This weekend we hear from a “son” of
our parish who has taken up the call to evangelize, Jonathan Smith. He is sharing some of his experiences at the
weekend Masses this weekend and inviting any who wish to be part of his
adventure through an organization called FOCUS, the “Fellowship Of Catholic
University Students,” which was founded
in 1998, responding to Pope John Paul’s call to the New Evangelization. Jonathan has heard that call and is working
as a missionary to bring Catholic awareness to students on college
campuses. You can learn more about FOCUS
at http://www.focus.org/.
A similar organization working in
the Columbus Ohio State University Ohio Dominican University St. Paul
The call to the New Evangelization
invites us all to an active awareness of our Faith and a willingness to share
it through a witness of intentional discipleship. At St. Timothy Parish, there are quite a
number of initiatives that are in motion in response to this call. Are you ready to jump in?
Our Youth are part of a Revolution,
growing in knowledge and practice and making plans for the Second Annual Summer
Bible Camp next weekend. Contact Kathy
Lutter or Karen McGirty if you would like to be part of the Bible Camp or of
the Youth Revolution.
The St. Timothy Men’s Club and the Knights
of Columbus Council 14345 will be working together with men from the various
parishes in our area to make use of a program called “That Man Is You,” TMIY, to educate Catholic men concerning the
Faith and their call to witness. This
program has been successful in several parishes around the Diocese of Columbus
Pushkar Baum and some of his fellow
seminarians at the Josephinum are members of the New Evangelization Club, which
is collaborating with St. Timothy Parish to begin a Catholic Door-to-Door
evangelization effort. Their hope is to
give Seminarians some practical experience talking with people about the
Catholic Faith and to establish an ongoing Ministry of Evangelization in the
parish. If you feel called to be part of
this, let Pushkar know and when he returns to the Josephinum in the Fall, he
will be sure you are in touch with the New Evangelization Committee.
Anther possibility is the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd to
introduce our children to the Faith through Scripture and the Liturgy. See the inserts in the bulletin for further
information about this or contact Rita Feige.
Even closer to home is your own
daily encounter with people who have been away (inviting them to come home) or
who have never been involved with a Church (inviting them to the RCIA). The witness of the Faith is the fruit of your
own practice, prayer, and a large dose of the zeal that comes from a heart open
to respond to God’s Holy Spirit. How are
you being called to share the Faith of the Church?
Year of Faith October
11, 2012 – November 24, 2013
We continue our journey through the Year
of Faith. As one way of observing
this year, each week a small section of the Catechism
of the Catholic Church is read before the start of Mass.
ARTICLE
3 SACRED SCRIPTURE
IV. The Canon of
Scripture
The Old Testament
121 The Old Testament is an
indispensable part of Sacred Scripture. Its books are divinely inspired and
retain a permanent value, (Cf. Dei
Verbum 14.) for the Old Covenant has never been revoked.
122 Indeed, “the economy of the
Old Testament was deliberately so oriented that it should prepare for and
declare in prophecy the coming of Christ, redeemer of all men.” (Dei Verbum 15.) “Even though they
contain matters imperfect and provisional,” (Dei Verbum 15.) the books
of the Old Testament bear witness to the whole divine pedagogy of God’s saving
love: these writings “are a storehouse of sublime teaching on God and of sound
wisdom on human life, as well as a wonderful treasury of prayers; in them, too,
the mystery of our salvation is present in a hidden way.” (Dei Verbum 15.)
123 Christians venerate the Old
Testament as true Word of God. The Church has always vigorously opposed the
idea of rejecting the Old Testament under the pretext that the New has rendered
it void (Marcionism).
Comment: We
cannot fully understand Christ without an understanding of the preparations God
made through the ages among His chosen People.
The Jewish Scriptures invite us to learn the culture and customs and the
hopes and longings of the Hebrew People through their complex history. How well do you know the Books of the Old
Testament?
Focolare Word of Life for July 2013: For the whole law is summed up in a single
commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Gal. 5:14)
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