Dear Lara,<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know why you insist on complicating things.\u00a0 It\u2019s all well and good to put together a concrete plan for your evangelizing work on campus next year.\u00a0 As President of your Chapter this is the least you can do in order to be responsible.\u00a0 But I think you are making it more difficult than it is.\u00a0 Be simple!\u00a0 There are two groups of people on campus that you need to evangelize.\u00a0 First, the Catholics.\u00a0 Ask yourself what they need in order to grow closer to Christ, then figure out how you and your fellow members can help meet that need.\u00a0 The second group is the non-Catholics.\u00a0 What do they need to grow closer to Christ, or at least to move one step in His direction?\u00a0 OK, now what can you all do to make that happen?\u00a0 There you have it: a program, a plan.\u00a0 Sometimes we overlook the obvious while searching for the cosmic.\u00a0 Today\u2019s saint never made that mistake, and I think you can take a good lesson from him.<\/p>\n
Landry (aka Landericus) was the 27th<\/sup> bishop of Paris.\u00a0 His knowledge of and love for the faith were prodigious, but he had his feet firmly planted on the ground.\u00a0 The biggest problem in seventh-century Paris was poverty and indigence.\u00a0 The social structure of European society was in the throes of the Dark Ages; it was a mess.\u00a0 Streams of poor, sick, and ignorant folk flowed into the cities \u2013 and Paris was one of the biggest (though even the big cities at this period were small by the standards of most periods).<\/p>\n Landry didn\u2019t get lost in a tangle of sociological reflection about the causes of the barbarian invasions and the fall of the Roman Empire. Instead, he built a hospital for the poor, for those who had nowhere to go to be treated for their infirmities.\u00a0 It was the first of its kind in France.\u00a0 He put it right next to the Cathedral.\u00a0 And when things got really tough, in times of famine or plague, for instance, he sold off all his belongings, including what little furniture he had, to support those who had nothing.\u00a0 When even that didn\u2019t help, he melted down the extra sacred vessels of the Church, and sold them off as well.\u00a0 Miracles abounded in the wake of this holy prelate, both during his lifetime and, through his relics, for centuries afterwards.\u00a0 His Cathedral hospital and poorhouse became a model for bishops throughout Europe, making the love of Christ shine in the midst of the darkest period of the Dark Ages.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t be complicated.\u00a0 Focus on the essentials.\u00a0 Give the Holy Spirit some breathing room, and watch him blow the house down.<\/p>\n Your loving uncle,<\/p>\n Eddy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lara, I don\u2019t know why you insist on complicating things.\u00a0 It\u2019s all well and good to put together a concrete plan for your evangelizing work on campus next year.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":145992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3719],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-142490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncle-eddy"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"","pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n