Year of Evangelization

Welcoming billboard a success for East Bay parishes

Coming this Saturday: Dr. Susan Timoney, Executive Director of Evangelization and Family Life, Archdiocese of Washington. “A Light Unto the World: The Evangelization Mission of the Parish”…

… a special Year of Evangelization talk to help you and your parish evangelization efforts. The talk is part of the 43rd Annual Diocesan Religious Education Workshop Day.

The third installment of the ‘Mid-Week Spiritual Refresher’ has been posted to the Rhode Island Catholic and Catholics Come Home RI Facebook pages.  The homily may also be viewed on the newspaper’s website for those unfamiliar with Facebook.  This week’s noon Mass at the Cathedral was celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Robert Evans who was joined by hundreds of Catholic School students from throughout the diocese.  if you would like to receive an email when these homilies are posted each Wednesday, please click on the following email addresss, communications[@]dioceseofprovidence.org and enter ‘Homily’ in the subject line.

Parishes in the Diocese of Providence are free to use these videos on their parish websites.

These honest invitations identify many of the reasons people have left the Church, or stopped going to Mass. But there are reasons to come home–the answers to all our doubts, hurt and frantic pace of life. Those answers are found when we give our lives to Christ.

TO ORDER FOR YOUR PARISH USE: Clergy and parish staff members can order these invitations by calling Connie Thornton at 278-4610 or email her at cthornton@dioceseofprovidence.org.

OR PRINT YOUR OWN VERSIONS: Use the links below to these online versions of the invititaion. They can be customized for your use in the back 4″x4″ panel. Then save these files and take them to your printer of choice and print only what you need.

FOR VERSIONS OTHER THAN ENGLISH: Send us an email with your translation and we can format the document for you. So that we may provide a  translation that’s best for you, taking into account the varying dialects and your community needs, we wish to use a translation that you approve by sending it to us directly. We’ll take it from there.

Reasons: Format with your own message

Reasons: Standard Format Version

As promised, the second installment of the ‘Mid-Week Spiritual Refresher’ has been posted to the Rhode Island Catholic and Catholics Come Home RI Facebook pages.  The homily may also be viewed on the newspaper’s website for those unfamiliar with Facebook.  This week’s noon Mass at the Cathedral was celebrated by Father Peter Mongeon.  if you would like to receive an email when these homilies are posted each Wednesday, please click on the following email addresss, communications[@]dioceseofprovidence.org and enter ‘Homily’ in the subject line.

Parishes in the Diocese of Providence are free to use these videos on their parish websites.

This week’s Rhode Island Catholic includes a story about parish missions throughout the diocese.  Parish missions focus on strengthening faith during Lent is now available online and in the print edition. 

Don’t forget to become a fan of the Rhode Island Catholic Facebook page to receive news and information before anyone else!

As part of the Year of Evangelization, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence today announced that it will offer mid-week homilies online to provide busy Catholics an easy and convenient means by which to practice and stay connected to their faith during the week. 

Beginning on Ash Wednesday and continuing through Lent, the homily from the noon Mass at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul and other parishes will be posted to the diocesan website  and on the Rhode Island Catholic newspaper’s Facebook page.

Parishes throughout the diocese are welcome to use these homilies on their own websites.  Please contact the Office of Communications for details or to receive an email when homilies are posted to the web,

 Did you know that outdoor advertising–billboards and bus shelter signs–reaches 89% of adults between 18 and 34 years old?

Check out One, Two, Three, Four examples of keeping Welcoming and the Year of Evangelization in Parish bulletins.

Need content?   Click here for more sample bulletin art/text for returning Catholics.

NEW: Click here for the Stress Cure Bulletin Notice. (Resize and edit text as you feel appropriate.)

For more information to share with your parish in your bulletin, see our Frequently Asked Questions and our Link section for informative websites.

Other ideas:

Display a new Welcoming bulletin Image by changing your cover sheet to reflect the Year of Evangelization, the Catholics Come Home Program or other Catholic themes. Here is a suggested listing:

• Use the Year of Evangelization Logo “Return to Me with All Your Heart”
• Use an image of the Eucharist, “The Source and Summit of Our Catholic Faith.”
• Use an image of people, your parishioners if possible, in service to others.
• Use an image that reflects Stewardship in your parish e.g. one that highlights one or more of you parish ministries.
• Keep it simple and just say: Hi. Or Welcome. Or New to the parish? Say hello to the pastor after Mass!

Please email any bulletin inserts that you create so that we can share them with all parishes. Email to evangelizationcommittee@dioceseofprovidence.org. Thanks!

In a flyer distributed two weeks ago, we asked each parishioner to take part in this dimension of the Year of Evangelization by inviting Catholics home to our parish community. St. Catherine’s will host an open house at the church on February 18th . We will: welcome parishioners and their guests; renew acquaintances with the parish and the Catholic Church; discuss what the church has to offer people today; and consider how we can help people feel at home once again with the church. Please prayerfully consider whom you can invite to join us for this event. We will meet at 7 PM in the church hall for socializing and conversation. We plan on a relaxed and informative hour or so. We all have friends and relatives just a step away from returning to our family and we need your helping in guiding them home. Please make an attempt to invite at least one person to join you and us for this evening.