Driving the Good News
A few weeks ago I pondered some images for what some of the distortions of the Good News look like for many adult Catholics–including those who are the…
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Six Resolutions for Your Fall Ministries
It’s that time of year when many ministry staff and volunteers are preparing to launch or re-start initiatives, groups, programs, and more, as students and adults transition back…
Joy
I was on retreat Saturday with our middle and high school youth ministry core teams. One of our deacons gave a talk on joy and said it was…
From Inauthentic Evangelizer to Witness
How authentic are you as an evangelizer? When people ask you questions, are your responses what you experience? Or a idealistic, textbook answer? Pope Francis writes, “people prefer…
An Evangelization Tip
In the last few weeks I’ve heard a good number of homilies and other talks that have been very applicable to how to be a good evangelizer. What’s…
Making Sense of Institutional Evangelization
A lot of “New Evangelization” talk gravitates towards questions of how to re-evangelized those who may be baptized but not practicing, those in our neighborhoods who’ve never even…
I Don’t Get Anything Out of Mass
If you’ve been talking to friends, family, or co-workers who’ve left the Church, you may have heard the explanation, “I just didn’t get anything out of Mass.” As…
Social Media and Evangelization
I enjoy social media. I started out on Facebook when my daughter did a semester abroad in Australia. It was much easier to keep up with her that…
Pray and Work
“Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended on you.” * I think this is a great quote to live by if one…