Category: Ars Praedicandi
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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.
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Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C, 2025 – OSP
ED FOLEY — On this MLK eve I wonder if this civil rights martyr would think that in this age, in this world, in this country, in this city the good wine is gone.
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Ars Praedicandi: Christmas Mass at Dawn, Ed Foley
ED FOLEY — This morning, we dare journeying beyond nostalgia and embrace the challenges and promise of incarnation, adoring the Christ child under the shadow of the cross.
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Ars Praedicandi: Fourth Sunday of Advent, Ed Foley
ED FOLEY — As this Advent season comes to a close and we prepare to remember Jesus’ birth in history, we yet wait for the birth of peace, of safety, of respect, of care for most vulnerable, especially the children born and unborn.
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Ars Praedicandi: Christ the King
ED FOLEY — “Jesus did not simply tell the truth before Pilate–He lived the truth, incarnating that most subversive and illusive form of leadership: the kind with integrity.
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Preaching and the Political, Part 2
BRUCE MORRILL – Neighbor. The term bears an unsettled, even volatile quality in U.S. society this early November.