How To Pray/Meditate With The Scriptures

One way to grow in your walk with God is to practice an ancient form of prayer with the Scriptures known as lectio divina, which means “divine reading”. The following steps outline a method: 1. Preparation: Pick a suitable, quiet location to begin your meditation....

Easy Evangelization

About every three weeks, SPSE’s San Francisco team takes the Faith to the streets. Pictured is evangelist Mary Fong giving Rosaries to a woman and child, and evangelist Stephen Bolin standing ready. Two other SPSE evangelists, Robert Seib and Ted Kirk, were also...

A “Million-Dollar” Tool for Evangelization

Catholic Answers’ Patrick Coffin joined the fun when SPSE’s San Diego team went out to do some Catholic street evangelization in Balboa Park recently. In the photo, Patrick is talking with two Iraqi Catholics about the persecution that’s going on there. The men had...

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...

The Beauty of Catholic Evangelization

Adam Janke Program Director The past two years I have been honored to witness thousands of ordinary Catholics engaged in the extraordinary work of evangelization through St. Paul Street Evangelization. Through its small beginnings on a board walk in Portland, Oregon...