Mission & Evangelization

You Don't Have to Suffer Alone

by Msgr. James Shea
Photo by Roberta Sant'Anna on Unsplash

Msgr. James Shea closes SEEK26 with a powerful call to change our minds about evangelization, suffering, and the cross.

Drawing from Dostoevsky, Flannery O’Connor, St. Francis Xavier, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati, and FOCUS missionary Michelle Duppong, Msgr. Shea reminds us that evangelization is not simply thinking about God or mastering arguments. It begins with receiving love at the cross. When we learn to bring our suffering, loneliness, grief, and problems to Jesus, we discover the good news we are meant to share with the world.