Parish Mission Statement

THE PARISH IS PRESENTLY CONSIDERING A NEW MISSION STATEMENT. UNTIL THIS IS DESIGNED THE FOLLOWING FORMULAR REPRESENTS THE PURPOSE OF THE PARISH:

As a Catholic community united by faith in Jesus Christ, shepherded by God our Father, we are called to proclaim the kingdom of God. Nourished by the Eucharist and the Word, our parish strives in company with fellow Christian communities to reflect Christ’s light in Camberley, Old Dean, Bagshot, Windlesham and in Lightwater through worship, education and service.

Parish Objectives
To fulfil its mission the Camberley & Bagshot Catholic Parish has six core objectives:

• To preach the Gospel and to develop people of faith, hope and charity with the temperament for effective mission in the local area and beyond.
• To provide and develop good liturgy appropriate to the needs of the parish.
• To achieve for all age groups grounding in Catholic Doctrine and its significance.
• To be a parish that welcomes the stranger and effectively cares for those in need both at home and abroad.
• To develop effective working relationships with other Christian denominations and to work for harmonious relations with local faith groups to the benefit of the wider community.
• To contribute to the aims and objectives of the Diocese of Arundel & Brighton and the Woking Deanery.

Enabling Objectives
(taken from Pope Benedict XV1's address to the 5th Latin American Conference 2007)

To achieve this, we must train people to read and meditate on the word of God: this must become their staple diet, so that, through their own experience, the faithful will see that the words of Jesus are spirit and life (cf. Jn 6:63). Otherwise, how could they proclaim a message whose content and spirit they do not know thoroughly? We must build our missionary commitment and the whole of our lives on the rock of the word of God. For this reason, I encourage the Bishops to strive to make it known.

An important way of introducing the People of God to the mystery of Christ is through catechesis. Here, the message of Christ is transmitted in a simple and substantial form. It is therefore necessary to intensify the catechesis and the faith formation not only of children but also of young people and adults. Mature reflection on faith is a light for the path of life and a source of strength for witnessing to Christ. Most valuable tools with which to achieve this are the Catechism of the Catholic Church and its abridged version, the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

PARISH LOGO

The pattern for our parish logo is the cross with IC XC NI KA. At Christ the King church we have a fine depiction of this in a frieze below the tabernacle. IC XC are abbreviations (in both Greek and Slavonic) for the name Jesus Christ. NIKA is a Greek verb that means “conquers”.