Fr. Roger J. Landry
Regina Pacis Academy, Norwalk, CT
Talk on “How to Evangelize in Troubled Times”
November 16, 2019
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The following outline guided the talk:
- Introduction on the troubles of the times.
- In the World
- In the Church
- Within Us
- How Such troubles make it both more challenging and easier to proclaim the Gospel.
- Ten practices for evangelizing today
- Pray
- Teach Others To Pray
- Simplify the Faith by connecting all aspects to Jesus
- Focus on true conversion
- Don’t duck the scandals, but evangelize through them
- The reasons for people’s departure contains the seeds for their return
- Don’t water down the faith, but explain the challenges and point to the divine means to rise up to those challenges: unleash the power and wisdom of the Cross
- The importance of witness
- Faith as the most important part of one’s life
- Joy
- Treat the faith as a treasure and share it as a blessing
- Charity
- Beauty
- Friendship
- Dependence on the Holy Spirit
- Summary of the Means to become fully evangelized evangelizers (Aparecida Document)
- Encounter with Jesus Christ
- Conversion
- Discipleship
- Communion
- Mission
- Questions and Comments
