Posted on 12/11/2016 5:06:50 PM PST by marshmallow
Next summer in Orlando, between 3-4,000 Catholic leaders from across the United States – including bishops, heads of national Catholic organizations, lay movements, religious orders and diocesan ministries and programs – will meet to discuss ways to be missionary disciples in today’s world.
About 2,000 years ago, the New Testament tells us, the apostles gathered in the Upper Room in Jerusalem. Emboldened by the Holy Spirit, they and the disciples set out to bring Christ’s Gospel to the world.
Next summer in Orlando, between 3-4,000 Catholic leaders from across the United States - including bishops, heads of national Catholic organizations, lay movements, religious orders and diocesan ministries and outreach programs - will meet to discuss ways to realize Pope Francis’s call for all Catholics to be missionary disciples in today’s world, and to strategize on how the Church can unite its efforts to engage the culture in promoting human dignity and the common good.
“This really is an unprecedented event,” said Jonathan Reyes, executive director of the Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in an online video message about the gathering.
The upcoming event, titled the “Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America,” will be held in Orlando, Florida, July 1-4, 2017 and has been planned since the nation’s bishops approved the idea six years ago.
Its theme is drawn from Pope Francis’s 2013 apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, (Latin for “The Joy of the Gospel), in which the pope emphasized the responsibility of the faithful to be Jesus’s disciples and be evangelists living and sharing their faith in today’s world, in the mission territory of their own homes and communities.
“We aim to assemble the most influential and effective Catholic leaders in the country to share best practices....
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The best way to be "missionary disciples" is the same as always; through personal holiness.
Seems like Catholic items are way out of balance here.
Next month it will be a gab fest for disciple missionaries.
canon212.com is the “Drudge-like” site where all of these stories appear, or most of them.
What good are missionaries if they can’t proselytize?
It’s “solemn nonsense” per Pope Francis. Pope Francis actually discouraged the protestant bishop, Tony Palmer, from converting to Catholicism. And he even later ordered that Palmer be given a Catholic bishop’s funeral.
This gathering is too diverse...that means it’ll be a big waste of time.
OK I respect your interest in your website . I love anyone that believes the Jesus was the Son of GOD ( not— Joseph or the linage of David) John 3:16-18.
Preach the Gospel.
Proselytism is no longer just “solemn nonsense”. It is a “great sin against ecumenism”.
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