The Catholic Church in England and Wales
The Catholic Church in Scotland. Scotland www.catholic-scotland.org.uk
www.catholic-ew.org.uk
Catholic Media Office (England and Wales)
CAFOD
The Development Agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales
www.ukvocation.org
The national vocations service for England and Wales
www.cin.org
Catholic Information Network.
www.zenit.org
Zenit Catholic News Agency
Vatican Radio
Catholic Enquiry Office, Australia
An excellent questions and answers Catholic website. http://www.catholic.com
Key Documents on Evangelisation
Evangelium Nuntiandi
www.vatican.va/.../paul_vi/apost_exhortations/documents/ hf_p-vi_exh_19751208_evangelii-nuntiandi_en.html
Redemptoris Missio
www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/ hf_jp-ii_enc_07121990_redemptoris-missio_en.htm
Lumen Gentium
www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/ documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html
MISSION - A REQUIREMENT OF THE CHURCH'S CATHOLICITY
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church
DECREE ON THE CHURCH'S MISSIONARY ACTIVITY
Vatican II, Ad Gentes Divinitus, 1965
NOVO MILLENNIO INEUNTE (On the beginning of the New Millennium
Apostolic Letter of Pope John Paul II, 2001
DIALOGUE AND MISSION - Excerpt from NOVO MILLENNIO INEUNTE
Conclusion - DUC IN ALTUM! - Excerpt from NOVO MILLENNIO INEUNTE
DOMINUS IESUS (On the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and The Church)
Declaration of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 2000
REDEMPTORIS MISSIO (On the Permanent Validity of the Church's Missionary Mandate)
Encyclical of Pope John Paul II, 1990
TO THE PARTICIPANTS IN A SYMPOSIUM COMMEMORATING
THE 10th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ENCYCLICAL "REDEMPTORIS MISSIO"
Address of JOHN PAUL II, January 2000
EVANGELII PRAECONES (On Promotion of Catholic Missions)
Encyclical of Pius XII, 1951
PRINCEPS PASTORUM (On the Missions, Native Clergy, and Lay Participation)
Encyclical of John XXIII, 1959
RERUM ECCLESIAE (On Catholic Missions)
Encyclical of Pius XI, 1926
CHRISTI NOMEN (On the Propagation of Faith)
Encyclical of Leo XIII, 1894
Pope John Paul II's MESSAGE FOR WORLD MISSION SUNDAY, 2002
Previous WORLD DAY FOR MISSIONS MESSAGES
at the Vatican web site
PLUS: www.papalencyclicals.net
www.cin.org/mailman/listinfo/dailyworldtoday
A link where you can sign up to receive daily emails with passages and commentaries from the Navarre bible
The
Bible Gateway (for ecumenical usage)
www.biblegateway.com provides a free service for reading and researching
scripture online - all in the language or translation of your choice! They
provide advanced searching capabilities based on keywords or scripture references,
and various tools to enhance your study of the Bible.
www.ntgateway.com
(for ecumenical usage)
The New Testament Gateway , an award winning web directory of internet resources
on the New Testament. Browse or search annotated links on everything from
the Greek New Testament to Jesus in Film .
www.dailygospel.com
Receive the Gospel of the day each day via email.
www.gospelcom.net (for ecumenical usage)
Bible genealogy and ancient history.
EWTN
www.ewtn.com
The
Catechism of the Catholic Church
An on line Catechism.
A very good site offering a document library, website reviews, Catechism materials, liturgical resources and powerful research tools.
Catholic Resources on the Net.
www.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/catholic
www.rejesus.co.uk
A site aimed at people enquiring about Christianity. It is an ecumenical initiative supported by the major denominations in the U.K.
A site for enquirers which tries to answer the fundamental questions in life.
Ecole
Initiative (for ecumenical usage)
Encyclopedia of Early Church History
Catholic Software MSDOS Executables
Downloadable copies of Vatican II documents, Code of Canon Law etc.
Computer-Assisted Theology (ecumenical resource)
An internet resource for the study and teaching of Theology
www.newadvent.com
The Catholic Encyclopaedia on-line.
www.assumption.edu/dep/Library/Guides/catholic.htm
Catholic Research Guide
Good for spiritual seekers: "Apple Seeds"® provides quotations and short stories from eclectic sources that promote positive attitudes, and development of holistic human dignity. http://www.appleseeds.org
www.wellsprings.org.uk/loudandclear/index.htm
A useful web page which includes links to a variety of Catholic sites.
Prayer and Worship
www.prayingeachday.org
Praying Each Day includes a
reflection and prayer specific to each day
of the year, and also many links to 21 subjects of the school curriculum.
Run by the De La Salle Brothers of Great Britain.
www.crosssearch.com
(for ecumenical usage)
This website includes a reflection and prayer specific to each day of the
year .
www.jesuit.ie/prayer/
Run by the Irish Jesuits this site is called Sacred Space and is "prayer space" on the web.
Unsure of your calling in life? Why not check out a great little website called Compass Points?
A beautiful site that draws on the wellsprings of Christian spirituality.
A resource site providing tools for worship and prayer.
Knit-to-Pray is a unique way for us to pray through reading and entering the Scripture Story and meditating on the Scripture reflections while knitting.
Youth Resources
International Young Leaders Network seeks to identify, nurture, sustain and train young and emerging catholic leaders aged 18 to 33.
