What outreach Catholic Ministry are you attending or involved with?

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What out reach Catholic Ministry are you attending or involved with?
Do you do more than go to mass?
 
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I help clean our church once a week. I help with funeral luncheons as needed for families of the deceased. And once a month there is a widow and widowers group that meets and I help with that.
 
I’m a lector and EMHC, and work Hospitality to greet people and find people to help with the collection and bringing up the gifts. I’m on the Parish Council and in the Knights of Columbus and Holy Name Society. We also prepare a meal once in a while for a local women’s shelter and volunteer to help with our annual festival.
 
I am the paid DYM at my parish and I am also an EMHC & Lector. I belong to a women’s group in which we help the priests with retreats and other special events they may host.
 
I have been the Scoutmaster for the Troop which is now chartered through our Parish, prior to that was chartered by our K of C Council. Probably spent 1,000 hours each year for the past 4 years. Many of our Eagle Scout projects and service projects are for our Parish, or the 2 cemeteries which the Parish is over. Next year our Troop will be 100 years old.

I have been a member of our K of C Council for 25 years now. Every Thursday night for the past 60 years or so we hold a persons with disability dance, and have a PWD freethrow contest each year. We feed at the local homeless shelter several times per year. Have been an officer of one kind or another in the KC’s for probably 15 years, and president of the Columbus Club for about 10, making certain the building is kept up. Our council sponsors 6 seminarians and the Carmelite Sisters with stipends each month, along with donations to organizations within the parish. We probably donate over 30k each year to other charitable causes.

I frequently mow at one of the 2 cemeteries for our Parish because they don’t keep them up properly.

My son and I play with the other musicians during VBS.

I often go with other KC’s or men in the Parish to pick up pallets diapers which are distributed through our Gabriel project to needy families in our community.

Nothing in the forefront at the Parish, there are others that fit better in those roles.
 
Currently, not a lot. I am involved in a prison ministry with the local work camp, member of the parish council, work with the Knights of Columbus in support of parish and community activities. With my wife, are coordinating a series of pilgrimages to area shrines (nothing huge), and the Catholic expression of Worldwide Marriage Encounter.

There are always ways to support your parish and the church as a whole through the different stages of your life.
 
WE should all be involved in some way with Pro-life. That is my opinion.
 
I was recently involved in my local parish’s Healing Prayer Ministry until my friend, my sister, and I uncovered a cult of personality happening within the ministry and reported it and the abuse happening within it. The ministry got shut down for now.

I’m currently kinda at a loss for what else to do, besides make sure my family goes to Mass, receives the sacraments, and attends their classes.

I’ve been told twice in confession to start a movement. I’m thinking the priest may have been speaking as inspired by the Holy Spirit. I have no idea what to start, or how, though.
 
I belong to the Society of St. Vincent du Paul. What this looks like at my parish is a food bank with deliveries to clients several times a week (I deliver on Saturdays) and a huge Christmas hamper program.
 
How about a weekly Rosary group until you have a clearer idea?
 
Do you have money? Start a non profit corporation in your state that counters the work of an abortion clinic in your area.

Lease or buy a building nearby the clinic. Hire a professional counselor to give counsel. Work with a social worker and an attorney to help get any babies into adoption. There are Licensed Clinical Social Workers in your state. Find a good lawyer or two to donate his time to your cause (check your KOC folks and your states BAR Association who may have a lead). Find a tax preparer or CPA to help you with getting the books started and doing the tax returns. Put up a sign seeking free services from Lawyers at your city’s BAR office. YOu can even pay yourself as an employee of the non profit corporation.
 
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What do you do for Pro-Life activities at your church? Not every parish has something.
 
I don’t think that people that answered are bragging.
I only asked because you seem to have an opinion on what other people should be doing.
 
No… I left that parish due to the fallout over the cult and abuse, and my current parish is FSSP which doesn’t “do” Charismatic-type things like Healing Prayer 🙃 oh well 😔
 
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