Question of Faith

How Do You Approach Friends Who Have Had a Bad Experience with the Catholic Church?

May 19, 2022 Fr. Damian Ference and Mike Hayes Season 1 Episode 24
Question of Faith
How Do You Approach Friends Who Have Had a Bad Experience with the Catholic Church?
Show Notes

Diocesan Archivist Emily Ahlin joins Mike and Fr. Damian for this week's discussion.   Emily was a Focus Missionary at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvannia before coming to the Diocese of Cleveland.

0:50:   Our ad for open positions in the diocese, featuring our colleague Dene Hummon.

1:00:   What is a Focus Missionary?   

2:00:  Mike makes a reference to the Gross Anatomy Lab at the Medical School where he served as a chaplain at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

3:30:   Missionaries and Campus Ministers often face rejection.

7:00:  Why don't many college students go to Mass?  Mike's results from his unscientific experiment.

10:00:  How do we talk about faith with people that we meet outside of work?

11:00   Mike and Emily often have to explain what it means to work in lay ministry and administration in the Catholic Church.

12:00:  But every encounter is an opportunity.

14:00:  Emily talks about drawing people into the church.

15:00 :  Mike talks about the "Plus 1 Mass" that they created at Canisius College.

16:00:   Pope Francis' invitation to people alienated from the church...read the Acts of the Apostles.

18:00:  Who are we most surprised by when we get an acceptance of our invitations?

19:30:  Fr. Damian talks about the importance of praying for people who we try to evangelize.

21:10:   St. Augustine Parish in Tremont.

22:00:   Gospel for the 6th Sunday of Easter.