Category: Ars Praedicandi
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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.
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Ars Praedicandi: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
ED FOLEY — Now you might be asking yourself what do animal sensory perceptions and fragmented societies have to do with today’s readings, especially the gospel which is obviously a miracle story about faith … or is it?
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Preaching and the Political, Part 1
BRUCE MORRILL — Preaching. Political. Each term is fraught with a range of meanings (positive and negative), a range of emotions—and not surprisingly so.
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Ars Praedicandi: 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
ED FOLEY — Jesus understood that the stakes were too high to gamble away the hopes of the marginalized and the lives of the innocent.