The angels and the saints want to be involved in our work of evangelization and our apostolate.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Every Me Shall Bow, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization and discipleship. I'm Dave Van Vickle, and I am not today joined by my co-hosts,

Michael Gormley. Sorry, he's taking the week off here. Or at least I'm making him take the week off.

We have just these crazy schedules right now with COVID and all this kind of stuff.

Gomer is, you know, his job is always crazy.

And my schedule is always nuts too with all the kids and everything like that.

So I had a hard time linking up.

But definitely I have an episode for you today and I'm excited to

talk to you and a little update in my life. It's just kind of a reflection, I guess, to start at the

beginning. You know, there's a tough part of evangelization. And that is kind of looking at yourself as a seed planner.

And the tough part about that is that you don't necessarily always get to watch the seeds grow

and to come to fruition. In a lot of ways, God calls you to plant seeds for fruit that you will not see.

And sure, there's a lot of ways that that is true in the sense that some fruits of evangelization, you just don't see.

You don't necessarily see them.

They're not necessarily physical or tangible in that way, but they're there.

But there's also another way that I mean,

and that's what I want to talk to you about just briefly. And that is when you're called just to

plant the seed and then move on. You know, I recently had the experience of packing up my office

at yet another parish and saying goodbye to another parish community that I've

grown close to over the last two years after after trying my best you know to evangelize and

everything like that as you know I think we've mentioned on the show before you know the diocese

of Pittsburgh is going through a massive, not expansion, the opposite,

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