Lumen gentium
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Sep 30, 2026
Mike SchmitzHOST
The Church recognizes an exemplary value in the vows to practice the evangelical counsels.
Mike SchmitzHOST
Lumen Gentium states Mother Church rejoices that she has within herself many men and women who pursue the Savior's self-emptying more closely and show it forth more clearly by undertaking poverty with the freedom of the children of God and renouncing their own will.
Mike SchmitzHOST
They submit themselves to man for the sake of God, thus going beyond what is a precept in the matter of perfection so as to conform themselves more fully to the obedient Christ.
Mike SchmitzHOST
The Church can, in certain cases and for proportionate reasons, dispense from vows and promises.
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Mike SchmitzHOST
If you're a Benedictine nun, make a vow of obedience to your superior.
Mike SchmitzHOST
And what that essentially means, you are making a vow, a promise to God that when it comes to what you do and what you don't do, you will always do that in obedience to this person.
Mike SchmitzHOST
And Lumen Gentium, right, from the Second Vatican Council highlights what the good of this.
Mike SchmitzHOST
It says this.
William AlbrechtGUEST
And when they gathered here, There were four huge areas that needed to be talked about.
William AlbrechtGUEST
The church, Lumen Gentium does that.
William AlbrechtGUEST
That is a document that will emphasize that our Lord founded the church.
William AlbrechtGUEST
Then about the Bible and revelation, we get accused of not reading the Bible.
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Cy KellettHOST
Yeah.
Cy KellettHOST
And you know, they are readable.
Cy KellettHOST
Like, Lumen Gentium's not the easiest document of the Council, and you can read it.
Cy KellettHOST
A normal person can read it and get what they're saying.
Noah AcostaAUDIENCE
I'm a trad cath, and obviously I never looked into the documents until I started watching your content.
Noah AcostaAUDIENCE
And reading Lumen Gentium 25 and also reading Nostra Aetate, it's pretty damning, and it kind of has upended my spiritual life.
Noah AcostaAUDIENCE
I've been to Divine Liturgy twice now.
Noah AcostaAUDIENCE
Today I went to my second one.
Jay DyerHOST
I did all the phases.
Jay DyerHOST
So
Noah AcostaAUDIENCE
what tools did you use to finally, you know, because I mean, the truth is there, you know, like once I read Lumen Gentium 25, I'm like, well, like, well...
Jay DyerHOST
Hold on.
John RiccardoHOST
This she did in a unique way in her fiat to the Archangel Gabriel as recorded in Luke's Gospel.
John RiccardoHOST
Because of the sublime grace that she received from God from the moment of her conception, and because of her obedience to and faith in that same God, Mary, in the words of Vatican II's Lumen Gentium, paragraph 53, far surpasses all creatures, both in heaven and on earth.
John RiccardoHOST
That same conciliar document reminds us all that Mary, a woman, is not only the type of the Church, but also the outstanding model of faith and charity.
John RiccardoHOST
As Pope John Paul II writes in his encyclical letter Redemptoris Mater, Mary believed and abandoned herself to the truth of the living God, "...knowing and humbly recognizing how unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways." Mary, the Pope continues, conforms herself to those unsearchable judgments in the light of faith, accepting fully and with a ready heart everything that is decreed in the divine plan.
Earl BoyeaGUEST
How do we break out of individualism, which even in families can be the predominant way in which we relate to one another? How do we break out of that individualism and have more of a sense of community? I think that's even tough for every family, frankly, because our culture is very individualistic.
Marcus PeterHOST
If I'm remembering correctly, the first time I encountered it was in reading Lumen Gentium.
Marcus PeterHOST
Now, undoubtedly, it's got roots that probably predate Lumen Gentium, but we've seen a real resurgence in the Second Vatican Council, in recent papacies, constantly bringing the term forward, and now here you are bringing the term forward.
Marcus PeterHOST
So clearly, this question of having the sacramental liturgical life as the center of family life is very important to your heart.
Earl BoyeaGUEST
Oh, yeah.
Jonathan WilsonGUEST
Oh, homework.
Jonathan WilsonGUEST
Read Lumen Gentium.
Katie WyattHOST
That's the dogmatic
Jonathan WilsonGUEST
constitution on the church.
Katie WyattHOST
Lumen Gentium.
Katie WyattHOST
And you can find it, stgabrielradio.com backslash frwilson along with kindergarten photos.
Dave OrsbornHOST
Ha, no.
Thomas Aquinas PickettGUEST
The measure, the meaning, and the perfection of the Christian life stands absolutely in relation to this charity.
Thomas Aquinas PickettGUEST
That's why the Church teaches in Lumen Gentium 40, "...all the faithful of Christ, of whatever rank or status, are called to the fullness of the Christian life and to the perfection of charity." If the goal and consummation of Christ's priesthood is to unite humanity and God, does charity play a significant role? Yes.
Thomas Aquinas PickettGUEST
Okay? Yes.
Thomas Aquinas PickettGUEST
Why? Because it is in charity that we have that union.
Jay DyerHOST
Because this goes all the way back to the schism goobers.
Jay DyerHOST
That's why Vatican II in Lumen Gentium 16 and Nostra Aetate... cites this.
Jay DyerHOST
The notes in the Nuner and Depew Christian dogma book say this text is cited at Vatican II.
Jay DyerHOST
This is referred to in Vatican II in Nostra Aetate III.
Edward HahnenbergGUEST
And along that kind of profound divide, the argument rests.
Edward HahnenbergGUEST
And what made that confusing to me as a theologian is because that second position, right, that line, non ad sacerdotum, sed ad ministerium, that the deacon is ordained to the ministry but not to the priesthood, that comes directly from Vatican II's Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium.
Edward HahnenbergGUEST
And the council's distinction between the bishop and priest on the one hand and the deacon on the other was precisely around who's ordained to the priesthood, who's ordained to the ministry.
Edward HahnenbergGUEST
That distinction was reinforced by Pope Benedict.
Marcus PeterHOST
This is the only place, the sheepfold, where you have security and protection.
Marcus PeterHOST
The Second Vatican Council gathers all of these images together in Lumen Gentium VI.
Marcus PeterHOST
It describes the church as Christ's flock, God's cultivated field.
Marcus PeterHOST
He calls Christ the true vine who gives life and fruitfulness to his branches through their communion with him.
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