Sentences with phrase «evangelising on»

Other senior officers are actively railing against Kerslake's findings, preferring to bury their heads, refute the reality and evangelise on behalf of the current administration.

He stated that while travelling round the country to evangelise on the need for change, he has encountered Ghanaians from all walks of life who wonder if they have a government at the helm of affairs... that cares about the welfare of its citizens.

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Providing basic catechesis Leonard creates a simple introduction to the main points of Catholic teaching on the Sacraments, prayer, personal holiness and the call to evangelise those around us, with a bit of salvation history thrown in too.

Though the legend, reported by Eusebius, that Christ himself has sent missionaries to King Abgar of Edessa is based in reality on the conversion of a different Abgar at the end of the second century, it is nonetheless true that the region of Edessa had been evangelised by the Apostle Thomas has some foundation of historical fact.

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.

However, the CDF Note is a broadly conceived document that offers little to guide a specific parish or church group setting out its own Year ofFaith programme beyond recommending such general categories as prayer, catechetical events, opportunities for reflection on the Catechism and Vatican II documents, relevant homilies, focus upon the liturgy, especially the Eucharist, and evangelising activities.

Church activities depending upon volunteers tend to be spasmodic and often dependent on self - formed leadership, so that parishes are increasingly seeking to appoint people to full - time pastoral roles to coordinate catechetical and evangelising initiatives and to form volunteer leaders and teams.

The Faith Alive group in Southampton has in the past decade initiated Alpha courses, an ecumenical programme sharing ideas about leadership, formation and outreach methods with other denominations, a city guildhall event with a Catholic inspirational speaker and prayer teams, a city mission, an introductory programme for «new seekers», that is people interested in the Church and who might wish to continue with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary target.

A nonChristian who needs evangelising is on a journey to hell.

The thing that worries me the most for the Church today is the notion that if we compromise our holiness — if we compromise our view on sexuality — then the people will be evangelised more easily and more people will come to Christ.

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.

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.

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.

Paul insists on his Roman citizenship in this Roman colony, and the range and differing social backgrounds of his converts back up one of his key evangelising principles, flowing from his knowledge of the Son of God as the «first born of many brothers» (Rom 8:29 - 31) as well as «of creation» (Col. 1:15): that in Christ there is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female (Gal 3:28).

Leading internet evangelist, Fr Robert Barron (the «Word on Fire» ministry), summarises his conclusions after 15 years of evangelising the culture, and reaching out to millions of readers and viewers.

The second edition of Christ at the Centre, which was published last week, sets out the evangelising mission of the Church with regards to pupils, and the stringent requirements placed on some staff, including whether or not they have married divorcees or had intimate relationships outside marriage.

«Let's call this push for increased influence in schooling for what it is: a cynical attempt by the church to «stop the rot» and boost its numbers both through the evangelising of children and through the quite shameful practice of requiring parents to sit on pews simply to ensure their children can get a place at a local school.

The reason why I am bringing this rather select subject up is that I have read commentators over the years, and also recently — and even in Angie's Diary — that evangelise the approach of eBook - only publishing, and use language and arguments that indicate that print publishing is about to collapse on itself and is ineffective — in other words, it will happen just around the corner.

She was nominated for her first games media award while still at university, and now balances video production with freelancing for publications like Official PlayStation magazine, talking about key industry issues at conerences around the world, and appearing on national media like BBC Radio to evangelise gaming culture.