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CV NEWS FEED // In a move encouraging Catholics to share their faith more boldly with secular society, a bishop in Michigan is launching a weekly program for the 2025 Jubilee Year focused on evangelization, and on formation in prayer and education.
In the book of Acts, Jesus told His disciples that they will be His witnesses “to the ends of the earth,” recalled Bishop Earl Boyea of the Diocese of Lansing in a statement.
To be a witness for Christ, the bishop wrote, “requires four key things: Prayer. Learning. Belonging. Mission. The result? We’ll each be better equipped to bring the love of Jesus Christ and His Holy Church to a contemporary society in desperate need of His divine healing, teaching, and peace.”
Bishop Boyea shared in a Jan. 1 message that he was deeply moved by the Eucharistic Procession that took place in Indianapolis in July 2024 at the National Eucharistic Congress.
“However, it was not meant to end there,” he wrote. “We, all of us, we[re] commissioned to go forth and be missionary disciples.”
He explained that the new initiative is a weekly program called “Be My Witnesses” that will be formational and evangelization-focused.
Consistent with the “Pilgrims of Hope” theme for the 2025 Jubilee, Catholics should share the hope in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the bishop wrote.
“We want to bring others along our pilgrimage this coming year, 2025, and we will be able to do so by sharing the very hope that we cherish in our hearts,” wrote Bishop Boyea. “Let the very Name of Jesus be in our hearts and on our lips. Happy New Year!”
More information about how to sign up for the “Be My Witnesses” program is available here.
