Category: Ars Praedicandi
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Ars Praedicandi: 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
If Jesus had only talked about God’s generosity He would not have been nailed to the cross.
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Ars Praedicandi: 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
The stranger is an essential part of God’s calculus
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Ars Praedicandi: Feast of the Transfiguration, Ed Foley
In the transfiguration, the Only-Begotten hung in the thin space between heaven and earth.
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Ars Praedicandi: Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
Instead of destroying hearts, weeding out differences, or eradicating strangers like invasive species the Jesus program for kingdom care offers a different path: to share soil, learn to cross-pollinate, nourish the flowering of others, and even to develop holy envy for their flourishing.
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Ars Praedicandi: Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
by Fr. Edward Foley, Capuchin At first glance today’s are not the most challenging lectionary readings filled as they are with a multitude of gracious and affirming images: a meek savior peace for the nations God’s mercy the Spirit dwelling within a messiah who lightens our burdens. At the same time there are ominous allusions…
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Ars Praedicandi: Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
Today’s gospel reminds us that there is no insignificant creature, no insignificant person and it puts us on mission with the disciples to communicate that message with the graced stamp of our own care that announces legacies of dignity and value with elegance and beauty.
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Ars Praedicandi: Pentecost, Ed Foley
If the church ever had a “do something” feast, it is this one a feast prodding us to allow God’s energizing Spirit to flow through us, together, as God remakes a world filled with too many deflated lives and punctured dreams.
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Ars Praedicandi: Third Sunday of Easter, Ed Foley
And in this season of baptismal renewal we also commit ourselves to assisting the lost those who feel themselves straying from the path of their own treasure, those who need some life-giving U-turn, no matter how major or modest.
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Ars Praedicandi: Easter Sunday
So do we sing Alleluia? Or phooey? If Christ is risen death vanquished, and resurrection assured why do the innocent still die and so much suffering endure?