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My Vatican Radio Interview on Pope Francis, Social Justice, and the Saints

Last week I was interviewed on Vatican Radio about my new book, Saints and Social Justice: A Guide to Changing the World. It was short—only about six minutes long—but we covered lots of topics including Pope Francis, social justice, and the saints.

Listen by clicking below!

(If the audio player doesn’t work, click here to download or stream the MP3.)

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“Transforming Parish Communications” Book Giveaway!

“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.” – St. Augustine

 

Since I’ve built up a large collection of extra books and resources, every week I give some away absolutely free, no strings attached.

Each giveaway lasts seven days with a new one beginning every Friday. You can enter any time during the week. Check out my past giveaways here.

 

 

Thanks to the good folks at Our Sunday Visitor, I’m giving away TEN copies of a helpful new book, Transforming Parish Communications:

 

 

Transforming Parish Communications: Growing the Church Through New Media
by Scot Landry

Our Sunday Visitor, 196 pages, paperback

Released on August 28, 2014

“Are we still a Church capable of warming hearts? A Church capable of leading people back to Jerusalem? Of bringing them home?” – Pope Francis, Meeting with the Bishops of Brazil, 28 July 2013.

Pope Francis, like his predecessors Benedict XVI and John Paul II, is calling for Catholics to embrace the new evangelization. But there has been ongoing confusion about who is responsible, what it really means and what it looks like in practical application. How can we respond to the Holy Father’s call, creating evangelization opportunities that help bring people back to the Church?

By transforming Catholics into digital missionaries – ready and able to take the joy and warmth of the Gospel online via social media to infrequent, inactive, or ex-Catholics around the corner or across the globe.

Consider this:

1. Nearly every “lost” Catholic in the U.S. is most likely connected with at least one engaged Catholic – or is one “retweet” or “like” away from them

2. On the whole, Catholics have not been taught to see social media as a way to live out their faith

3. Motivating parishes to put a priority on evangelization has been a challenge

4. Catholics are more likely to be comfortable as digital missionaries than to participate in other forms of evangelization

5. Parishes can offer “digital missionary training” to parishioners – who would welcome it!

In Transforming Parish Communications: Growing the Church Through New Media, you’ll discover:

How to embrace the Church’s vision of evangelization in new media
How entire parishes can become hubs of digital evangelization – and how to overcome obstacles
Specific strategies for implementation
How to create a consistent digital identity online
Best practices for parish websites
The nuts and bolts of Facebook, Twitter, email, blogging and more

Consider this book your entry into an important – and urgent – call to each of us as Catholics. To bring the warmth of the Gospel to the “lost” and bring them back to the Church.

Visit the companion site for more ParishGuideToNewMedia.com

 

 

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The Most Beautiful Catholic Website in the World

 

Many of you know I work for Fr. Robert Barron at Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. And for the last several months, we’ve been working on a new version of our website, WordOnFire.org.

This past Tuesday we unveiled it to the world:

 



 

I’m naturally biased, since I work for Word on Fire, but I truly think it’s the most beautiful Catholic website in the world.

It’s loaded with custom features. For example, the homepage displays a full-screen video background with clips from the CATHOLICISM series, which randomly rotate on each visit.

We also dramatically improved the site’s navigation.

“I’m particularly excited about the tagging,” Fr. Barron explained when we launched the site. “On the old website, it was hard to find what you needed. So we spent hundreds of hours reviewing all my past content, carefully tagging each resource. Now, you can look up a favorite topic, a verse in the Bible, a paragraph in the Catechism, or a week in the liturgical calendar and find all the content I’ve ever produced on it. This is a real game-changer for the Church. There’s nothing like it in the Catholic online world.”

The new site is also mobile responsive. This is really important to us since roughly 50% of visitors access the site on a phone or tablet. On the old site, mobile users had a really hard time. They had to pinch and zoom and scroll, just to read the text. But the new site dynamically resizes based on your device. That means it looks great on any computer, phone, or tablet.

So check out the new and improved WordOnFire.org, and let me know what you think!

