How do you help your Diocese?

[T.A.Stobie_SFO]

Some questions to think about and answer.

How do you help the Catholics in your diocese? Is all your energies focused on your parish or do you help in the larger community as well?

How do you help the clergy (bishop, priests, and deacons) in your diocese?

Do you do some of this as a family? as a parish (small group of parishners volunteering at the same time)?

Do you pray for your diocese? your clergy? how often?

If not, why not?

 

[dhgray]

Dear Brother in Christ,

How do you help the Catholics in your diocese? Is all your energies focused on your parish or do you help in the larger community as well?

Parish Level: Am an EM & Teach CCD
Local Community: Catholic-Christian seninar speaker

How do you help the clergy (bishop, priests, and deacons) in your diocese?

Bring glad tidings to the poor. Help lead others to Christ and build Spiritually strong men and women and couples.

Do you do some of this as a family?

The entire family is part of the Couples for Christ ministry. The CFC Family is around 1.4 million members in 119 countries which all do the same thing.

Do you pray for your diocese? your clergy? how often?

YES, YES, (and for the Holy Father) and everyday.

If not, why not?

I AGREE WHY NOT!

 

[Mary]

How do you help the Catholics in your diocese? Is all your energies focused on your parish or do you help in the larger community as well?

I’m in our church’s youth choir, with two of my sisters, and I teach catechism- this year I am teaching the confirmation class with my mom, younger sister and another friend who’s a guy. I also play the organ on occasion when the regular organist is busy. My sister cantors.

A lot of my energy is focused on my church, but I volunteer at a women’s emergency shelter as well. It’s a little more difficult sometimes. It’s a different kind of offering.

How do you help the clergy (bishop, priests, and deacons) in your diocese?

In our parish we have a vocations committee, and they hand out calendars each month with each day dedicated to a certain priest, deacon or religious group (ie Sisters of Charity, Sisters of the Good Shepherd…) Each day we pray for the specified person. I think it’s a beautiful way to help the clergy and religious.

I love working at my church. It’s a comforting atmosphere, it’s giving back what I’ve been giving… What God deserves from me!

 

[T.A.Stobie_SFO]

I challenge everyone who reads this to deeply consider how beyond their parish can they help their dioceses.

Most people focus on helping at the local parish and helping at the local parish is good. However, the bishop and the diocesian staff is often spread very thin and thus limited in how much they can do. With your help, you will enable your bishop to be a better bishop.

If nothing else, pray for your bishop everyday, pray for your diocese everyday, pray for the pope everyday and for the universal Church as everyday.

 

[Mamamull]

Near my parish’s Eucharistic Adoration log book there is an easel with suggested prayer topics – our archdiocese and bishops are frequently listed there. The list changes weekly and we are given many local and global prayer requests.

Since we have requested and instituted a program for perpetual adoration and our bishop has approved very few hours of exposition, we frequently prayer that our faithfulness to this devotion will open his heart to permit our pastor more freedom.

I agree that we should be aware of praying for our bishops and dioceses as well. Thursday is the typical day for devotion to pray for priests. The Luminous mysteries also make a wonderful tapestry to inspire prayer for priests.

AMDG,
Mamamull