[PDF] The Shared Parish eBook

Author : Brett C. Hoover
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1479854999

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As faith communities in the United States grow increasingly more diverse, many churches are turning to the shared parish, a single church facility shared by distinct cultural groups who retain their own worship and ministries. The fastest growing and most common of these are Catholic parishes shared by Latinos and white Catholics. Shared parishes remain one of the few institutions in American society that allows cultural groups to maintain their own language and customs while still engaging in regular intercultural negotiations over the shared space. This book explores the shared parish through an in-depth ethnographic study of a Roman Catholic parish in a small Midwestern city demographically transformed by Mexican immigration in recent decades. Through its depiction of shared parish life, the book argues for new ways of imagining the U.S. Catholic parish as an organization. The parish, argues Brett C. Hoover, must be conceived as both a congregation and part of a centralized system, and as one piece in a complex social ecology. The Shared Parish also posits that the search for identity and adequate intercultural practice in such parishes might call for new approaches to cultural diversity in U.S. society, beyond assimilation or multiculturalism. We must imagine a religious organization that accommodates both the need for safe space within distinct groups and for social networks that connect these groups as they struggle to respectfully co-exist.

Author : Brett C. Hoover
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1479854395

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Describes parish life in a smallish midwestern town where the one Catholic parish accommodates two distinct cultural groups: recent Spanish speaking immigrants mostly from Mexican and English-speaking natives of mostly German or Irish descent. Discusses the strategies for interaction between the two groups: separate services in English in Spanish, but use of the same facilities that requires some degree of cooperation and mutual acculturation.

Author : United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2024-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1639661425

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Best Practices for Shared Parishes seeks to assist pastors of culturally diverse parishes in the challenging yet rewarding task of building unity in diversity. Developed from a study of pastors who successfully increased parishioner integration and inclusion in their parishes, the recommendations in this book can help pastors and parish leadership teams respond to challenging ministerial situations and growing demographic changes. This bilingual English and Spanish guide identifies pastoral responses and proven approaches to intercultural competencies in attitudes, knowledge, and skills. This book helps parishes discern pastoral planning strategies and opportunities that can lead to a higher level of stewardship and engagement.

Author : John T. McGreevy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 1998-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226558745

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Steeples topped by crosses still dominate neighborhood skylines in many American cities, silent markers of local worlds rarely examined by historians. In Parish Boundaries, John McGreevy chronicles the history of these Catholic parishes and connects their unique place in the urban landscape to the course of American race relations in the twentieth century.

Author : Tricia Colleen Bruce
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190270314

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The Catholic Church stands at the forefront of an emergent majority-minority America. Parish and Place tells the story of how America's largest religion is responding at the local level to unprecedented cultural, racial, linguistic, ideological, and political diversification. Specifically, it explores bishops' use of personal parishes - parishes formally established not on the basis of territory, but purpose. Today's personal parishes serve an array of Catholics drawn together by shared identities and preferences, rather than shared neighborhoods. They allow Catholic leaders to act upon the perceived need for named, specialist organizations alongside the more common territorial parish that serves all in its midst. Parish and Place documents the American Catholic Church's movement away from "national" parishes and towards personal parishes as a renewed organizational form. Tricia Bruce uses in-depth interviews and national survey data to examine the rise and rationale behind new parishes for the Traditional Latin Mass, for Vietnamese Catholics, for tourists, and more. Featuring insights from bishops, priests, and diocesan leaders throughout the United States, this book offers a rare view of institutional decision making from the top. Parish and Place demonstrates structural responses to diversity, exploring just how far fragmentation can go before it challenges unity.

Author : Brett C. Hoover
Publisher :
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Church management
ISBN :

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"The demographic transformation of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States by immigration from Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands provides a social context for this study of a shared parish in the Midwestern United States. Shared parishes-where two or more cultures enjoy distinct masses and ministries but share the facilities--constitute a common local response across the United States to this demographic transformation. This dissertation focuses on the single parish in a small city dramatically altered by immigration largely from Mexico. This study of one shared parish makes use of a theological methodology called participatory witness (parWit). It applies community-based research principles (such as in participatory action research, or PAR) to ethnographic and congregational studies research. With the cooperation of parishioners over ten months, this research process elicited theologies of mission elaborated around five themes deemed important to the practical life of the parish in its historical, cultural, and ecclesial context. The themes are: 1) social order, 2) worship, 3) faith formation in the Latino/a community, 4) hospitality in the Euro-American community, and 5) unity and integration. The author refines these themes in dialogue with larger church teaching and theology based on initial reactions to such teaching and theology he previously uncovered in the parish. In contrast to most scholarly studies of "parallel congregations" or "multiethnic congregations," this study focuses attention on the intercultural dynamics that a shared parish creates between its distinct communities. This intercultural focus-as well as an additional attentiveness to peculiarly Catholic connections between local parish and the larger church-demonstrates how the investigation of contemporary Catholic parishes requires frameworks and methodologies beyond those commonly in use in congregational studies. Moreover, this study also articulates a local and practical theology of mission, a still somewhat underappreciated approach to mission within missiology. Finally, it begins to expand upon communion ecclesiology as a language and approach superior to multiculturalism in addressing cultural diversity in the church."--Abstract