 



 

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Your Parish Needs Better Graphics (And Here’s How To Help)

Michael Marchand knows parishes. He’s been a youth minister for ten years and he helps run ProjectYM.com, one of the largest youth ministry sites in the world.

During his years of experience he’s noticed a common problem. Friends and parish staff routinely ask the same question:

How do I get better graphics for my parish or ministry on a very limited budget?

When it comes to graphic design, most Catholic parishes are way behind the curve. They typically do one of two things:

1) Publish ugly, pixelated, and out-of-date graphics.

2) Rope their youth minister into designing all the graphics, posters, and fliers for the parish—even if he or she has no design experience.

In an ideal world, every parish would have a full-time graphic designer on staff making sure that everything they put out (both in print and online) is beautiful and well-designed. But very few parishes have that kind of budget.

So most parishes have been stuck. Until now.

This morning, Michael unveiled an exciting new service called ParishDesigner.com. Check it out:

 

 



 

 

I asked Michael if he would be willing to answer a few questions about ParishDesigner.com, and he kindly agreed:

 

 

BRANDON: You’ve worked in parishes for a long time. Why do so many of them have trouble designing beautiful graphics?

MICHAEL MARCHAND: It’s true. I’ve been in full-time parish ministry for almost 10 years, in four different parishes, and not one of those parishes publishes consistently beautiful graphics. In fact, most of the “design work” that comes out of most Catholic parishes is embarrassing.

I think there are three key reasons that so many parishes have graphic design trouble:

First, it’s nobody’s job. There is no one on staff who is in charge of visual media, which means every staff member, every department, is cobbling together their own graphics—and chances are those staff members are not trained or skilled graphic designers. The end result is sloppy, inconsistent, and unprofessional graphics.

Think about this: more people see the graphics your parish puts out (bulletin, website, Facebook, signage, etc.) than hear the music at Mass on Sunday. Most parishes have at least one full-time person coordinating, organizing, and running the music at your parish. The end result (hopefully) is a consistent, polished, and professional sounding choir or band. What if you had at least one skilled and professional person handling all the graphic design needs for your parish? The end result would be consistent, polished, and professional graphics.

Second, we’re not willing to pay for it. Honestly, for some parishes it doesn’t matter if a graphic designer charged $50 or $5,000—they just don’t see design as something we should pay for. We’d rather have mediocre graphics created by a volunteer (or an overworked youth minister who made the mistake of telling someone he knew how to use Photoshop) than pay someone to do it well.

We think what we are doing is “good enough for ministry”.

However, both of the above problems are really a symptom of a third:

We don’t think design matters.

We just don’t. Our parishes have created this false idea—bordering on delusion—that people will automatically come to church, get involved in ministry, donate their time, and give their money. If that was really true, then we wouldn’t need good graphics or any kind of marketing, outreach, or evangelization. But you and I both know that’s not the case.

BRANDON: Why does good design matter?

MICHAEL: Because people are drawn to beautiful and expressive imagery.

Because images can quickly communicate complex messages.

Because images create instant engagement with your content.

Because people remember imagery far longer than text alone.

The fact is, we live in an increasingly visual world. Take a look at sites like Instagram, YouTube, and even Facebook: they’re all built around visual media.

Visual media is the language of the world we live in. Thus it’s the medium we must use to evangelize. Jesus spoke in parables, and we need to speak in videos, memes, Instagram photos, and websites.

Take a look at the images your parish is producing (print, digital, web). Are they beautiful and expressive? Do the communicate effectively? Are the engaging and memorable? Do they add value to your message or distract from it?

We have been entrusted to share the greatest news of all time, and we should be using every tool at our disposal to do so. We need to give up the mentality of “good enough for the Church”, and strive for excellence, beauty, and professionalism.

BRANDON: Today you announced ParishDesigner.com, a brilliant service for parishes who need great designs on a budget. How does it work?

MICHAEL: It’s build around the subscription model—something that has been popularized by companies like Netflix, Spotify, and Amazon.

