RE-CREATION OF THE APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER.

Global AP Structures & Operational

ModelsBy: Bro. Anumba Joseph U.

Global Activity of the AP

Unevenly active in 83 Countries

Africa 16

America 25

Asia/Oceani

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Europe 28

Global Activity of the EYM

Currently present in 52 Countries

Africa 20

America 14

Asia/Oceani

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Europe 8

CURRENT/EXISTING STRUCTURE OF THE AP

National Council

Diocesan Directors

Parish Groups

Regular meetings

DIOCESAN AP STRUCTURE

Features of the Existing Diocesan AP Structure.

• Typical of an Ecclesiastical Movement• Has a specific task of praying for the

mission of the universal Church

• Comprises groups of older, very traditional people who are focused on devotional practices

• Carry out apostolic services (like visiting the sick) in the parishes

• Usually not attractive to today’s new generation with exception to some African countries.

• Likely hood to be looked upon like every other movement seeming to a rivalry.

THE NEW STRUCTURES OF THE APCulture

(Ignatian Spirituality

& the Eucharist)

Mission

(Purpose driven)

Sharing (Love & Relationship with others)

Devotion

(Religious Commitment/

Dedication through prayer

& Service)

A GLOBAL PRAYER NETWORK: A worldwide network of hearts

Features of the New Structure.• A true Global Prayer Network• Strengthening the communication links between

countries,

• Will be active in sharing news, publications, ideas and other resources, despite geographical, linguistic, and cultural diversity.

• Aim to make ourselves known online as a prayer network that is in the service of the needs of the humanity in aspects that regard the Church’s mission

OPERATIONAL MODELS FOR THE AOP

.

Direct Ecclesiastical

Service

Youth Associati

on

Digital Action

The three models ideally should be present in all implementations of the AP, even though we may need to begin by only one or two of them.

Features of the Operational Models

• Joins the global prayer network and live our spiritual itinerary by digital means.

• live our AP programs in the virtual community in an individual way.

• Uses tools such as: email, interactive websites and/or participation in social networks.

Digital Action Model

• the AP is in the service of the dioceses and Christian communities

• Can be driven by the Itinerant Missions

Local Church Service Model

• specialized service for children and youth

• Large gatherings, camp outs, and common celebrations are part of the formative path.

• EYM shares its historical and spiritual roots with the AP.

EYM

Strong Linkages of the Models

Digital Model• knows no borders,

we will be able to reach people in every country of the world, including those where the AP is not present today.

• The AP already has a significant presence in the “digital continent”: we are not starting from scratch

• Proposing mutual collaboration in coordinated programs

Direct EcclesiasticalService Model• Awaken or revive in Christians a deep and personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

• provide appropriate materials and training programs for the existing AP groups

• Brings about spiritual renewal of members of groups already in existence in parishes, institutions, or movements.

Youth Association

Model• offers Children a training program inspired by the Eucharist and in friendship with Jesus.

• suitable for providing continuity to the education of children from their first communion on.

• Its training itinerary collects and adapts the spiritual program of the AP for youth.

• EYM offers to its members, especially the older ones the

• The training programs and what was proposed in the digital action model of the AP can be part of the what the EYM offers to its members, especially the older ones.

• In the EYM , young people learn the spiritual habits that, once mature, they can continue to live in the AP for the rest of their lives.

DIGITAL ACTION MODEL

How do we create a true global

prayer network among the 83

countries where the AP is found

today?

How do we improve on the National Coordination to achieve worldwide coordination of existing digital networks of prayer and spirituality?

To Demonstrating the richness of

our cultural, national, and

religious diversity?

How do we create a true global prayer

network among the 83

countries where the AP is found today?

How do we improve on the National Coordination to achieve worldwide coordination of existing digital networks of prayer and spirituality?

Enhances in the

Mission of the AP

THE YOUTH ASSOCIATION MODEL

FICHRI

• 5 – 9 years (Friends

of Christ)

• Primary school

MECRI

• 10 – 13 years (messengers of Christ):

• Junior

Secondary schools

WICHRI

• 14 – 17 years

• Senior secondary schools

SOCHRI

• 17 – 25 (Soldiers of Christ)

• Universities , Seminaries ?

Conditions for realizing the New structure.

National & International coordination & Cooperation

Competent Personnel/ Executives

Infrastructure for AP

National Office

The Call to re-create the AP

• “Each generation must re-create its faith, its vocation, and its mission…” (General Director, Father Adolfo Nicolas )

• Consequently, we must look further and more deeply into the AP by not just adapting or renewing but re-create it.

• Be free and go beyond what we are familiar with, take the cultural changes more seriously and speak the new languages of today.

(What are the new languages of today? What cultural changes are perculiar to our country and local church/dioceses)

CONCLUSION

• The re-creation begins in each one of us with an attitude of inner freedom, love of neighbour, a readiness to “let oneself be re-created,” and be surprised by the Spirit.

• What are the pre-requisites to recreating?– Knowledge of object to be recreatedYou cant recreate what you don’t have an idea about.

• Will there be hurdles / challenges in the process of recreating?

– Yes.

• What is needed to sumount the challenges?– Faith, Strength & Perseverance (through extra prayers, extra adoration,

extra acts of reparation and extra acts of charity) in the process of the recreation.

• Where does the strength and perseverance come from?- The author and finisher of our faith- God our Father through his son, our

Saviour, Jesus Christ in unity with the Holy Spirit .(Heb 12:2)What is the easiest way to get this? With faith, live out the daily offering to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

AOP: The Recreation?

What is the AOP/AP?It is a ‘League’ with devotion that offers prayers of reparation, Eucharistic Adoration and consecration. (AOP Prayer book).

The Apostleship of Prayer (AP) formation program is a way of the heart that leads the Christian to identify with the Heart of Jesus and to collaborate with him in the mission of the Church by making God’s compassion present in the world. It is a mystical path called to give fruits of justice and service