 At that time, the reputation of Évely as a preacher led him to become a popular spiritual retreat director, speaker at religious conferences and to preach publicly to the fraternities, a movement of assistance to the Third World known as "Ad Lucem" (Latin, to the light) and eventually a series of Lenten radio addresses.It was from these speeches that his first books developed.Évely began to acquire a reputation for speaking with humor and a certain audacity that later seemed to have anticipated the assertions of the Second Vatican Council, but that at the time irritated his superiors.