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Part 2: "What's Bringing So Many Catholics Home?" – CatholicsComeHome.org featured on Zenit

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Zenit, The World Seen From Rome, highlights CatholicsComeHome.org in a 2-part interview with founder and president, Tom Peterson.
Read Part 2, below:

What’s Bringing So Many Catholics Home? (Part 2)

Interview With Campaign Founder Tom Peterson
By Andrea Kirk Assaf

ROME, MAY 5, 2010 (Zenit.org).- When God chooses a methodology to bring fallen away Catholics back to the Church, he can certainly choose to spread the success from one country to another.

That seems to be his plan with a campaign started by Tom Peterson, an American former advertising executive, who has put his expertise and experience at the service of the Church through the creation of the Catholics Come Home ad campaign and Web site.

ZENIT spoke about the future of the campaign with the founder and president during his recent visit to Rome to address a conference on “Church Communications: Identity and Dialogue” at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.
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"What's Bringing So Many Catholics Home?" – CatholicsComeHome.org featured on Zenit

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Zenit, The World Seen From Rome highlights CatholicsComeHome.org in a 2-part interview with founder and president, Tom Peterson:

What’s Bringing So Many Catholics Home? (Part 1)

Interview With Campaign Founder Tom Peterson
By Andrea Kirk Assaf

ROME, MAY 4, 2010 (Zenit.org).- It began with a single conversion, a moment in which a soul opened itself to the mercy and grace of God. From there, the Holy Spirit, working through that soul and its particular God-given talents, has multiplied and ricocheted this message of conversion around the world through an apostolate in the New Evangelization, bringing hundreds of thousands of fallen-away Catholics, and even non-Catholics, home to Rome.

The soul in question is that of Tom Peterson, an American former advertising executive, who has put his expertise and experience at the service of the Church through the creation of the Catholics Come Home ad campaign and Web site.

ZENIT spoke about the past, present and future of the campaign with the founder and president during his recent visit to Rome to address a conference on “Church Communications: Identity and Dialogue” at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.
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Visit CatholicsComeHome.org each day to enrich your faith!

Suffering for Christ

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Our Church is so blessed to have examples like Blessed Michael Giedroyc to teach us how our suffering can draw us closer to Christ.

Take a moment to read about this holy and prayerful Augustinian from the 15th century. His life story will help you put your own sufferings in perspective and see all suffering in light of Christ’s own suffering.

Have a blessed day! All of us at CatholicsComeHome.org are praying for you!

Tell Us About Your Heroic Priests – EncouragePriests.org Now Accepting Video and Story Submisssions

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Catholics Come Home

TELL US ABOUT YOUR HEROIC PRIESTS
ENCOURAGEPRIESTS.ORG NOW ACCEPTING VIDEO AND STORY SUBMISSIONS

ATLANTA, Ga. (April 29, 2010)—The new lay Catholic outreach effort to support priests called EncouragePriests.org™ is now accepting video and story submissions for the launch of its updated, interactive website.

EncouragePriests.org

Catholics around the country may submit written or video stories about priests who have had an impact on their own lives or who are doing heroic work—on a small or large scale—in their parish and local communities.  EncouragePriests.org™ is inviting all lay people to get involved in an effort to show their appreciation for their priestly fathers this Father’s Day.

Written story submissions should be 250 words or less.

Video submissions must be 100MB or smaller and can be standard or high definition. If standard definition, video dimensions should be 480×360 if 4:3 video or 640×360 if 16:9 video.  For high definition, dimensions are 1280×720 (720p) or 1920×1080 (1080p). Videos can be .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, .MP4, or .MPEG files.

Please visit EncouragePriests.org to submit all entries.  EncouragePriests.org will accept and post stories and videos on an ongoing basis, but if you would like your entry to be considered as a feature on the Father’s Day launch, it must be submitted by June 1.

For more information, visit www.EncouragePriests.org.
E-mail all questions to Info@EncouragePriests.org.

