Omaha - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 02 May 2013 05:19:27 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Omaha - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Revitalised liturgy key to reviving rundown parish https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/05/03/revitalised-liturgy-key-to-reviving-rundown-parish/ Thu, 02 May 2013 19:02:55 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=43592 A revitalised liturgy has been the key to reviving a rundown parish in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, which was impoverished with dwindling numbers until Father Damien Cook arrived. Now there is a vibrant Catholic culture, with liturgies celebrated both facing the people and facing the altar, Eucharistic adoration, a host of parish organisations, a music ministry, Read more

Revitalised liturgy key to reviving rundown parish... Read more]]> A revitalised liturgy has been the key to reviving a rundown parish in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, which was impoverished with dwindling numbers until Father Damien Cook arrived.

Now there is a vibrant Catholic culture, with liturgies celebrated both facing the people and facing the altar, Eucharistic adoration, a host of parish organisations, a music ministry, 75 altar boys and a Corpus Christi procession through the neighbourhood that attracts 1000 people.

How the change occurred is told in a new documentary.

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