When your parish signs up for ParishDesigner.com, we assign you one of our full-time, professional graphic designers. He effectively joins your staff and is now part of your team.

Each month, your designer can create up to three complete design packages for your parish. For example, if you’ve got a parish mission coming up, you send us the theme, dates, times, etc. . We’ll then create a poster for the narthex, a postcard to mail to your parishioners, and a Facebook graphic to promote it online&mdaash;and that’s all just ONE design package! For each package you’ll be able to choose from flyers, posters, social media graphics, tshirts, postcards, letterhead, business cards and more. We’ll send you the digital files, but we can also go ahead and get things printed and shipped to your door!

The beauty in the subscription model is that you always have a designer on call—and even better, you’ll have the same designer working on all of your graphics, so there’s consistent and professional branding.

BRANDON: How much does ParishDesigner.com cost, and how does that compare to hiring a freelance graphic designer?

MICHAEL: When we first dreamed up the idea of ParishDesigner.com, the primary goal was to give parishes the ability to have high quality, custom designed graphics at a price point that would fit any church’s budget.

But we also wanted to make sure we were able to hire a great team of professional designers so that parishes got the high quality graphics that every ministry deserves.

Finding the balance between those two goals is difficult…

If you went looking for a professional graphic designer to put together a design package for a major event at your parish, you’d easily spend $200, $400, $700, maybe over $1,000 depending on the designer. Good design can quickly add up.

Let’s say you found a great designer willing to do the work for $200. Chances are, no matter how happy you were with his work, you’d probably only use his services a handful of times a year (if that many). Not because you don’t want great graphics for everything your parish is doing, but because you don’t have an extra $2,000 or $3,000 in your budget.

So then how does ParishDesigner.com plan to offer THREE design packages a month “at a price point that would fit any church’s budget”? Even if we were able to cut that bargain designer’s rates in half, you’d still be looking at $300 a month or $3,600 a year, for three monthly design packages.

I’m guessing that’s not in your church’s budget. (I know it’s not in mine.)

But we’re hoping this is:

$75 per month.

That gets you a professional designer, cranking out three design packages each and every month for your parish. That’s only $25 per package!

I have some even better news:

Right now, we’re in our BETA launch phase. Basically that means we’re only taking on small number of parishes to test out this new model (and by small I mean only 25). If you sign up now as one of those BETA parishes, you’ll get an extra 30% discount! That’s three design packages a month for only $52.

So visit ParishDesigner.com and sign up today!

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“Thérèse, Faustina, and Bernadette” Book Giveaway!

“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.” – St. Augustine

 

Since I’ve built up a large collection of extra books and resources, every week I give some away absolutely free, no strings attached.

Each giveaway lasts seven days with a new one beginning every Friday. You can enter any time during the week. Check out my past giveaways here.

 

 

Thanks to the good folks at Ave Maria Press, I’m giving away TEN copies of a beautiful new book, Thérèse, Faustina and Bernadette:

 

 

Thérèse, Faustina, and Bernadette: Three Saints Who Challenged My Faith, Gave Me Hope, and Taught Me How to Love
by Elizabeth Ficocelli

Ave Maria Press, 192 pages, paperback

Released on March 10, 2014

Author, speaker, and retreat leader Elizabeth Ficocelli introduces her readers to three remarkable women saints who became not only her role models, but also her life-changing friends. Thérèse, Faustina, and Bernadette taught Ficocelli about faith, hope, and love, and showed her what true Catholic womanhood looks like.

Some of the best saint stories are not about wonder-workers, but rather the everyday saints–friends who understand the challenges of marriage and motherhood and the banalities of day-to-day life. Bestselling author Elizabeth Ficocelli discovered three such friends in Thérèse of Lisieux, Faustina of the Divine Mercy, and Bernadette of Lourdes. The witness of their lives moved Ficocelli to cultivate the virtues of faith, hope, and love as she journeyed from a successful career as a marketing executive to what she found was a more authentic, even counter-cultural Catholic womanhood. Ficocelli offers women the wisdom of these saints for their own spiritual journeys.

