Holy Redeemer New Evangelization Retreat

Holy Redeemer New Evangelization Retreat

• Target date: June 9 - 11 2017

Planning meetings

• January 7, 2017 6:00 at Rectory
  • Meeting handout
• January 12, 2017 7:00 at Mary and Bobby's house
• January 22, 1:00 PM Maria Goretti room.
  • Examen - Bob Wassmann
  • Report on possible locations.

The Team

• Planning team
  • Fr. Mark Smith
  • Fr. Conrad Murphy
  • Bob and Mary Wassamann
  • Paul and Debbie Fontaine
  • Jonathan and Tami Collum
• Possible Support Team (Prayer, Logistics, Child Care?)
  • Beth and Kevin Berard
  • Wendy and Eric Pavlet
  • Rachel and Simon McNabb
  • Hilliary and Eddie
  • Erin Dunn
  • Grace Hagherty
  • Marie and Mike Winterson

Location

Possible Locations

• CUA - Paul will check this out
  • CUA Conference information
• Franciscan Monastery - Fr. Conrad
• JPII Fr. - Fr. Mark
• Washington Retreat House - Mary

Planning tasks

• Bring list of Scripture passages
• List of who to invite.
• Develop process, script for delivering invitations and and related messages
• What is the spirit we want our parish to have?
  • Concern for each other.
    • Bring food to each other, Babysit for each other
  • Taking care of each other
  • Important to have a sense of who each other is. e.g. quit Asian lady in church.
  • Being Jesus to each other - That comes from Jesus!
  • Love in view of God
  • Fire of God's love in our Parish
  • Undercurrent of ownership (not necessarily good) regarding people holding on to their private niche

• Name the grace each of us would like to receive in what we are doing.

• Witness talks - Sharing our personal stories
  • Bobby would do a Bobby will do an Examine at the next meeting
  • Mary on the "hand"

Content

Scripture passages

• • Matt 13:3-8 And he spoke to them at length in parables, 2 saying: "A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky ground, where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep, and when the sun rose it was scorched, and it withered for lack of roots. Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it. But some seed fell on rich soil, and produced fruit, a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold. Whoever has ears ought to hear." The disciples approached him and said, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" He said to them in reply, "Because knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been granted to you, but to them it has not been granted. To anyone who has, more will be given 5 and he will grow rich; from anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables, because 'they look but do not see and hear but do not listen or understand.' Isaiah's prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says: 'You shall indeed hear but not understand you shall indeed look but never see. Gross is the heart of this people, they will hardly hear with their ears, they have closed their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and be converted, and I heal them.' "But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. Amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it. "Hear then the parable of the sower. The seed sown on the path is the one who hears the word of the kingdom without understanding it, and the evil one comes and steals away what was sown in his heart. The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and receives it at once with joy. But he has no root and lasts only for a time. When some tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, he immediately falls away. The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word and it bears no fruit. But the seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold."

Resources

• Slide Show on Forming Intentional Disciples
• Article on 5 Steps to becoming an intentional disciple.
• Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus Paperback Weddell
• Forming Intentional Disciples discussion guide from Archdiocese of Baltimore