Receive with affection
Welcoming those who arrive with joy, respect and attention, helping the person to feel welcome from the first moment.
Católicos em Ennis Community
Reception
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Pastoral Care of Hospitality
Welcoming is Evangelize
The Pastoral of Welcoming is the first embrace of the Católicos em Ennis Community. She welcomes, guides, listens to and helps each person to feel at home in the Church.
The community's first smile
The Pastoral of Hospitality has a very special mission: to welcome each person that comes for Holy Mass, for groups, meetings, formations and activities of the community. Often, those who arrive are looking not only for a church, but also for a church. but also a place of belonging, friendship, guidance and faith.
In a community formed especially by Brazilians in Ireland, welcoming also it means understanding the reality of those who are far from Brazil, family, friends and their culture. Therefore, every gesture of attention, every orientation and every smile they can become a concrete sign of God's love.
To welcome is to open the doors of the Church and also to open the heart so that each person feel loved, respected, and invited to walk with God.
Pastoral Mission
Receiving well to evangelize better
Welcoming is not just an organizational function. It is a service of love, attention and care for each brother and sister who approaches the community.
Guiding the community
Help with information about schedules, places, activities, groups, Masses, formations and practical needs during the meetings.
Caring for people
Be attentive to those who arrive for the first time, to those who are alone, to those who need to talk or to those who seek a path of faith.
Arrange the entrance
Assist in the organization of celebrations, reception of the faithful, distribution of materials and referral of people within the church.
Welcoming Brazilians to Ireland
Be a friendly presence for those who live far from home, helping the community to be a space of faith, support and belonging.
Transmitting peace
To welcome with serenity, discretion and Christian spirit, helping each person to enter into the atmosphere of prayer, respect and encounter with God.
Who can serve in the Welcome?
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People who like to receive, listen and help others.
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Volunteers available to arrive before the celebrations and meetings.
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Discreet, patient, cheerful and responsible people.
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Who wants to serve God through care for their brothers and sisters.
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Any member of the community who wants to help with love and commitment.
The Christian way of welcoming
The Pastoral Care of Hospitality must always act with respect, patience, simplicity and spirit of service. The mission is not just to indicate places or deliver notices, but to make each person feel that they are important to God and to the community.
A welcoming evangelizes with presence. Often, a sincere smile, A friendly word and a loving orientation are enough to touch someone's heart.
Spirituality of Welcoming
Those who welcome must cultivate a prayerful heart. Welcoming is born of faith and is strengthened in prayer, in the Eucharist and in the desire to serve. The welcoming is called to see Christ in each person who arrives and to help each brother to find his or her place in the community.
How to participate
A simple, beautiful and necessary service
Serving in Hospitality is a concrete way of collaborating with evangelization. The community needs people willing to welcome, guide and care.
Main attitudes of the welcoming
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Smile, kindness and attention.
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Punctuality and responsibility.
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Discretion and respect for everyone.
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Spirit of prayer and service.
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Willingness to help the community grow.
Welcoming is everyone's mission
Even if there is a specific pastoral care, the whole community is called to welcome. When each person receives well, talks, helps and approaches those who arrive, the Church becomes more fraternal and missionary.
The Pastoral of Welcome reminds everyone that no one should feel invisible within the community. Each person who arrives is a gift from God.
To welcome is to open the way to God
The Pastoral of the Reception of the Community Católicos em Ennis exists to receive, caring and bringing them closer. May each person welcomed find a family in the community of faith, friendship, prayer and evangelization.