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To: Salvation
Many parishes now have Evaangelization Committees as part of their parish structure now.

We have one. My wife is on it. They've actually done some great things, like getting someone to come speak about the "DaVinci Code", they had one of the priests from Priests for Life, they had a series on the Sacraments. They hold weekly Bible studies.

Also, one of their most attended evenings was having experienced couples come and talk about how they've dealt with issues raising their children. How they've kept the faith alive in their homes. Apparently, a lot of parents have trouble getting their teenagers to come to Mass. The experienced parents, to a couple, said you just have to lay down the law. Make sure your children understand it is your home, your rules. Have a family rosary once a week. This talk was extremely popular and there will probably be an encore.

As part of every talk given, the evangelization committee gets some kids from the school to babysit in the gym as part of their service projects.

23 posted on 06/01/2005 7:23:45 AM PDT by old and tired
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To: old and tired

This sounds very similar to what we are doing. One evening a month.

Subject have been:
Advent
Annulments
Lent
Triduum -- Holy Week
Apparitions of Mary
Pentecost -- The Role of the Holy Spirit
End of Life Issues

We are finishing off our first year of this with evenings for the adults, activities for the youth, and more activities for the families with children. We start all together with a meal and a prayer service and finish with everyone comming back together as one community with a prayer service after the indivudalized sessions for the different age groups.

We also send home additional reading and study for home activities and /or faith formation during the month.

The feedback we have received has been on the fabulous side! (Sorry if that sounds like I'm bragging, I'm not -- merely reflecting the evaluations that are completed each evening.)

We have made some mistakes during this year, but are finding what works and building on it.


38 posted on 06/01/2005 7:34:31 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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