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Pro Labore Dei
Bishops' Conference: Bishops` Conference of England and Wales (Cymru)
Diocese: Diocese of Northampton
Address
, 2 Pembroke Avenue, Luton, LU4 9BH
People
Contact
| Phone | 01582 593 741 / 07949 124 364 |
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| Click here to email Pro Labore Dei | |
 www.prolaboredei.org |
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About Pro Labore Dei
Pro Labore Dei (For the labour of God) Pro Labore Dei is an ecclesial movement with a radical fundamental option for the poorest of the poor. It is a covenant community whose members comprise of: (1) Consecrated Virgins who in this case live a life of poverty, virginity and obedience - giving up everything up for the service of Christ in the poor and lonely and living in the world so as to be more closely in touch with the poor. (2) Married/Unmarried Volunteers from all works of life - these work with the Consecrated Virgins. They join the Sisters in their prayers also as much as time permits apart from the practical work in the fields. They go through some training/ formation. Any Christian who is not opposed to the statutes of Pro Labore Dei and teachings of the Catholic Church is welcome. (3) Support groups who just help when and how they can , financially and morally. (4) PLD Juniors (ages 9-14 years) whom we teach to love God and to help the poor from this tender age. Pro Labore Dei`s mission /apostolate is to feed the hungry, cloth the naked, shelter the homeless nurse/treat the sick, poor, and the aged deserted by relatives, to visit the imprisoned, be mothers to orphaned and abandoned children, educate the young poor whose parents cannot send to school, bury the dead: and care for the spiritually hungry also, through the weekly/monthly prayer meeting and counselling. Christ is the model, and Him the members imitate through this radical option for the poorest of the poor, the marginalized and the down trodden. The Holiness of Christ is at the heart of all that they do as they strive to deepen their spirituality and to grow in holiness while they work. Pro Labore Dei exists in Africa, United States of America, Canada, South America, Asia and the United Kingdom. For more information about Pro Labore Dei in the U.K please contact: Sr. Theresa 2 Pembroke Avenue, Luton LU4 9BH.
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Useful Definitions of the Structures in the Catholic Church
What is a Catholic Bishops' Conference?
An episcopal conference, sometimes called a conference of bishops, is an official assembly of the bishops of the Catholic Church in a given territory. ... Individual bishops do not relinquish their immediate authority for the governance of their respective dioceses to the conference (Wikipedia).
What is an Archdiocese?
Dioceses ruled by an archbishop are commonly referred to as archdioceses; most are metropolitan sees, being placed at the head of an ecclesiastical province. A few are suffragans of a metropolitan see or are directly subject to the Holy See.
The term 'archdiocese' is not found in Canon Law, with the terms "diocese" and "episcopal see" being applicable to the area under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of any bishop.[8] If the title of archbishop is granted on personal grounds to a diocesan bishop, his diocese does not thereby become an archdiocese (Wikipedia).
What is a Diocese?
The group of churches that a bishop supervises is known as a diocese. Typically, a diocese is divided into parishes that are each overseen by a priest.
The original dioceses, in ancient Rome, were political rather than religious. Rome was divided into dioceses, each of which was made up of many provinces. After Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th century, the term gradually came to refer to religious districts. The Catholic Church has almost 3,000 dioceses. The Greek root of diocese is dioikesis, "government, administration, or province." (Vocabulary.com).
As of April 2020, in the Catholic Church there are 2,898 regular dioceses: 1 papal see, 649 archdioceses (including 9 patriarchates, 4 major archdioceses, 560 metropolitan archdioceses, 76 single archdioceses) (Wikipedia).
What is the difference between a Diocese and an Archdiocese?
Each diocese is within a Province - a group of Dioceses - the Archdiocese is the main Diocese within that Diocese. The bishop of that Archdiocese is therefore automatically an Archbishop. If a bishop has been made an Archbishop personally is referred to as an Archbishop but it does not make their Diocese an Archdiocese.
What is a Deanery?
A subdivision of a diocese, consisting of a number parishes, over which presides a dean appointed by a bishop. The duty of the dean is to watch over the clergy of the deanery, to see that they fulfill the orders of the bishop, and observe the liturgical and canon laws. He summons the conference of the deanery and presides at it. Periodically he makes a report to the bishop on conditions in the deanery.www.catholicculture.org
What is a Parish?
In the Roman Catholic Church, a parish (Latin: parochia) is a stable community of the faithful within a particular church, whose pastoral care has been entrusted to a parish priest (Latin: parochus), under the authority of the diocesan bishop. It is the lowest ecclesiastical subdivision in the Catholic episcopal polity, and the primary constituent unit of a diocese. In the 1983 Code of Canon Law, parishes are constituted under cc. 515–552, entitled "Parishes, Pastors, and Parochial Vicars." Wikipedia
