St. Gabriel the Archangel

Colorado Springs, CO

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Neocatechumenal way

- Bishop Golka celebrating Eucharist with St Gabriel's community, 2025
What is the Neocatechumenal Way?

The Neocatechumenal Way – lived in small communities made up of people from different age and social groups – is an itinerary of Catholic formation. This new catechetical experience, in line with the renewal inspired by the Vatican II Council, gradually leads the faithful to intimacy with Christ and transforms them into credible witnesses of the Good News.

It is a rediscovery of baptism and ongoing formation in the faith, and it is proposed both to the faithful and the far away who wish to rekindle in their lives the richness of Christian initiation.

The Neocatechumenal Way, founded and lived as a tripod consisting of the Word of God, Liturgy, and Community, leads to fraternal communion and mature faith. These communities walk towards a rediscovery of faith, showing signs of love and unity.

The first community of St Gabriel's was born in 2008. As of 2022, the Neocatechumenal Way is active in more than 6000 parishes spanning 135 countries, with more than 120 missionary Redemptoris Mater seminaries (eight in the United States and one in Denver) forming more than 2000 seminarians (one from the St Gabriel's community). Colorado has more than 50 communities.
- For more information regarding the St Gabriel's Neocatechumenal Way community or to attend a Eucharist with them, please contact the Responsible:
  Adrian Alvarez
  [email protected]
  (719) 351-8261
- Bishop Sheridan at the 2014 Great Mission
- Bishop Golka at the 2022 Great Mission
Bishop Golka celebrating Eucharist with St Gabriel's community, 2023
- From The Popes
  Pope Leo XIV:
  "Dear friends, I thank you for your commitment, for your joyful witness, and for the service you render to the Church and to the world. I encourage you to continue with enthusiasm, and I bless you. The good you do is great, because its purpose is to enable people to know Christ; you have lit the fire of the Gospel where it seemed to be dying out. Continue forward in joy and humility, without discouragement, as builders and witnesses of communion. The Church accompanies you, supports you, and is grateful for what you do." - 2026
  Pope Francis:
  “I thank the Lord for the joy of your faith and for the ardour of your Christian witness, thanks be to God! (…) I thank you for all you do in the Church and the world.” - 2014
  “Dear brothers and sisters, your charism is a great gift of God for the Church of our time. Let us thank the Lord for these 50 years” - 2018
  
  Pope Benedict XVI:
  “Your presence, so numerous and so lively, testifies to the miracles worked by the Lord in the past four decades. It also demonstrates the commitment with which you intend to persevere on the journey you have begun, a journey of following Christ faithfully and of courageous witness to his Gospel.”- 2009
  “How can we not praise the Lord for the spiritual fruits that it has been possible to gather in these years through your method of evangelization? How many fresh apostolic energies have been inspired, among both priests and lay people!”- 2009
  
  St. John Paul II:
  “I acknowledge the Neocatechumenal Way as an itinerary of Catholic formation, valid for our society and for our times. (...) It is therefore my wish that the Brothers in the Episcopate – together with their presbyters – value and support this work for the new evangelization.” - 1990
  “These communities make the sign of the missionary Church visible in the parishes and work to open a path for evangelization for those who have all but abandoned Christian life, offering them a catechumenal itinerary that passes through all the stages which catechumens in the early Church went through before receiving the sacrament of Baptism; it reconciles them to the Church and to Christ.”- 1990
  
  Pope Paul VI:
  “Here are the fruits of the [Vatican II] Council! You do after Baptism what the early Church did before: before or after, is secondary. The fact is that you look at the authenticity, the fullness, the coherence, the sincerity of the Christian life. And this has a great merit, which comforts us greatly.” - 1974
  “This purpose, which for you is a conscious and authentic way of living the Christian vocation, is translated also in an effective testimony for others, in a stimulus for the rediscovery and recovery of true Christian values authentic, effective, that might otherwise be forgotten.”- 1974