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Mission Plan for the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney Mission Plan for the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney A Prayer for Renewal lessed are you, Father, who, in your infinite love B sent us your only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ, that we may have life, and have it in abundance. By the power of the Holy Spirit, renew our Eucharistic communities. May they be places of encounter with the living Christ, centres of evangelisation and outreach to our community in love and mercy. Grant us the gifts of faith, hope and love to be faithful disciples of Jesus and radiant witnesses to the people of Sydney. Our Lady, Help of Christians. Pray for us! Our Lady of Guadalupe, Star of the New Evangelisation. Pray for us! St Mary of the Cross MacKillop. Pray for us! Painting of Mary Help of Christians by Tommaso Andrea Lorenzone, circa 1867. PHOTO: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/PUBLIC DOMAIN Contents Chapter 1 page The Archbishop’s Vision 4 Chapter 2 Introduction 8 Chapter 3 The Pastoral Reality 24 Chapter 4 Foundation 1: Evangelisation 50 Chapter 5 Foundation 2: Leadership 88 Chapter 6 Foundation 3: Community 120 Chapter 7 Foundation 4: Formation 154 Chapter 8 Foundation 5: Worship 190 Chapter 9 Structural Renewal for Mission 220 The Archbishop’s VISION The Archbishop’s Vision A Message from Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP When the remaining disciples saw the Risen Lord on Ascension Mount, Matthew tells us, “they worshipped Him; though some doubted” it was Him. Then Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the very end of the age’”. Matthew 28:18-20 his ‘great commission’ is given anew to every generation. As Pope Francis affirms, “In our day Jesus’ command to T ‘go and make disciples’ echoes in the changing scenarios and ever new challenges to the Church’s mission of evangelisation, and all of us are called to take part in this new missionary ‘going forth’!”.1 Like the first disciples some of us are worshippers, some doubters, some a bit of both. Like them, we need to draw close to Jesus if our doubts are to be dispelled. Like them, changed by that encounter and empowered by the Spirit, we can do great things. Jesus’ parting mandate was not just to ‘go and make disciples’ but also to baptise and teach. By Baptism (and all the sacraments and worship that follow) and by hearing God’s Word (and all the Christian teaching and action that follow), we become witnesses to God’s saving love – poured out in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 1 Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium 20. GO MAKE DISCIPLES | SYDNEY ARCHDIOCESAN MISSION PLAN 5 The Archbishop’s Vision When I was installed as Archbishop in 2014, I shared something of my dreams for our Church in Sydney: “My hope is for a Church in which the Gospel is preached with joy, the wisdom of our tradition mined with fidelity, the sacraments celebrated with dignity and welcome, and the seminaries, convents and youth groups teeming with new life; a Church in which our parishes, chaplaincies and educational institutions are true centres of the new evangelisation, our laity theologically literate and spiritually well- formed, our outreach to the needy effective and growing, and God glorified above all”. Since then, I’ve witnessed the many strengths of the Church in Sydney: the scale, diversity, piety and zeal of its pastors and people. Despite many difficulties, our parishes and schools have nurtured the faith of hundreds of thousands across the years and continue to do so. There are many causes for hope. But these past few years have also been very challenging times for the Church in Australia. The unmasking of historical child sexual abuse in the Church occasioned disillusionment, anger and hurt for many. The COVID-19 pandemic, church closures and restrictions on worship have also been keenly felt. In the meantime, I was seriously ill myself and took quite some time to recover. But Passion and Resurrection are the ordinary rhythm of Christian life and, just as I have recovered my health, so I am confident that our Church in Sydney will come through present trials, humbled, purified and renewed, ready to bear new fruit! Soon after my installation, I initiated our five-year pastoral planning project entitled ‘Parish 2020’, with the goal of examining the situation and mission of the Archdiocese, its challenges and opportunities, the spiritual gifts of its people, and the structures that can best support new approaches to evangelisation and renewal of our local communities. This enabled me to hear the voices of clergy, religious and lay faithful, in our deaneries, parishes, migrant communities, schools and agencies. After such sharing of hopes and insights, I am more confident than ever about our Church’s future. 