EVANGELIZATION - WHERE DO WE START?
We talk a lot about doing “evangelization” but few parishes have put concerted and intentional effort into practice. Trying to figure out how to do evangelization is difficult- where do we start? Who is to be evangelized- the Catholics in the pews who may not know a great deal about their faith? The Catholics who no longer darken the threshold of the church? People of other religions who do not enjoy the “fullness of the faith” that we say is ours? Those who no longer practice any religion? Or those, and the number is growing, who have never heard that the Father so loved us that he sent his only Son into the world to teach us how to live, die and be reborn? The success of any program cannot be measured in quantity. Success lies in the fact that we sow the seed, and then, like St. Paul, we must be content to let another water it and allow God to nurture the growth.
But, if the seed is not sown, there can be no growth. And if it is us, then who: if it is not now, then when?