A Missionary Discipleship Daily Examen A daily general examen is a beloved prayer from Ignatian spirituality. It is meant to be 15-20 minutes of your day, usually at the end, where you place your day before God and look for where he was especially close, and how you responded to his presence. It is meant…
In a previous post, I asked why we have such a hard time recruiting volunteers in parishes. It’s an article meant to be discussed, so perhaps find your parish team (staff, or leadership, or core volunteers) and have that discussion before moving to this article. But this article should be good news–there are ways to…
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…
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…