What is Wildfire?
A way of life that brings Catholics together to live the universal call to holiness, and through it renew the local Church
In every age the Church cries out for renewal. It is her saints who answer that call.
The crisis our Church currently faces is grave. No plan or program or strategy is enough—the only solution is radical, personal holiness.
- The center is a personal encounter with the Lord in prayer. In discipleship we discover our identity, hear His call, and respond with generosity.
- Then, in living the Paschal Mystery we experience a deep, real, and lasting transformation.
- Our particular path to holiness can be summed up in living and sharing the interior life. The Holy Spirit sends us out on mission: Make the outside like the inside. It is only in this way that we fulfill our mission of renewal, where individuals fully live as Church in our family, parish, and the secular world.
Wildfire is a concrete means to live our faith and proposes nothing more than the Gospel. At its heart is the teaching of Vatican II: each of us has the same call to be a saint.
The Raging Wildfire
The urgency and seriousness of this moment demands that, to the absolute best of our ability, we fan the flames of personal holiness into the renewal our Church so desperately needs.
Men and women saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult circumstances in the Church’s history.
Today we have the greatest need of saints whom we must beg God to raise up. – St. John Paul II
Wildfire Members
Wildfire events are open to anyone, and members commit to:
1. live Wildfire principles in their own life,
2. regularly participate in a local team,
3. fostering Catholic fellowship in our local community
4. contribute to an active apostolate to live and share the interior life in order to renew the local Church
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Recent Reflections
fan the flames of personal holiness
Finally Home – Parish Renewal
St. John Paul II describes the parish as “the family of God, a … welcoming home.” Do these words have any meaning today? Is the average parish an experience of home? What does it mean to be “home”?
Radical Holiness – Personal Renewal
It’s easy to interpret “radical holiness” as something strange and extreme, but nothing is further from the truth. Holiness is “radical” because it touches the deepest parts of who we are.
Hidden Treasures – Seeing Like Christ
Lessons from a priest who restores brass items from churches around town. “People look and only see the tarnished, but I see what they can be. To me, they are beautiful already.”