Quote of the Day (Pope Paul VI, on How the Church Must Evangelize the World ‘By Her Conduct and By Her Life’)

“[F]or the Church, the first means of evangelization is the witness of an authentically Christian life, given over to God in a communion that nothing should destroy and at the same time given to one's neighbor with limitless zeal. As we said recently to a group of lay people, ‘Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses….’ It is therefore primarily by her conduct and by her life that the Church will evangelize the world, in other words, by her living witness of fidelity to the Lord Jesus—the witness of poverty and detachment, of freedom in the face of the powers of this world, in short, the witness of sanctity.”—Pope Paul VI (1897-1978), Evangelii Nuntiandi (“Evangelization in the Modern World”), delivered in Rome Dec. 8, 1975