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The concrete experience of the recent years inspired us to look forward with more confidence not only to continue providing the school programme from year to year, but also igniting in us ideas for creating new ministries in order to reach the young in schools, parishes and universities.
Since the school operates on a residential basis, an adequate building is essential to serve the various needs of this type of school, such as academic, residential, oratory and offices, lecture rooms, library, kitchen and dining facilities. We are currently looking for a new building, so that the vision of our school may be enhanced, in a more suitable long-term environment.
We are planning that during the summer months the school will be used to facilitate retreats and seminars on an international, national and local basis. This summer we welcome Net Canada Ministry for month of August.
We also a place where people can enter into brief periods of retreat and solitude.
We will be hosting a number of discernment retreats and open days for our prospective students.
Furthermore we will be hosting youth retreats and prayer meetings throughout the coming year.
‘The conditions of the society in which we live oblige all of us therefore to revise methods, to seek by every means to study how we can bring the Christian message to modern man’.
Pope Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi
We expect to develop a full-time lay community and Centre of Evangelisation, equipped with a full-time mission team who by proclaiming and witnessing to the Good News in schools, universities and parishes, can bring the truths and beauty of the Catholic faith to the men and women of the world today, through a means that they can relate to and understand.
We affirm that our community will continue its mission in offering a place of growth in knowledge of the Sacraments, the word of God, the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and embrace the Cardinal Virtues of Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance.
‘Now Christ’s body is yourselves, each of you with a part to play in the whole’
1 Cor 12:27
We aim to identify the individual gifts and talents of our students at the school, and to incorporate their abilities into a means of a ‘New Evangelisation’.
‘The Church will not be rescued from the present crisis by the Bishops, Priests and Religious, but by the laity’.
Rev Fulton J. Sheen
As ‘Our Lady’s School of Evangelisation’ is a lay organisation, we feel that with the changing dynamics of the Roman Catholic Church, the laity will become an increased necessity in the ongoing growth of our Church. In order to achieve this, those working for the Church need to be trained and educated in the tradition of our early church instituted by Christ so as to keep Christ as the ‘Alpha and the Omega’ of our modern culture.
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1990-2003: The founder, John McCarthy worked as part of the Diocesan Retreat Team in the Archdiocese of Tuam. He was involved in prayer meetings and in giving retreats to students in secondary schools. There he saw the need to offer a deeper formation in the Catholic faith to young people.
Our vision is to evangelise the young people of Ireland and bring them into a relationship with Jesus; give them hope and healing; communicate and promote Catholic values in society today