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Catechesi tradendae, 16-X-1979, AAS 71 (1979) 1277-1340.

In at least three documents, John Paul II introduced the theme of tradition as collective memory but without explicitly identifying the Spirit as the church's living memory: Catechesi tradendae of 1979 (no.

John Paul II, Catechesi Tradendae, 30), especially as regards the Sacraments, by which your people's faith is sustained and nourished.

Pope John Paul II, in his 1979 apostolic exhortation Catechesi Tradendae, emphasized the incredible importance of catechesis: "The name catechesis was given to the whole of the efforts within the Church to make disciples, to help people to believe that Jesus is the Son of God ...

A este respecto, se podria poner el ejemplo de las Exhortaciones Evangelii nuntiandi y Catechesi tradendae, de 1974 y 1977 respectivamente, que seran leidas y estudiadas de nuevo tambien durante el periodo de preparacion de la proxima XIII Asamblea General Ordinaria del Sinodo de los Obispos, que tendra lugar del 7 al 28 de octubre de 2012, sobre el tema La nueva evangelizacion para la transmision de la fe>> (3).

Un estudio detenido de ese Sinodo y--ya de la mano de Juan Pablo II--de la exhortacion correspondiente, Catechesi tradendae, mostraria hasta que punto la Iglesia recibio las mejores adquisiciones de la renovacion catequetica posconciliar, a la vez que percibio en ella algunos problemas de notable calado.

Hence many of these parents will resent the Cardinal's summation that what is needed is "a change in thinking on the part of a great number of the parents, as well as an increase in their willingness to be educated for the purpose of educating their children in the faith." Some of these parents might want to direct the Cardinal to "Catechesi Tradendae" (No.

Paul VI's successor, John Paul II, in Catechesi Tradendae (1979), quickly followed with a statement that both catechesis and evangelization were "called to bring the power of the gospel into the very heart of culture and cultures." On the one hand, said the Pontiff, the gospel message can never be isolated from the cultural milieu in which it is expressed; on the other hand, the power of the gospel everywhere transforms and regenerates culture, rectifying many of its elements.

Ya la Catechesi Tradendae (1979) habia mostrado la relevancia y el lugar del testimonio cristiano en la catequesis, senalando que el testimonio apostolico y misionero es uno de los elementos de la mision pastoral de la Iglesia que tienen un aspecto catequetico, en el sentido de que o bien preparan a la catequesis, o bien emanan de ella (47).