Meet the
faculty
Help your parishioners discover their
importance
as active members of
the Church! |
What Do We Teach? and How?
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APPROACH |
| Good News Ministries is an international evangelization ministry that teaches lay people to recognize areas in their lives that still need conversion, while challenging them to more fully live out Christ's command to "Love God with your whole heart and your whole mind and your whole soul, and love others as you love yourself; love even your enemies, and do good to them."
The premise of Good News Ministries is this: if we truly live the way Christ taught us to in the Sermon on the Mount, others will be converted by our lives; we'll attract non-active Catholics to Church life more effectively by our love and service than by our words.
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Good News Ministries offers a different approach to evangelization than most methods. It provides training and inspirational catechesis to three groups in our parishes:
- Those who reach out to inactive Catholics
- Those who sit in our pews week after week but give very little service or money to the parish
- Active parishioners who don't fully understand how to get things done in an attitude of service, unity or caring.
Good News Ministries of Tampa Bay, led by Catholic Lay Evangelists Ralph and Terry Modica of Valrico, with the Good News team, has been developed with the approval of the chancery to help you meet your evangelization goals.
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| OPTIONS |
VATICAN COUNCIL II |
There are a number of options, all of which can be tailored to meet your parish's needs.
- Training and re-inspiring current evangelization teams.
- Re-invigorating Small Christian Communities and sending them forth in out-reach.
- Training parishioners how to pre-evangelize inactive Catholics.
- Helping all parish organizations identify their unique roles in evangelization.
- Giving on-going formation in the Catholic identity to parishioners in general.
- Renewing enthusiasm in staff members, ministry leaders, catechists, and others who are involved in serving the parish.
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Good News Ministries is implementing the directives of Vatican Council II.
Laity are increasingly needed to accomplish the work of the parish, although they have less education than they should to do it well. Good News Ministries trains lay people to better understand their Catholic identity, their mission in the parish and community, and Church teachings, through Vatican II documents, Scripture, the Catechism and the Nicene Creed.
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| PARISH GROWTH |
REFERENCES |
| Good News Ministries inspires participants to become actively involved in their parish. It teaches an attitude of willingness, humility, and sacrifice. It inspires community, love, and loyalty to their priests and fellow parishioners. |
To find out more about this ministry and its faculty, contact Father Gary Dowsey, of Nativity Catholic Church in Brandon, Florida, at (813-681-4608). |
| FEES |
WHAT NEXT? |
| Good News Ministries does not charge fees for its events, because we don't want any person or parish to be held back by finances. We are a faith ministry relying on donations. See our suggested donations for sponsoring parishes. |
To speak directly to the Good News Ministries staff, use our online inquiry form. We are willing to serve you and your parish with energy, enthusiasm and an attitude of genuine helpfulness. |
If you are interested in door-to-door evangelization, see
"How to Develop an Outreach Program in the Parish."
Here's a sample of what we accomplish in our events: |
| Decree on the Apostolate of Lay People |
On Evangelization in the Modern World |
| Parishioners discover what their role is in the Church, and that their right and duty to be modern-day apostles empowers them to renew the world around them. |
Laity feel connected to Jesus, the first evangelizer, while learning to evangelize effectively in their home, parish and workplace. |
| The Splendor of Truth |
Reconciliation & the 10 Commandments |
| Participants are inspired to trust Church moral teachings and to avoid being conformed to the world. |
Everyone is guided through an in-depth examination of conscience, based on the Catechism and humorous personal anecdotes, followed by reception of this Sacrament. |
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