“The quality of the lay preaching can be decidedly …mixed .” Isn’t that true of clerical preaching as well?
I doubt more Vatican control over summer conferences is what the Holy Spirit is urging.
These conferences bear great fruit and do not need over sight like the JP II Institue received.
“The quality of the lay preaching can be decidedly …mixed .” Isn’t that true of clerical preaching as well?
I doubt more Vatican control over summer conferences is what the Holy Spirit is urging.
These conferences bear great fruit and do not need over sight like the JP II Institue received.
Please judge by the fruit. This ia season of the laity. Look at Ascension Press, Halo. Focus,SOP Hard as nails, and The Pillar All full of fruit. Where is the fruit from Vatican initiatives?
That is the correct question. But we also need to define what constitutes fruit. People showing up to random events does not constitute fruit. Making and forming disciples of Jesus is what fruit looks like - a difficult thing to measure, but easy to see. All those lay initiatives clearly create and form disciples. I think Rome and dioceses misunderstand what fruit actually looks like.
“The quality of the lay preaching can be decidedly …mixed .” Isn’t that true of clerical preaching as well?
I doubt more Vatican control over summer conferences is what the Holy Spirit is urging.
These conferences bear great fruit and do not need over sight like the JP II Institue received.
Please judge by the fruit. This ia season of the laity. Look at Ascension Press, Halo. Focus,SOP Hard as nails, and The Pillar All full of fruit. Where is the fruit from Vatican initiatives?
"Where is the fruit from Vatican initiatives?"
That is the correct question. But we also need to define what constitutes fruit. People showing up to random events does not constitute fruit. Making and forming disciples of Jesus is what fruit looks like - a difficult thing to measure, but easy to see. All those lay initiatives clearly create and form disciples. I think Rome and dioceses misunderstand what fruit actually looks like.