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Landings Offers:
Returning Catholics
- A supportive community within which he/she can ask questions, discuss issues, deal with difficulties.
- An opportunity to be with ordinary Catholics who are trying to live their faith.
- A safe environment to come to terms with recent changes within the Church and themselves.
Active Catholics
- A participation in the Church's evangelization mission by opening their hearts to those who've been away.
- An opportunity to share their time and faith.
- A chance to grow and learn from the spiritual journeys of one another.
What Landings is Not
- The "saved" welcoming the "sinners".
- People pressuring others to return.
- Full of answers to teach the unenlightened.
- Blind to the hurt the Church may have caused someone….
Landings Is
- People in solidarity with the returning; who in their own lives have "returned" and will continue to "return".
- Founded on the belief that we do not have to be trained theologians to share what we believe, and to speak honestly about our faith, trusting in the Holy Spirit.
A Paulist Program For Returning Catholics
©Copyright, 1999. Jac Campbell
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