This past month I have been witness to a plethora of awesome and outstanding work produced by people I follow on Twitter, Facebook and various blogs. Three of these people I’ve come to know on this website; Greg Willits, Nancy…
New Evangelizers Round-Up
Food for the Soul
“My food,” Jesus said to them, “is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do.” John 4: 34 Jesus stopped by a well to rest while his disciples…
Baptism, Babies, and being Born-Again
Evangelical Christians often enjoy asking cradle Catholics if they have been, “born again”. If you ask them what they mean by “born again”, you will more than likely get an answer like this: “You are born again when you believe in Jesus Christ and…
Turning to God
At this time of year, there is no more beautiful place to be than New England. Everything here bursts into color as the seasons change; as if the whole world was being transformed one leaf at a time. Our spiritual…
Chasing the Fox
Editor’s Note: Today we welcome Deborah Gaudino to the New Evangelizers blog. Have you ever been to a fox hunt? Me neither. In fact, as a city girl, a fox hunt is about as foreign to me as a game…
Loving Virtue
In the Gospel of Luke, the Rich Young Man went to Jesus and asked what he must do to inherit eternal life. Jesus quoted to him the commandments, which the young man said he kept since he was a boy….
The Blind Man Speaks Up
October 25, 2015 the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time There were hundreds in the crowd that day at Jericho. No doubt all of them had needs, many of them urgent. But this Sunday’s gospel tells us that apparently only one…
Is it done?
“More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who…
Wounded Healers
Elisha died and was buried. Every year bands of Moabites used to invade the land of Israel. One time during a funeral, one of those bands was seen, and the people threw the corpse into Elisha’s tomb and ran off….
The Rosary and Me: My Neighbors Think I’m Nuts
This summer, I realized my family was in serious need of prayer. Oh, we are always in need of prayer, but this year things were a little more unsettled than usual. My eldest son was experiencing the growing pains of…