The ministry of the word is still keeping people busy. One large Catholic parish today is four or five times the size of the whole earliest Church. Evangelists for such parishes need to be people deeply immersed in the thought world of the Bible. They need to read it and talk about it daily, they need to apply it boldly and prudently

Some believers are rather reluctant to tell our stories about God’s mighty hand because we don’t think of them as facts. The lessons of our stories are not thereby forever lost, but they can only be learned the hard way.

The problem with contemporary non-belief is that it is so uninteresting, and intellectually sterile. The influencers of today, however, largely non-believers, have been more skillful in operating the machinery of public opinion.

We don’t know what our perfect self might be. But we can know Jesus.

God means to do extraordinary things among ordinary people every day.