A DRE for SPSE

Bloomington, IN. Scott, director of religious education for St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Bloomington, joined the Indiana University SPSE team for evangelization on the university campus. One of his first street evangelization outings, he’s putting in to...

“Authentic Human Encounter”

Baltimore, MD. Evangelization is most appropriately carried out within what we might call “authentic human encounters.” What is an “authentic human encounter”? At the least, it is a human encounter where the freedom and dignity of the other is respected. Why is this...

“Showing your faith’’: little things grow hope

By Joseph J. Serwach Sharing your faith publicly gives others hope. Esquire writer Tom Chiarella, investigating “the power of the uniform’’ recently decided to walk through Chicago dressed as a priest, a mechanic, a security guard and a doctor (on different days) to...

I’ll never be good at sharing my faith.

Today our national director, Steve Dawson, talks about some of the misconceptions of evangelization, especially that evangelization means apologetics. Misconceptions about evangelization: Evangelization is primarily a work of apologetics. If a person knows apologetics...

Growing in the Spiritual Life this Lent

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. Saint Ephraem of Syria Have you experienced something like this? When...

How can pastors encourage intentional discipleship in their parishes?

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