Seeing is believing. This is the fifth law in Terry Barber’s book: How to Share Your Faith with Anyone: A Practical Manual for Catholic Evangelization. Catholic churches have a lot of physical components. Holy water, religious art, statues, the book of the Gospel, incense, bells, relics, altars, the tabernacle, the true presence of Christ! Invite
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As strange as it might sound to some in our secular age, the term “goodbye” is a contraction of “God be with ye.” I like to keep that in mind in this, my “goodbye” column, as I complete my four-year term as pastor of the South Clermont Catholic Region. My prayer is certainly that the
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The fourth law in Terry Barber’s book: How to Share Your Faith with Anyone: A Practical Manual for Catholic Evangelization. Introduce yourself and always ask for the name of the person with whom you are sharing the Faith. Terry Barber continues: Using a a person’s name is powerful; he cannot help but respond to his
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This year we are facing the unusual coincidence of Father’s Day and the solemn feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (a.k.a. Corpus Christi). There is more of a connection between these two observances than might meet the eye. One of the main roles of a father is to provide for his
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I have a good friend from the Czech Republic whom I met while I was a graduate student. His family were devout Catholics and his parents lived through the time when committed Christians there were severely persecuted for their faith, because of the hatred of the Church on the part of the ruling Communist Party.
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The Church has an official daily prayer book called the breviary. All priests pray it daily for and on behalf of their people. It includes teachings from the great spiritual masters of every generation. As we celebrate the great feast of Pentecost today, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Church and the
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