Trzecie tysiąclecie „nową wiosną” Kościoła

Abstract

The Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 was a special event in the history of the Church and is a powerful foundation for the hope connected with the perspective of the third millennium. This perspective of hope may be termed as the “new spring” of the Church. One should underline that the “new spring” of the Church is rather the programme which the Church is to carry out, not the statement of the actual state of affairs. The programme is expressed at the moment by the new evangelization whose essence is to preach “the Gospel which is always new and always bearing novelty” (VS 106). That Gospel is directed to the regeneration of both the Church and the world. The source of hope in social life is merciful love, one that forms “the imagination of mercy”, which enables to create a new civilization – the civilization of love, a civilization that corresponds to the personal dignity of man and his vocation to love.