id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195251 Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978. Address promulgating five documents, October 28, 1965 1966 .txt text/plain 1682 47 55 This movement has its cause precisely in the apostolic character of the Church: that function with which Christ endowed His mystical and social Body and which brings into evidence and effective- ness an apostolic and pastoral hierarchy, which draws its words, its grace and its power from the Lord Himself, pre- serves, perpetuates, transmits, exercises and develops them, thus rendering the People of God internally living and holy and externally visible, that is to say, social and historical. 1965 You have just heard, venerable brothers and very dear sons, the words of the Apostle dealing with the work of Christ Our Lord, who from the heights of heaven contin- ues His work in the Church, a work which is not merely one of the preservation of what He Himself accomplished during His temporal life on earth, but also one of build- ing up, that is to say of progress and of growth. cache/_005195251.txt txt/_005195251.txt