Edificando el Equipo Ganador

Recently revised and expanded, The Acts 2 Church provides ideas to get you going and resources to equip you to lead a healthy, growing church. It also offers the ability to help you evaluate and analyze where your church is now and where you want it to be. Based on Acts 2: 42-47, The Acts 2 Church finds it footing in five areas of the church: worship, connect, grow, serve, and go. Ideal for church staff, deacon board, and volunteer leadership.

"These offer directions, suggestions and materials for improving liturgical celebrations and participation in them. They cover the major aspects of the liturgy: liturgical seasons, the sacraments, ministries, etc. They are prepared at the Centro de Pastoral Liturgica, with contributions by a variety of authors. Also works by a single author. Most Dossiers have had multiple printings. Presents all the reading and gives suggestions for the homily or for personal reflection. Contains a selection of phrases as echoed responses to prayer, introductions, etc.

Manual para proclamadores de la palabra provides the ongoing instruction and advice that proclaimers need. It functions like a personal coach for each minister of the Word. Not only does it assist readers in preparing their assigned reading on a specific occasion, but when ministers of the Word read this resource every week as a way of reflecting on the readings, it strengthens their proclamation skills and deepens their spiritual lives so that they can touch the hearts of the assembly with their reading. Lector trainers can’t be there during the week to help ministers of the Word practice...

Aunque muchos lo hubieran hecho mejor, no quiero que una mal entendida humildad, prive a nadie especialmente a los pobres y sencillos, del mayor bien que puedo ofrecerles: un encuentro con Jesucristo Resucitado, a través de su Palabra, que nos habla, con toda claridad y firmeza, de nuestro destino feliz más allá de las fronteras de la muerte.

Hoy en día, muchas personas no comen cuanto desean por motivos físicos, estéticos, ideológicos, éticos, médicos... todos razonables. La Iglesia Católica también propone estas prácticas y, en particular, en tiempo de la Cuaresma, pero los motivos para vivirlas, pueden haberse olvidado o no llegar a entenderse. Y para ello están estas páginas, en las que el autor, de forma sencilla, propone de nuevo la importancia del ayuno.