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Evangelization Committee Shares the Most
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f you were to find out an amazing piece of news, wouldn’t you want to share it with everyone you know and love, as soon as you could? And if you knew that sharing it with them would bless their lives abundantly, bring unspeakable joy to their hearts, and help bring them eternal salvation, wouldn’t it feel wrong to just keep it all to yourself? You probably answered “yes” to the questions above, and if so, you can understand the importance of the Great Commission of Christ, as well as the Evangelization Committee at our parish.
“This committee has been around for about 10 years now, and through it, we have been blessed to share our faith with inactive Catholics and non-Catholics,” says Lee Jarocki, who coordinates this ministry. In answering the call to evangelization, members of this fervent committee find themselves doing so in union with the Sacrifice of the Mass. “We tend to absolve ourselves from the responsibility of sharing the Gospel, and shrink from any public display of our faith in an ever-increasingly secular, post-Christian world,” Lee
says. “We only need to be reminded of the very last sentence of Holy Mass, ‘Go forth and proclaim the Gospel of the Lord.’ In fact, the word ‘Mass’ itself has its roots in the word ‘mission’ and our mission is to evangelize in our homes, our workplace, and our neighborhoods.” For Lee and other committee members, evangelization also means being dedicated to discipleship and walking in the footsteps of the saints. This dedication to evangelization is also beautifully reflected in a brief prayer that Lee holds dear — “The fruit of silence is prayer;
