The Office of Evangelisation is currently promoting a number of Evangelisation events – it would be helpful if you could advertise, let others know or forward this email to people who may be interested. All information is on our New Website & booking forms and posters available for download for parish notice boards or websites.
Some of our Youth are attending the Young Adult Pilgrimage to Taize – July 11-18 2010 – we pray they have a safe journey and an enjoyable experience.
Monthly e-zine – on The Gospel of Luke The April Edition of the e-Good news from the Office of Evangelisation is now available on the Dublin Diocesan Website – or on www.yearofevangelisation.ie – includes, prayers, lectio divina, youth section and more – new edition each month – for recent edition and back-copies www.yearofevangelisation.ie
April Edition of e-Good News
New Evangelisation Website – www.yearofevanglisation.ie – The Office of Evangelisation has a new website now to assist the promotion of Evangelisation and the Reading of St. Luke throughout the Archdiocese. Your help in promoting it, adding it to your favorites page and using it would be helpful. It has information on what is happening, St. Luke and reading the Gospel, information on Parish Pastoral Councils, Facebook and much more – let us know what you would like to see on it also.
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Dublin in the only one of the 26 Catholic Dioceses in Ireland that has set up an Office of Evangelisation and this office has produced a special edition of the gospel of Luke with beautiful photographs from Dublin Churches and Museums. Along with the Church of Ireland it has now distributed 250,000 copies of this Gospel.
The Archdiocese then developed an interactive DVD based on Luke for children, in cooperation with Scripture Union and the Bible Society. To further Alpha in Catholic Parishes the Office for Evangelisation asked us if we could link Alpha into Luke’s gospel which they felt would help Catholic parishes come on board.
We have now produced a booklet covering the 15 Alpha talks with scriptures from Luke. To download a free copy click
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Last year Nicky Gumbel, the pioneer of Alpha, came to speak at an Alpha Lunch attended by 180 people. Afterwards he had a very good meeting with Archbishop Diarmuid Martin which led on to the Catholic Vicar of Evangelisation, Fr. Ciaran O’Carroll and a colleague attending a large Alpha Leaders conference in London attended by over 1,000 leaders, of which the largest denomination was Catholic. This in turn led to the Office of Evangelisation hosting 6 Alpha Courses for Parish Council members in Dublin and those involved in ministry last Autumn.
These Alpha courses were held in Shankill, Tallaght, Whitehall, Clonliffe, Blanchardstown and City Quay. We had a total of 238 people on the first night and most completed the course. The feedback was superb.
