Vatican Document
Clarifies the Meaning of Catholic Evangelization
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 ....Read Here
The U tahmission is dedicated to serving Christ by making
it easier to invite our family, friends and strangers to observe our Catholic
Mass quit possibly for the first time and to tour our Church. All of this is to
help Catholics, non Catholics, friends and strangers to understand the
Catholic faith better. This Ministry
has been approved by the evangelization committee and has the blessing of
Father Clearance and Father JJ.
When you donate to the Utah Mission
you are helping
in extending an invitation to touring our Church and also an invitation to
observe our Catholic Mass by using radio, display ads in the Harold Journal,
invitational cards that we all can give to family and friends and this brochure created by our Church members
that we are currently out of. We have also been purchasing other materials
found at the bottom of this page and more that is not yet seen here.
You are also helping the RCIA program by providing useful
materials that support all aspects of this ministry.
If you have questions about this
Ministry call Bob and Margaret Stepan at 753-7652
How can I donate
to this Outreach?
There are a couple ways that you can donate to this mission.
1. Simply hit the donate button below or:
2. By sending us a check payable to Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic
Church. Please make a note (For: Evangelization Fund / Radio) on your
check.
The mailing address to which checks may be sent is:
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Catholic Church 725 South 250 East,
Hyde Park,
UT 84318
3. Simply call Mary in the
office at: 752-1478 / have you credit card available
Please
note: Donations made to Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church
*are* tax-deductible.
"Radio offers perhaps the closest equivalent today of what Jesus was
able to do with large groups through His preaching. Radio is an intimate
medium which can reach people on the street, in their cars, or in their
homes...
Radio
may well be the most cost-effective means of reaching numbers of people
who may not want to read or may lack exposure to Catholic publications -
" JOHN PAUL II
What Does
the Church Say About Radio?
“The most important of these inventions are those media which, such
as …radio, television and the like, can, of their very nature, reach and
influence, not only individuals, but the very masses and the whole of human
society” (Inter Mirifica, 1).
“Effective support should be given to good radio and television
programs. …An effort should also be made…to set up Catholic stations”
(Inter Mirifica, 14).
“This sacred Synod advises them [the laity] of the obligation
they have to maintain and assist Catholic …radio and television programs
and stations, whose principal objective is to spread and defend the truth
and foster Christian influence in human society” (Inter Mirifica, 17).
“The Church must continue, in spite of the many difficulties involved,
to develop, maintain, and foster its own specifically Catholic instruments
and programs for social communications. …Catholic media work is not simply
one more program alongside all the rest of the Church's activities: social
communications have a role to play in every aspect of the Church's mission”
(Aetatis Novae, 17).
“We deem it opportune to remind our children of
their duty to take an active part in public life and to contribute toward
the attainment of the common good of the entire human family as well as
to that of their own political community… Every believer in this world of
ours must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying leaven amidst
his fellow men. And he will be this all the more perfectly, the more closely
he lives in communion with God in the intimacy of his own soul.”
Blessed Pope John XXIII, Peace
on Earth
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Invitational Cards to our Mass
BACK OF CARD
FRONT OF CARD / THE INVITATION
We know this:One could purchase
and read every Catholic book ever written and not get out of them what one
single Mass can give. The Catholic Mass can truly pierce a heart. It is
our Mission to bring lapsed Catholics back to the Mass and non Catholics to the Mass
for the very first time -- in essence home to God -- even if only for a moment, one moment that may change a life forever.
There
is nothing in this world more touching than witnessing another's eyes opened
to the immensity of what we as Catholics have been given in Christ... in which
we live the great gift of the Eucharist, forgiveness, and reconciliation daily.
There is nothing
in this world more healing than the sacraments of the church,
those seven wonders that bring us closer to our Lord Jesus, in
which we find His true unyielding peace in good times as well as times of
suffering. When I was eight, I lost a mother to suicide because she did not
feel “good” enough to continue living. The gift we have to pass on to others
is the same gift of which she and so many others were/are in urgent need...
the peace, the cure that only Christ can give, when we discover his healing
nature, his unconditional love.
As a ministry of the Franciscan Friars of Cincinnati, Ohio, FranciscanRadio.org
seeks to emulate Francis of Assisi, who preached in the marketplace, taught
the Reign of God in plain and simple ways, and welcomed the response of
God’s people. Our late Holy Father John Paul II repeatedly encouraged the
Church to develop the spirit of evangelization. Similarly the Catholic Bishops
of the U.S. remind us that evangelization should play a major part in the
activities of the Catholic parish. We applaud St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic
Church in Utah in its use of the radio airwaves to invite the residents of
Utah to encounter the risen Christ with them in the Sunday Eucharist.
Peace and all good!
AmericanCatholic.org
Ministry Team
“A radio spot inviting souls to the Catholic Mass is a wonderful
Idea. As our affiliates know well, radio is “evangelization for shy
people!” Many who would never walk into a church to find out about
Catholicism can find out about our faith in the privacy of their cars or
homes by listening to radio. My personal opinion: if you folks are ready to
roll with these invitations to the Mass, and have the blessings of your
pastor, by all means proceed! You never know who may be listening, it
can even be a matter of life or death as many out there are hurting”
~ Thom Price Director of programming for EWTN Global Catholic Radio Network
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