In our series on how to foster a Eucharistic revival, we addressed the need to pray for and expect signs and wonders, and then the critical importance of small group spiritual multiplication. The third way to foster a Eucharistic revival is to invest in the hospitality and first proclamation model of evangelization. The first part…
I’m pleased to announce I have an article on parish evangelization, “Stuck in Neutral: When Parish Evangelization (Still) Fails,” published in May 2023’s Homiletic and Pastoral Review. A taste below, and you can read the rest on HPR’s website: It has been five years since the four-day United States Convocation of Catholic Leaders on Evangelization…
In my previous blog post, I made an argument that we anticipating the fullness of Eucharistic Revival need to pray for and expect Eucharistic signs and wonders. Before anything else, we need an encounter with the Lord in the Eucharist…or a re-encounter with the profundity of that truth. This 70% of Catholics not believing in…
This past week, I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Catholic leadership and evangelization coach Ron Huntley for a conversation about The Four Ways Forward: Becoming an Apostolic Parish in a Post-Christian World. You can listen on Spotify or Apple podcasts, or watch via YouTube:
In my last post I mused on how one fosters a Eucharistic Revival. I offered the perhaps bold statement that there is no way revival happens without the signs and wonders model of evangelization. I’d like to unpack that a bit….
If you haven’t heard…we in the United States are in a Eucharistic revival. Have you heard? I forgive you if you haven’t heard. While I think this is one of the most impressive mission initiatives I have heard yet from USCCB, I know lots of people have not heard much, if anything. While I think…
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; because his mercy endures forever. Psalm 118 This Christmas season, the end of 2022, I am grateful. Although it is embarrassing, I want to share some of the reviews The Four Ways Forward: Becoming an Apostolic Church in a Post-Christian Age has received. The purpose isn’t…
Evangelization needs more football players. Football, when it is played well, is a game of real strategy, skillset, and power. While you typically need all three to win, the essential need is not power and not skill, but strategy. You need to know where the goal is, how to play offense, how to work together…
The second in our “Starting Conversations” series. Feel free to share with your parish staff, community, small group, or some friends for some dialogue on evangelization topics that don’t get as much air time as they should. One problem I tend to see with the processes available to parishes that wish to become evangelizing parishes…
For all the discussion of the New Evangelization in the past forty years, there are topics that simply don’t get discussed, and should. I’m offering an occasional series of posts called Starting Conversations that I hope will get people thinking, talking, and doing. While I will offer opinions, my offerings are meant more to serve…