Find Your Catholic Voice (#2)
The First Best Practice – as mentioned last time – is prayer. We are doing God’s work so it is important that we are in synch with Him. Specifically, we should ask for God’s guidance in preparing to evangelize and to discern when and how the Holy Spirit is asking us to evangelize. I find the following prayer - by St. Thomas Aquinas – helpful and use it before I began developing and now refining Find Your Catholic Voice:
Holy Spirit, grant to me keenness of mind, capacity to remember, skill in learning, subtlety to interpret, and eloquence of speech. May you guide the beginning of my work, direct its progress, and bring it to completion.
You can also use your own favorite prayer, craft your own prayer, or have a conversation with God. The second of the Three Best Practices is to draft and refine your testimony. Although you will not use your testimony every time you evangelize, by writing it out you make clear to yourself what it is you have to share. You have your evangelization foundation. And when you do get the opportunity to share it, you want it to be concise, meaningful and ready to shared. Tell people about why you hold on to the hope that is in you. Develop the details about why you are a Catholic, what helped you come to the Faith and grow in it. More on this Second Best Practice next time.
The First Best Practice – as mentioned last time – is prayer. We are doing God’s work so it is important that we are in synch with Him. Specifically, we should ask for God’s guidance in preparing to evangelize and to discern when and how the Holy Spirit is asking us to evangelize. I find the following prayer - by St. Thomas Aquinas – helpful and use it before I began developing and now refining Find Your Catholic Voice:
Holy Spirit, grant to me keenness of mind, capacity to remember, skill in learning, subtlety to interpret, and eloquence of speech. May you guide the beginning of my work, direct its progress, and bring it to completion.
You can also use your own favorite prayer, craft your own prayer, or have a conversation with God. The second of the Three Best Practices is to draft and refine your testimony. Although you will not use your testimony every time you evangelize, by writing it out you make clear to yourself what it is you have to share. You have your evangelization foundation. And when you do get the opportunity to share it, you want it to be concise, meaningful and ready to shared. Tell people about why you hold on to the hope that is in you. Develop the details about why you are a Catholic, what helped you come to the Faith and grow in it. More on this Second Best Practice next time.
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