Catholic Social Teaching Program to Be Held at St. Bartholomew

One of the great challenges for Catholics is as old as our faith, but takes on greater urgency in this hectic and complex world we live in.

How do we connect worship on Sunday to work on Monday? How is the Gospel proclaimed not only in the pulpits of our parishes, but also in the everyday lives of Catholic people? How does the Church gathered on the Sabbath act as the People of God scattered and active every day of the week? How can we best carry the values of our faith into family life, the market place and the public square? How do we love our neighbor, pursue peace and seek justice in everyday choices and commitments?

On four consectutive Thursday nights: September 7, 14, 21, and 28 from 7:30 to 9:00PM, the Social Outreach Ministry at St. Bartholomew in Scotch Plains will sponser an adult formation program entitled "Catholic Social Teaching - Our Best Kept Secret"

The program will be facilitated by Ms. Kay Furlani, Director of the Office of Human Concerns for the Newark Archdiocese. It will also be open to the parishoners from our neigboring communities.

Come join us and begin to walk in the footsteps of Jesus. More details will follow.

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Love for others, and in the first place love for the poor, in whom the Church sees Christ himself, is made concrete in the promotion of justice.

Pope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus, 1991