Archived Stories
“What, Rosaries aren’t Jewelry?”
A Rosary is many things — a tool to help you time your meditations on the Sacred Mysteries, a reminder calling you to pray, and the collective name we give to the group of prayers we pray while meditating on the Mysteries. However, only this last meaning gives rise to...
Plenty of Work for All
Our Dallas, TX, area is already famous in SPSE circles for how quickly their organization grew and the number of active teams they have. A recent outing shows several of their evangelists working “for the harvest”. Here Dallas’ newest evangelist, Randy, talks with a...
Grace in Action
SPSE teams help new teams get started. For example, four members of our very active Gaithersburg, MD, team recently joined the Front Royal, VA, team on their first outing and evangelized before, during, and after that parish’s public Corpus Christi procession. It was...
“Where we were, He was with us.”
SPSE has been taking the Catholic Faith “to the streets” since 2012. One of our first teams is the one from Atlanta, GA, who continue to evangelize regularly. They were recently in nearby Decatur, where they encountered “Miss Christine”. When Miss Christine approached...
First Day at “Catholic Corner”
Members of the newly formed Chicago SPSE team felt nervous as they set out to evangelize for their first time on that cold and rainy Saturday morning. Father Joshua, pictured, joined the effort. But the evangelists were pleasantly surprised that people were actually...
Kindly Drawing Them Home
A friendly conversation about their relationship to Catholicism can make a difference. Three SPSE evangelists from Smyrna, GA, set up recently outside the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. Two women who found them were an inactive Catholic (“Lady C”) and a...
Strengthening the Weak
SPSE evangelists come from all walks of life and from every occupation. For some, their desire to answer the call to evangelize is not limited to formal outings with an SPSE team on the street. For example, we recently received a report from one of our evangelists who...
Louie X 2
Sometimes SPSE teams have non-stop visitors and so evangelists trust the Lord that their short, 2-minute encounters change hearts. But, sometimes, the Lord sends so few visitors that an entire team can take part in an extended conversation. That happened recently in...
Love is patient…
The weekly presence of the SPSE Lincoln, NE, team at the city’s Haymarket gives people an opportunity to continue Faith discussions from previous visits. “Ron” was one such return visitor. He had spoken with evangelist Bob Sullivan the previous week. This time, Ron...
“If you died… Would you go to heaven?”
SPSE’s National Director, Steve Dawson, joined evangelist Julian for Catholic street evangelization in downtown Detroit last weekend. Despite the cold, on several occasions during the outing, the evangelists felt the Holy Spirit was using them to bear fruit for the...