At small Ohio parish, evangelization starts with a candle

How 'Light for Love' is aiming to evangelize with holy hours, and invitation to pray.

When Lina Simms first read about the global prayer movement Nightfever, she thought, “Wow, that’s really cool.”

But then she thought to herself, “Our parish could not do something like that.”

Volunteer “inviters” outside St. James Parish in Lakewood, Ohio invite passersby to enter the Church and light a candle. Credit: John Sabo.

Sprung from World Youth Da…