As our Holy Father's post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini so clearly points out, "The relationship between Christ, the Word of the Father, and the Church cannot be fully understood in terms of a mere past event; rather, it is a living relationship which each member of the faithful is personally called to enter into. We are speaking of the presence of God's word to us today: 'Lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age' (Mt 28:20)." ~From Cardinal Donald Wuerl's report at the Synod of Bishops, "New Evangelization is the Re-Introduction, the Re-Proposing, of Christ."