Mission Statement

As individuals, families and parishes, our mission as the Diocese of Worcester is to respond joyfully to Christ’s call to become more fully the People of God.
     Though imperfect, we are a blessed people striving to participate in Christ’s mission of reaching out to all. Therefore, we accept the Gospel challenge, which calls us to bring another to a deeper knowledge and love of God.
     Since God calls us to live in community in the Holy Spirit, we commit ourselves in this time and place to becoming a prayerful and faith-filled Church that truly reflects the glory of God.

Catholic Communications Campaign 2012 

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
   “And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim,” (Acts 2:4).
   These words, taken from our first reading from the Acts of the Apostles on this Solemnity of Pentecost, are very appropriate as we announce next weekend’s Catholic Communications Campaign. The people who heard the Apostles in the public square were transformed because they had encountered the Word of God. As the Holy Spirit enabled the early Church to proclaim the Good News of salvation throughout the world, so, too, does that same Spirit empower us to carry on the mission of the Church today through our efforts in social communications.
   The early disciples proclaimed God’s word in the marketplace. They did not wait for people to come to them. Reaching out today is, in fact, far more complex. We face entirely unique challenges in a world where perhaps only 1 in 4 baptized Catholics join us at weekly worship. How can we communicate as a community of faith and extend an invitation to others? Sometimes it is through newspapers, television and radio. Some people can only be reached through the internet, email and other ever-present forms of social media. As our Holy Father has called for in recent years, the Catholic Church must embrace all forms of social communications in order to carry on her mission and to assist her members in being active participants – even when they cannot join us in person at Sunday worship.
   I encourage you to give generously in this second collection at the Lord’s Day Masses on the weekend of June 3. We must continue to seek ways, both locally and nationally, to expand our current cable TV programming and internet webcasts of Daily Mass or informational programs about our faith. We must also raise our voice in secular news media on critical issues of social justice and morality. We are working collaboratively with parishes to learn more effective ways to utilize our websites, communicate with members through social media, rely on more than bulletins using blogs or Facebook, and invite new members in more creative ways. Thank you in advance for prayerfully considering your donation because we cannot continue successfully our communications ministry without your help.
   With every prayerful best wish, I remain,

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Most Reverend Robert J. McManus
Bishop of Worcester

May 25, 2012
Click here for a pdf of the letter for inclusion in the bulletin.

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