Abstract
Postmodernity is both a challenge and an opportunity for evangelization due to the overrating of individuality -a legacy of modernity- and the return of religiosity -as immanent religiosity. The magisterium of Pope Francis is a meaningful path to answer to our postmodern reality in the ways suggested by the Second Vatican Council. More precisely, the apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (EG) clearly sets out some principles that entail a new pastoral position of the Church in our time. Bearing this in mind, the purpose of the article is to present some possible pastoral changes as a result of the evangelizer and missionary motifs of EG, which aims at establishing a new pastoral activity for the Church in accordance with contemporaneity. For this purpose, the theological and pastoral ideas regarding this issue are considered and some commentators of the thought of Pope Francis are brought forward, who translate his ideas to contemporary pastoral realities. This analysis points out some pastoral changes, that is, personal and ecclesial attitudes and positions that provide new meanings to former pastoral practices, which are meaningless to the postmodern subject. Such changes are not only simple adaptations, determined by historical and social circumstances, but also the assertion of the richness of the Gospel and Christian teachings, which are meaningful to every man and woman in every place and time.
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