“Often, I wonder what an authentically Catholic, person-centered approach to evangelization looks like. So many goods, particularly sex, love, the body, and the family, have been twisted and misinterpreted by the culture. The truth is ours to reclaim.
“I still can feel the floor under my little carpet square. Seven years ago, I went on my first Steubenville-style retreat, Mount 2000. There I experienced the lack of sleep, shortage of showers, and crowdedness of floor space otherwise known as the youth conference for the first time. The featured speaker, Matt Smith, a Catholic who’d been on MTV’s The Real World, came to discuss being in-but-not-of the world and the various worldly situations he faced while on the show. To my surprise, he spoke at length about how much he welcomed these situations as opportunities to witness to faith and virtue. In fact, he said, he soon began praying to feel uncomfortable, the better to form himself more into who he was meant to be.”
In a recent commentary, writer Stephanie Calis reflected on some aspects of bearing the Gospel in today’s world.
To access her complete post, please visit:
Ignitum Today: Break Me Open: The Discomforts of Evangelization (19 NOV 12)
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