Evangelization in Action
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Evangelization in Action: The Rule Are you a Christian? Yes or No? Write on a piece of paper the new commandment that Christ gave us. (Don't try to look it up. You're a Christian remember? You should know this. Really. It's important! It makes or should make a difference in the way you view every person and every issue.) Okay, got your answer? Now Click Here for my answer. |
Evangelization in Action: The Reason
- Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God;
everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.
Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.
In this way the love of God was revealed to us:
God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.
In this is love: not that we have loved God,
but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another.
No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another,
God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us.
This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us,
that he has given us of his Spirit.
Moreover, we have seen and testify that the Father sent his Son as savior of the
world. Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,
God remains in him and he in God.
We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us.
God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.
In this is love brought to perfection among us, that we have confidence on the day
of judgment because as he is, so are we in this world.
There is no fear in love,
but perfect love drives out fear
because fear has to do with punishment,
and so one who fears is not yet perfect in love.
We love because he first loved us.
If anyone says, "I love God," but hates his brother, he is a liar;
for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen
cannot love God whom he has not seen.
This is the commandment we have from him:
whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1 John 4:7-21
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith
Can that faith save him?
If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day,
and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,"
but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it?
So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Indeed someone might say, "You have faith and I have works."
Demonstrate your faith to me without works,
You believe that God is one. You do well.
Even the demons believe that and tremble.
Do you want proof, you ignoramus, that faith without works is useless?
Was not Abraham our father justified by works
when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar?
You see that faith was active along with his works,
and faith was completed by the works.
- James 2:14-22
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these,.... John 14:15 |
CATHOLIC CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY
Many of you contribute generously to the Catholic Church Extension Society.
Over the last year, you may be aware of how your donations helped others
since the Extension Society was designated to head up and coordinate the
Catholic Church’s Parish Partnership Program for the Hurricanes Rita and
Katrina relief efforts on the Gulf Coast. Beyond that, though, what does
Extension do?
For over 100 years, Catholic Church Extension Society, located in Chicago, has
worked to sustain and extend the Catholic Faith in poor and remote mission
areas of the United States where diocesan resources are insufficient. Now
under the guidance of the most gracious and wonderful Bishop William Houck,
Catholic Extension continues to build national awareness and raise funds for the
Church's needs in these communities so as to enable the essential mission of
Catholic evangelization. Catholics who live in large urban areas might not have
the opportunity to reflect on the number of very small mission areas in our own
country. To learn more about Catholic missions in America check the website
www.catholicextension.org or call 1-800 842-7804. You may also begin
receiving the monthly magazine EXTENSION free of charge by making contact
with the website or calling the above number. Catholic Extension helps the
work of the Church in dioceses where there are few Catholics or much poverty
or both.
I have witnessed first hand the importance of the work of the Extension Society.
My cousin is the Bishop of Juneau, Alaska, (Most Rev. Michael Warfel). He
has thousands of square miles of territory to serve with few roads. Priests have
to fly in to remote missions to serve people who may only be able to participate
in mass once a month. A few years ago, I was fishing with Michael off the coast
of Gustavus, and while he was “trying” to catch “the big one,” I was talking to
the captain of the boat, a local parishioner. I will never forget the tone of his
voice as he expressed how much he missed not being able to receive the
Eucharist every week. I had never even seen a grown man talk about his faith
that way! Ah. The things we take for granted. So my cousin, Michael, thanks
all of you who support the Extension Society. Your dollars make it possible for
the faith to survive in such areas of the United States. If your cruise ship stops in
Juneau, be sure to look him up and tell him I sent you. He has the smallest
Cathedral in the United States (and after all, you, through the Extension Society,
help keep the lights on!) Thanks again!
- Picture taken by me while fishing with my husband and father on the St. Joseph River in
lower Michigan. I caught the first fish and biggest one and then rowed the rest of the
time....
| Fr. Bob Lombardo |
Updated July 9, 2007
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