Abstract

The Christian mission taken into account as being Christic formed contains the
following integrant elements: preaching, mandating, evangelization, Church, world, man,
Kingdom of Heaven, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit’s Pentecost. The Christian mission
issues right out of the divine essence, and so we are qualified to speak about “missio
Dei”. The Christian mission dynamics presumes a Son’s and Holy Spirit’s mandating by
the Father; this Trinitarian mission was extended to the mandating the Holy Apostles to
the world by the Son of God, through the Father’s will and the Holy Spirit’s action within
Church’s mission. The Christian mission is based on the communion within the Holy
Trinity, within the Father’s love motion towards the Son within the Holy Spirit and, in
this manner, God’s love motion towards creation. The “mandating” character of the
mission is “participation” to the Son’s mission (cf. John 20, 21-23) and to the Holy
Spirit’s mission (cf. John 14, 26).
We have also highlighted the special bound between the Son’s and the Holy
Spirit’s mission, by pointing out that the Pentecost accomplishes the redemptive act of the
Son, man’s salvation being embodied in his actual and personal participation to the life of
Christ and in Christ. The Holy Spirit prepares the Son’s incarnation as He is the Spirit of
God, while the Son answers by preparing the Spirit’s descending and activity in the
world, in and through the Church. The simultaneity of the two events (the Church’s birth
and the beginning of the Christian mission) highlights a fact of decisive importance: the
Church and the Christian mission are indissolubly bounded one to each other.
Once the Apostles have been mandated we are able to speak about the east of the
Christian mission itself, as Christ assigned the Apostles with the mission’s main
coordinates: the evangelization, the sacramental incorporation in the Christ’s ecclesiastic
body, the teaching to observe all things whatsoever He has commanded the Apostles.
We have also highlighted the manner of the Church’s participation to the Son’s
mission, participation outlined in Church’s missionary actions of evangelization,
confession and pastoral care.