English Catholics will be asked to help bring inactive Catholic neighbors and friends back to church, as part of a nationwide initiative to be launched on September 16. "Our initiative aims to encourage Catholics to listen respectfully and lovingly to people’s stories and invite them back," says Msgr. Keith Barltrop, the director of the Catholic Agency to Support Evangelization.
"A simple invitation could make all the difference in the world.”
On September 16, as the English Church observes Home Mission Sunday, each parish will receive materials designed for use in the effort to attract lapsed Catholics back into an active practice of the faith.
Encouraging the effort, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor of Westminster said: "In a non-judgmental way, as the Body of Christ, let’s go out to the lost sheep with a message of love, acceptance, welcome and reconciliation.”
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