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One of the significant obstacles to Christian evangelisation in the 21st century is the widely held notion in the West, both by fundamentalist [1] Christians and by non-Christians, that there is an inherent conflict between science and religion.

In this thought - provoking article he stresses the personal nature of evangelisation in our relativistic culture.

He insists upon the dual need for formation in and sharing of faith: «Today too, there is a need for stronger ecclesial commitment to new evangelisation in order to rediscover the joy of believing and the enthusiasm for communicating the faith» (PF, 7).

1The Emmanuel Community has been conducting street evangelisation in France for 30 years and has a wealth of experience to pass on.

There is also an urgent need to work for the new evangelisation in Africa, especially among people who have distanced themselves from the Church or who do not behave in a Christian fashion.

Moreover, it impels the Church towards the new evangelisation of people and cultures that the last two popes have so strongly advocated, and that Pope Benedict now reaffirms: «Today too, there is a need for stronger ecclesial commitment to new evangelisation in order to rediscover the joy of believing and the enthusiasm for communicating the faith.»

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.

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.

One surprising omission is a survey of what Fr Raniero Cantalamessa has called the various waves of evangelisation in history, of which the new ecclesial movements are the most recent.

Evangelisation in Need of Renewal

Despite the image of a professor pope who would prefer a quiet library, Pope Benedict enthusiastically promoted the use of the new media in the task of evangelisation in his messages for World...

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During this time, members of Institutes of Consecrated Life and of Societies of Apostolic Life are asked to work towards the new evangelisation with a renewed union to the Lord Jesus, each according to their proper charism, in fidelity to the Holy Father and to sound doctrine.

In 597 AD, the evangelisation of Britain under Pope St Gregory the Great was able to happen precisely because that faithful married couple St Ethelbert and St Bertha, King and Queen of Kent, by their material — and more importantly their moral — power, enabled it to happen.

His office has receivedrequests for copies of the document from dioceses in the United States, Canada, Australia, France (interesting), and Malta following a public endorsement by Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, Secretary for the Congregation for Clergy, who sent Bishop O'Donoghue the Congregation's congratulations on his «courageous examination of the state of evangelisation and catechesis in the diocese of Lancaster's schools and colleges» and for developing a positive programme for action in harmony with the «operative Magisterial documents».

[16] He also quoted his predecessor Pope Paul VI who said that the doctrine of Blessed John Duns Scotus «can yield shining arms for combating and chasing away the dark clouds of atheism which casts its shadow upon our era», and continued to state that the doctrine «energetically builds up the Church, sustaining her in her urgent mission of the new evangelisation of the peoples of the earth.»

This is the foundation of our faith» (Pope Paul VI)-- and it comes with a responsibility for «my brothers» holiness», in other words, evangelisation.

So, with pockets stuffed with tea lights and solemn yet excited prayers made with my evangelisation partner, I set out into the neon glow of Soho Square, to invite people in.

Even more: in his first trip to Poland in 1979, the Pope concluded his appeal with the words: «From the crosses in Nova Huta began the new evangelisation, the evangelisation of the second millennium... This evangelisation of the second millennium must refer to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council.

This insight, though commonly cited, including in the Instrumentum Laboris for the 2012 Synod on the new evangelisation, remains however somewhat nebulous.

One of the most significant speeches Benedict made — as Cardinal Ratzinger, in the Jubilee Year 2000 — was one he gave to catechists about the meaning of the phrase «the New Evangelisation», and its central image applies very much to his own papacy.

The recent Synod on the New Evangelisation proposed to us: «This faith can not be transmitted in a life which is not modelled after the Gospel or a life which does not find its meaning, truth and future based on the Gospel» (57).

In this book he writes about the danger of the New Evangelisation being an abstract or empty formula, which by attempting to be all - inclusive, ends up lacking real vigour.

New Evangelisation doesn't take place in one strike and once for all.

