The heart of evangelization: This is a Person, not a Project

“Suppose we heard an unknown man spoken of by many men. Suppose we were puzzled to hear that some men said he was too tall and some too short; some objected to his fatness, some lamented his leanness; some thought him too dark, and some too fair. One explanation (as has been already admitted) would be that he might be an odd shape. But there is another explanation. He might be the right shape. Outrageously tall men might feel him to be short. Very short men might feel him to be tall. Old bucks who are growing stout might consider him insufficiently filled out; old beaux who were growing thin might feel that he expanded beyond the narrow lines of elegance. … Perhaps, after all, it is Christianity that is sane and all its critics that are mad…”

• G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“If you have people, clients coming to therapy confused about who they are, and then you have a clinician who's also confused about what a person is, but they feel confident about their confusion, that that actually can lead to a lot of destruction.”

“This is actually the strongest thing, and, like, we can all fight against it if we want, and it's gonna be there. And so I don't need to defend it anxiously. And so being out in the world, anybody can say whatever they want about the Catholic faith and I don't need to defend it anxiously. Like, nothing that they say or do against the Catholic faith will destroy it.”

I need to defend the faith, but the faith doesn’t need me to defend it. The Church is not a weak, fragile thing - it fights for itself and will never be destroyed. We can be free of any fear about the “downfall” of the Church.

• “And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.”

  • Matthew 16:18