New Evangelization

Episode 46 - Christopher West on His Techniques for Communicating to a Mass Audience

Episode 46 - Christopher West on His Techniques for Communicating to a Mass Audience

The Way of Beauty Podcast - Episode 46 Christopher West and David Clayton on techniques for popularizing theology and philosophy so as to engage non-believers and believers alike. Our inspiration is St John Chrysostom - ‘golden mouth’ - but each of us can be golden mouthed and honey tongued if we are true to our personal vocation!

Episode 44 - Mary Anne Urlakis Interviews David Clayton, WCAT Radio. The Way of Beauty in the Formation of Seminarians and Lay People.

Episode 44 - Mary Anne Urlakis Interviews David Clayton, WCAT Radio. The Way of Beauty in the Formation of Seminarians and Lay People.

Each of us has a role in the transformation of the culture, and should be encourage to exercise our freedom within those roles. So lay people should by energetic lay people serving the Church, as priests should be energetic priests. All of us can be holy.

Episode 43 - Fr Jeffrey Kirby on His Book For Everyday Mystics

Episode 43 - Fr Jeffrey Kirby on His Book For Everyday Mystics

You don’t need to be a monk or a nun to be a mystic. Every single one of us is meant to be one, and through the Christian tradition this can happen at our local parish church. Fr Jeffrey Kirby’s book tells us how.

Episode 3 - The Domestic Church and the New Evangelization

These are two old ideas that are new to many people today, and surprisingly they are connected. Pope Benedict XVI told us that the driving force for the New Evangelization is the Domestic Church. Prayer in the home focussed on a place set aside for it and marked by sacred images goes back to Roman times; the method of seeking to evangelize the post-Christian West termed the New Evangelization. So while the problem is new - how do we convert people whose parents or grandparents were Christian and think they already know enough about the Faith to know they don't like it? - the answer is the same as it ever was. We must be supernaturally transformed, shining with the love of Christ so people want what we have! And it is prayer in the Domestic Church that plays a crucial part in that personal transformation.

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Therefore, it must be emphasized once more that the pastoral intervention of the Church in support of the family is a matter of urgency. Every effort should be made to strengthen and develop pastoral care for the family, which should be treated as a real matter of priority, in the certainty that future evangelization depends largely on the domestic Church.
— Pope Benedict XVI, address to the PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE FAMILY, Clementine Hall, Thursday, 1 December 2011
The family is the first school of prayer where, from their infancy, children learn to perceive God thanks to the teaching and example of their parents. An authentically Christian education cannot neglect the experience of prayer. If we do not learn to pray in the family, it will be difficult to fill this gap later.
— John Paul II, Weekly address, the Vatican, Dec 2011

Weekly address, the Vatican, Dec 2011

Pope Benedict XVI, as Cardinal Ratzinger: on the New Evangelization

Way of Beauty blog article: The New Evangelization and the Domestic Church - Pope Benedict XVI on the connection between the two

Pictures of Roman home altars and dining arrangements, followed by a modern icon corner:

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Episode 2 - Sacred Art: More Important than Life and Death

Episode 2 - Sacred Art: More Important than Life and Death

Why did people die for the principle of worshiping God with Holy Icons? Would anyone bother today? David Clayton talks to Charlie Deist about why we really should care about this, and how today it is indifference, rather than hostility to images is taking us to oblivion.