“There has been in the past decades a tendency to try and couch evangelization efforts in pleasantries and to use glossy paged flyers showing smiling members ‘looking normal’ and happy in a worldly sort of way. Of itself this is not wrong. Sour faced saints are a disgrace (literally ‘dis’ = contrary to + ‘grace’). But the joy of the saints is not obtained on worldly terms. And thus we risk trying to appeal to the world by becoming the world and adopting its ways and thoughts, which is a huge disgrace (literally).”
In a recent commentary, Monsignor Charles Pope (pastor of Holy Comforter-Saint Cyprian Parish, Washington, DC) reflected on the Lord’s sending forth 72 disciples to prepare the towns and villages that he intended to visit.
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