by Mark Hornbacher | Aug 23, 2015 | News
Thank you for your prayers during our Leadership Training Institute at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit last week. It is due to our supporting members and prayer warriors that we were able to offer the institute for free to all thirty adults and two teens who...
by Mark Hornbacher | Aug 22, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Catholic Blogger Brandon Vogt joined the new Orlando, FL chapter of St. Paul Street Evangelization for an hour and a half recently. The team handed out literature, books, and rosaries, speaking to those who passed by about the Catholic faith. Sometimes team members...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jul 4, 2015 | Homilies
HOMILY, 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time Fr. Charlie Fox, Spiritual Director, St. Paul Street Evangelization (www.streetevangelization.com) Back on course One of the toughest words in the English language for me to hear is “recalculating”. I’ve become as...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jul 3, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Extreme weather keeps many home. But SPSE evangelists who go out anyway often have significant Faith encounters. Temperatures in Tempe, AZ, now in the triple-digits, recently reached 111 degrees — but SPSE evangelists Caisey, Frank, and Sean still headed downtown to...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jul 2, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Clarence Burkholder, our Smyrna, GA team leader, recently received encouragement from “Carina”, a woman the team recently encountered. Carina and her mother have been the only active Catholics in their family for nearly 20 years. But they’ve kept praying. On Divine...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jul 1, 2015 | Stories from the Street
SPSE teams are self-funded, so you see a variety of team set-ups — from a folding chair and Rosaries, to a full canopied booth at a public event. Our team from Toledo, OH, found an effective middle ground. Toledo’s annual Old West End Festival attracts thousands. So...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jun 23, 2015 | Stories from the Street
SPSE’s Wayne State University team is led by Beth Schuele, who also works at WSU’s Newman Center. They recently received thanks from the mom of a student named “Kristin”. Beth met the family during freshman move-in day last summer. Beth was supervising Newman...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jun 22, 2015 | Stories from the Street
SPSE’s Fredericksburg, VA, team attracted immediate curiosity during their very first outing. As soon as they set up, in the local shopping plaza, four young men approached to ask, “What’s going on?” Each wanted a Rosary and team leader Ron Lisk asked if they prayed...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jun 20, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Why does our society now lack the Gospel values? Why is there division in the Body of Christ? Do people still hunger for Truth? Two middle school students, “Jerry” and “Mike”, searched for answers to these questions during the school year. Their search led them to...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jun 18, 2015 | Stories from the Street
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...
