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	Discovering Christ is a seven-week evangelizing process. It is a course that provides a relational context in which members of a parish, campus ministry, etc. can bring family and friends to hear the good news and personally encounter Jesus Christ! ChristLife developed this course and has heard amazing stories of changed lives from participants who encountered Jesus at Discovering Christ.
Following Christ This is a follow-up series to Discovering Christ. It is under development and will be released in the Spring of 2011 for parishes using Discovering Christ.	Sharing Christ ChristLife developed this practical, how-to, seven session series that teaches lay Catholics how to proclaim Jesus Christ to others. Lay evangelization is essential to the success of the new evangelization.
Mission of the Redeemer Seminar Bring the new evangelization to your parish community through this one-day seminar led by ChristLife.	Touching Jesus Through the Church This ChristLife audio/video resource enables us to hear God through Scripture and the Church.

ARTICLES

• Evangelization: Grace and Vocation (PDF Format)
  Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of the Diocese of Paterson (N.J.) writes an excellent pastoral letter on the theology, need for and practice of the new evangelization. (5/11/2008) Printed with permission of the Diocese of Paterson, N.J., and The Beacon, newspaper of the Diocese of Paterson, N.J.
  
  
  
• Are we evangelizing in our parishes
  Dave Nodar asks an important question and gives suggestions for how we can begin.



• Pentecost Address to Lay Movements by Pope John Paul II (5/30/98)
  Some publications consider this a major statement by the Pope that will be looked upon in the future as a key turning point for the Church entering the new millennium.



• The Role of the Laity in the Church and in the World (Christifideles Laici) by Pope John Paul II (12/30/88)



• The Lord and Giver of Life: The Holy Spirit (Dominum et Vivificantem) by Pope John Paul II (5/18/86).



• The Apostolate of the Laity (Apostalicam Actuositatem) - 11/18/65.



• Doctrinal Note On Evangelization
  The Vatican issued the Doctrinal Note to expand the Church's understanding on evangelization and ministry.



• Benedict XVI on Evangelization
  This document contains a variety of quotes from Pope Benedict on Evangelization.



• Reflections on the Component of Evangelization(PDF Format)
  This journal article provides insight into every Catholic's duty to evangelize with special emphasis on how to evangelize postmodern youth with authentic Christian spirituality.



• The Key to Evangelization: Jesus Christ is Lord(PDF Format)
  This booklet, by Fr. George Kosicki, gives a very developed teaching on the reality and implications of the Lordship of Jesus. This excellent resource also provides valuable insight into the mission of evangelization.



• Characteristics of the New Evangelization
  Written by ChristLife's founder and director, Dave Nodar, this comprehensive article clearly defines the "new evangelization" as defined by Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II.



• Podcast the New Evangelization
  This is a short press release from ChristLife describing recent efforts to encourage Catholic evangelization through podcasting. (12/06)



• Pouring New Wine Into New Wineskins
  This talk by Bishop Edward Clark is subtitled "The New Evangelization and What It Means for the Way We Do Catechesis." This excellent overview of the New Evangelization was delivered March 31, 2006 to the Religious Education Conference in Anaheim, CA.




• For What We Preach Is Not Ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord Here are translations of the four Advent sermons delivered this year by Father Raniero Cantalamessa, Pontifical Household preacher, to Pope Benedict XVI and members of the Roman Curia.





• The New Evangelization Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's (Pope Benedict XVI) address to the International Congress of Catechists that gathered in Rome in December 2000. Challenging, practical and inspiring.




• Apostolic Letter: Novo Millennio Ineunte by Pope John Paul II (1/6/01).
  At the beginning of the new millennium the call to the Church to set out into deep water for a catch!



• Ecclesia In America by Pope John Paul II (1/22/99).



• Go and Make Disciples
  A National Plan and Strategy for Catholic Evangelization in the United States



• Evangelizing Theology by Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.



• First preach by the way you live: Bishops and the new evangelization
  By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.



• Gnosticism and the Struggle for the World's Soul
  Father Alfonso Aguilar states in this essay that the new evangelization demands a clear-cut separation between Gnosticism and Christianity.



• Evangelization and the Great Jubilee
  by Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Denver



• On Evangelization in the Modern World (Evangelii Nuntiandi) by Pope Paul VI
  A revolutionary calling to evangelize in the modern world (12/8/75).

 

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