36 Building A Vibrant Parish

“We should always look for people who have no one or know no one in the parish and reach out to them.” Patti Maguire Armstrong on building a vibrant parish.

Building A Vibrant parish

Patti Maguire Armstrong is a correspondent for  newspaper and the National Catholic Register, and works in marketing for Teresa Tomeo Communications. She is an award-winning author and was the managing editor and co-author of Ascension Press’ bestselling Amazing Grace series. Her latest books are: Big Hearted: Inspiring Stories From Everyday Families and Dear God, You Can’t Be Serious. She has appeared on EWTN, Catholic TV, Fox & Friends, and numerous radio programs across the country.

Patti Maguire Armstrong

Patti studied a year of journalism at University of Detroit, has a B.A. in social work and an M.A. in public administration, and worked in both those fields before staying home to work as a freelance writer. She and her husband met in the Peace Corps in the Marshall Islands, Micronesia. They now live in North Dakota where they are still raising the tail end of their 10 children.

In this episode, Patti Maguire talks to us about what building a vibrant parish involves.

She talks about:

-What a vibrant parish looks like

-How we need to get out of our comfort zones

-How God maybe calling us to do things in our parish.

This episode was sponsored by NOAH’S Event Venue. They rent out beautiful and spacious venues to church groups. Find out more about them here: www.NOAHSEventVenue.com/church

Building A Vibrant Parish

I enjoyed recording this podcast for a number of reasons. I reached out to Patti months ago during Temptation month since she’d written an article 10 points on fighting the devil. For some reason, the emails got mixed up and this month she reached out to me and I told her that we’re talking about vibrant parishes this month. She agreed to do the podcast. In total, I think we exchanged 21 emails. Phew.