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Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)

A Word to the Weary Evangelist

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)

Ascension

Catholic Church, Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Evangelize, Mike Gormley, Catholic Parish, Ascension, Jesus, Christians, Christian, Ministry, Dave Vanvickle, Catholic Faith, Catholics, Ascension Presents, Ascension Catholic, Catholic Ministry, Catholic Teachings, Catholic, Faith, Catechist, Catechism, Catholic Life, Sharing The Gospel, Roman Catholic, Mission, Bible, Catholic Religion, Mike Gomer Gormley, Catholicism, Jesus Christ, Ascension Press, Evangelization, God, Gomer

4.9 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

It is easy to get worn out when you work for the Kingdom of God. Today, Dave VanVickle shares a word of encouragement for all who feel weary and tired laboring for the Lord. Dave gives us practical advice to find rest when evangelization gets hard and tiring.

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When you feel overwhelmed by the weight of sin in the world, root yourself deeply in the peace of Christ and let him give you rest.

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0:00.0

There are a lot of reasons that someone can become weary, you know?

0:03.6

Most of them start with your heart. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to Every Knee Shall Bow your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization and discipleship.

0:31.6

I'm Dave Van Vickle, and I am not joined once again by my co-hosts Michael Gomer Gormley.

0:38.1

Both Gomer and I just have the worst schedules right now.

0:42.5

And I am in between states right now.

0:46.4

I'm basically spending half the week in Dallas, Texas and half the week in Pittsburgh over the next two months.

0:52.9

My wife will be receiving a medical

0:55.2

treatment here in Dallas. And I don't want to just leave the kids for two months,

1:01.2

obviously. So I'll be going back and forth between caring for her and caring for the kids.

1:06.7

And Gomer, I mean, you know, COVID has wreaked havoc on parishes all across the United States,

1:11.5

and his workload is just intense right now, both emotionally and just physically, right?

1:17.9

He has a lot of work.

1:19.7

So our schedules are just not lining up.

1:21.7

So I apologize that he's not with me again this week.

1:23.7

But this week, I want to give a word to the weary, a word to the weary evangelist,

1:29.6

right? Something that will, I hope, be a blessing in your life, right? I've been thinking about

1:35.0

this a lot lately. You know, I, the other day, I was on a plane, right? And someone sat next to me.

1:46.6

And all of a sudden, a thought, you know, kind of popped into my head that I'm a little bit ashamed of, right?

1:50.1

And that thought was this, like, oh, please don't let this person, like, pour their problems out on me.

1:57.3

It's a terrible thing. It's a terrible thing to say, right? Because in all likelihood, she was probably thinking the same thing, like, oh, this poor schmuck,

2:04.2

like, well, you know, please don't let him, like, you know, want to talk, right?

2:09.2

But it reflected like a kind of a weariness, right, that I have in my soul right now of that I think a lot of evangelists have, right? It's easy to become

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