 

 

I’m using Rafflecopter to help with the giveaway, which is cool because it allows you multiple entries for commenting, posting on Facebook, sharing on Twitter, etc. Click below to enter:

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The winner(s) will be randomly selected next Friday and the books will be sent out, free of charge, shortly thereafter.

In the future I’ll be giving away more books and resources, sometimes multiple items per giveaway! So subscribe via feed reader or email to ensure you never miss your chance to win.

(Since I’m covering the shipping costs, only residents within the continental United States are eligible to win.)

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St. Lawrence and the True Treasures of the Church

Today marks the feast day of St. Lawrence of Rome, whose courage and commitment to the poor inspired me to choose him for my confirmation saint.

Persecution was a daily reality for St. Lawrence and other third-century Christians. And in 258, the Emperor Valerian began another massive round. He issued an edict commanding that all bishops, priests, and deacons should be put to death, and he gave the Imperial treasury power to confiscate all money and possessions from Christians.

In light of the news, Pope Sixtus II quickly ordained a young Spanish theologian, Lawrence, to become archdeacon of Rome. The important position put Lawrence in charge of the Church’s riches, and it gave him responsibility for the Church’s outreach to the poor. The pope sensed his own days were numbered and therefore commissioned Lawrence to protect the Church’s treasure.

On August 6, 258, Valerian captured Pope Sixtus while he celebrated the liturgy, and had him beheaded. Afterwards, he set his sights on the pope’s young protégé, Lawrence. But before killing him, the Emperor demanded the archdeacon turn over all the riches of the Church. And he gave Lawrence three days to round it up.

Lawrence worked swiftly. He sold the Church’s vessels and gave the money to widows and the sick. He distributed all the Church’s property to the poor. On the third day, the Emperor summoned Lawrence to his palace and asked for the treasure. With great aplomb, Lawrence entered the palace, stopped, and then gestured back to the door where, streaming in behind him, poured crowds of poor, crippled, blind, and suffering people. “These are the true treasures of the Church,” he boldly proclaimed. One early account even has him adding, “The Church is truly rich, far richer than the Emperor.”

Unsurprisingly, Lawrence’s act of defiance angered the Emperor. Valerian ordered his death that same day. Hundreds of year later, Lawrence is still remembered for his final jest: while being barbecued alive, he quipped to his executioners, “I’m well done. Turn me over!” But we should also hail Lawrence for his keen insight regarding the Church’s real treasure.

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“Saints and Social Justice” Giveaway!

“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.” – St. Augustine

 

Since I’ve built up a large collection of extra books and resources, every week I give some away absolutely free, no strings attached.

Each giveaway lasts seven days with a new one beginning every Friday. You can enter any time during the week. Check out my past giveaways here.

 

 

Thanks to the good folks at Our Sunday Visitor, I’m giving away TEN copies of my just-released book, Saints and Social Justice: A Guide to Changing the World:

 

 

Saints and Social Justice: A Guide to Changing the World
by Brandon Vogt

Our Sunday Visitor, 192 pages, paperback

Released on June 20, 2014

Catholic social teaching has explosive power for changing not just individuals, but whole societies. And it’s the saints who light the fuse.

The value of human life. The call to family and community. Serving the poor. The rights of workers. Care for creation.

The church has always taught certain undeniable truths that can and should affect our society. But over the years, these teachings have been distorted, misunderstood, and forgotten.

With the help of fourteen saints, it’s time we reclaim Catholic social teaching and rediscover it through the lives of those who best lived it out. Follow in the saints’ footsteps, learn from their example, and become the spark of authentic social justice that sets the world on fire.

Learn from heroes like:

- Bl. Teresa of Calcutta

- St. Peter Claver

- St. Frances of Rome

- St. Roque Gonzalez

- Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati

- St. Damien of Molokai

- St. John Paul II

100% of the royalties from this book will be donated to Catholic Charities USA to feed and clothe those in need.

