Extending a Summer Welcome

Padraic McCarthy, on seeing that the Presider’s Page has greetings in various languages for visitors to our churches or celebrations, submitted a selection of greeting notices he has come across on his travels.

With some adaptations they might be useful to you.

 

  1. A Welcome Notice I saw in the Catholic church in Positano, Italy – four languages.
    Pádraig added the Scripture quotation in Irish – maybe you know someone who would do a version in Irish of the rest.
    PDF Version    Word Version
  2. Welcome Notice from Coventry Cathedral and in a variety of churches. English. Humorous and all-embracing.
    PDF Version    Word Version
  3. Welcome message in 8 languages.    PDF Version    Word Version
  4. “Fáilte” in 50 languages.    PDF Version

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A cry from the depths

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Chris McDonnell writes in the Catholic Times about the urgency of the cry from the depths about the future of our church.
“Current critics have rocked the complacency of many priests and laity who simply prefer not to think of failure within the church. They still occupy a Church of peace and tranquillity that is the stuff of false memory. That is why the urgency to change is not recognized. The first stimulus  to begin reform is a recognition that current circumstances cry out with the urgency of a wounded child.”

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