Some years ago an Italian parish adapted a Pentecostal Korean evangelisation strategy to its own needs. Pecs is now recognised by the Pontifical Council for the Laity and is taking root in Britain and beyond
After four years as parish priest of Holy Innocents’ parish in Orpington, Kent, Father Victor Vella was suffering from what he calls “holy restlessness” and he began to ask himself what he was doing. A priest for 26 years, he felt he was having a crisis of identity. He felt that all he was doing was to provide pastoral and spiritual services for people who came to ask for them – in much the same way as people go to the petrol pump for petrol.The parish had held the Life in the Spirit seminars in 2011 and they needed something to follow it up. A friend to
02 July 2015, The Tablet
From the cell to the world
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