CBCK News
2009-08-27 11:45
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Message for the Biblical Week 2008
* Message for the Biblical Week 2008 

The Rt. Rev. Abbot Simon Petro Ri Hyeong-u, President of the Biblical Committee of the CBCK, issued a message for the Biblical Week 2008, which lasts from November 23 to 29.

 

In his message entitled The Ministers of the Word Are Co-workers with God, Abbot Ri said, This year marks the 2000th anniversary of the birth of St. Paul the Apostle. In preaching the Word of the Lord to the ecclesial communities, he did not take his own line. Instead, he always maintained an organic and cooperative relation with the ecclesial communities and those serving community so that together with them he could newly interpret the word of the Lord and indicate its foundation and vision.

 

Abbot Ri highlighted that the ministers who proclaim the Word of the Lord play a role in fulfilling the Lords will. In this sense, the ministers of the Word are the coworkers with God, who are faithful to their own role as an instrument following the Lords will.

 

He continued, The coworkers with God are only those who plant or those who water, but only God causes the growth (Cf. 1Cor 3,7). Therefore, the ministers of the Lord should proclaim the good news entrusted by the Lord, in communion and collaboration with one another.

 

Abbot Ri asked the ministers of the Word to remember, whenever and wherever, St. Pauls following words: the Lord ordered that those who preach the gospel should live by the gospel (1Cor 9,14).