He Wants Me to Be Happy
We talk to our children a lot about what they are going to be when they grow up. Not the career stuff… but the vocation stuff. For...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Mar 28, 2022
- 2 min
The Most Common Mistake We Make in Lent
We all do it. We get to this point in Lent and we say to ourselves: this penance is actually a lot easier than I thought. And then you...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Mar 28, 2022
- 2 min
Take the Food Out of Your Hair
Today, I was looking back on the day that my son Caleb had his first haircut. No matter how often we bathed him, he looked like he was...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
Do Mondays Always Have to Hurt?
I was up several times throughout the night. The children calling “daddy” from different bedrooms will do that. But when the day begins...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Mar 12, 2022
- 2 min
Finding the Traitor Within
In many ways, Lent is about finding out where our real loyalties lie. It is the season to test whether or not we belong to the city of...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Feb 25, 2022
- 4 min
Parents Have the Hardest Time Evangelizing and Here’s Why
When traveling, by far the most common question I get comes from parents of older children. “How do I reach them?” is how it’s often put...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Feb 22, 2022
- 2 min
The World Is Divided
The world is divided. Families are divided. Christians are divided. And into all of this, God has sent you. For a reason that only He and...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
You're New to This, Thanks Be to God
By far, one of the biggest shifts we can all make is a mental shift. When we look at our efforts in evangelization, we can get to the...
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Editor in Chief
- Feb 9, 2022
- 1 min
Interview: "The Three Languages of Evangelization"
Meet the Host: A former Director of Faith Formation and Evangelization at his local parish, as well as former Director of Marriage and...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Feb 1, 2022
- 2 min
The World Is Leaking Again
The way my other children were yelling, you would have thought that my one year old had lost an arm. But no. Arriving on the scene, I...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Jan 17, 2022
- 2 min
Everybody Needs a Little Hope
“Hey Dad, let me give you a squeeze,” someone said in a very silly voice.It was one of my teenage boys. “What? Why?” I asked, as I looked...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Dec 17, 2021
- 2 min
It's a Layer Under There
I had an interesting opportunity to work on some website development with a few friends of mine, and I have to tell you, I found the...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Dec 13, 2021
- 2 min
"I Just Can't Get Up"
I don’t know when you last tried to wake up a teenage boy, but for me it is almost a daily occurrence. And what I have learned over the...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Sep 24, 2021
- 4 min
3 Ways of Thinking That Will Kill Parish Renewal Before It Begins
By now, I hope you have read the few articles that I have written on gaining confidence when evangelizing. In them, I speak about our...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Sep 20, 2021
- 1 min
A Conversation Worth Having
I am slowly coming to the conclusion that we’re either addicted to noise or afraid of silence; perhaps both. And I am starting to believe...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Sep 4, 2021
- 6 min
The 5 Essential Elements of Any Brilliant Evangelization Plan
It might seem like a strange thing to create a plan for evangelization, but as one who has been working in full time evangelization for...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Aug 28, 2021
- 4 min
Parish Renewal: Making the Next Best Decision
In another one of my articles, I spoke about the need for any pastor or parish team to make small incremental changes when evangelizing....
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Patrick Sullivan
- Aug 24, 2021
- 2 min
A Message for the World
For a few years now, I have lived on what many would call a “hobby farm.” Many different animal sounds can be heard from any window in...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Aug 16, 2021
- 3 min
Yeah, I don’t Like the Devil Either
It was evening in my house and I was sending the kids off to bed one by one. And much like every other family that I have ever...
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Patrick Sullivan
- Aug 13, 2021
- 5 min
3 Reasons Catholics Aren't Evangelizing
“The Church exists to evangelize,” said Pope Paul VI in his landmark document, Evangelii Nutiandi back in 1975. But despite the emphasis...
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