Category: Ars Praedicandi
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Preaching the Poetry of Scripture
DAVID SCHMITT — Let the psalms preach the Gospel! Take a look (and a listen) at how Psalm 29 draws us into the drama of The Baptism of the Lord.
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Ars Praedicandi: Third Sunday of Advent
ED FOLEY — The Baptist was no AI programmer or robotics engineer, but he intuitively understood that the journey into uncertainty was part of his final journey into holiness.
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Ars Praedicandi: Christ the King
ED FOLEY — What kind of placard Jesus would be carrying if he joined in a “no kings” march?
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Ars Praedicandi: All Is Vanity
SALLY MESSNER — Even the great Gabriel Fauré knew well the wisdom of Ecclesiastes—that he wouldn’t be remembered.
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Twenty-First Sunday of the Year, C 2025
ED FOLEY — The narrow gate of Jesus’ justice invites the burning away of any veneer of virtue, or empty believing.
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Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
ED FOLEY — The church was never meant to rest on the shoulders of one person. From the very start it emerged from a community.
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Sixth Sunday of Easter
ED FOLEY — If you ever took a writing class, or studied American literature, you were probably exposed to the prose of Ernest Hemingway.
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Easter Sunday, 2025
ED FOLEY — Yet no matter how many empty tombs confront us we baptized are assured that day that none of us are permanently stalled in any cemetery.
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Fourth Sunday in Lent, Cycle C – Old St. Patrick’s, 2025
ED FOLEY — May this Lenten journey be a necessary and welcome vision adjustment, to see the world and all its lost children not through the eyes of worldly intelligence, but instead through the eyes of Annie Dillard and a wise yet foolish God.