 

 

I’m using Rafflecopter to help with the giveaway, which is cool because it allows you multiple entries for commenting, posting on Facebook, sharing on Twitter, etc. Click below to enter:

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The winner(s) will be randomly selected next Friday and the books will be sent out, free of charge, shortly thereafter.

In the future I’ll be giving away more books and resources, sometimes multiple items per giveaway! So subscribe via feed reader or email to ensure you never miss your chance to win.

(Since I’m covering the shipping costs, only residents within the continental United States are eligible to win.)

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Holiness is Heroism

 



 

 

According to Father Robert Barron, Rector of Mundelein Seminary and creator of the acclaimed CATHOLICISM film series, the Church is facing a crisis.

“We’re currently experiencing the darkest period in the history of American Catholicism,” he observed. “People are drifting away from religion at massive rates. They’re disenchanted with God and disappointed with the Church. The fastest growing group is the so-called ‘nones,’ those who express no religious affiliation.”

It was in response to these trends that Father Barron created CATHOLICISM, an epic ten-part documentary on the Catholic faith, which aired nationally on PBS and was seen by millions around the world.

“The CATHOLICISM series remains one of the most exciting and fruitful projects of my life,” said Father Barron. “Our team traveled the globe to capture the beauty, truth, and texture of Catholicism, and the result was a fresh presentation of the faith for Catholics and non-Catholics alike.”

What the CATHOLICISM did for the Catholic faith in general, his newest project, “Heroic Priesthood”, aims to do for the priesthood in particular. “As a long-time theology professor and now Rector of Mundelein Seminary, I’ve seen firsthand the challenges facing today’s priests. The priesthood is looked upon with suspicion and confusion by most of the culture—especially by young people. We need to change that.”

The twelve-minute film, produced by Father Barron’s Word on Fire Catholic Ministries in partnership with Spirit Juice Studios, a premier Catholic design studio based in Chicago, aims to change those misperceptions.

“My goal with this film is to reach as many people as possible—certainly priests and seminarians, but especially young Catholic men. I want them to see that holiness is heroic and that Jesus Christ’s invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to an extraordinary life.”

Shot on location at Mundelein Seminary, the film centers on three seminarians and an annual basketball tournament, which brings together future priests from across the country. Through world-class cinematography and a stirring musical core, the film illuminates the Catholic priesthood like never before.

Viewers can watch the entire film free online, along with extra video resources from Father Barron, at HeroicPriesthood.com.

Word on Fire is also making the film available on DVD for bulk ordering. The ministry hopes to equip bishops, dioceses, parishes, and priests with thousands of copies in order to reach every Catholic young man in the country.

“I want young men to understand that priests are well-integrated men, body and soul, and that the priesthood is a flourishing way of life. If young men glimpse the radical, resplendent, and ultimately heroic call of the priesthood, this film will have been a success.”

 

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Learning from a Priest Who Converted a Town

Today we continue our regular series called “Learning from the Saints.” Our guide is expert Bert Ghezzi, a dear friend of mine and the author of numerous books including Voices of the Saints, Saints at Heart, and Discover Christ: Developing a Personal Relationship with Jesus.

His newest book is The Saints Devotional Bible, which illuminates the Scriptures with the saints’ own reflections. You can learn more about Bert and his work at BertGhezzi.com.

Today, Bert profiles St. John Vianney, the patron saint of all priests.

 

Do you think of St. John Vianney, the curé of Ars, as a priest of low intelligence who only by extraordinary grace in his confessional converted thousands of people? If so, think again. The saint’s reputed ignorance is greatly exaggerated. Yes, he was an ill-educated farm boy who had difficulty learning Latin and passing his seminary exams. But he possessed superior moral intelligence and Christian wisdom, as shown in these aphorisms from his sermons:

 

“To content his love, God must give himself to us separately, one by one.”

“A pure soul is with God, as a child with its mother. The child caresses and embraces her, and its mother returns all its endearments.”

“We have nothing of our own but our will. It is the only thing that God has so placed in our own power that we can make an offering of it to him.”

