Excellent suggestion! I'll save that one for Lent. For the most part, these parishioners are steadfast in their faith. Many of them have immigrated from the Middle East where that faith has been tested for centuries.
Your columns sound great. Bravo!
**”For a long time, we weren’t even talking about this as an issue,” he said. “And you could see it creeping into the Church everywhere.”
This new awareness on the part of the bishops, coupled with the call to conversion and witness that is part of the Year of Faith, offers an opportunity for the Church in America to be renewed and grow stronger, he said.
Lay Catholics who are sincere about participating in the Year of Faith should encourage their pastors “to develop programs in the parish to promote the New Evangelization,” the archbishop advised.
“Because sometimes, priests might not think that anybody’s interested in that.”
“Lay people generally think that if the bishop pushes priests, it will get done,” he said. “My experience is that it also takes the people in the pews to push from the other direction to get the priests’ attention.”**
BTTT for all of this!
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