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it is the revolution on which the possibility of re-evangelizing the
post-Christian world depends. Faith blossoms in the context of

the kerygma not in the context of the didaché, that is, not in the
context of theology, apologetics, and morality. These things are
necessary for the “formation” of faith and bring it to the
perfection of charity, but they are not able to generate faith.

Christianity, unlike every other religion, does not begin by
telling people what they need to do to save themselves; it
begins by telling them what God has done in Christ to save

them. It is the religion of grace.....

What does this parallel approach tell us about our Pentecost?

In other words, what does it mean that the Holy Spirit
descended upon the Church on the very day in which Israel
recalls the giving of the law and the covenant? St. Augustine

already asked this question and gave the following answer.
Fifty days after the sacrifice of the lamb in Egypt, the finger of
God inscribed the laws of God on Mount Sinai on stone tablets,
and here fifty days after the sacrifice of Christ, the true Lamb of

God, again the finger of God, the Holy Spirit, wrote his law. But
this time it was not on stone tablets but on the tablets of
flesh of people’s hearts.[3]

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