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EVANGELII NUNTIANDI What is the New Evangelization? Has it changed?

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    Sequela Christi Discipleship The  following of Christ  is a Latin phrase (  Continuation of Christ  ) that, especially from the  Middle Ages  , has come to mean in  Christian spirituality  , and especially monastic-religious commitment to religious life.  It is often associated with the  Imitatio Christi  '. POPE PAUL VI   10. This kingdom and this salvation, which are the key words of Jesus Christ's evangelization, are available to every human being as grace and mercy, and yet at the same time each individual must gain them by force - they belong to the violent, says the Lord,[24] through toil and suffering, through a life lived according to the Gospel, through abnegation and the cross, through the spirit of the beatitudes. But above all each individual gains them through a total interior renewal which the Gospel calls metanoia; it is a radical conversion, a profound change of mind and heart.[25] ...