Our Role in Evangelization

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Does the idea of apologetics intimidate you? Do you feel inadequate defending the Catholic faith, but want to build confidence in evangelizing? Michael Gormley and Dave VanVickle explain the gift of evangelization and how God wants us to participate in the good work He started.

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The sacraments are not our work to please God, it is God’s work to save humanity.

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0:00.0	So the sacraments are not our work to please God.
0:04.7	It is God's work to save humanity.
0:20.0	Hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to every knees shall bow your weekly Catholic
0:25.3	podcast on evangelization and discipleship.
0:29.0	My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am joined today by Dave the illustrious extraordinary
0:36.1	minister of Holy Communion, Van Vickle.
0:37.6	How you doing, Dave?
0:39.1	You're right.
0:40.0	You ever been one?
0:41.0	Never, never once.
0:42.6	I've done it twice in my life.
0:44.3	The first time I ever did it,
0:45.4	Guy walked up, gave him communion,
0:47.2	and he was not a Catholic.
0:49.3	So I failed miserably.
0:51.5	Does it count?
0:52.4	I gave Amber communion.
0:53.5	Sure.
0:53.9	So that would count. Yeah.
0:56.3	Was it an extraordinary experience? No, I don't participate in that way of mass. And that's literally
1:01.4	how I respond to them when they ask you. You got to love being the church. I remember for years as a
1:07.8	youth minister in the three different parishes, people would come out to me and be like, you should be a Eucharistic minister for the youth mass. And I'm like, no. Like, why not? It's like, because I want to go to mass, number one. And number two, I already do all the things. This is the one time I don't have to do any of the things. Right. And number three is, if I get this ball rolling, I will end up doing it all the time. They will always ask me. Because whenever they're short Eucharistic ministers, you know, when it's a cast of thousands, when they're short Eucharistic ministers, they just look around for someone that they know and they would know me. So no, thank you. I'm not into the lay participation stuff. I don't like it. I especially don't like it when it seems like they're trying to find a job for everyone. That's when I'm not, I'm not into the lay participation stuff. I don't like it. I especially don't
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