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The aim of Everyone's Welcome is to support parish communities in becoming more friendly, more family-sensitive, and more welcoming of all, because these simple yet challenging qualities of parish life are absolutely crucial to the flourishing of the most effective form of pastoral care for marriage and family life: informal family-to-family sharing of gifts, graces and experiences. "...there will take place a mutual exchange
of presence and help among all the families, each one putting at the
service of others its own experience of life, as well as the gifts of
faith and grace..." Pastors, parish groups, organisations, families and individuals are invited to use any of the resources on this Everybody's Welcome website, to adapt them to local situations and to share their experiences. The first step is to make everybody welcome, the second to ensure that parish practices, services and ministries are sensitive to the lives of all parish families, the third to deepen relationships between acquaintances and strangers into friendship. Subscribe to the monthly MFL e-bulletin. There have been 110,403 unique visits to this site since Jan 2006 (last updated 8.11.09) If you have arrived here by accident and are looking for the Church of England's July 2009 publication called Everybody Welcome click here. But do feel free to return...! For further information please contact: |
Everybody's Welcome
was launched in 2006 and is the first
stage in a three phase initiative to support marriage and family life within the Catholic community of England and Wales
called Celebrating Family: Blessed, Broken, Living Love. The
Catholic Bishops of England and Wales identified the three priorities
of Celebrating Family after listening to