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Catholics Come Home® is Alive in the Diocese of Manchester

Parishes are encouraged to invite Catholics to come home in Sunday bulletins and on their parish websites. However, parishes should be aware that the Catholics Come Home® name and its graphic logo are registered trademarks that have been licensed for diocesan use during this campaign. Using the Catholics Come Home® name and graphic logo in any promotional materials must include the registration symbol “®” and can only be used to promote the Catholics Come Home® initiative. Please be aware that the licensing agreement with Catholics Come Home® is for one year only and promotional materials must be taken down from parish websites by February 25, 2012.

Click the “Welcome Home Resources” link below to download documents that will help prepare your parish to be a "Welcoming Parish".

Resources to Help Parishes to Reach Out

Paulist Evangelization Ministries - Evangelization Exchange Newsletter - April 2012

Welcome Home Resources - This zip file contains all of the documents in one convenient folder.

Parish Evangelization Checklist (pdf)

Ideas from Parishes - We want to hear from your parish. What great things are you doing to be a welcoming church? Send your ideas to Eileen Smith (esmith@rcbm.org) and we will share them here to give other parishes ideas.

• Bulletin Announcements from Parish of the Transfiguration, Manchester: Word | PDF
• Bulletin Announcements from Parish of the Resurrection, Nashua: Word | PDF
• Activities from Parish of the Resurrection, Nashua: Word | PDF 
• Flyer from Parish of Resurrection, Nashua : PDF

Evangelization Tools Available for Your Parish

• Evangelization Cards
  
  Order "CatholicsComeHome.org Evangelization Cards" for your parishioners to hand out to their families/friends who are away from the Church to inspire them to visit the CCH website and return to their parish.
• DVDs
  
  Show the commercials in your parish. Order the CatholcisComeHome.org DVD and show the ads at the end of Mass for educational purposes. Showing these ads is a great way to get your parishioners excited about evangelizing, and sharing the CatholicsComeHome.org website with those away from the faith.
• Magnets
  
  Put a CatholicsComeHome.org magnet on your car and evanglize in traffic.

Order online: www.CatholicsComeHome.org/ParishWelcome

Dr. Tom Curran - Preparing Your Parish to Welcome Catholics Home from bostoncatholic on Vimeo.

CatholicsComeHome.org has produced a number of videos that you can post on your website.

In order to embed a video into another website or blog:

1. Click on the YouTube video to view it on the YouTube page.
2. Click the Embed button located under the video.
3. Copy the code provided in the expanded box.
4. Paste the code into your blog or website.
5. Click here to learn how to disable related videos that appear at the end of the video.

"Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ, for he is going to say, ‘I came as a guest, and you received me' " (Matt. 25:35).

Newsletter: Paulist Evangelization Ministries (formerly PNCEA) was founded by the Paulist Fathers in 1977 to equip Catholics to evangelize. They now publish an Evangelization Newsletter, CLICK HERE to subscribe.

For more information, please contact: Eileen Smith Director of the Office of the Catechumenate (603) 663-0174 esmith@rcbm.org