Missional Communities in Rural Parishes
Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Rural communities have Catholic parishes too, and they should be celebrated! Today, Gomer shares a talk he gave to Omaha Archdiocesan "Rural Lead" program to help parishes become missional communities.
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| 0:00.0 | You are a part of the church. |
| 0:02.1 | You are commissioned by the church. |
| 0:03.8 | Your baptism and confirmation gives you the right to preach the gospel. |
| 0:27.5 | Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Every Knee Shall Bow, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization. |
| 0:29.5 | My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am not joined by Dave the Party Van Vickle. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm not joined by him because and this is serious people right before we |
| 0:38.4 | were going to record he had to leave and cancel because amber had to go get rushed to the hospital |
| 0:44.0 | so please let's all take a moment and uh let's pray for amber commend her to our lady and her |
| 0:51.3 | protection hail mary full of grace. The Lord is with thee. |
| 0:54.5 | Blessed are thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. |
| 0:58.1 | Holy Mary, Mother of God. |
| 0:59.4 | Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. |
| 1:01.7 | Amen. |
| 1:02.7 | Our Lady, please intercede on behalf of Amber, grant her healing and strength in this time of adversity. |
| 1:10.8 | Lord Jesus, we trust in you and in your matchless name, we pray. |
| 1:14.7 | Amen. |
| 1:15.4 | Okay, so today's show is actually a talk I gave a couple weeks ago for the Archdiocese of |
| 1:20.6 | Omaha, and it was for their rural parishes as their wonderful bishop out there tries to build |
| 1:27.4 | a missional community approach to parish life. |
| 1:31.6 | And you all know how difficult it can be when you're in small churches, rural churches, |
| 1:35.0 | inner city churches, where there is no money. |
| 1:38.0 | There is no staff. |
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