What does it mean to be human? How do we find ourselves in the “here” and “now”— the “mundane” of the everyday? And, to what extent am I fulfilled?
Tag: Go Make Disciples
Our merciful Father
In Baptism, we were washed of our sins and became children of the Father. And from that adoption flows our life of discipleship. This is our true identity.
Recommitting to our call to Go Make Disciples
Let’s not let this time of recommitment to the mission of evangelization and a life of the Holy Habits pass us by this fall.
Rather, let us answer the universal call to holiness and to Go Make Disciples.
Donors help refurbish rectory for youth
As summer turns to fall, children return to school, and youth catechesis picks up again, middle and high school students have something special to look forward to in the St. Cletus Pastorate.
Bringing them home through a Go Make Disciples reboot
Recently, the Diocese of Madison released a new video from Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison entitled “Bring Them Home.”
In this beautifully done short film, the bishop reminds us that both our Go Make Disciples (GMD) and Into the Deep initiatives are rooted in Our Lord’s promise that He will be with us always “until the end of the age”.
Bringing Go Make Disciples home
This summer, the Diocese of Madison Office of Marriage and Family hosted Go Make Disciples @ Home events at St. Maria Goretti Church in Madison and St. John Vianney Church in Janesville.
Continuing to Go Make Disciples while going Into the Deep
This month of July marks the one year anniversary of the reassignment of most of the priests and the beginning movement towards the merging of parishes. I am profoundly grateful to our priests, lay leadership, diocesan staff, and the lay faithful for embracing these profound changes.
From Go Make Disciples to disciplemakers
Following Christ’s model of making disciples, the structure of Go Make Disciples was to have each parish start with a small core group, “The 12,” and then with the help of these disciples, reach a larger group, “The 72”.
The goal is to continue this pattern of forming and sending disciples out to ever-widening groups of people, just as the apostles did in the early Church.
Making disciples in Fort Atkinson
In a recent Gospel, Jesus said to his disciples, “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing” (Luke 12: 49).
Commissioning Mass calls all to ‘Go Make Disciples’
The Go Make Disciples Commissioning Mass was celebrated on May 20 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Monona.