| Spreading
the Sunday Gospel to families through primary schools
and promoting a new Family Time custom that enriches
the Home, School & Parish partnership
Welcome
to the Headteachers, Teachers & Governors Pages
The Wednesday
Word
A NATIONAL MISSION TO 21st CENTURY SCHOOL FAMILIES.
The Wednesday Word spreads the Gospel
in a powerful new way and promotes a new, weekly, Family
Time custom for school families.
The national mission starts in the Diocese
of Leeds in April 2008. The initial response has been overwhelming
with 67 out of 80+ Diocesan schools joining the mission. The
resource will be available throughout the UK from September
2008.
Endorsements have already been received from
the Vatican, the Bishops' Conference Committee for Evangelisation
(CASE) and the Committee for Marriage and Family Life, etc.
The Wednesday Word mission aims
to help all school families draw closer to
God, to the Church and to each other. The Wednesday Word particularly
seeks to reach the majority of parents (which statistics tell
us are 80% in many schools) who do not take their baptised
children to church or read the Bible together.
The primary school version of The Wednesday
Word is a double-sided A4 leaflet which carries the Sunday
Gospel into school family homes. The children receive the
leaflet in school each week for them to take home with them
to read with the rest of the family.
This way, the Word will be sent out (as in
the Parable of the Sower and the Seed), creating
a new opportunity for the Word to be present in the homes
of school families connected to participating primary schools.
The weekly appearance of The Wednesday
Word in the home is also designed to act as a regular
invitation to the Eucharist throughout the time that the family
is connected to the life of the school. This is a most excellent
way to support school families and a wonderful new way to
enhance the Home, School and Parish partnership.
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Please click here
to read what Headteachers
and Church Authorities
are saying about
The Wednesday Word
"I
encourage the widest possible distribution of this
excellent resource."
Mgr. Keith
Barltrop - CASE |
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An
example of
The Wednesday Word
Please click below
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Please click
here to read what families
are saying about The Wednesday Word
| "Without
The Wednesday Word coming through school
we would probably never have done this kind of thing……" |
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