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Register Now for "Fields Ripe for the Harvest" Diocesan Pastoral Council Retreat open to all parish leaders and emerging leaders... Explore our Baptismal call to be disciples of Jesus with Fr. Michael Fones
Priorities of the Office of Lay Ministry
Assist those who are specifically called to fulfill their Baptismal Dignity as Lay Ecclesial Ministers. Help them with formation through discernment and resources.Four Areas of Formation:
1. Spiritual
2. Human Relations
3. Intellectual
4. Pastoral
Michael S. Davis
Office of Lay Ministry & Planning
800-252-9325 (Nebraska)
308-532-2707
1225 S. Poplar Suite 100
North Platte, NE 69101Marriage & Family
Made for Each Other invites a renewed consideration of the human person, created as male and female, and of the distinct gift of self only possible between husband and wife. Video.
Click here for excellent Marriage Video... Made for Each Other from USCCB July 2010
Strategic Plan One Future~Un Futuro due July 1st
The first annual reports are flowing into our office, Thank you!
Click here for Strategic Plan writable documents *One Future~Un Futuro
“Entrust your works to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.”
Proverbs 16:3
Some beginning thoughts regarding Strategic Planning & Lay Ministry…..
In a famous passage attributed to Cardinal Dearden, and later to Archbishop Romero, we read:
“The Kingdom is not only beyond our effort, it is beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete….
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, and opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest….”