Lucy Mackain - Bremner, chaplaincy co-ordinator to Leweston School in Dorset and a graduate of the Emmanuel School of Mission in Rome, gives an insight into the reality of modern street evangelisation.

«New Evangelisation» is one of those ideas that are in constant danger of being hijacked by bishops and diocesan bureaucrats as a way of carrying on with the same old things but disguising the fact with a shiny new gloss.

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.

As he pointed out early in his pontificate during a trip to Bavaria: Evangelisation must precede all social commitment.

Because of the «profound crisis of faith» in the world today (PF, 2), the Church is proposing not merely a continuationof the mission ad extra and ad intra but a renewal of the whole concept of evangelisation so that it is addressed through an energetic dialogue with secular cultures.

There is little mention in the book of these movements and of the person - to - person evangelisation which they are so good at.

Christian evangelisation campaigns are clearly unable to compete with the godless messages preached all day and every day on the TV, radio and in printed media.

Peter and Paul in 2010, Pope Benedict stated that PopeJohn Paul represented the Church's missionary nature not only with his apostolic journeys, but also «with the insistence of his Magisterium on the urgent need for a «new evangelisation»: «new» not in its content but in its inner thrust, open to the grace of the Holy Spirit which constitutes the force of the new law of the Gospel that always renews the Church; «new» in ways that correspond with the power of the Holy Spirit and which are suited to the times and situations; «new» because of being necessary even in countries that have already received the proclamation of the Gospel.»

John Paul II introduced the expression the «new evangelisation» early in his pontificate, and returned continually to the theme.

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.

Archbishop Rino Fisichella is the president for the Council for Promoting the New Evangelisation, which Benedict XVI established in 2011, and was thus a key participant in the Synod on the same subject in October 2012.

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 culturIn 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 culturin accordance with ideas articulated by the Second Vatican Council, are aimed at the «New Evangelisation» of our culture.

The work of evangelisation is a work of seeking, finding, befriending, proclaiming, teaching, guiding, correcting, supporting, suffering with and for, consoling and giving in love that Christ may be all in all.

In this regard the Lineamenti, or outline notes, for the forthcoming Synod of Bishops on the theme of the New Evangelisation affirm that Our Lord «will give his Spirit and provide the force to announce and proclaim the Gospel in new ways which can speak to today's cultures»In this regard the Lineamenti, or outline notes, for the forthcoming Synod of Bishops on the theme of the New Evangelisation affirm that Our Lord «will give his Spirit and provide the force to announce and proclaim the Gospel in new ways which can speak to today's cultures»in new ways which can speak to today's cultures».

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».

If tempted to think that the new evangelisation can only be aspired to in the longer term, one might consider the achievements of one diocese, that of Frejus - Toulon in France.

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.

As you know, a Pontifical Council has recently been established for the New Evangelisation of countries of long - standing Christian tradition, and I would encourage you to avail yourselves of its services in addressing the task before you.

John Paul called us to see a sick and suffering person as «an active and responsible participant in the work of evangelisation and salvation».

For example, writing of Rosmini's book The Five Wounds of the Church, in which Rosmini describes the obstacles an exclusively Latin liturgy can pose for effective evangelisation, Fr Hill not only proposes his hero as an early proponent of the vernacular Mass, but goes on to add (in a rather sly footnote) that Rosmini would also have been opposed to «the deliberate use of archaic language» of which «the new vernacular translations of the Mass are an example».

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.

Such an approach to culture and evangelisation is described in the academic jargon as «interruptionist».

It is time for all of us to do our part in this New Evangelisation.

We went on to affirm that «The evangelisation of modernity calls for a realist reclamation of the concept of human nature, fulfilled in Christ» (page 6).

Only by proposing such a theological development can we realistically hope to emerge from our present problems, regain that unity of purpose which is so urgently needed and which is a sign of the Spirit and renew the Church in preparation for a new evangelisation of the world in the coming century.

He chairs of the academic council at the School of the Annunciation, the centre for the new evangelisation at Buckfast Abbey in Devon.