About Us
The Catholic Evangelization Training Center (CETC)
The Catholic Evangelization Training Center (CETC), located in the Archdiocese of Denver, was founded in 1983 by Sister Angeline Bukowiecki, S.N.C. and Sister Brigid Meierotto, S.N.C., C0-Foundresses of the Sisters of the New Covenant, Inc. (Private Association of the Christian Faithful).
Evangelization, spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ, is a challenge for our Catholic people today. The CETC is a valiant attempt to help meet this challenge. Its purpose is to provide training in evangelization:
- to facilitate personal conversion.
- to equip men and women in their parish to become enthusiastic evangelizers,
- by providing them with a practical "know-how" approach to evangelization,
- with an emphasis on one-to-one relationships,
- looking toward facilitating the formation of an evangelizing community within the parish
What our Catholic people need is a deep personal relationship with Jesus and the desire and ability to share Him with others. For our people to be evangelizers, they need to deepen their relationship with the Lord and their life in the Spirit.
From the Bible, we see the Master's plan and strategy.
First, He selected a few.
- developed friendship with them,
- evangelized them,
- trained them,
- sent them out, and then
- supervised them.
How Will You Participate in the Mission of Evangelization?
By discovering:
- The richness of the Good News of Jesus Christ and personal conversion.
By learning:
- to express your own personal witness of the Lord Jesus simply and directly to family, friends and strangers.
- to equip and prepare lay leaders to serve, in a spirit of humility, the people of God.
- to minister to the unchurched and the alienated/inactive Catholic and all who are in need of evangelization (E.N. 51-57).
- to facilitate the formation of an evangelizing community within the parish.