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If you’ve ever played or coached competitive sports, you know the value of game film. If you’re not familiar with the concept, it’s when a sports team watches a recording of their game to analyze their own performance or a recording of an upcoming opponent’s game to prepare for the way their opposition plays. In…

This is the fourth post in a series on Totum Amoris Est, the Apostolic Letter issued by Pope Francis to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the death of St. Francis de Sales. Part 1: Summary of Totum Amoris EstPart 2: Where is the greatest love?Part 3: The primacy of relationship and charity in evangelization…

This is the third post in a series on Totum Amoris Est, the Apostolic Letter issued by Pope Francis to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the death of St. Francis de Sales. Part 1: Summary of Totum Amoris EstPart 2: Where is the greatest love? St. Francis lived at a time of great upheaval…

This is the second post in a series on Totum Amoris Est, the Apostolic Letter issued by Pope Francis to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the death of St. Francis de Sales. Click here for Part One of this series. The title of this Apostolic Letter, Totum Amoris Est, means “everything pertains to love,”…

On December 28, 2022, Pope Francis released Totum Amoris Est, an Apostolic Letter celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the death of St. Francis de Sales. St. Francis is one of the great spiritual masters in the Church’s history and a Doctor of the Church. Francis was born two months premature to the noble Sales…

I was once presenting to a group of seasoned missionaries, and I gave them this scenario: You are in an elevator, and the person next to you notices the crucifix you are wearing. They ask, “why are you a Catholic?” You only have until the tenth floor to answer. What would you say? Now, of…

Thanks for joining me here.  What is this blog all about?  My day job is to prepare people to engage in ministry in the Catholic Church. You can generally find me teaching a group of young people about our faith, writing about evangelization through Intentional Accompaniment, or reading about theology and scripture. I come across…