This is a little sister site to Sacred Space which is run by the Jesuits. The site takes the visitor through a guided prayer session.
A very creative site which aims to promote sainthood in a hip and contemporary way.
www.xt3.com (Run by Catholics but for ecumenical usage)
A website, shop, and radio station run by young Christians, for young Christians. This website is trying to build up a new Christian youth culture between young people from Catholic, Protestant and no faith backgrounds.
The Ezekiel Project is a Northampton based diocesan youth outreach project. It combines initial proclamation of the gospel to unchurched Catholics and includes follow-up in schools and parishes in Northampton.
Icebreakers to use with young people
Youth CaFE: a brand new multi-media resource for young people!
www.icpe.org
International Catholic Programme of Evangelisation.
Catholic Evangelisation Services
www.goingforth.org
The Office of Evangelisation for the Archdiocese of Chicago, USA.
www.autobahnkirche.de Our German counter-parts.
www.catholicmission.org.au
The official mission aid agency of the Catholic Church in Australia providing practical, spiritual and emotional support to communities in 160 developing countries, encouraging all people to be active participants in partnership with the church world-wide.
www.christlife.org Equipping the Church to evangelise in USA.
www.fides.org
MISSION NEWS from the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
(Updated daily)
http://www.utunumsint.org
A good resources site for those Catholics wanting to know more about their
faith.
http://www.crossroadsinitiative.com
This site was founded by Dr D'Ambrosio, an acclaimed Catholic writer and speaker. It is a resource site for Religious Educators and evangelists looking for material for teens and adults.
www.ShineOnline.net
Run by The Redemptorists.
www.maryvale.ac.uk
Maryvale Institute, Birmingham offers a wide range of courses; from Parish
Catechists training to facilitating PhD courses.
A UK based parish evangelisation and formation programme.
http://www.stpatricks.uk.com/vision.shtml
St. Patrick's School of Evangelisation, London.
This school aims to offer young people the opportunity
to grow in their faith in order to respond better to
Pope John Paul II's invitation in his apostolic letter "At the Beginning of the New Millennium" (Novo
Millennio Ineunte) to be "the Morning Watchmen at the
dawn of the New Millennium". (NMI).
Paintings
www.leoearle.com
Animation
Catholic Art
The Confraternity of Penitents
St Patrick's School of Mission
Sion Community
www.sioncommunity.org.uk
Youth 2000
www.youth2000.org
Catholic Evangelisation Services.
www.catholicevangel.org
Catholic Missionary Union
www.cmu.org.uk
Chemin Neuf Community
http://www.chemin-neuf.org/EN/index.html
Community of Our Lady of Walsingham www.vocationsgroup.org.uk/colw.html
Fraternity of Jesus
The Monastic Family Fraternity of Jesus' , with the evangelical motto, "Unus enim magister, omnes vos fratres" (You have only one Master, and you are all brothers) - Matthew 23, 8.
A unique online Benedictine Oblate program
www.yanktonbenedictines.org/oblates_booc_intro.html
News items on evangelistic initiatives throughout the uk. www.evangelismuk.typepad.com
The Christian Enquiry Agency
www.christianity.org.uk
http://developingvision.blogspot.com/
The World Council of Churches
www.wcc-coe.org
Taizé Community
www.taize.fr
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland
www.ctbi.org.uk
This ecumenical body has links to most Church organisations in the UK, including, amongst several others:
The Baptist Union of Great Britain www.baptist.org.uk/acatalog/catalogbody.html
Church of England
www.cofe.anglican.org
The purpose of this site is practical: to offer suggestions and ideas to UK Christians and churches to encourage and enable their evangelistic thinking and action, and to help evangelism get done.
The site covers different sources, representing a breadth of Christian approach and tradition. This site is maintained by the Church of England's Division of Mission and Public Affairs.
Church in Wales
www.churchinwales.org.uk
The Methodist Church
www.methodist.org.uk
The United Reformed Church
www.urc.org.uk
The Evangelical Alliance.
www.eauk.org
www.ncl.org.au National Church Life Survey
Research based resources to help your church be more effective in mission.
Kerygam Teams
www.theshorelineconsultancy.co.uk (for ecumenical usage)
A new organisation founded to help Christian Communities respond to the needs of contemporary society.
Alpha for Catholics Office
www.alphafriends.org/catholics
Ecumenical resources website to encourage Christians to evangelise in their 'circle of influence'.
wuzupgod.com
(Ecumenical for teenagers)
http://www.churchintouch.com (for ecumenical usage)
Lots of new initiatives are being launched around the church. This site seeks to bring news of these direct to thousands of church leaders in the UK.
www.relay-network.org
(for ecumenical usage)
RELaY is a European Network which promotes Reconciliation among Christians, the re-Evangelisation of Europe, the formation of L ay Leaders, A nd the mobilisation of Y outh for the work of the Gospel
www.virtualchurch.org
(ecumenical)
Ecumenical - a site good for a wide variety of resources for use in parishes and groups.
www.deo-gloria.co.uk
(ecumenical)
Ecumenical - definitely worth looking at for a variety of ideas and resources.
www.glory-of-zion.org (ecumenical)
A Catholic Page for lovers! Not to be missed!
www.catholicmission.org
This site does much to capture the spirit of evangelisation.
A programme to welcome those returning to the Catholic faith.
Other:
http://www.collegefootballhistory.com/notre_dame/history.htm
For Catholic American football fans!
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