In every age, the Church must rediscover the Gospel as if hearing it for the first time. Renewal does not mean novelty for its own sake, nor nostalgia for what once was. It means returning to the wellspring of our faith—Christ Himself—so that living water may once again flow through the dry channels of our institutions, our communities, and our hearts.

Today, the Catholic Church faces not only external challenges but an interior one: how to live faithfully and joyfully amid fragmentation, fatigue, and a culture of cynicism. We are tempted, on one hand, to manage decline through bureaucracy, or on the other, to romanticize the past through ideology. But the way forward is neither managerial nor reactionary. It is pastoral and spiritual.

To renew the Church is to see again what God sees—to recognize, within every person and community, the divine image waiting to be called forth. The work of renewal, then, is not to impose grace from without, but to uncover the grace already within.