But this calls for a prophetic plea and an arduous effort on behalf of the poor. For though it is true that the Amazon region is facing an ecological disaster, it also has to be made clear that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.[1] We do not need an environmentalism that is concerned for the biome but ignores the Amazonian peoples.[2]

      Injustice and crime

      9. The colonizing interests that have continued to

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