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Thank you to the diocesan GROUPS from across NSW, QLD and VICTORIA who have got in early and registered for PROCLAIM 2016. We look forward to you joining us!

Are you passionate about sharing faith.....

through witness?
through service to others?

Join hundreds from across Australia for PROCLAIM 2016.

This national event is for people interested in the New Evangelisation in parishes - for those actively engaged, and those who desire to learn more.

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Jesus beckons us. The joy we experience compels us to share it with others. We are not only disciples, we are evangelists." Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington
(Keynote Speaker PROCLAIM 2016)

EXCITING WORKSHOPS

Have you looked through
the workshops on offer at
PROCLAIM 2016?

Our Keynote Workshops are filling up fast. There are also excellent programs focused on parish specific areas such as: Connecting Parish and School; Renewing Sacramental Preparation; Family-Friendly Liturgies and Evangelisation Strategies.

Some Workshop tasters..
To see our full list of Workshop Abstracts and Timetables click here

Let the Children Come: Evangelisation through
Family-Friendly Liturgy
Michael Mangan and Anne Frawley-Mangan

Vibrant, engaging liturgy is a powerful agent of evangelisation in any parish. This is especially true for liturgies with children and their families who can find the experience of worship challenging, even difficult. This workshop will share tools to actively engage the hearts, heads and hands of children and adults in liturgical celebrations....

read more here

Fostering Vocations in the Heart
of the Parish

Fr Morgan Batt

This workshop will share the practical ways in which parishes can foster and support the development of vocation in the midst of the local community of faith. Whether it is marriage, the ordained priesthood, consecrated life or the dedicated single life, the parish is the frontline of the Church’s mission and can call people to their specific way of discipleship with the right tools and approaches in place....

read more here

"This is not the Church of tomorrow, it’s the Church of today!"
Dr Susan Timoney, Washington
(Keynote Speaker PROCLAIM 2016)

Communicating the Gospel to a New Generation: Growing Youth Outreach in the Parish

Patrick Keady

How can we as Church communicate the unchanging message of the Gospel to today’s generation in a way in which they can hear it, let alone receive it? This workshop will break open various ways to evangelise among youth and young adults, including media and music, naming those influential tools that have not only proven to capture the attention of our young people today but which can be harnessed by all parish
communities to ‘spearhead a new evangelisation of our nation’...

read more here..

“Evangelisation is at heart about the communication of a relationship, a relationship with Christ – in word and deed and in such a way that causes people to ask, 'Who is this Jesus whom you love and worship?’.”
Bishop Nicholas Hudson, Auxilliary Bishop of Westminster
(Keynote Speaker PROCLAIM 2016)

Developing Spiritual Gifts and Language for Evangelisation
Clara Geoghegan

How we evangelise is personal and distinctive. We do not all evangelise in the same way and our effectiveness is linked with our openness to allowing the Holy Spirit to animate us. Some evangelise through intercessory prayer, others through friendship, or works of mercy, or teaching. This workshop will help participants enhance their capacity to evangelise through identifying their spiritual gifts and present different styles of evangelising through the lives of the saints....

read more here

PRAISEFEST
Our Lady of Dolours Catholic Church, Chatswood.

Held on Friday 2 September, PRAISEFEST is a vibrant gathering of youth celebrating our faith through prayer, incredible music & community. As part of PROCLAIM conference, this event is especially for our young people. It is a joyful celebration with youth high school aged and above and, in a special way, for those who have newly returned from their World Youth Day experience in the city of Mercy, Krakow.

PRAISEFEST will kick off with a BBQ at 6pm before the main event begins at 6:30pm.
read more here...

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Copyright © 2016 Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay. All rights reserved

Contact us:
Natalie Moutia on (02) 9847 0504
proclaim2016@dbb.org.au

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