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What
Is It?
Inviting Catholics Home
Program is a program developed to both invite inactive Catholics back to their
faith and support them as they become involved again
in their faith and our church. The 6 week program begins
on Thursday, April, 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. Click HERE for a list
of the Sessions.
What
Does It Do?
The Inviting
Catholics Home program provides someone interested in
becoming active again with:
Contact with a group of active parishioners
interested in
helping them feel welcome.
Resources
and contacts to answer and help them with their
issues.
Programs and meetings throughout
the year to provide the
returning Catholic
with updates on the Mass and
Sacraments,
chamges in the Church, basic Catholic beliefs,
and other subjects of interest.
How Can You
Help?
Do you know someone
who has left the Church? Most of us do not have to look
very far to find non-practicing Catholics in our circle
of family and friends. Many of us are concerned about
these loved and lost ones, but we don't know how to
help them.
As baptized, practicing Catholics,
we have a precious gift of faith and love from theLord
that needs to be shared with our non-practicing brothers
and sisters.
First, we need to pray for them.
And next we need to extend a personal invitation to
them to come home.
That is what the Inviting
Catholics Home program is all about.
You can
help by guiding and inviting those you know and love
that are looking for the way back to contact the ICH
team. Please personally invite someone you know to contact
ICH.
You can help by becoming involved yourself
and providing information, fellowship, and support to
those returnig to the Catholic Church.
PLEASE contact 876-1272 ext 402
to enroll or join the ICH team.
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Prayer of a Seeker
My God,
I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road
ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will
end, and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But
I believe that the desire to please you does in fact
please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that
I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart
from that desire.
And I know that if I do this
you will lead me by the right road, though I may know
nothing about it. Therefore, I will trust you always
and everywhere though I may seem to be lost in the shadow
of death. I will not fear because you are ever with
me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
Thomas
Merton
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