A friend of mine is a Franciscan friar; when he was newly ordained, he felt woefully inadequate when he was asked to give a reflection to a conference of bishops. What could he say that they didn’t already know? He sought the counsel of a very senior and highly revered friar, who paused, stared at him a moment, then slowly and deliberately said, “Preach Jesus. Always, preach Jesus.” That simple wisdom guided the young priest through his ministry. Whenever he felt unqualified, whenever he didn’t know what to say, whenever he didn’t know where to start, he went back to the heart of the Gospel, to the centerpiece of evangelization – to the Kerygma. The Kerygma is the story of…