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Youth Ministry - November 2006

     
The following objectives were identified through the Armagh Diocesan Pastoral Plan consultation process.

Youth
Have youth groups in each parish
Youth councils
Youth pastoral councils to be in each parish by 2006
Set up a Youth Council for each vicariate youth to be involved in all aspects in parishes
Diocesan Youth event at Easter/summer

The ADYC have had a strategic plan in operation since September 2003. the above objectives all lie within the Parish Ministry area of the strategic plan and need to be woven into the overall ministry of the ADYC to ensure they are addressed effectively.

To date the following activities have been carried out to further these objectives:
Vicariate Youth Ministry Project (Dundalk)
Parish Missions
Liturgy
Youth Councils
Newsletter
Lourdes/Taize/World Youth Day

Preparation for the new strategic plan is under way. Listening exercises are currently taking place with targeted groups of young people, teachers, clergy and chaplains. It is hoped that the result will be a wider view giving a greater idea of the needs in parishes and schools.

Again, the new strategic plan will embrace the Diocesan Pastoral Plan objectives.

Chair: Rev Gerry Campbell
 


Welcome to the website of the Archdiocese of Armagh.

Our diocese of sixty-one parishes, from four counties, North and South of the Border, is knitted together closely to form the historic local Church of Armagh. As a diocese we seek not only to be faithful to the message of Jesus Christ himself, but also to embrace the challenges of the present and to look forward with confidence to the opportunities of the future. We strive to do this primarily by reflecting the healing love of Christ and the Truth of his Gospel through the ministry of his Church in the various parishes and pastoral agencies you will find outlined in this website.

I pray that visitors to this site may find the information it contains, the aspirations and resources it promotes, useful in helping to understand the mission of the Archdiocese of Armagh in building up the Kingdom of God in the twenty-first century.

We place it under the protection of Mary, Mother of the Church, who advised us to do whatever her son, Jesus, tells us. We invoke the help of the Patron Saints of the diocese, Patrick  and  Brigid, Malachy and Moninne  and the martyrs, Oliver Plunkett and Patrick O'Loughran,  that this website may prove to be of great help to all who strive to follow Christ faithfully.
 
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