Pastoral Leaders
Thank you for visiting our site, and for considering how you can minister well to your families during this unsettling time.
We are offering this online resource for free, but we have some requests. We ask you to please follow these steps:
- Spend some time reviewing this site and understanding what you can share with your families. Just click on the buttons for the different days at the top of the page.
- Please register for free if you wish to share this resource with your people. Simply follow this link to view the product page, add it to your cart and checkout. When adding it to your cart, you have the opportunity to make a free will offering. We ask that you prayerfully consider the value of this resource to your community at that time. There is no obligation to donate, but any amount helps us sustain our ministry.
- Get the word out to your people. Be sure to send them to the top of this website: http://holyweek.pastoral.center . It is VERY important for you to persuade your families with a personal note, if possible. The best ways to get the word out are through email or social media like Facebook. It's a great idea to post on your parish website, but don't assume many people will be looking there. Consider even mailing out postcards or letters through the postal mail. We encourage you to freely use the banner image further below on this page.
- Help us spread the word to other leaders. Tell those you work with, your diocesan leaders, and those you know from other parishes or skills. We don't have much time before Holy Week begins, and we want to welcome as many families into this experience as we can!
Thank you for letting us serve you from our Pastoral Center online through our Growing Up Catholic ministry. It's an honor to work with pastoral ministers like you!
— Paul, Ann, and the Pastoral Center team
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Diocesan Leaders
Thank you for your interest! We are making these resources freely available, but our request is that each parish/school that wishes to share them with their people register for a free license. You CAN post a link to HolyWeek@Home on your diocesan site, but we'd like your help to encourage your parish/school leaders to register and share themselves.
We ask that you follow these steps:
- Review all of our free coronavirus tools at http://pastoral.center/coronavirus. We especially encourage you to point your leaders to Sending Faith Home: A Guide for Pastoral Leaders amidst the Coronavirus Shutdown.
- Please register for free if you wish to share this or other resources on your diocesan website, through your social media account, or by email. Simply follow this link, click on the product pages of interest, add them to your cart, and checkout. When adding a couple of the resources to your cart, you have the opportunity to make a free will offering. There is no obligation to donate, but any amount helps us sustain our ministry.
- Get the word out to your people. For this resource, be sure to send them to the top of this website: http://holyweek.pastoral.center. We encourage you to use the colorful banner image on this page. Then, if possible, add a second link below it that encourages PARISH/SCHOOL leaders to register for licenses at http://pastoral.center/coronavirus so they can post directly to their own website.
We’re sorry for the extra step, but this allows us to be in touch with leaders about updates to the pages, next steps after Holy Week, and hopefully a continued commitment to coaching parents to share their faith and build up the domestic church (which is what we’re about ALL the time).
Thank you for partnering with the online Pastoral Center and our Growing Up Catholic ministry to equip your leaders. It's an honor to work with pastoral ministers like you!
— Paul, Ann, and the Pastoral Center team
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Parish and Diocesan Leaders, please read this!
Parishes and dioceses, you CAN link to this site and share it with your people, but please click the red button above and follow the instructions there. All rights reserved. The resources on this page may be reproduced for use by individual families. However, they are protected by copyright and may not be posted directly on any other website or otherwise reproduced without permission of The Pastoral Center (or other copyright holders).
The Pastoral Center and our Growing Up Catholic ministry is a family-owned and run business serving Catholic pastoral leaders, and it's the way we pay our bills. We do not receive funding from any parish or diocese, except through resource sales (which are now largely suspended indefinitely). You are under no obligation, but we are very grateful for any contributions!
(Pictured: Paul, Madeleine, Ann, and Rachel).
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