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CatholicMom: ‘Tis the season for evangelizing

If you think the last thing you want to talk about at a Thanksgiving dinner or a Christmas Eve gathering is evangelization, I’ve got good news for you! ‘Tis the season for evangelization! As the year winds down, it provides the perfect time to honor God for all he has done for you in 2019. Telling the Good News of God’s mercy and love is called evangelizing. And the most effective way to evangelize, according to Saint John Paul II, is through your personal witness. That’s what you have available to you all the time wherever you are.

The celebrations during this season are good settings to share your faith. Why? Because most people are relaxed. They haven’t seen you for a while. They are both curious to hear stories about you and ready to tell of their adventures and accomplishments. But they may not be expecting a story about a miracle, healing or encounter with God.

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Christmas in Germany Just before dawn, I said a prayer for all the war’s sorrowful people, that their sorrows would be lessened, and that this mad killing would come to an end. https://joyalive.net/featured-favorite-christmas-in-germany-1944/   Friars Corner: O Come Let Us Adore Him, Christ the Lord Friars Corner: The new gem from heaven is Eucharistic Adoration of...

Pfc John Franklin Cook, 1945

Featured Favorite: Christmas in Germany, 1944

                       Germany Noon Christmas Day, 1944 Merry Christmas Darling! And to all my three daughters a happy one. I thought of all of you through the long Xmas eve night and just had to dig out this scrap of paper and say it to you even though it will be late getting there. I’m sitting...

Featured Favorite: Christmas is a beginning

Jesus was born in a stable because there was no room or him in the inn. The innkeeper didn’t know that the Son of God was coming to him. He wasn’t prepared and missed a great blessing.

If the innkeeper had known what we know, how differently he might have acted. The Scriptures would have acknowledged him as a participant in this great event. The gospel might read, “Jesus was born in an inn in Bethlehem, far from his home, attended by the innkeeper and the innkeeper’s wife.” Pilgrimages would bring the faithful to this famous inn instead of to the cave.