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Catholic Nonprofit Org Western Kentucky Catholic Nonprofit Org. 600 Locust Street U.S. Postage Owensboro, Kentucky 42301 Paid Western Kentucky Owensboro, KY Permit No. 111 Change Service Requested 42301 CATHOLIC Volume 34, Number 7 September, 2007 Say Thank You. All is Gift. By Mel Howard MAPLE MOUNT,Ky. - “Every day, every moment, give your thanks to God. Always thank our God. All is Gift.” With words like these, part prayer, part sharing from experience, part theology, Tom Zanzig, 61, spoke at the annual Youth Ministry/Religious Education retreat for parish staff and religious educators from across the diocese. Sponsored by the Office of Lay Ministry and Formation, the Office of Youth Ministry, and the Office of Faith Formation on August 13, 2007, the day was for reflecting on ministry at the site of the Diocesan Spiritual Life Office, Mount Saint Joseph. Zanzig spoke about “The Rhythms of the Spiritual Life: The Path of Christ in Dis- cipleship.” Founder of Zanzig and Associates in Madison, WI, he is a popular work- shop and convention presenter in the areas of Youth Ministry, Religious Education, and Spirituality. He spoke in the morning session about adult faith formation strategies by comparing how he was taught about the spiritual journey of a Catholic Christian in Catholic Schools with the experiences of the workshop participants, many of whom were cradle Catholics, but several coming into the Catholic Church through the RCIA. Workshop presenter Tom Zanzig lead a retreat for religious educators “We all find ourselves going on a spiritual journey, sometimes just going along,” he and parish staff Aug 13 at Mount St Joseph Retreat Center Staff Photo said. Zanzig described his childhood educational experience of the spiritual journey as starting with birth, and along the way towards death, having only one goal: to die in a state of grace to get to heaven, a linear walk, he said. He spoke of how many of his contemporaries in the baby boom generation learned an authoritarian, dogmatic set of rules from a catechism and have not allowed their spiritual walk to grow outside that set of answers. Others look at the spiritual journey they learned in school and finding it If God brings you to it, Continued on page 2 He will bring you through it. Happy moments, praise God. Tom Zanzig, at right Difficult moments, seek God. back, speaking with Quiet moments, worship God. Michael Chestnut Aug Painful moments, trust God. 13 at the Mount. Staff Every moment, thank God. Photo Catholic Schools Enrollment Up Across the Diocese of Owensboro The Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Owensboro has announced that enrollment for the new school year 2007- 2008 has increased by 1.3 percent. Enrollment for the first day of school which varies across the Catholic schools of Give Your Thanks To God the diocese was 4,182 students. These figures may change once the enrollment numbers are gathered after the first At All Times. All Is Gift. month of school. Superintendent of Schools Jim Mattingly said, “All of us have been working hard on enrollment in An Image Of Our Earth Compiled From Numer- our schools, and I’m proud of the efforts of all of our school personnel and parents to invite people to consider Catholic ous Satellite Observations, this image released Schools for their children’s education. They’re all God’s children and it is up to all of us, even those who have no by NASA titled “blue marble” is the most detailed, children in Catholic schools, to raise these children into a steady practice of the Faith. Many have heard that message, true-color image of the entire earth to date, ac- and have been working hard to help increase enrollment in our Catholic schools.” cording to the space agency. Using a collection By the numbers, diocesan Catholic School enrollment in grades K-8 increased by 92 students, though Pre-school of satellite-based observations, scientists and and High Schools enrollment decreased by 19 and 21, respectively. The two largest middle schools, OCMS and SMMS visualizers stitched together months o f observa- enrolled 26 and 22 more students, respectively, this year than last year. The diocese’s four smallest schools only lost tions into a seamless mosaic of the earth. (CNS 4 students among them this year. The largest schools gained a collective 36 students among them, with Holy Name image/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Elementary in Henderson gaining 21 students on opening day of school 2007 over last year to begin the school year (Aug. 1, 2007) with a student body numbering 551 students. 2 The Western Kentucky Catholic, September, 2007 Say Thank You. All is Gift. (Continued from page 1) remote from their life, set it aside. For example, he said “A recent finding I read about Prayerfully Consider Your Response adult Catholics in the USA is that 54% of us have not gone to Confession since child- hood.” He asked the workshop participants to compare his thoughts with their experi- To These Needs of the Church ence; most simply nodded their agreement that this has been the way for many adults My Dear Friends, who grew up Catholic as children. This year’s Disciples Response Fund (DRF) Annual Appeal is our 15th campaign. The linear model of a spiritual journey beginning in birth, ending in death, with- I thank you for your past support. Because of your generosity, many ministries have out much advancement from basic catechism answers in between may serve some been funded and people’s lives have been changed. Each gift, through the DRF, is far- Catholics, he said, but life’s journey for most humans in more like a cycle as are the reaching, benefiting the more than 50,000 Catholics in western Kentucky and other seasons. Zanzig spoke more clearly about his topic as “Discipleship and the Lifelong charitable organizations. Process of Conversion.” “I want to help us think about why Catholics are as we are, The theme for this year’s campaign is “Grow in Faith.” It is vital that we continue especially for the benefit of someone like this young man I just met here who entered to grow in our faith life, and faithful stewardship is an essential part of our saying yes the Catholic Church from the Presbyterian faith through the RCIA this past Easter. to the Lord’s call to being His disciples. As we each steward the gifts that God has He has many questions about why Catholics do things as we do.” Here Zanzig asked given us, the mission that He gave to the Church on that first Pentecost will be carried for a show of hands of the cradle Catholics; most raised their hands in the group. “We out, changing our lives and changing the world in which we live. grew up thinking that our task was to get through life from birth to death in a state of Being a good steward means sharing our gifts of time, talent and material resources grace, and that is all there is to being spiritual. We go from a state of separation from according to God’s will. We have many needs in this diocese and in the world. One of God in original sin, get baptized fast to avoid Limbo, go through the age of reason, go those needs is that you are a good and faithful steward. to Confession every week, go to church and hopefully die in a state of grace. This is As we have announced, we will have a diocesan capital campaign, “Responding to like a spiritual minimalism: just get to Heaven. There has been a gradual change in our Today’s Need And Tomorrow’s Vision,” to raise funds for special needs that you will church’s understanding of grace in the last 20 years,” he said. “Many leave the notion be hearing more about soon. This campaign is in no way lessening our commitment to of spirituality or a spiritual journey altogether.” being a diocese that exists on stewardship. I pray that your decision to participate in the The spiritual life process is cyclic, goes on again and again and again, but is not capital campaign will be decided on the basis of being a good steward of God’s many just a repetition, Zanzig said, as much as a spiritual journey is a deepening of our re- gifts. If we are all faithful stewards, the campaign will be a success and the immediate lationship with God like a patterned movement. “All is Gift,” he said, “every breath, and future needs of the Church will be satisfied in the spirit of good stewardship. every second we live. If God chooses not to be with us, we die. Every human therefore I ask for your prayers that this campaign has a spiritual journey. Thank our God in every way for all His graces he gives us con- will be a success and that the Diocese of stantly.” Owensboro will see growth from it for For the rest of his one-hour talk just before lunch Aug. 13, Zanzig outlined the many, many years to come. Prayer is al- “patterned movement” of a spiritual journey, describing four steps in the process which ways the first step in all we do, and I ask repeat themselves in life like a spiraling staircase or a Seven Storey Mountain (Thomas that you continue to keep the DRF in your Merton’s book). “All people have a holy longing, a recurring sense in life that there’s prayers. And I ask that you please prayer- got to be more to us than this.
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