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bmullins
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As part of the Evangelization at our local parish we are looking at ways to work on the three aspects of it.
*]Catechesis and teaching of existing active catholics
*]Reaching out to members of other faiths, no faith, and spreading the gospel
*]Reaching fallen away catholics and bringing them back
One of the problems we seem to have and need to work on is in our own catechesis and unity in the Parish. We have what seem to be two very distinct communities that don’t necessarily work against each other, but don’t seem to be involved either. We have an English speaking community with one priest, and a Spanish community that has a visiting priest who does a mass for them. Recently I realized that during our council meetings to create a new Parish directory we completely neglected to get volunteers to set up tables to register the Spanish families for pictures! It never even came up that we needed to have a table at that mass, but we all remembered the English speaking masses and have them covered.
I find that to be a disturbing problem that while we are one parish, one family, we also seem to not think of each other as a cohesive hole.
My question is this:
What are some ways that we can bring about unity in this way? What are some ideas of projects, goals, etc that we can do to help make both communities not only feel welcomed and active, but to unify them not as a separate Spanish and English group, but as one ‘mixed’ group of Spanish and English speaking Catholics?
