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July 2019
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Spirit
Speakers Present on 'Varieties of Gifts, ...of Services, ...of Activities' Evangelization of Millennial Generation
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By SUSAN WINDLEY-DAOUST
Tim Glemkowski, of the Millennial Church Conference, presents to attendees of the Diocesan Pentecost Celebration.
By TODD GRAFF
The Holy Spirit … makes us Church, building different parts into one harmonious edifice. Saint Paul explains this well when, speaking of the Church, he often repeats a single word, ‘variety’: ‘varieties of gifts, varieties of services, varieties of activities’ (1 Cor 12:4-6). We differ in the variety of our qualities and gifts. The Holy Spirit distributes them creatively, so that they are not all identical. On the basis of this variety, he builds unity. From the beginning of creation, he has done this. –Pope Francis, Homily on the Solemnity of Pentecost, 6/9/2019
�n the Friday and Saturday of Pentecost weekend (June 7-8), our diocesan Church gathered in Rochester to reflect on the work of the Holy Spirit in our Church, and to pray for an outpouring of the Spirit upon the people and ministries of our diocese. On Friday, more than 130 clergy and laity came together with presenters from The Millennial Church Conference to learn and discuss strategies and approaches to more “effectively create parish communities that
Spirit, cont'd on pg. 7
ROCHESTER--Pete Burak, Ali Hoffman, and Tim Glemkowski spoke to 130 people working southern Minnesota apostolates and ministries at the Millennial Church conference, part of our diocesan Pentecost Celebration this past June 7-8, 2019. The millennial generation (born between 1984-2001) does have distinctive markers and needs as a generation that has recently come of age in the USA, but the challenge is that this generation (and the next, sometimes called “Gen Z”) has been leaving the faith at much higher rates than their predecessors. The Millennial conference was an opportunity to hear from people in the generation about evangelizing their own generation, and their experience of good Catholic practice. Burak, the national director of i.d.9:16 (a young adult discipleship outreach associated with Renewal Ministries), offered that like all younger generations—but perhaps more than any other younger generation”—millennials have a very high hypocrisy meter. They are attracted to Christianity, but they are attracted first and foremost
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INSIDE this issue
Sealed by the Holy Spirit page 8
Moving Students Onward and Upward page 12
Confidential... page 13