EncouragePriests.org™ was established in Lent 2010 by the non-profit Catholic media apostolate, Catholics Come Home, Inc. ® (www.CatholicsComeHome.org).  Its mission is to encourage priests and promote priestly vocations.

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CatholicsComeHome.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit media apostolate, dedicated to producing and airing Catholic evangelism television ads on local, national and international television networks.  EncouragePriests.org™ is a special communications outreach project of Catholics Come Home, Inc.

Coming Soon to Your Pew: New Roman Missal Translation

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News from Vatican City:

Zenit.org reports from Vatican City that  Benedict XVI is welcoming the news that the English translation of the Roman Missal will be published soon, while cautioning that the liturgical changes need to be made with sensitivity.

The Pope stated this Wednesday while meeting over lunch with members of the Vox Clara Committee. The committee, formed in 2001 under the headship of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, is a panel of bishops who provide advice to the Holy See concerning English-language liturgical books.

…”Through these sacred texts and the actions that accompany them, Christ will be made present and active in the midst of his people.”

“A new task will then present itself,” the Pope affirmed, “one which falls outside the direct competence of Vox Clara, but which in one way or another will involve all of you — the task of preparing for the reception of the new translation by clergy and lay faithful.”

He acknowledged that “many will find it hard to adjust to unfamiliar texts after nearly forty years of continuous use of the previous translation.”

“The change will need to be introduced with due sensitivity,” the Pontiff said, “and the opportunity for catechesis that it presents will need to be firmly grasped.”

He added, “I pray that in this way any risk of confusion or bewilderment will be averted, and the change will serve instead as a springboard for a renewal and a deepening of Eucharistic devotion all over the English-speaking world.”

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Our Holy Father comments on the digital world

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Check out this article from the Catholic News Agency about Pope Benedict’s comments on the Church’s need to “humanize” the digital world.

Here are a few excerpts from the article:

movie pic“But, in order to achieve this kind of goal, media and technology must ‘focus on promoting the dignity of persons and peoples, they need to be clearly inspired by charity and placed at the service of truth, of the good, and of natural and supernatural fraternity.'”

“Ultimately, the ‘indispensable mission of the Church,’ and the task of all believers working in the media, is to ‘open the door to new forms of encounter, maintaining the quality of human interaction, and showing concern for individuals and their genuine spiritual needs. They can thus help the men and women of our digital age to sense the Lord’s presence…'”

Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly Features EncouragePriests.org

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CatholicsComeHome.org’s newest outreach, EncouragePriests.org, is highlighted in the April 25, Our Sunday Visitor “OSV Newsweekly:”

“Priests, the vast majority of whom are holy and faithful men, need prayers and support. What an appropriate time, then, for the debut of a new website that provides just those things.“Catholics Come Home, an apostolate that has successfully reached fallen-away Catholics, has a new initiative — EncouragePriests.org. The website, which launches June 20, will allow Catholics to send clergy e-greeting cards and spiritual bouquets, and will promote priestly vocations. For a sneak peek, visit www.encouragepriests.org.

Catholics Come Home founder Tom Peterson said in a statement: “It’s timely to launch this movement during the Year for Priests as declared by Pope Benedict XVI, and to continue supporting the priesthood for many years to come! Our mission is to encourage priests, and promote priestly vocations through our love and prayers.”
April 25 OSV Newsweekly

Visit CatholicsComeHome.org and EncouragePriests.org to grow in your faith each day!

Quotes to lift your day!

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In honor of today’s first reading (Acts 9:1-20), which tells the story of the conversion of St. Paul, here are some St. Paul quotes to uplift you on this Friday of the Third Week of Easter:

“Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word, that he might present to himself the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish” (Eph 5:25-27).

“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” (Rom 12:21).

“We know that all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose” (Rom 8:28).

“If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him?” (Rom 8:31-32).

“[The Lord] said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness’” (2 Cor 12:9).

Please continue to keep CatholicsComeHome.org in your prayers!

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