6 GO MAKE DISCIPLES | SYDNEY ARCHDIOCESAN MISSION PLAN The Archbishop’s Vision I want to thank all those who offered their reflections through conversations, surveys, deanery meetings or in other ways, and to recognise all who contributed to the development of our thinking. Go Make Disciples, the Archdiocese of Sydney’s Mission Plan, is the fruit of that conversation, research and discernment, and will set our direction and priorities for some years to come. It also offers practical resources for renewal, drawing on examples from the life and ministry of Christ as well as ‘best practice’ locally and from elsewhere. As the Church in Sydney, we seek to live out the mission of Jesus Christ in a time of unprecedented change. Sydney’s population continues to grow while the way people live, work and worship has changed. Not as many people engage with our parishes or transmit faith and practice to their children as once did. Our culture is less supportive and many now identify as ‘no religion’. Some traditional methods of outreach no longer work; others can be rediscovered and reinvigorated. Some of our structures no longer support mission as well as they once did. Especially in times of great change, we rightly cling to those things that are perennial: one faith, one Lord, one Baptism (Ephesians 4:5). But we need new passion, expressions and methods of evangelisation and community-building in Sydney. Every pastor, every member of the faithful and all our parish communities are called to deep spiritual renewal as disciples, to being better connected with each other, and to reaching out better to others. Along with our migrant chaplaincies and other Eucharistic communities, our parishes are to be living signs of the proximity of Christ by the proclamation of the Word of God, the sacramental life and the witness of charity, in which the poor and excluded must have a privileged place in the heart of the Church. In an age increasingly marked by marginalisation and isolation, the parish is called to be a living sign of the closeness of Christ, reaching out to the homeless and oppressed. This call to renewal of life and mission to others must also shape our Catholic educational, healthcare and social service ministries – and everything we do in the name of God’s kingdom. I give thanks to all who have contributed to the ‘Parish 2020’ phase of our pastoral planning including Bishop Terry Brady and Bishop Richard Umbers, Fr Gerry Gleeson and their committee early on, through Anthony Farley, to Daniel Ang, Elizabeth Arblaster and their team today. I am confident Sydney is ready for this newGo Make Disciples phase. With great faith in the future of our Archdiocese, I invite you to read, pray and reflect on this Archdiocesan Mission Plan. We need your faith and discernment, your courage and gifts as the Church in Sydney seeks to live the Great Commission in this twenty-first century. Like those first Christians emerging from the dark times of Holy Week, we hear the Easter Jesus saying to us: go make disciples! Yours hopefully in Christ Most Rev. Anthony Fisher OP c tem ar ita cientes i ita Archbishop of Sydney Ver fa n te GO MAKE DISCIPLES | SYDNEY ARCHDIOCESAN MISSION PLAN 7 INTRODUCTION 8 GO MAKE DISCIPLES | SYDNEY ARCHDIOCESAN MISSION PLAN Introduction to Our Archdiocesan Mission Plan As we look to the future, our Church is called to place the encounter with Jesus Christ anew at the heart of our life, our structures and our ways of doing things. It is from this living encounter with the Lord that all genuine renewal in the Church becomes possible and the mission of evangelisation finds its source and inspiration. It is impossible to persevere in a fervent evangelisation unless we are convinced from personal experience that it is not the same thing to have known Jesus as not to have known Him, not the same thing to walk with Him as to walk blindly, not the same thing to hear His word as not to know it, and not the same thing to contemplate Him, to worship Him, to find our peace in Him, as not to”. 1 Pope Francis hen we have encountered Christ and made a personal and conscious decision to follow Him, we become missionaries W in the midst of the Church. We “boldly take the initiative, go out to others, seek those who have fallen away, stand at the crossroads and welcome the outcast”.2 The encounter and invitation to missionary discipleship takes place throughout our Christian lives.
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