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"I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization and to the mission ad gentes. No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples."

~ Pope St. John Paul II, Redemptoris Mission

Bishop Hying is embracing the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Diocese of Madison in the year 2021, to launch a bold, robust evangelizing initiative. When we ponder the mission of the Church, it’s clear that Jesus commands us to proclaim the Gospel to every creature—to be disciples ourselves and to make disciples of others. And that is what the Church has been about for 2,000 years. There is a special urgency to that task in this present moment, when we ponder the fact that, in any diocese in our country, roughly 70% of our baptized Catholics are not at church on any given Sunday. There’s a myriad of reasons for that, but the bottom-line is, we need to do something about it. The task of evangelization is to proclaim in a fresh way and with a bold impulse the good news of Jesus Christ, of God’s love for us, of the offer of salvation and forgiveness won for us by Jesus through his death and resurrection; to speak of Jesus as if people have never heard of him, because in many cases they really haven’t, and so the Good News is both “Good” and really “New” for us.

"I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization and to the mission ad gentes. No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples."