More than 6,000 people are expected to gather at the Honda Center in Anaheim Saturday for a Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange event promoting what church leaders call \u201cradical hospitality\u201d as part of the diocese\u2019s 50th anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n
The event, dubbed \u201cThere\u2019s More,\u201d will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday and feature speakers, worship, music and fellowship as part of the diocese\u2019s 50th anniversary celebration. Organizers said it is expected to be one of the largest gatherings in the history of the Diocese of Orange.<\/p>\n
The initiative includes training sessions for priests, staff and church volunteers focused on \u201cradical hospitality.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the diocese, the training includes guidance from former Disney executives and is intended to create a more welcoming environment for longtime parishioners, returning Catholics and newcomers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe church has not always been intentional in being as welcoming as it should, but now we aim to better that,\u201d Armando Cervantes, who heads the diocese\u2019s Hispanic ministry and Office for Youth & Young Adults, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The diocese is also introducing a mobile app called PrayServe, which will allow parishioners to track participation in three pillars of the campaign: radical hospitality, faith-filled prayer and generous service.<\/p>\n
Church leaders are encouraging Orange County\u2019s estimated 1.3 million Catholics to collectively complete 500,000 hours of community service, 500,000 hours of Eucharistic adoration and 500,000 rosaries through the initiative.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur faith, ever ancient and ever new, reminds us that God\u2019s grace is never exhausted and His plan is always greater than we can imagine,\u201d Auxiliary Bishop Timothy Freyer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 6,000 people are expected to gather at the Honda Center in Anaheim Saturday for a Roman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,8010,29670,73571,39451,23622,1093],"class_list":["post-444080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-center","tag-diocese","tag-draw","tag-gathering","tag-honda","tag-thousands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}