Evangelization – (continued)

How Can WE Evangelize?

We can reach out to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with everyone and especially newcomers, inactive Catholics, the marginalized and the unchurched.

• Become a sharing person who freely witnesses to the Catholic Faith and recount personal experiences openly with others.
• Invite a new parishioner, neighbor or friend to dinner or a social event to build a friendship based on Christ's love.
• Visit a new parishioner or neighbor to build community and communion.
• Become a minister of care and bring Holy Communion to the homebound and hospitalized.
• Practice hospitality in the parish, neighborhood and workplace by listening, encouraging, affirming and celebrating others.
• Develop a welcoming atmosphere at home by being present for family meals and other family celebrations and special occasions.
  

The Parish as an Evangelizing Community

"Embracing all the activity of the parish is a basic vocation and commitment to evangelization.
Not only calling active believers to ever deeper faith, but also bringing the message
of Christ to alienated Catholics, inviting people to join in the Church's
belief and worship, and making the Gospel real by applying it to the
issues and conditions of our lives.
The parish realizes that the most effective instrument of evangelization is its visible hospitality,
its vitality and its own faithfulness to Christ."