Two U.S. evangelists lay out new evangelization action plan

[Dale_M]

Two American consultors to the new Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization say that the United States is fertile ground for efforts to bring Christ back to a culture that has become secularized but is searching for a connection to something deeper.

“Here in the U.S., the new evangelization is the only evangelization we’ve ever experienced,” he added. “We have only grown through immigration, birth or marriage. So here, there is a new impulse toward evangelization and bringing the message to people who have already heard it. It’s a re-engagement, a re-evangelization. It’s a call for new methods and new vigor so we can represent the message.”

That’s what FOCUS tries to do, he said, by sending teams of young, committed Catholics, just out of college themselves, to college campuses where they make friends with students, share the Gospel and invite them to a life of faith in the church. Their outreach is to non-Catholic and Catholic students alike.

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[unafraid]

The Holy Spirit trumps all plans and strategies regarding evangelization. People filled with the fire of the Holy Spirit act out the movements of God on this earth, and through their holiness and exemplar light of faith…ONLY…is the Church renewed and replenished.

Great evangelists are required if there is to be a new blooming in this garden which is Holy Mother Church. We must pray that God may grant to us a multitude of spiritually elevated beings who, through the intercession of the Holy Spirit, will bring to the Church this “new springtime of evangelization” of which Pope John Paul the Great so often referred.

May God send many new saints to aid His struggling Church during this current time of testing.
Only great holiness can bring forth mass conversions, and re-conversions.

 

[TrueLight]

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A group of us at our parish were talking yesterday of how to “target” for lack of a better word, college students and to get them to come to mass.

Thanks for posting this. The other side is not sleeping. They are busy and we should be busy praying for the conversion of souls. Those who feel called to be active should get to it.

 

[Teelynn]

This is good news indeed. A bright shining light in the darkness! Where sin is rampant God’s grace is ever more present!