240 Entry Points for Evangelization -- Jimmy Mitchell’s Let Beauty Speak

AMDG. “This is about making heaven crowded.” 

 

Assistant principal at Jesuit High School and author Jimmy Mitchell shares his many years of experience evangelizing in his new book, “Let Beauty Speak.”  

 

Jimmy reveals how to identify the right individualized approach to talk to someone about the faith as well as the role of beauty in conversion. He discusses his life story, from joining the seminary to traveling the world.  

 

“At the age of thirty-eight, I feel like I’ve lived three lives,” Jimmy muses, “there’s very few things I haven’t done.”  

 

Tune in to hear inspiring anecdotes from Jimmy’s ministry work; his favorite story about St. Ignatius; when music becomes immoral; the coming renewal in classical architecture and music; and Jimmy’s experience as a Catholic entrepreneur and music manager in Nashville.  

 

Links mentioned & relevant: 

• Let Beauty Speak by Jimmy Mitchell 

• Jimmy’s website  

• The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise by Cardinal Robert Sarah with Nicolas Diat 

• The Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux 

Kolbe Academy’s Let Beauty Speak series 

• Session 1: Introduction, Wonder & Freedom 

• Session 2: Friendship & Prayer 

• Session 3: Leisure & Work 

Related Kolbecast episodes: 

• 27 An Appreciation of Wonder 

• 34 A Beauty-Linked Life with Professor Carol Reynolds 

• 71 A Sight for Sore Eyes with Chris Lewis of Baritus Catholic 

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