Evangelizing from the Pulpit | Fr. Jay Scott Newman
The Thomistic Institute
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🗓️ 4 September 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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This talk was given at the Thomistic Institute's 8th Annual "Conference for Priests: Evangelizing Your Parish," held July 29th - August 1st, 2019.
The work of evangelization is attractive, but it’s also difficult and perhaps even a bit intimidating. What is more, evangelization can be most challenging at home, within one’s own parish.
Featuring Fr. Peter John Cameron, OP (Province of St. Joseph) Fr. Anthony Giambrone, OP (Ecole Biblique), Fr. James Sullivan, OP (Province of St. Joseph), Fr. Damian Ference (Diocese of Cleveland), Fr. Jay Scott Newman (Diocese of Charleston), Fr. Augustine Wetta, OSB (Monk of St. Louis Abbey).
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| 0:00.0 | In 1996, I became pastor of a parish in a blue-collar suburb of Charleston. |
| 0:08.0 | Parish was working people and military families, either active duty or retired, |
| 0:15.0 | more than a few share of the greatest generation, stalwart souls, faithful Catholics. |
| 0:23.2 | One of the first things I did after becoming pastor there was buy enough Bibles to put one |
| 0:30.4 | in the hymn rack of every pew in the church. |
| 0:37.2 | The day the Bibles arrived and we were unboxing them and putting them in place. |
| 0:43.6 | One of the old stalwarts of the parish was there, a woman who'd been to weekday mass |
| 0:48.5 | most of her life, raised her children in the faith. |
| 0:52.9 | And I heard her say in a stage whisper to her friend in the pew. |
| 0:57.8 | Why is he putting those in here? I came to understand that she and many of her generation regarded |
| 1:05.9 | the 16th century as a nasty divorce. Like I get the house, you get the car, you get the kids, |
| 1:14.8 | I get the dogs. Catholic's got the sacraments and Protestants got the Bible, right? |
| 1:25.3 | So in discussing evangelizing your parish, particularly from the pulpit, I have three tools |
| 1:32.0 | to commend to your use, and they are in order, the Bible, the Bible, and the Bible. |
| 1:41.4 | More on that in a moment. |
| 1:45.0 | Evangelizing your parish from the pulpit. |
| 1:47.7 | Let's consider the pulpit. |
| 1:50.6 | Have you ever watched a baseball pitcher work his mound? |
| 1:54.3 | Pictures are meticulous about every detail of the mound. |
| 1:57.5 | And long before a game begins, |
| 1:59.7 | pitchers inspect and prepare the mound to be certain |
| 2:02.0 | that everything is in readiness. Just so should the amble be for preachers. A pulpit is not a |
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