To Evangelize

As Christians we are commissioned to evangelize, to spread the Good News, to encourage love, charity, and mercy. As Christians we are commissioned to live as Jesus Christ lived, to lead others to God with truth, beauty, fairness, and the truth. Our words, our actions are to be just. Our words, our actions are to agree with the Beatitudes and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Our piety is to be honest, innocent, and true and freely offer our loyalty, our fidelity to God.

How beautiful evangelization appears from a distance. How wonderful it is to be asked, to be commissioned to evangelize! How difficult it is for many of us to do! Evangelization asks for a certain language to be used. Evangelization asks for the simple, unadorned truth to be told, to be shared. Evangelization asks for agreement with the teachings of Christ. Evangelization is not conceited. Evangelization begins and ends with love, mercy, compassion.

The teachings of Jesus Christ present the idea that humanity needs to love God, love each other, and love ourselves. There is an urgency in the plea, in the request for this love unconditional, love universal. This love goes against the warlike, vengeful behavior human beings present when filled with loss, sorrow, greed, envy.

Forgiveness and love are the cornerstones of the teachings of Jesus Christ, are the cornerstone and foundation of evangelization. So important are they.

When we apply the Gospel teachings to our lives, we can find a type of happiness, sense of contentment that leads to God, leads to eternal life. The great questions of our existence can be discovered only when we love and serve the Lord freely, when we allow ourselves time to pray, time to reflect.

Humanity without righteous is lost, foolish, easily corrupted, easily lead into temptation.

Christians are shown the path to righteousness. Christians are encouraged to walk on the path to righteousness. We are asked to seek patience, wisdom, compassion, mercy, gentleness, faith, love, righteousness. We are asked to fill our lives with devotion to God. We are asked to seek and nurture humility, charity, and obedience to God in our lives.

We are asked to always seek eternal life, to always seek and nurture our faith.

How easy it is to type this. There were a few typographical errors which were quickly caught but the beauty of evangelization rests in the truth, in the knowledge that the greater our belief and love for God the easier it is for us to spread the Good News.

For some it might appear like this is an impossible task.

Begin with prayer. Start small. Start with small deeds, small acts of goodness, small deeds of kindness. Nurture and grow your goodness, your kindness, your holiness. Remember to always offer them to the Lord. Offer your happiness and your sorrows to the Lord. The more you pray, the more you offer, the better your relationship with God can become. The more you believe the more others will see of your goodness, kindness, holiness. The more you love the Lord and serve him freely the more others will see your humility, charity, obedience, and compassion.

We are all asked to evangelize. Our individual evangelization is a form of love that we can share. Always remember and believe that as you serve the Lord, as you share the Good News.

your redeemer is the Holy One - December 9, 2010

Whoever has ears ought to hear. Matthew 11:15

Different generations have had different people that they have listened to, followed, imitated, and been entertained by. Each of us have both the responsibility and the ability to share the Good News with others, to use our lives to evangelize. This does not mean fire and brimstone oration on street corners or in parks on Saturday afternoons. Each choice we make, each word we speak is important when it is done for the Lord. Each of our little decisions when done with charity, humility, and obedience to God’s rules can lead others to follow us, to deepen their relationship with God.

Our goal is to nurture and grow the grace of Lord in our daily lives. We must always remember to proceed with faith and love in Jesus Christ.

Our goal is to trust in Jesus Christ and to allow ourselves and our faith to be strengthened by the grace that flows from Jesus Christ.

As we search for salvation we must also want our neighbors to find and experience salvation. Our prayers are always inclusive, our hearts are always open, our souls are always filled with hope, love, compassion.

When you attend Mass listen attentively, actively with all your senses, participate actively with all your senses. Allow yourself to be vulnerable, allow yourself to listen and feel the words of the Good News. Allow yourself to be God’s “Beloved.” Understand and accept the responsibility of being God’s servant.

The Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist feed and nurture our minds, our souls.

As Christians we are encouraged to find our individual way to examine the beauty of living life following in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus Christ. There is so many things happening within our lives, so many opportunities to evangelize, so many questions to discern.

We each can and must create our own snapshot of our life with Christ.