From Aug. 20-22, the Office of Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship hosted its annual Parish Catechetical Leadership Conference at St. Joseph Church in Rice Lake. The conference, attended by parish directors/coordinators of religious education, youth ministers and others, addressed how to know if evangelization is bearing fruit and what discipleship looks like in practice.
Chris Hurtubise, director of the Office of Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship, offered the theme’s context. “The evangelization initiative that is now casting the vision of evangelization and missionary discipleship to the whole diocese had its roots in work that has been slowly happening with parish catechetical leaders for five or more years. The last few summers, we have focused on the relationship between evangelization – sharing the good news of the good news of the Gospel and inviting a response) and catechesis (building up disciples who have dropped their nets). This summer we homed in on forming a clearer picture of what a missionary disciple looks like.”
Hurtubise added that the goal was twofold: Forming missionary disciples at our parishes, but even more fundamentally, “becoming missionary disciples so that we can be living examples.”
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Featured speakers Andy Norton and Danielle Hendricks were both alumni of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS).
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