Crossing the Threshold: Catholic Church Re-Evangelisation of Lapsed Catholics in England and Wales
Forgive the brevity of this post, I have an Interview with the palliative care team to determine my role this morning. Prayers gratefully received.
Did you know that non-Church going (lapsed) Catholics number around 5 million in the UK? That is rather a lot.
Anyway, a new initiative is being started called: Crossing the Threshold, to reach out to lapsed Catholics in England and Wales and is part of the gearing up process for the re-evangelisation of the UK.
Bones has all the details and it makes for some interesting reading.
Tags: Church Life
November 15th, 2011 at 8:36 am
This is an extremely sound idea. A lot of Christians leave college and move to some new town, where they never manage to become established in a local church — usually because those churches are terrible — and simply vanish from sight. I have often thought that such an initiative would be a good thing in my own town — there must be loads arrive every September — even if it went no further than a contact list. But I am the last person to be able to do that kind of thing, sadly.
Well done to someone for realising the obvious. The “lapsed Catholics” who are renegades are not the point here — it is those who lapsed rather against their own will who need to be looked after.