The
Wednesday Word in Brief
The Wednesday Word is an attempt to bridge the gap between the family and the local Church Community via the School. Each week the Sunday Gospel is sent out into school family homes: furthering the mission of the church and seeking to strengthen the relationship - the living contact - between school families and the local Church community.
Statistics tell us that more than 80% of families in many do not regularly come to church. The primary school version of The Wednesday Word shares the Gospel with school parents and families. This resource also encourages a weekly Family Time custom which supports the Catholic Church. This new Family Time is under the patronage of St Joseph, Patron Saint of families and protector of the Church.
For all school parents the arrival of The Wednesday Word into the family home acts as a weekly reminder of the love that our Lord has for them. For baptised parents the weekly appearance of The Wednesday Word can act as a regular reminder of responsibility that many accepted at Baptism, to bring their children to the knowledge and practice of the Good News that we have received in Jesus.
Moreover, where adults are evangelised and their faith in God nurtured, and where Catholic/Christian family spirituality is embraced by families, we find a powerful antidote to family relationship breakdown.
The weekly distribution of the primary school version of The Wednesday Word also ensures an unbroken invitation to the Eucharist throughout school life and is a further way for our Church to demonstrate our care and concern for our school families.
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PRIMARY
SCHOOL VERSION 'KEYPOINTS' FOR PARISH PRIESTS
The primary school
version of The Wednesday Word is unique. It:
- aims to contribute
to drawing families more closely into the life of the
Church through creating a new form of relationship between
the Church and Catholic school parents who do not currently
appear to be practising or enquiring about the Catholic
faith
- acts as a regular reminder to all
parents and carers about their responsibilities to support
the school’s ethos
- assists churchgoing
school families to prepare for the proclamation of the
Gospel at Sunday Mass through praying and discussing the
Gospel together. This new weekly prayer custom in the
home is also an effective way to help parents transmit
the faith to their children
- regularly spreads the Gospel to school
parents, regardless of any professed faith or lack of
it
- is an effective
starting point that helps avoid awkwardness in the many
families where the tradition of coming together in prayer
and reflection appears to have lapsed. The Wednesday
Word aims to help all school families to develop
Christ-centred relationships in the home - a proven way
of reducing family breakdown
- assists Christian unity in the homes
of mixed denomination families by encouraging and enabling
them to pray together
- is based on
the parable of the Sower and the Seed. The Seed is the
Word. Sometimes the Word will be rejected or ignored.
But sometimes the Word will “bring in a spiritual
harvest of thirty, and sixty, and a hundredfold”
- is a missionary initiative for our
time which aims to serve the Church and bring Glory to
God, but needs your support. Will you help to spread the Gospel through The
Wednesday Word?
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