#evangelization — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/africa/207879/ Pope: Promote a reconciled memory by educating everyone in harmony #angola #ApostolicJourney #bishops #evangelization #PopeLeoXIV #priests #religious

William Jay, English Congregationalist minister, talks on #evangelization. Some lose ground because of unfeeling or disdainful conduct to those who serve them. An old meaning of condescension, as per M-W, is “voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in relations with an inferior,” like Jesus.

Do we have people who speak of their lack of credit as an asset, or an attack from the devil or because of their faith?

How can you evince condescension in the name of Christ?
#christian

An epistle to Catholic priests arguing that unprepared or poorly delivered sermons are sinful and detrimental to the faithful. #CatholicHomily #HolyMass #CatholicFaith #HomileticDirectory #CatholicDoctrine #SaintJohnVianney #Evangelization #CatholicPriesthood #TodaysHomily #SermonToday #HomilyToday

http://epistles.online/2025/07/21/unprepared-homilies-are-sinful/

Bien ! J'ai tellement BESOIN d'un emploi dans ce que je fais de mieux (programmation informatique) que je suis prêt à re-rejoindre ce que je faisais avant, et que je vais réapprendre à aimer.
Étant donné que ma tentative de reconversion est vouée à un échec total, je reviens dans le #web.
SVP, convainquez-moi que le #JavaScript, c'est pas si mauvais que ça. Et que c'est même carrément bien.
Vous connaissez des bonnes ressources de JS #advocacy / #evangelization ?

All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord,
and all your faithful shall bless you.
They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom,
and tell of your power,
to make known to all people your mighty deeds
and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
—Psalm 145:10–12 NRSV

The Responsorial Psalm for the feast of St. Luke (October 18) is taken from Psalm 145.
Whenever we pray this text together as a church, I always perk up—because this is what writers, creatives, and evangelizers do!
Through our words and images, and even more, please God, through our very lives we are called to “make known the glorious splendor” of God’s presence and action in this world.
So, for all my fellow evangelizers in the communications media, as you spend time on your craft, whether that is writing or editing or playing with colors, music or spoken word, may God bless your work. May it show forth God’s grandeur.
God bless you.
#writetosharechrist #amwriting #creatives #evangelization #communication #medianuns #DailyMass #StLuke #SaintLuke #saintsforcommunicators

When I began to take the first steps toward founding this monastery (for the reasons given in the book I mentioned that I wrote and also because of some great favors from the Lord through which I learned that He would be greatly served in this house), it was not my intention that there be so much external austerity or that the house have no income; on the contrary, I would have desired the possibility that nothing be lacking.

In sum, my intention was the intention of the weak and wretched person that I am—although I did have some good motives besides those involving my own comfort.

At that time news reached me of the harm being done in France and of the havoc the Lutherans had caused and how much this miserable sect was growing. The news distressed me greatly, and, as though I could do something or were something, I cried to the Lord and begged Him that I might remedy so much evil.

It seemed to me that I would have given a thousand lives to save one soul out of the many that were being lost there. I realized I was a woman and wretched and incapable of doing any of the useful things I desired to do in the service of the Lord.

All my longing was and still is that since He has so many enemies and so few friends that these few friends be good ones.

Saint Teresa of Avila

The Way of Perfection, chap. 1, nos. 1–2

Note: This Quote of the Day marks our 4000th post on the Carmelite Quotes blog. This opening passage from St. Teresa’s Way of Perfection beautifully summarizes why we engage in this apostolate: “All my longing was and still is that since He has so many enemies and so few friends that these few friends be good ones.” We are deeply grateful to our readers, social media followers, and the Carmelites who have supported us over the years. Your dedication to reading, liking, commenting, and sharing these quotes from Carmelite saints and authors fuels our efforts. As always, keep coming back and bring your friends!

Teresa of Avila, St. 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K; Rodriguez, O, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Monjas Carmelitas ante Ávila by the Italian painter Guido Caprotti was executed in oil on canvas in 1938. It forms part of the Caprotti Collection in the Palacio Superunda, Avila. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/05/10/teresa-way1/

#evangelization #friends #intercession #JesusChrist #longing #loveYourEnemies #salvation #souls #StTeresaOfAvila #WayOfPerfection