Cross Catholic Outreach depends greatly on the openness of pastors throughout the country to host an Outreach Priest at their parishes, thereby inviting parishioners to unite with its mission partners through their prayers and financial support. These parish visits are crucial to the ability of Cross Catholic Outreach to carry out its fundamental mission and ministry.
In order to ensure the continuity of this aspect of the ministry, Cross Catholic Outreach endeavors to educate the men currently in priestly formation about the history, mission and work of the organization. Two seminary visits recently took place.
At the invitation of Reverend Gladstone Stevens, PSS,
Vice Rector and Academic Dean of St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland, about 50 seminarians learned of the mission and ministry of Cross Catholic Outreach in a presentation by Fr. Bernard Olszewski, a full-time Outreach Priest and an associate in the Clergy Diocesan Relations office. This was incorporated into the daily schedule of the seminarians as part of their spiritual formation program.