Certificate in Evangelization
The Institute for the New Evangelization (TINE) exists to help equip Catholics who want to embrace the missionary nature of the Christian life through certificates, talks, and workshops.
The Institute for the New Evangelization (TINE) exists to help equip Catholics who want to embrace the missionary nature of the Christian life through certificates, talks, and workshops.
If we really ask ourselves, “What is the one thing we as members of the Church are called to do?” The answer is fairly straightforward. We’re called to respond to Jesus’ Great Commission, “Go and make disciples.”
Created out of our signature one-day workshop, Forming Disciples in Mission, this certification goes deeper in helping you learn what evangelization is and how to better understand the universal call to holiness. Understand your own journey of discipleship, how to live that call to discipleship more fully, and form other disciples to become centers for the New Evangelization.
Workshops are scheduled to be in-person at the Pastoral Center in Braintree (8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.).
The New Evangelization:
Teaching the Art of Living
This session lays out the history, definition, structure, method, and content of the New Evangelization based on The New Evangelization: Building the Civilization of Love by Cardinal Ratzinger. It is the foundation on which later sessions build. It helps one to know where we have been, where we are going, and how to get there.
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Disciples:
Embracing the Call to Holiness
One cannot give what one does not have. Disciples are living the call to holiness and striving for sainthood. Disciples will make every sacrifice necessary to grow in relationship with God as well as make every sacrifice to help another embrace a or grow further in relationship with God. This session focuses on intentional discipleship, personal relationship with God lived in the context of the Church, in order to be able to go out and make disciples (Mt 28).
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Journey of Discipleship:
Drawing Closer to Christ
The Church uses a variety of ways to explain one’s journey of discipleship. Consider other journeys in your life – the stages of grief when losing a loved one, the progression of a relationship from dating to marriage, and more. While the details of many journeys we take are unique and unrepeatable, journeys follow identifiable patterns. The path outlined in this session is a means of identifying common steps along the journey of discipleship with Jesus Christ.
Witness:
Sharing Personal Testimony
This session puts the idea of living out one’s discipleship into action. It helps participants look at where they have been in relationship with God and see how God has worked, is working, and will work in their lives. All who form disciples must know and be able to articulate clearly to others something of their own spiritual journey, their own lived experience of their relationship with God.
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Forming Disciples:
Living the Great Commission
Jesus calls his disciples to make disciples of all nations (Mt 28). This session covers the basics of what one must know to do what Jesus asked, with particular emphasis on the journey of discipleship. These principles are applicable to every area of life – at work, at home, at church, and out and about in public. What do you do when you meet a stranger in church? What do you do when you meet someone who is looking to grow in faith? How do you address those who drop their children off at faith formation class but do not attend Mass? This session addresses what to do in these situations in order to lead others into discipleship. Intentionally living out discipleship means leading others into discipleship.
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Evangelizing Parishes:
Centers for the New Evangelization
Parishes that are centers for the new evangelization are parishes where everyone and everything is directed towards one goal: forming intentional disciples. This session is meant to provide an understanding of the foundation on which evangelizing parishes are built.
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