Other People’s Vocations
“I don’t love it!” That’s what our then-four-year-old used to say whenever she didn’t care for something. Time to turn off the TV? Clean-up? Go to bed? I…
Faith Library
Category: Evangelization
Sharing Christ with clarity and joy.
Knowing the Person of Jesus
Being that the World Synod of Bishops recently covered the theme of the New Evangelization, I had been mining for quotes, ideas, and themes to engage here. This…
RCIA – First Steps in the Catholic Church
The goal of the New Evangelization is to spread the Gospel message – bringing fallen away Catholics back to the faith and introducing new Catholics to the faith…
What Jesus Did
As Catholics and Christians, we study the life of Jesus in the Gospels and strive to emulate His example. For us, WWJD becomes What Jesus Did (WJD). Jesus…
Clean Your Heart, Simplify Your Life!
There’s always been something about a clean space that has made me think, work, and create better. Perhaps that’s one way I am made in the Image and…
C.S. Lewis and the New Evangelization
If you’ve read any of my earlier articles, you may have noticed that I quote heavily from C.S. Lewis. I first encountered Mr. Lewis as a child. I…
Making the Year of Faith More than Another To-Do
Most of us know the Latin phrase “Non quod non possis” as “You can’t give what you don’t have,” and we accept it as true. How often, though,…
New Evangelization 1999
Today, we welcome Christian LeBlanc to the New Evangelizers blogging team! I’m about two-thirds of the way through an interesting book, Forming Intentional Disciples by Sherry Weddell. It’s…
Participating in the Paschal Mystery
In this Year of Faith, as we work on our own faith, we’re being told to read the Catechism. I read the whole thing when I started college.…
Are we too busy to be catechized?
I keep going back to a small portion of a blog post from Bishop Kicanis: A challenge for the synod fathers is to understand how we might better catechize…