{"id":272614,"date":"2018-01-20T21:49:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T02:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aleteia.org\/?post_type=post&amp;p=272614"},"modified":"2018-01-20T21:49:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T02:49:33","slug":"how-can-you-get-families-to-come-to-mass-check-out-what-this-parish-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2018\/01\/how-can-you-get-families-to-come-to-mass-check-out-what-this-parish-did\/","title":{"rendered":"How can you get families to come to Mass? Check out what this parish did."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Christ the King Parish in Chicago reported a whopping 64% increase in parish attendance last fall. What did they do? <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com\/2018\/01\/increasing-family-attendance-at-mass-what-works\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Catechist\u2019s Journey\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>quotes a note from the pastor, Father Larry Sullivan, who wrote that he took a multi-faceted approach :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Sent weekly e-mails to all of our parishioners inviting them to celebrate the Eucharist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Put a flyer in everyone\u2019s mailbox.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Each week, at one of the Masses, we had a well-known parishioner give a short presentation on \u201cWhat CK Means to Me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Sports Mass and pizza party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>One of the organizations sponsored Saturday night Mass and pizza separate from the Sports Mass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Debut of our new student choir.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Each week offered anyone in the school a special prize if they had a picture taken with one of the priests at Sunday Mass: out-of-uniform pass or homework pass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>On the last Sunday of October, if 75% of a particular classroom came to Mass, the classroom was given a treat and game time with Fr. Matt or me. If 90% of the class came to Mass, then the whole classroom got a pizza party. It was great to see the kids encouraging each other to go to Mass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>A number of families told me that after 4\u20135 weeks of going to Mass, that\u00a0<em><strong>future attendance was moving from a \u201chope to\u201d to a priority<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com\/2018\/01\/increasing-family-attendance-at-mass-what-works\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>here.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And check out Rita Ferrone\u2019s analysis of this phenomenon over at<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/18\/raising-mass-attendance\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> PrayTell.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ the King Parish in Chicago reported a whopping 64% increase in parish attendance last fall. 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