by Mark Hornbacher | Aug 16, 2016 | Stories from the Street
Dearborn, MI. Some of our Detroit area team leaders have been evangelizing together with groups of seminarians from Detroit’s Sacred Heart Major Seminary. They spent time bearing witness to the faith at the student centers of the University of Michigan Dearborn, and...
by Mark Hornbacher | Aug 15, 2016 | Stories from the Street
Lincoln, NE. Wayne reports that he, along with Bob, Brad, and Tom, spent a recent Saturday at a farmer’s market. They had great success handing out rosaries, medals, and pamphlets, seemingly even more material than usual. However, although people seemed to appreciate...
by Mark Hornbacher | Aug 14, 2016 | Stories from the Street
Robert sends this report from Decatur, GA: Our visit to Decatur was welcoming as usual. The foot traffic was affected by the unusually hot temperatures, so we had fewer encounters than usual. We welcomed a first-time evangelizer into our SPSE group, Monica, who is a...
by Mark Hornbacher | Aug 13, 2016 | Homilies
TRUE PEACE AND THE FIRE OF LOVE Homily, 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time August 14, 2016 Fr. Charlie Fox, Spiritual Director, St. Paul Street Evangelization (www.streetevangelization.com) There are certain texts in the Gospels that really stop you in your tracks. Usually,...
by Mark Hornbacher | Aug 13, 2016 | Stories from the Street
Marietta, GA. Among the many people we met during our evangelizing with SPSE were a young mother and her son. We learned that she is Greek Orthodox, but she accepted the rosary and pamphlets that we gave her. We spent about twenty minutes with her, discussing the...
by Mark Hornbacher | Aug 12, 2016 | Stories from the Street
Marietta, GA. A blessed Saturday morning was spent sharing the “full Gospel” with the good people of Marietta, along with Clarence, who is an SPSE leader in the Atlanta area. We had many meaningful encounters with the people we met. Especially significant to us were...
by Mark Hornbacher | Aug 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
Austin, TX. St. Paul Street Evangelization teamed up with the vocations office in the Diocese of Austin, TX to train all 56 of their men in formation for the permanent deaconate along with their wives. The training was offered in English and in Spanish by our program...
by Mark Hornbacher | Aug 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dallas, TX. Gene had a forty-five minute to one hour conversation with this non-denominational gentleman who said he ministers to the homeless. The gentleman had many disagreements with Catholic doctrine. They covered many subjects including Papal Infallibility (which...
by Mark Hornbacher | Aug 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Austin, TX. On-the-spot conversions do not happen every time one of our teams hit the streets, but they do happen. When they happen, that is, when a sinner repents and gives (or re-gives) his life to Christ, we can be certain that the Holy Spirit has come in power,...
by Mark Hornbacher | Aug 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Bloomington, IN. When Jesus went around Galilee, Judea, and the surrounding areas proclaiming the coming of God’s kingdom in himself, his words were accompanied with miraculous deeds which, for many of his hearers, served to confirm his divine origins. Miraculous...
