Category: evangelism

  • Seeker Vespers

    RECENTLY A FEW SOURCES (podcasts, etc) have called out that Vespers is supposed to be a part of Parish life especially on Sunday. I wondered what the source was for this claim and so I asked on Twitter. (When asking questions on Facebook one often addresses the “hive mind”. If doing so on Twitter, should…

  • Kingdom Walking

    IT’S A NEW GAME TO PLAY with the whole holy family: Kingdom Walking. Get outside, walk your neighborhood, and pray. Use a rosary or read a litany, say the Jesus Psalter or the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Get a prayer rope and say the Jesus Prayer. Take on the Rule of 150 Beads if you want…

  • Legalism and Evangelism

    Legalism and Evangelism

    ONE OF THE more pernicious lies of American thought is that “legal” equals “moral”. Under the influence of this error folks look at what is legal (allowed if not encouraged) and say “it’s not against the law, why does the Church say I cannot do this?” In like manner many in the Church are distressed…

  • Fractal Structures of Hell

    ⁋1865 Sin creates a proclivity to sin; it engenders vice by repetition of the same acts. This results in perverse inclinations which cloud conscience and corrupt the concrete judgment of good and evil. Thus sin tends to reproduce itself and reinforce itself, but it cannot destroy the moral sense at its root. Peccatum exercitationem constituit ad…

  • Da Qin Luminous Religion (The Amazonian Sutras)

    Evangelizing another culture requires points of contact – not just person to person, but culture-to-culture. How do you reach out to an entirely new culture and share the good news of Jesus? Sure, sure, to the Jews the whole concept of “Messiah” was already there. The entire Hebrew Bible (in all of its linguistic diversity)…

  • Being a Local Guide

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Tuesday in the 14th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13 Matthew 9:32-38 Messis quidem multa, operarii autem pauci. Rogate ergo Dominum messis, ut mittat operarios in messem suam.The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.In my…

  • When the heart is ready the teacher will come.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 2nd Week of Easter (B2) Acts 5:34-42  John 6:1-15 Surgens autem quidam in concilio pharisaeus, nomine Gamaliel, legisdoctor, honorabilis universae plebi, jussit foras ad breve homines fieri, dixitque ad illos…But one in the council rising up, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, respected by…