“Our Lord takes pleasure in doing the will of those who love him.”

“You must accept your cross. If you bear it courageously it will carry you to heaven.”

“The way to destroy bad habits is by watchfulness and by doing often those things that are the opposites to one’s besetting sins.”

“God commands you to pray, but he forbids you to worry.”

“Prayer is the conversation of a child with his Father. Of a subject with his King. Of a servant with his Lord. Of a friend with the Friend to whom he confides all his troubles and difficulties.”

“To approach God you should go straight to him, like a bullet from a gun.”

“The interior life is like a sea of love in which the soul is plunged and drowned. Just as a mother holds her child’s face in her hands to cover it with kisses, so does God hold the devout person.”

The care of souls obsessed John Vianney. Appointed in 1817 as pastor to Ars, he soon converted most of the 230 people who lived in the little village. A few minutes in his confessional was enough to turn hardened sinners into saints. People said he could read their consciences, see their past sins and predict the future. For many years 300 penitents a day came to him by train from Lyon, which had to maintain a ticket office just for Ars. He spent 12 to 17 hours a day hearing confessions, stopping only to preach at 11 AM. And the saint disciplined himself harshly as prayer for the conversion of sinners. For example, he ate one meal a day, often only boiled potatoes.

The devil seemed to take notice of the curé of Ars. For thirty years day and night he put up with intrusions he regarded as diabolical, including poltergeists, noises, personal violence and even the mysterious burning of his bed. “The grappin and I are almost mates,” he would say.

John Vianney blended strictness and gentleness. He upheld the commandments with uncompromising severity and loved people with motherly tenderness. His preaching, for example, emptied the pubs of Ars and restored the Sunday observance. And when he wasn’t in the confessional, the curé was rescuing abandoned children. He crowded orphans into the homes of his friends. Once he brought a child to an associate who objected, “But there’s no bed.” “There’s always yours,” he said, and left the child at the door.

Worn out by the constant stream of visitors and by his lifelong austerity, St. John Vianney died at the age of seventy-three.

“Here is a rule for everyday life: Do not do anything which you cannot offer to God.”

— St. John Vianney

 

 

(Image Credit: Vultus)

 

 

Read more from Bert at his website www.BertGhezzi.com, or check out his many books on Amazon.



 
 
 
 

 

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“The Blood and the Rose” Giveaway

“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.” – St. Augustine

 

Since I’ve built up a large collection of extra books and resources, every week I give some away absolutely free, no strings attached.

Each giveaway lasts seven days with a new one beginning every Friday. You can enter any time during the week. Check out my past giveaways here.

 

 

Thanks to my friends at Renegade Communications, today I’m giving away THREE copies of “The Blood & the Rose”, a fascinating new DVD documentary on Our Lady of Guadalupe:

 

“The Blood & the Rose” DVD
by Tim Watkins

 

A feature length theatrical documentary shot on location in Mexico and Spain, “The Blood & The Rose” offers riveting interviews with top experts in the fields of science, history and theology, exploring the mystery of St. Juan Diego’s Tilma and the miraculous image that it bears.

More than just a story about a distant event, “The Blood & The Rose” is an invitation and a calling to emulate St. Juan Diego in our own day, carrying the message of the Virgin of Guadalupe – Patroness of the Americas and Patroness of Life – into the culture in which we live.

 

 

I’m using Rafflecopter to help with the giveaway, which is cool because it allows you multiple entries for commenting, posting on Facebook, sharing on Twitter, etc. Click below to enter:

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By entering this giveaway you agree to occasionally receive email updates from me—no spam, just updates about new blog posts, giveaways, and books.

 

 

The winner(s) will be randomly selected next Friday and the books will be sent out, free of charge, shortly thereafter.

In the future I’ll be giving away more books and resources, sometimes multiple items per giveaway! So subscribe via feed reader or email to ensure you never miss your chance to win.

(Since I’m covering the shipping costs, only residents within the continental United States are eligible to win.)

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