Sentences with phrase «evangelisation there»

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

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 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.

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.»

Proposition 9: New Evangelisation and Initial Proclamation We consider it necessary that there be a Pastoral Plan of Initial Proclamation, teaching a living encounter with Jesus Christ.

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.

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.

All the same, there seems to be a reasonable hope that Cardinal Ouellet will now, having noticed (probably with the Holy Father's direct involvement) this country's needs, set himself to showing «how an episcopate can be reconfigured for the challenges of the new evangelisation» here, too; so it could be that in 10 years» time our Bishops» Conference will have a very different look about it.

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.

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).

A troubling question is why, when there has been so much airing of views about the new evangelisation leading up to Pope Benedict's Porta Fidei and the Synod, we have seen so little actual fruit.

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.

But even in Edinburgh there was a general recognition that «the Church of Christ in each nation or tribe is the supreme instrument for its complete evangelisation».45 In Jerusalem, there was a greater recognition of the place of younger churches in mission.

Pope John Paul II is quoted twice, principally on the «spirituality of communion» in Novo Millennio Inuente, and some relevant documents of his are footnoted, but there is no reference to his writings about the gap between faith and culture, or indeed to his concepts of the «new evangelisation» or to his interpretation of the evangelising of culture.

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.