Here is a short video on the New Evangelization, drawing on Church History. It talks about how the early Church Fathers evangelized the then known world not by using the persuasive methods (spectacles) of the secular society, but by giving the people the experience of the sacred through skilled rhetoric and preaching.
I thought the comparision of “spectacle” with “sacred” was interesting. So often we hear from people that the Mass and the sacraments are not attention-getting or attention-retaining. Many want a more spectacular experience. What this video suggests is that what people really long for is an experience of sacredness.
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