Category: Homiletics
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Samaritan Sacramentality: 3rd Lenten Sunday, 1st Scrutiny
How to preach in the contemporary Roman Catholic context the complex story of a multiply divorced and remarried woman? How proclaim a word enabling two young men to be a sign of conversion for us all?
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How To Preach
Have a point. Don’t be dull. Use evocative language. Be yourself.
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What is Good Preaching?
“We need better preaching” is a common lament of Christian people of all denominations.
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Ars Praedicandi: St. Oscar Romero, pray for us.
This Sunday’s canonization of Oscar Romero provided a lens through which to view the radical call to discipleship that Jesus issues to the rich man—and to all of us—in today’s Gospel.
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Ars Praedicandi: Preaching Abuse
“We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this. We know some of you have heard some of it before. There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church. But never on this scale. For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away. Now we…
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Beatified Today: Blessed Maria Gargani Sometimes Gave the Sermon
Maria Gargan (1892-1973) was beatified in Naples today, Cardinal Amato presiding. Blessed Maria Gargani was an Italian professed religious who was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order and founder in 1936 of the Sisters Apostles of the Sacred Heart. In the homily, Cardinal Amato said this: In the parish she was a catechist, and sometimes…
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Ars Praedicandi: Quality of Life? Or New Life in the Risen Lord?
The content of our new life is to be thankful and to share the good news with the world that he is risen
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Ars Praedicandi: Interrupting Empire
The story of Christmas interrupts the story of empire.
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Ars Praedicandi: Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council
The Lord whom we glorify in song at each Liturgy is the same Lord who never ceases to pray that those whom he has chosen will be one, as he and the Father are one.