Are you willing to help us reach as many of the parishioners in your parish as possible, with the Bible Timeline Course starting on Wed 29th September 2021?
If your answer is YES, please please approach your Parish Priest ASAP, and let him know the following:
(1) For publicity purposes within the Parish:
(2) The course is designed in such a way to ensure that the Parish Priest is not given any workload.
If you want a detailed breakdown of the above, you can read the document below, which is divided into two parts.
Please begin by informing your Parish Priest (PP) that Mauro Iannicelli will deliver the next Bible Timeline Course, LIVE via YouTube, completely FREE OF CHARGE, starting on Wed 29th Sept.
The course runs for 8 consecutive Wednesdays (7pm-8:40pm UK Time), ending on Wed 17th Nov 2021.
Please reassure your Parish Priest that Mauro delivers the course himself - in a way which ensures that the PP is not given any workload.
If your PP is not familiar with the course:
In a nutshell, to run the Bible Timeline Course as a parish event, will mean that:
Please Note: even if the course is followed ‘as a parish event’, every single participant is required to register individually on the course website at: comeandsee.org/register-bible
THIS IS THE ONLY WAY they will be able to access their personal area on the website finding course material and receiving personal communications from Mauro himself.
The next step is to speak about the course publicity process within the parish. We highly recommend, as a bare minimum, the use of the following three publicity channels:
KEY POINT: According to our experience, the Sunday Mass Course Announcements accompanied by the distribution of flyers is the most effective form of publicity - and an essential one to promote the course as a parish event. We have seen how, using solely the Parish Newsletter, results in just a handful of parishioners registering for the course.
Mauro has already prepared a ready-made script for a 90 secs course announcement, to be simply read by a volunteer at the end of Mass. You can find it here.
PLEASE NOTE: The Sunday Mass course announcements & flyers distribution should take place on the three Sundays preceding the start of the course. That is, on Sunday 12th, 19th & 26th September (and on the respective Saturday vigil Masses if possible), ideally trying to cover as many of these Masses as possible.
Mauro is happy to send to you in the post, completely free of charge, 200 to 500 small A6 course invitation flyers (size: 10cm x 14cm).
You can have someone hand out the flyers as people arrive and/or leave Mass, on those Sundays when the course announcement is given. You can see how the flyer looks like here.
Please decide how many flyers you need, depending on the size of your parish. Again, Mauro will cover the cost of both flyers and postage.
If the PP is happy with our proposal, please can you email us your postal address and we will send the following items in the post to you:
You can then hand over the flyers to those who will distribute them.
Mauro has already prepared a short text with the course information to be inserted in the Parish Newsletter. You can find it here.
During the course, the participants can engage with the following three weekly activities:
ACTIVITY 1: Preparatory Bible Reading, during the seven days prior to a Wednesday Bible Teaching session.
The course participants can carry out this activity individually, from home.
ACTIVITY 2: Watching the Wednesday Bible Teaching Session, live-streamed on YouTube by Mauro (7pm – 8:40pm)
The course participants can carry out this activity in the following ways:
ACTIVITY 3: Discussion of the Study Questions, straight after the Wednesday Teaching (recommended!) OR during the following 7 days.
The course participants can carry out this activity in the following ways:
We believe that having various ways for the participants to meet up, provides every parish with great flexibility. Having said that, a course participant can still register, and choose to follow the whole course individually from home, if he so wishes.
Please Note: For the first session of the course, there is no Activity 1 (Preparatory Bible Reading) and no Activity 3 (Discussion of the Study Questions).
As previously stated in para. 2, the Parish Course Coordinator is a key figure that needs to be chosen, to facilitate the logistics of the Bible Timeline Course as a parish event.
Please Note: this role can either be covered by one person, or, more conveniently, by a small team of 2-3 people who share the various tasks between them.
What do the PCCs do? Their main tasks are:
For example:
We believe that the role of the Parish Course Coordinator is an exciting opportunity to serve the Lord, a way to help in your parish, and a chance to develop gifts like leadership, communication, and organisation. The Parish Course Coordinator will need to take the initiative to get things done - by liaising with the Parish Priest and with the parishioners registered to the course.
If you feel prompted to cover the exciting role of the PCC (by yourself or together with someone else), or know somebody who might be good at it, please let us know!
We have named at least three roles necessary to follow the course as a parish event:
(1) Volunteers to deliver the end of Sunday Mass course announcements
(2) Volunteers to hand out course invitation flyers as people arrive and/or leave Sunday Mass.
(3) One or more volunteers who are willing to be Parish Course Coordinators.
To wrap up and for your convenience, please find below the key action points for you to follow up on.
Please Note: It would be preferable if you could approach your Parish Priest ASAP to discuss the above.
Thank you very much again for helping us in the task of evangelisation!
Mauro & Janet Iannicelli
Come & See Catholic Evangelisation Ministries
W: www.comeandsee.org
E: mauro@comeandsee.org
Download the explanation above as a PDF document here
Download the Course Announcement Script for Sunday Mass here
Download the Course Information for the Parish Newsletter here
To quickly get hold of the A4 Course Invitation Flyer, so you can print it and pin it to the parish notice board, click here
Please Note: The smaller A6 flyers we send out in the post mirror the A4 flyer above.
Last Updated: 12/09/2021