| Spreading
the Sunday Gospel to families through primary schools
and enriching the Home, School & Parish partnership.
Keypoints
The Wednesday Word Sunday
scripture & prayer resource is unique. It:
- complements
and supports the RE already provided in schools, and has
minimal impact on school administration - implementation
and distribution are simple
- 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 what statistics tell us is as much as 80%
of all Catholic school parents who do not currently appear
to be practising or enquiring about the Catholic faith
- promotes, upholds
and enhances the Catholic ethos of Catholic schools. In
this way it also acts as a regular, ‘gentle’
reminder both to all parents and carers about their responsibilities
to support the school’s ethos, and also to lapsed
Catholic parents in particular about the promises they
made at their child’s baptism. The Wednesday
Word also acts as a regular, indirect invitation
to join the Church family at the celebration of the Eucharist
throughout the time that the family is connected to the
school
- 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 appear 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 Wednesday Word?
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