Category: Ars Praedicandi
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Ars Praedicandi: 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time
ED FOLEY — In the waning years of the so called “golden age of television” a show premiered in 1956 that I wager would never make it past the tv censors today or survive the litmus test of today’s second reading: It was entitled “Do you trust your wife?”
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Ars Praedicandi: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
ED FOLEY — For the next 5 weeks we are diverted into the 6th chapter of John notable for, among other things, its 18 references to bread. But, it starts with a typical Jesus miracle in the face of an unending dilemma: there never seems to be enough bread.
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Ars Praedicandi: Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
ED FOLEY — Our baptismal commission is not simply to rebuke the turbulence that affects our family and friends and community but to recognize that there are other boats in this storm and to stand up for stillness and peace for all.
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Ars Praedicandi: Marriage, Sacrament of Trinitarian Unity
KIMBERLY HOPE BELCHER — God’s unity does not only overcome differences, but makes them possible.
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Ars Praedicandi: Trinity Sunday
ED FOLEY — My poetic muse for this morning is not Crosby Stills Nash and Young, nor Hegel, Kant or some other philosopher, but instead the theory of the Big Bang.
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Ars Praedicandi: Fifth Sunday of Easter
ED FOLEY — “I did not hang around the Riesling vineyard to observe the pruning done in early spring, but my Dummkopf corrector turned mentor explained the importance of pruning for the health of a vineyard.”
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Ars Praedicandi: Easter Sunday, Ed Foley
ED FOLEY — “Today’s Eucharist is not an exercise in neural- but in Jesus-feedback that summons us to embrace the ‘Jesus virus’ to recalibrate us for practicing resurrection in a world too often hell-bent on crucifixion.”
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Ars Praedicandi: 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
ED FOLEY — I also never learned how to perform an exorcism. Maybe that’s because just when I would have been eligible to receive the order of exorcist – yep, there was one – Pope Paul VI eliminated it in 1972.
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Ars Praedicandi: 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
Augustine wisely notes that Hope has two beautiful daughters Their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are And Courage to see that they do not remain that way.