{"id":2515,"date":"2016-12-24T11:35:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T00:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stbridgetsgreythorn.org.au\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2016-12-24T11:35:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T00:35:39","slug":"challenges-of-the-church-today-bishop-vincent-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/challenges-of-the-church-today-bishop-vincent-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges Of The Church Today \u2013 Bishop Vincent Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stbridgetsgreythorn.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/BishopVincent-600w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2076\" src=\"http:\/\/stbridgetsgreythorn.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/BishopVincent-600w-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"BishopVincent-600w\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/BishopVincent-600w-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/BishopVincent-600w.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>I BELIEVE that we are living in a watershed and privileged moment in the history of the Church. Just as the biblical exile brought about the most transforming experience that profoundly shaped the faith of Israel, this transition time can potentially launch the church into a new era of hope, engagement and solidarity that the Second Vatican Council beckoned us with great foresight.<\/p>\n<p>From where I stand , the arrival of Pope Francis and his emphasis on servant leadership have unambiguously signalled this new era.<\/p>\n<p>He himself said poignantly that we are not living in an era of change, but change of an era. By this, he means that it is the Church\u00a0 that needs to live up to its fundamental call to be \u201c<em>Ecclesia<\/em> <em>semper<\/em> <em>reformanda<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 or the Church always needs to reform in order to be in sync with the movement of the Holy Spirit and the direction of the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>It is not \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d. There needs to be an attitudinal change at every level, a conversion of mind and heart that conforms us to the spirit of the Gospel, a new wine into new wineskins, not superficial change or worse a retreat into recession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I BELIEVE that we are living in a watershed and privileged moment in the history of the Church. Just as the biblical exile brought about the most transforming experience that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastoral-messages"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}