Restoring Your Broken Wedding Vows
When we stand before our beloved, ready to state our wedding vows, we intend to live them out fully. Yet with all the greatest intentions, that doesn’t mean that we […]
Saying Your Wedding Vows
I will never forget the day I stood before my fiancé, Susan, and said my wedding vows. For me, it was a moment of great emotion, mixed with a little […]
An Earthly Comparison to a Heavenly Plan
The Catholic Church is known as a Sacramental Church. That is to say that we understand that much of what is going on in the elements of our faith in […]
Transforming Initial Sacrament Conversations
One of the greatest challenges about transitioning from our old paradigms of religious education to a true Discipleship Formation Process is getting the regular parishioner to accept the change. People […]
Parish Transition To Making Disciples 10: Making The Final Painful Shift
I believe that we have reached the final place that will require the most faith and trust that the Holy Spirit will have to lead us to move forward. It […]
Parish Transition To Making Disciples Part 9: Seeing Our Goals Visualized
A few weeks ago, a 58 year-old man came up to me after a mission night. His eyes were red with tears. He shared with me his cradle Catholic story […]
Parish Transition To Making Disciples Part 8: Transition To Real Results
No factory is going to start up with the intention of producing nothing. They will set up their goals, create their designs, manufacture the parts, assemble them together and TEST […]
Parish Transition To Making Disciples Part 7: Faith In The Message
We are all afraid of going adrift because we don’t know where it will take us. I can totally understand that fear. I also appreciate the integrity of the bishops […]
Parish Transition To Making Disciples Part 6: Going Adrift
In consulting with Parishes and Dioceses, I have begun to ask some questions that are (I confess) a bit unnerving. They are questions that, I believe, must be addressed if […]
Parish Transition To Making Disciples Part 5: The Critical Point of Letting Go
What makes this process of Parish Transformation so difficult is that we are going into uncharted waters. The fear almost paralyzes us into inactivity. Like a person holding onto the […]