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.
Tag: Go Make Disciples
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.
Go Make Disciples Live
It could have been called Go Make Disciples Alive for the presence of the combined witness of hundreds of Catholics in the Diocese of Madison engaging in their faith and being primed to spread the Good News to others.
Go Make Disciples Live
It is not uncommon to encounter individuals in our Catholic communities who appear to be Catholics who just “go through the motions” and practice the faith out of obligation, without much thought.
Be disciple . . . makers
This coming Pentecost will mark the third anniversary of Go Make Disciples, our diocesan evangelizing initiative.
Mary as a special channel of grace
s we enter into the Advent season, we ponder the fact that Jesus came to us through Mary.
Building a community of disciple-makers
The Go Make Disciples evangelization initiative has challenged all parishes, leaders, and individuals to not only grow in faith as a parish but also as individuals. Parishes across the Diocese of Madison have been rethinking, relearning, and rebuilding how they approach evangelization.
Building community, a part of evangelization
“Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. In this way, the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he has loved us and sent his Son as an expiation for our sins.