Evangelize in the Raleigh St Patrick's Day Parade March 17, 2012

Calling all Triangle area Catholics - sign up to profess your Catholic faith in the Raleigh St Patrick's Day Parade on Saturday, March 17, at 12 noon. That is when One Bread Lay Apostolate will march with other area Catholics to distribute St Patrick biographical cards to specatators at the parade. This card also contains an invitation for the spectators to attend Mass at a Catholic Church near them and a link to the Diocese of Raleigh Website where they can find addresses to area parishes.

This will be the eighth year that One Bread has evangelized in the Raleigh St Patrick's Day parade - won't you follow in St Patrick's footsteps to spread the gospel by helping us make this year's St Patrick's Day Evangelization event the best ever.

You'll need a Catholic Evangelist T-shirt (our parade uniform) to march with our group. To get your t-shirt and register to participate, click St Patrick's Day Parade Registration Form. If you've marched with us in year's past and already have your t-shirt, e-mail us at 1bread@excite.com and let us know that you are coming. Youth may also compete for the annual Catholic Youth Evangelization Award by marching in the parade as a group and giving the best performance of the youth groups participating. Find out more in the article below.

Diocese of Raleigh Youth are Invited to Compete for the Sixth Annual Catholic Youth Evangelization Award

If you are Catholic between the ages of six and twenty-two and live in the Raleigh area - we invite you to gather your schoolmates and friends to march with One Bread in the upcoming 2012 Raleigh St Patrick's Day Parade on March 17 and compete for the Catholic Youth Evangelization Award. You'll need to wear our Catholic Evangelist t-shirt and then use your creativity to embellish your attire, carry a sign, sing a hymn, do a dance, or whatever you think will convey an appropriate spiritual message to wow the spectators. The youth group with the best performance in the parade wins a trophy and appropriate bragging rights as the 2012 Catholic Youth Evangelization Award winners. To learn more and sign up to participate, click Catholic Youth Evangelization Award.

Where did we get the bible?

Let's face it; the bible didn't drop out of the sky. In fact, many Christians don't realize that the bible as we now know it, the Old and New Testaments, took thousands of years to write and compile...and the first printed bible didn't come into being until the year 1450. After Guttenberg invented the printing press in Germany, the first book he pubished was the bible, a Latin Version, called the Vulgate. The Vulgate consisted of forty-six Old Testament books and twenty-seven New Testament books. It was compiled by St Jerome in the year 405 under the direction of Pope Damascus I and included both the proto-canonical books accepted by all Jews and the deutero-canonical books, which were accepted by the Jews in ancient Alexandira, Egypt. Protestant bibles of today do not include the deutero-canonical books, but Catholic and Orthodox bibles do. It's interesting to note that the New Testament books, which are not disputed by Protestants, makes references to these deutero-canonical books multiple times, including Jesus himself. Read the text references in the following link: http://www.scripturecatholic.com/deuterocanon.html

Also interesting to note in the books of Maccabees, two of the deutero-canonical books, the story of the desecration of the Jewish Temple in Jeruselem is told. No one disputes that this happened--it's the reason that Jews celebrate Hannakuh today, a celebration of the restoration and re-dedication of the Temple after Judas Maccabee recaptured it from Antiochus IV Epiphanes of Syria.

Want to know more? Below are some excellent links to learn all about the bible, the divinely inspired word of God.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02543a.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03267a.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03274a.htm
http://www.catholicbiblestudyonline.com/
http://www.salvationhistory.com/
http://www.cuf.org/FaithFacts/category_view.asp?catID=11
http://biblestudyforcatholics.com/"

Free Stuff for Non-Catholics
Jesus said that the gift of salvation he has freely given to us, we should pass on to others. In Matthew 10:11, Jesus said: "freely ye have received, freely give." If you're not Catholic and want to learn more about the Catholic faith from the Church itself, email us at 1bread@excite.com and we'll send you free information.

Catholics, Order Your Evangelization Kit Today
Do you have a burning desire to share your Catholic faith with others, but don't know how to get started? For just $10 (includes postage), we'll send you the information you need to spread the truths of your Catholic faith. This kit includes: Father Mario Romero's "Pocket Catholic Evangelist" booklet, Our Sunday Visitor's "What the Church Teaches about Evangelization," One Bread's "Plan for Catholic Evangelization", the US Conference of Catholic Bishop's "Evangelize" booklet, and several pamphlets you can give away to your non-Catholic friends. To obtain a Catholic Evangelist starter kit, click the button below: