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All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

Fallen Away—How to Bring Back Those We Love

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Do you have family or friends away from the Catholic Faith? St. Monica’s example offers six practical things we can do to help bring our loved ones back to Christ and the Church.

Too often we focus on how to change our son, sister or friend. But the first step in evangelizing our loved ones might involve changing our own heart and approach to evangelization itself. Are we willing to make the sacrifices necessary to reach them with the Faith?

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.

0:19.1

Do you have certain family members or friends who are away from the Catholic Church, people who don't

0:25.0

know Christ in that personal way in a deep friendship with him, or maybe they're not

0:28.8

living out their Catholic faith as fully as they should. Maybe they're really lost in life.

0:35.3

That could be a source of great grief when we have loved ones who don't live out their Catholic faith.

0:41.9

And what can we do in those situations I hear from many

0:45.0

young people who are on fire with their faith they go through a conversion they

0:48.6

rediscover how beautiful Catholicism is and they want to share with with others but they're not sure how.

0:54.0

And they'll ask me, you know, I've got a sibling, a brother, the sister who is not convinced of Catholicism.

0:59.3

How can I share my faith with them in a win some way or I have a friend or a roommate or a

1:03.5

co-worker how can I be a better witness to the Catholic faith or sometimes I

1:07.4

hear from young people they're worried about their parents. Yeah they have a

1:10.8

parent who maybe is Catholic but just maybe Catholic in name.

1:14.4

They're not really that convinced of the Catholic faith, and they're wondering, you know,

1:18.4

my parents think I've gone like crazy. I've become a religious freak. How can I be a faithful witness to them? How can I help them grow in their faith? I want them to know what I've discovered in Jesus Christ. I hear from many parents especially. Many parents who grieve when their children turn away from Catholicism, when their

1:36.6

children start following the ways of the world, when their grandchildren may grow up without

1:42.2

having a religious education and the sacraments and they worry about

1:47.3

that what can we do to share our faith again with our children and bring them back.

1:52.2

I hear from many adults that talk about

1:53.8

their spouses. That they have a spouse who maybe isn't Catholic at all or maybe

1:57.8

was Catholic but again they're not practicing that fully it's not that important to

2:02.0

them and that could be a source of great grief. What do we do in these situations?

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