Highlighting New Evangelizers: Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate

Think going door-to-door is just a Protestant or Morman thing? Think again. Meet Sister Margery Therese Harkin, a religious sister from the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate who isn’t afraid to knock on doors and bring the Good News to…

The Response to Relativism

I recently finished reading and reviewing The Church Under Attack: Five Hundred Years That Split the Church and Scattered the Flock by Dr. Diane Moczar. Throughout the book Dr. Moczar details the numerous attacks the Church has withstood since the…

Let the Cross Do the Talking

Have you ever been given the perfect opportunity to share your faith but could not think of the right words to say?  Later, the right words come to us, but the moment passes, the opportunity gone. When you struggle to…

Ask and You Shall Receive

Readings for July 28, 2013: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time I’ve often heard people say that they don’t want to trouble God with their petty needs and concerns.  After all, he has more important things to attend to, like running…

Tweeting Faith

Over the last year and half I have been eagerly using Twitter to evangelize and spread the word of God. I tend to go on late evenings and at times tweet into the wee hours of the morning (for which…

10 Ministries to Explore in Your Parish

Being a part of a Catholic parish isn’t a solo performance. A parish is made up of people, young and old, and requires everyone’s involvement to grow and thrive. For folks like me, getting involved is easy. For others, volunteering…

Death by Liturgy

Death by Liturgy

In chapter 9 of Forming Intentional Disciples, Sherry Weddell teaches the would-be evangelist about an essential skill: listening. Grab a drink, get comfortable, and take a few minutes to practice that skill right now, by reading this post, written by…

The Role of Prayer in Evangelization

Editor’s note: Today we welcome Jean Heimann to our New Evangelizers blogging team. “Prayer is the gate through which all the graces of God come to us.” ~ St. Teresa of Avila To be an effective evangelizer, one must be…

What God Has Joined

While beginning this article, I am reminded of a moment in C.S. Lewis’s The Problem of Pain where he was greatly worried about sounding callous to the suffering of others.  “How can I saw with sufficient tenderness what needs to…

Conversion: It’s What’s in the Middle

Imagine you’re playing a trivia game and in the final round, your team draws the question, “Name the Biblical figure who parted the Red Sea.” Moses. Phew. That was an easy one. For anyone who’s spent time around virtually any…