New Evangelization/Evangelization
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Evangelize our Children
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EVANGELIZATION IS THE FRUIT OF WORSHIP!
In addition to the events at the end of the page, here are some of our efforts:
(We have listed here below some of the events the Office of Evangelization sponsors)
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We are Here for You!
Many Catholics are probably not familiar with the Office of the New Evangelization or even the term “New Evangelization”. Actually, Catholics have always been called to evangelize. Since the earliest days of the church, Jesus addressed his disciples: “Full authority has been given to me both in heaven and on earth; go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations. Baptize them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Teach them to carry out everything I have commanded you. And know that I am with you always, until the end of the world!” (Mt 28:19-20 [NAB])
To emphasize this command of Jesus, as recent as 1992, the Catholic Bishops developed A National Plan and Strategy for Catholic Evangelization in the United States titled, Go and Make Disciples. It guided all Catholics to obtain a vision, goals and strategies to evangelize their individual parishes.
In that document, the Catholic Bishops referenced Pope Paul VI’s Apostolic Exhortation titled Evangelii Nuntiandi (“On Evangelization in the Modern World”) where he stated: “Evangelizing means bringing the Good News into all the strata of humanity, and through its influence transforming humanity from within and making it new: “Now I am making the whole of creation new.” But there is no new humanity if there are not first of all new persons renewed by Baptism and by lives lived according to the Gospel. The purpose of evangelization is therefore precisely this interior change, and if it had to be expressed in one sentence the best way of stating it would be to say that the Church evangelizes when she seeks to convert, solely through the divine power of the message she proclaims, both the personal and collective consciences of people, the activities in which they engage, and the lives and concrete milieu which are theirs.” (EN, 18)
Pope John Paul II was the first to repeatedly speak of the new evangelization. In one of his major encyclicals, Redemptoris Missio (“The Mission of the Redeemer”), Pope John Paul declared: “I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization and to the mission ad gentes (to the nations). No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church, can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.” (RM, 3).
We evangelize not through programs but through the power of the Holy Spirit. As Catholics, we seek to be “Baptized in the Holy Spirit”. If allowed, The Holy Spirit will lead us and direct us into a more personal relationship with Jesus. Once one’s relationship with Jesus deepens, and we get to better know Him personally, one is compelled to spread the “Good News”! We become Good News People!