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.
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Susan Windley-Daoust is Director of Missionary Discipleship for the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota. She received her doctorate in Theology from Vanderbilt University, and taught college theology for 22 years. She is the author of four books and many articles. She is married to Jerry, and they are parents to five children.
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…
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…
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…
Ugh, that word! Evangelization—people immediately think of soapboxes, megaphones, door-to-door missionaries, and more. And yet—we need to share the good news. Jesus told us too. We see people leaving, sometimes our family and friends. And to look at the last three months—has the world ever needed God more? And—we want to share the good news….
Lots of people think that they are already doing evangelization. In most cases, they are not. Would it help to look at what the Church teaches on the role of evangelization in the path of discipleship? I’ll bet it would! One of the challenges we meet in talking about evangelizing parishes—what are they? what does…
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…