He chairs of the academic council at the School of the Annunciation, the centre for the new
evangelisation at Buckfast Abbey in Devon.
The Church opens the Year of Faith [1] with a Synod on the New
Evangelisation at a time when, in England, there are a number of issues about the adequacy of theology programmes in preparing their students for the task of evangelising.
Not exact matches
AN ATTEMPT
AT MODERN CATECHESIS Dear Father Editor, Through Our Lady's School of
Evangelisation we have conducted Youth Outreach to secondary schools and...
A strongly emerging feature of the new
evangelisation that has been consistently emphasised by Popes John Paul and Benedict has been the evangelising of culture through the patrimony of the Church, the talents of artists and the efforts of believers to show the relevance of the Gospel to the world
at large.
There is little mention in the book of these movements and of the person - to - person
evangelisation which they are so good
at.
In this column we hope to chronicle some of the statements and initiatives that, by the grace of God and in accordance with ideas articulated by the Second Vatican Council, are aimed
at the «New
Evangelisation» of our culture.
At the same time, it must be said that this ecumenical (to all the inhabited world) sense of the missionary aim was given new impetus by what John R. Mott (Edinburgh, 1910) defined as «the decisive hour of Christian Mission» which called for» the
evangelisation of the world in this generation».
AN ATTEMPT
AT MODERN CATECHESIS Dear Father Editor, Through Our Lady's School of
Evangelisation we have conducted Youth Outreach to secondary schools and third level colleges.
It is therefore important to distinguish between those theologians who are interested in post-modern culture because they want to better understand its effects upon the human person's openness to
evangelisation, and those theologians who think that Christ should be just another option
at the market of meaningful symbols, no more or less significant than Buddha or Krishna.
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.
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At the global level, the key event is to be the XIII General Assembly of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops in October 2012 dedicated to The New
Evangelisation for the Transmission of the Christian Faith.
There are many other important aspects: promotion of vocations,
evangelisation, relationship with local parishes, that must be looked
at and form part of the Chaplain's ministry.
Proposition 11: New
Evangelisation and the Prayerful Reading of Sacred Scripture... the divine word [should] «be ever more fully
at the heart of every ecclesial activity» (Verbum Domini, 1).
The Communion of Churches in Indonesia (CCI) is ready to cooperate for the enhancement of the work
at the national level (communication: written and electronic media, formation of present and future leaders, dialog and «Tagung», research and development,
evangelisation, human rights issues and advocacy, urban - industrial mission, etc.).
His principal message
at present is about
evangelisation, echoing the call of recent popes, and giving voice to a widespread concern about a sense of life having lost its meaning for many people «There is this reduction of living to a general soft - core list of things: money, health, individualism.
At the Heart of the Gospel: reclaiming the body for the New
Evangelisation.
So, perhaps this book should come with a health warning: «Read
at your own risk; may induce moments of
evangelisation.»
At the Heart of the Gospel: reclaiming the body for the New
Evangelisation, page 60.
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.
As the first step in
evangelisation, we must try to keep this search alive... I think that the Church should open today a sort of «court of the gentiles»... to dialogue with those for whom religion is something foreign, to whom God is unknown, and who nonetheless would not like simply to remain without God, but
at least to approach him as the Unknown.»
Rt Rev Kieran Conry, bishop of Arundel and Brighton and chair of the Bishops» Conference Department of
Evangelisation and Catechesis, made the announcement in a letter read
at services this weekend.
... [from] the address Pope Benedict gave [the Roman curia]
at Christmas two years ago... «As the first step of
evangelisation... we must seek that human beings do not set aside the question of God,...».
(It is worth noting, in passing, that most schemes of modern
evangelisation and catechesis — and even theology courses — offer no preambula fidei
at all, and thus in factamount to fideism.
Philp Jenkins» Trends in Global Christianity: Implications for the new
Evangelisation concludes the work with a look
at areas of Church growth throughout the world.
Cardinal George of Chicago then looks
at the
Evangelisation of Culture, concentrating on the US but with a very direct applicability to the British scene.
So our work of
evangelisation now consists very largely in encouraging people to take a look
at Magnificat and consider subscribing, or buying a subscription for a friend.
At the heart of the New
Evangelisation, then, is not in fact apologetics, theology, or philosophy - important though all those things are.