by Mark Hornbacher | Mar 6, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Colder weather is not stopping our Kingston Upon Hull team in the UK! Pictured with the evangelists are some young Catholic men from East Timor, a country on the eastern half of the island of Timor, north of Australia. Although the island may look like a tropical...
by Mark Hornbacher | Mar 5, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Where people are hungry for the Good News about Jesus Christ, SPSE wants to be. We recently received a report from a team INSIDE a state correctional facility (prison). Inmate evangelist “Karl” has our pamphlets addressing common questions, misunderstandings, and...
by Mark Hornbacher | Mar 2, 2015 | Stories from the Street
The following report came from a member of the Boise, ID, team: Woot! We had a rollicking evangelization session downtown today. Started off with a woman who kept walking up to shout “the Rosary is not in the Bible” and then leaving. She didn’t want an...
by Mark Hornbacher | Mar 2, 2015 | Stories from the Street
SPSE’s Team Enterprise, AL, has remained active throughout the winter. The following is from a recent outing. In the photo, evangelist Pete Bartosch chooses a pamphlet for a young man from a non-Catholic Christian church. Although baptized and raised Catholic, he had...
by Mark Hornbacher | Mar 1, 2015 | Practical Evangelization, Stories from the Street, Techniques
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...
by Mark Hornbacher | Mar 1, 2015 | Homilies
HOMILY, Second Sunday of Lent: March 1, 2015 Fr. Charlie Fox, Spiritual Director, St. Paul Street Evangelization (www.streetevangelization.com) The meaning of sacrifice Today’s readings give us the stories of two fathers and two sons. Both fathers love their sons...
by Mark Hornbacher | Feb 28, 2015 | Practical Evangelization, Stories from the Street, Techniques
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...
by Mark Hornbacher | Feb 27, 2015 | Stories from the Street
SPSE’s National Director, Steve Dawson, joined the San Diego team as they evangelized this week on the Ocean Beach Municipal Pier. According to Steve, in the short time the team was out, they “talked with dozens — if not hundreds — of people and had lots of fun” doing...
by | Feb 27, 2015 | Apologetics, Principles
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...
by | Feb 23, 2015 | Principles
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...
