There's a saying in Gaelic. Its literal translation is "one hundred thousand welcomes". We say it to you now with all our hearts!
Céad Míle Fáilte

We throw our doors wide-open in welcome and hospitality to those who are,
or aspire to be Spirit-filled evangelisers. We seek those with a personal heart-felt call
to work with our Community, as we respond to the invitations of Catholic parishes throughout Ireland,
to help them along the path from a maintenance to a missionary mode.
And all in the name of Jesus, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to the glory of God, the Father. Amen.
"I hope that all communities will devote the necessary effort to advancing along the path of a pastoral and missionary conversion which cannot leave things as they presently are. “Mere administration” can no longer be enough.Throughout the world, let us be “permanently in a state of mission”.
I dream of a “missionary option”, that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the Church’s customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channelled for the evangelization of today’s world rather than for her self-preservation". From Paragraphs 25 and 27 Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of The Gospel) Pope Francis 2013 |