When asked about how to get started as an evangelizer, Bishop Robert Barron does not recommend that one study the latest TikTok trends. Rather, his standard response is “read, read, read.”
We need to be able to communicate in a way that is relevant to people of our time, but we also need to be rooted in something deeper. We need an immersion in what's evergreen — in what will always be relevant.
I don’t pretend to be a particularly original thinker. If I ever have something valuable to say, it has been sparked by someone much wiser. I might connect some ideas in a new way, but there’s no creatio ex nihilo.
Looking at the beginning and end of the gospels, Bishop Fulton Sheen noted, “Our Lord’s first word to His disciples was ‘come!’ His last word was ‘go!’”
Sheen concluded, “You can’t ‘go’ unless you’ve first ‘come’ to Him.”
Being loved enables us to love. Having first been filled up, we can pour ourselves out to others.