Excerpts from James Kroeger’s “The Parish: A Community of Missionary Disciples”
We seek to answer the basic questions: How can our parishes embody and concretize Pope Francis’ call for the missionary renewal of the entire Church? How does the parish become an agent of missionary evangelization? First, evangelization requires a comprehensive vision. Christian presence and witness to life, i.e., living in harmony, living lives of integrity, fulfilling community duties, etc., by ordinary parish members is a primal, concrete and practical means of effective evangelization; in this way, the Good News is taken to the highways and byways of daily human activity. Living as good…continue reading →