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Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Marking its patronal feast Tuesday, the School of the Annunciation, a center for the new evangelization in England and Wales, held a Mass at which it was consecrated to Our Lady.
“I’m really delighted Pope Francis has said the new evangelization must be Marian in character,” Dr. Petroc Willey, a founding member of the School of the Annunciation, told CNA March 13. In his apostolic exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium,” Pope Francis wrote that Mary is “the Mother of the Church which evangelizes, and without her we could never truly understand the spirit of the new evangelization.” “It really does pick up this idea that you need Mary the contemplative,” Willey commented. “When he’s saying evangelization, he doesn’t mean activism. I’m really pleased that he so emphasizes the priority of grace and the sense of receiving before you can give.” Locating the school, which will offer a diploma in the new evangelization, at the Benedictine abbey -- which has been “tremendously committed to it” -- is meant to “go back to the first evangelization,” Willey said. The mission will flow from our own living out of the mysteries, and that’s what we’ll be inviting people into. (We’re) trying to provide something very perennial, something reaching back into the first evangelization, and finding out how that can serve the new one.” Read Full Article ....
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