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Hope and Peace - 2024-09-01

September 8, 2024


When most people stay home, we’re still there to offer hope through Jesus Christ. So, thank you again for your prayers for the Boise Catholic street evangelization effort.

Yet another gathering of the pseudo-Biblical religion was being held in the sports arena. This time it focused on Spanish-language members. (The previous 2 meetings had been for English speakers). The group was manning three pamphlet racks within the business park, but we still set up our table in our usual spot. Please continue to pray for members of these misled groups, that the Lord calls them out of their made-up religion and into the true Faith.

Foot traffic was quite light, probably because air quality was especially poor due to wildfire smoke from several states. During a long pause between groups of passersby, e. Chuck talked with a man sitting at a nearby picnic table. He was working, he said. His job was to generate ideas for small businesses, so his mom could write up and sell business plans for them. I don’t believe he accepted a Rosary. May the Lord open his heart to perceive what’s truly important.

A Catholic woman  from out of state stopped for a Rosary for her son (grandson?). She was happy to report that a relic of St Jude had recently toured her home state. We talked about how much her state needed his intercession, the “patron saint of impossible causes”. We mentioned that we had some holy cards of St Michael that had been touched to a reliquary with a stone from the cave in which the archangel has appeared several times in the last thousand years or so. She was thrilled to receive one of the prayer cards.

“Uwe” stopped to visit briefly, but only about the weather. May the Lord continue to draw him closer to Himself.

A father with two young sons declined our offer, but one of his boys kept looking over his shoulder at the Rosaries. So, the father brought his sons to the table. As the boys looked over the Rosaries, the father said he knew “you were supposed to count the beads” because his grandmother had been Catholic. The evangelist explained the true meaning and purpose of the prayer, but the father interrupted to say he had gone to a non-Catholic church when he was a kid and knew all about Jesus. Only the youngest son chose a Rosary. The father then tried to get the boy to give the prayer pamphlet back, assuming it was a “tract”. But we assured him it was “only” about the prayer. Reluctantly, the father let him keep it. Please pray the father will hear the call of his conscience and will lead his boys to Christ.

Another family visiting from out of state came to the table. The father is Catholic and his wife is a non-Catholic Christian. They said they were not in conflict over their religious differences. E. Lucy talked with the wife, while e. Chuck visited with the dad, who chose a Rosary and talked about his vibrant home parish and where he worked. Pray for continued peace in their marriage and for true unity between them in the Catholic Church.

Twice, we pulled out a Good News/kerygma pamphlet. One time, the visitor declined; the second time, e. Chuck handed one to someone e. Lucy was talking to. I’m afraid that’s all we remember of these encounters.

Although foot traffic remained light, we gave away 12-15 Rosaries and its pamphlet on how to pray it, as well as a St. Michael prayer card and a Good News/kerygma pamphlet.

Please pray for us again today? Ask God to send people to us with hearts prepared to perceive their need for Our Savior Jesus Christ and His Holy Catholic Church, and that much good fruit for His Kingdom comes of today’s efforts.

God has continued to grant us to ability to maintain a peaceful presence, even when surrounded by competing claims. Thanks be to God! And thank you, too, for your invaluable prayers and other support for this apostolate. In turn, may God protect and greatly bless you and all those you love!


“Go with the strength you have” (Judg 6:14).