Author : William E. Simon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Church work
ISBN : 9781594714177

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What is really happening in the Catholic Church in North America? Are parishes thriving or dying? Is dissatisfaction among Catholics growing or are they becoming more engaged in the evangelizing mission of the Church? Businessman, professor, and philanthropist, William E. Simon Jr. has been highly influenced by the dynamic and inspiring Catholic parishes he has attended for more than 25 years. In 2012, he founded Parish Catalyst, an organization devoted to researching and supporting the health and development of Catholic parishes. Great Catholic Parishes looks at Simon's insights and the success stories of 244 vibrant parishes to show what makes them great. In 2012 and 2013, Simon and his team studied 244 Catholic parishes to determine what made them exceptional. The study found that all of the parishes shared four foundational practices that led to a profound sense of belonging within their parish communities and a deepening commitment to discipleship: Share leadership by using clergy and lay staff with the best talents and skills to direct the community Foster spiritual maturity and plan for discipleship by offering a variety of formation programs and ministry opportunities to reach parishioners at differing points in their lives Excel on Sundays by dedicating significant time, energy, and money to liturgical celebrations that parishioners and visitors find welcoming Intentionally evangelize by challenging insiders to look outward and providing service programs, social events, global mission opportunities, and pastoral care at key sacramental moments that focus on inviting outsiders to deeper relationship with Christ and the Church. In Great Catholic Parishes, Simon shares personal stories such as finding a welcoming parish home and what he learned about evangelizing from a mission trip to Kenya. Pastors from exceptional parishes offer helpful ideas, strategic advice, and practical strategies, as well as anecdotes about lay ministry development initiatives and reworking religious education so that it is family focused and web-based. You will also learn creative solutions to familiar challenges such as spiritual stagnation among parishioners, reconciling diverse needs in the parish, allowing the pastor to focus on pastoring and preaching, and reaching youth and young adults who leave the Church in disproportionate numbers. Each chapter closes with either crucial takeaways or a summary of practical challenges that will help pastors and leaders focus on growth and excellence. Great Catholic Parishes received an Honorable Mention in the 2017 Catholic Press Association Book Awards: Pastoral Ministry.

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Publisher : U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Church management
ISBN : 9781601373892

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Best Practices for Shared Parishes: So That They All May Be One is a guide to assist pastors of culturally diverse parishes in the challenging yet rewarding task of building unity in diversity. This bilingual English and Spanish guide identifies pastoral responses and proven best practices in relation to intercultural competencies in attitudes, knowledge, and skills. It helps parishes discern pastoral planning strategies and opportunities that will lead to a higher level of stewardship.

Author : Sherry A. Weddell, Editor
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1612783791

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"It is not the same thing to have known Jesus as not to have known him, not the same thing to walk with him as to walk blindly, not the same thing to hear his word as not to know it.... We know that with Jesus life becomes richer."-Pope Francis, The Joy of the Gospel In her first book, Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus, Sherry Weddell, cofounder of the Catherine of Siena Institute, captured the attention of Catholics across the globe as she uncovered the life-changing power that accompanies the conscious decision to follow Jesus as his disciple. Now, in the groundbreaking Becoming a Parish of Intentional Disciples, she has gathered together experienced leaders and collaborators whose exceptional field-tested wisdom and enthusiasm for transforming Catholic parishes into centers of discipleship and apostolic outreach is both inspiring and practical. The authors consider: The role of intercessory prayer in parish transformation How "fireside chats" can help a pastor connect with his parishioners and call them to personal discipleship and mission The co-responsibility of lay people andpastors in the work of making disciples The revolutionary impact of a discipleship approach to youth ministry How one parish successfully fostered a culture of intentional discipleship, and much more As Sherry asks in her own chapter, "Are we willing to answer the call and pay the price necessary to become a new generation of saints through which God can do extraordinary things in our time?"

Author : Erika Hewitt
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1558967222

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"Here is a complete workshop to help lay people gain experience writing and preaching a full-length sermon for their congregation. This easy-to-use guide for both facilitators and participants provides a step-by-step lesson plan for eight sessions. Workshop members learn about the theory and theology of preaching, then practice writing and speaking with authenticity, gradually building toward composing quality 20-minute sermons. Workshop leaders learn to foster a supportive environment in which participants offer one another helpful feedback. The Shared Pulpit includes a separate leader's guide, readings for homework, sample sermons, and exercises to help first-time preachers polish their preaching craft."--Back cover.