Hear the Call: Promotional Materials Planning

Issue 1.8 - June 9, 2025 Effective communications are essential for engaging your community in the Mercy Initiative. This week, we focus on planning and producing these materials to ensure your message is clear, consistent, and...

Hear the Call: Sharing the Message

Issue 1.7 - June 2, 2025 Each week, the Sunday Gospel and homily offer powerful reflections that can inspire people to live out mercy in daily life. This week, our focus is on sharing those messages—extending the impact of...

Hear the Call: Communications Planning

Issue 1.6 - May 26, 2025 Effective communication is essential to the success of our initiative to spread hope through mercy. It’s how we inspire participation in works of mercy, share stories of impact, and keep the mission...

Hear the Call: Forming Your Mercy Team

Issue 1.5 - May 19, 2025 A successful Mercy Initiative thrives with dedicated leadership team at its heart! This week, we’re turning our attention to the importance of forming and empowering your "Mercy Team" — the group of...

Hear the Call: Exploring Seasonal Opportunities

Issue 1.4 - May 12, 2025 This week, we're discussing how to participate in the Finding Hope Through Mercy Initiative throughout the year by exploring seasonal opportunities for mercy. GO TO THE WEBSITE ARCHIVE MERCY INITIATIVE...

Hear the Call: Planning Your Mercy Journey

Issue 1.3 - May 5, 2025 As we continue our journey to share hope through mercy, let's talk about developing a plan for your parish or school's mercy initiative. GO TO THE WEBSITE ARCHIVE MERCY INITIATIVE NEWS & UPDATES 1,000,000...

Hear the Call: Start small, build momentum

Issue 1.2 - APRIL 28, 2025 Thank you for your enthusiastic response to the Mercy Challenge! We're seeing acts of mercy being logged across the diocese. We've reached over 194,000 acts of mercy so far. Wow, what a blessing! Keep...

Hear the Call: Pray for Pope Francis

Special Issue 1.1.1 - APRIL 24, 2025 It's one of the Spiritual Works of Mercy -   Pray for the Living and the Dead. Below are ways we can participate in this most important work of mercy. GO TO THE WEBSITE ARCHIVE 1,000,000 Acts...

Hear the Call: Welcome to the newsletter

Issue 1.1 - APRIL 21, 2025 Welcome to the Diocese of Saint Petersburg's Pastoral Plan Newsletter! We're thrilled to have you join us in this journey of conversion. Here you will be able to find the latest news, updates, tips, and...