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The sacraments are not our work to please God, it is God’s work to save humanity.

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Michael Dauphinais, Ph.D., serves as the Fr. Matthew Lamb Professor of Catholic Theology at Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, Florida and holds degrees from Duke University and the University of Notre Dame.

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"What is man that you are mindful of him, and a son of man that you care for him?" - Psalm 8:5

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“What we’re experiencing in the last five years as concerns same sex attraction and transgenderism has a lot of people afraid. We’re nervous that if we were to treat those issues, we would be genuinely persecuted.”

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The reality is that God is a loving father who will give us what we need to serve and love him (aka grace). It’s not through our own efforts that we earn God’s love, it is a free gift that we can respond to … or not.

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We also talk a bit about parish bureaucracy and the hierarchy of the Church. Let’s just say you should pray for your parish.

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“Your spouse is not sufficient to make you happy. They are a human person and your heart has an infinite longing that only an infinite God can fulfill. So if you demand your husband or wife to complete you, you are asking them to be God for you. That’s unrealistic.”

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The kerygma is not the end of evangelization, it’s just the beginning. It’s how someone takes the first step to becoming a disciple of Jesus, but we can’t stop there, we have to make sure that we’re preaching, but also teaching.

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“An initial proclamation of the kerygma is not enough. It is the doorway to faith, but once you cross that threshold, you are in the house of faith, and now you must conform your life to Christ.”

SHOWNOTES

Catechism of the Catholic Church, 89 - “There is an organic connection between our spiritual life and the dogmas. Dogmas are lights along the path of faith; they illuminate it and make it secure. Conversely, if our life is upright, our intellect and heart will be open to welcome the light shed by the dogmas of faith.”

Pope St. John Paul II in Catechesi Tradendae - “The Church has always considered catechesis as one of her primary tasks … very soon the name of catechesis was given to the whole of the efforts within the Church to make disciples, to help people to believe that Jesus is the Son of God, so that believing they might have life in His name, and to educate and instruct them in this life and thus build up the Body of Christ.”

Catechism of the Catholic Church, 89 - “The mutual connections between dogmas, and their coherence, can be found in the whole of the Revelation of the mystery of Christ. ‘In Catholic doctrine there exists an order or hierarchy of truths, since they vary in their relation to the foundation of the Christian faith.’

St. Teresa of Avila - “If you want to hear God speak to you, read scripture. If you want to see a miracle, receive the Eucharist.”

St. John the Baptist - “Bear fruit that befits repentance” (Matthew 3:8).

5 Practical Tips

1. Read the Catechism, paragraphs 74-95.
2. Pick a dogma to enter into more deeply.
3. Connect dogma to the kerygma.
4. For your spiritual life, ask Jesus to be Lord of your life, ask where you need him to assert his lordship over you, and conform.
5. Pray for the USCCB.

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“The most effective evangelists are those who are steeped in the Word. Evangelization is the fruit of encounter, meditation, and study of Sacred Scripture. It’s an overflow of what’s in your heart because of your total commitment to the Word of God.”

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If using Scripture to prepare a talk:

• Take the theme and look for the scriptural narrative around it.
• Let the Scripture narrative guide the talk, don’t use the Scriptures just to prove your point.
• It is important to be regularly reading, studying, and praying the Scriptures in order to feel comfortable with them.

If worried about misrepresenting Scripture or using it the wrong way:

• Look for outside resources to explain Scripture.
• Look to Navarre Bible commentary, the Fathers of the Church and Barclay’s commentary on the Bible for help.
• Read through the Scriptures every day, even if just a small amount.

5 Practical Tips

1. Find an image of Catholic artwork and meditate upon it.
2. Get the book A Father Who Keeps His Promises by Scott Hahn, or Walking with God: A Journey through the Bible by Tim Gray and Jeff Cavins to read through and get the big picture of the Bible.
3. Pray for the priests in Africa who are being murdered.
4. Discuss with someone the chapters in the books mentioned in the second tip.
5. Memorize John 1:1-5.

Resources from the Show

• A Father Who Keeps His Promises - Scott Hahn
• Walking with God: A Journey through the Bible by Tim Gray and Jeff Cavins
• GENERAL AUDIENCE St Peter's Square Wednesday, 14 November 2007 - Benedict XVI
• Benedict XVI Promotes Biblical Meditation
• SPIRITUS PARACLITUS - Pope Benedict XV

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Our faith is rational. Don’t fear questions about what we believe, because at some point over the past two thousand years, that question has already been asked and answered. We just have to find it.

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“Catholic students need to understand that faith is not irrational. We don’t leave our minds at the door. That’s the Catholic tradition, it’s OK to question.”

SHOWNOTES

• Christianity has reasons for its beliefs. Start with Jesus as a man, his birth and resurrection.
• Pray and ask others to pray with you for conversion.
• Ask: What is your moral absolute? What do you base your morality on?
• Look into metaphysics. Teaching even a little bit of it helps people look into things and start thinking.
• Keep the conversation about their relationship with God, but also learn about apologetics.
• Have material around that they can “stumble on.”
• Make sure they understand we welcome and encourage questions about our faith.

5 Practical Tips

1. Think about how you would change your testimony if you knew there was an atheist in the audience.
2. Memorize names and facts about your community members to show that you care about them.
3. Pray with us for the conversion of the boys at this high school.
4. Build a database of online answers to atheism.
5. Practice reverse mentoring. Ask someone younger than you to teach you something.

Resources from the Show
The Handbook of Christian Apologetics - Peter Kreeft
The Handbook of Catholic Apologetics - Peter Kreeft, Ronald Tacelli
Fundamentals of the Faith - Peter Kreeft
More than a Carpenter - Josh McDowell
Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine - Archbishop Michael Sheehan
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
The Reason for God - Timothy Keller
Making Sense of God - Timothy Keller
Memorare Prayer
Magis Center website- Fr. Robert Spitzer

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We start off today answering some tough questions about the kerygma, and then pivot to ways you can infuse evangelization into programs your parish already has like baptism prep, marriage prep, and religious education.

Our advice isn’t the only way to do it, but it is a (pretty darn good) way to do it. How do you evangelize at your parish?

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“People aren’t going to surrender their life to Christ if we’re hitting them over the head with moral issues and their failure … but there is no gospel without repentance.”

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“We so desire the conversion of our friends and relatives and neighbors that we feel disappointed when the outcomes haven’t happened. But the success is in the evangelizing. The conversion is up to Jesus. One sows the seed, the other waters, God alone gives the growth.”_

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