Post-synodal apostolic exhortation on reconciliation and penance in the mission of the church today [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION ORIGIN AND MEANING OF THE DOCUMENT 1. rrio speak of reconciliation and pen-x ance is, for the men and women of our time, an invitation to rediscover, translated into their own way of speaking, the very words with which our Saviour and Teacher Jésus Christ began his preaching: "Repent, and believe in the gospel",1 that is to say, accept the good news of love, of adoption as children of God and hence of brotherhood. Why does the Church put forward once more this subject and this invitation? The concern to know better and to under-stand modem man and the contemporary world, to solve their puzzle and reveal their mystery, to discern the ferments of good and evil within them, has long caused many people to direct at man and the world a questioning gaze. It is the gaze of the historian and sociologist, philosopher and theologian, psychologist and humanist, poet 1 Mk 1:15.