The courageous work of pro-life groups in vigils at abortion clinics, of street pastors working with clubbers at night - time in city centres, of those offering prayer ministry for healing in shopping centres, of street evangelisers such as the St Patrick's group in Soho - all these examples need to be better known, and imitated.1 Then there's the output of media groups working through radio, TV, internet sites, blogs and video teaching programmes, such as
Catholic Evangelisation Services; these too, while offering an independent type of Christian teaching, provide an important stimulus to on - the - ground evangelising.
The principal rule of
Catholic evangelisation is a personal and sacramental relationship with God.
Not exact matches
They are loosely tied together by the theme of
Catholic Social teaching — what it is, how to apply it and how it fits it with the new
evangelisation of the last three Popes.
I'm talking about
Catholic street
evangelisation, something I came across three years ago on a postgraduate gap year and which I've been doing ever since.
An excellent group of
Catholic young adults in London, under the name of «Vision», is currently attempting to develop and deliver an effective
evangelisation course.
The problem is that without effective
evangelisation, including the «new
evangelisation» directed to people who are «
Catholic in name only», the charitable fundraising activity will lose its fundamental base of practising Catholics as well as being itself divorced from
Catholic principles bysupporting the more fashionable charities whose activities are in some cases morally unacceptable.
Catholic Street
Evangelisation in 2013 There is a growing generation of people who have never even sought to cross the threshold of a church, who hold their own ideas of truth and accountability and whose opinion of
Catholic priests stretches no further than media scandal.
The Emmanuel Community is a
Catholic community of priests, together with consecrated and lay faithful, across the world dedicated to a life of Eucharistic Adoration, works of compassion, and
Evangelisation in their daily life and relationships.
An Experience of the New
Evangelisation Mention the words «Totus Tuus» to a youngster at a
Catholic parish in the Midwestern United States, and you are likely to get a very positive reaction.
Since then the situation has greatly evolved, and the new orders and communities springing up throughout the
Catholic world are now not only vital to the new
evangelisation but an essential area of study for pastoral theology.
The Synod is proposing structures to support the new
evangelisation, and yet the hierarchy of England and Wales recently dismantled its Catholic Agency for the Support of Evangeli
evangelisation, and yet the hierarchy of England and Wales recently dismantled its
Catholic Agency for the Support of
EvangelisationEvangelisation (Case).
And in our Truth Will Set You Free column, in which we have sought over the years to offer a modern pastoral presentation of
Catholic doctrine, we invite individual Catholics to contribute to the work of
evangelisation.
We could do worse than begin with the call issued by the American bishops a few years ago to their people, in which they announced the aim of their
evangelisation initiative as «to let every American know they are freely invited to join us in the fullness of
Catholic faith».
Soberly reflecting on the collapse of the
Catholic missions after Vatican II, and the failure of the New
Evangelisation to recover the lost ground, he concludes that, while the faithful have often been reminded of the duty of evangelising, the motivation for so doing has remained obscure.