Category: Homilies
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Ars Praedicandi: First Sunday of Lent
ED FOLEY, OFM Cap. — Jesus made it clear to the tempter that he didn’t need to fill his stomach by conjuring a pepperoni pizza out of thin air.
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Lent Lectio Divina
JP MISHEFF — Jesus’ time in the desert is the perfect preparation for his ministry — and an ideal model for our own.
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The Preaching Deacon
CHARLES A. BOBERTZ — I overheard one of our parishioners say to his wife, “oh no, a deacon is probably preaching at this Mass.”
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How can I preach as a foreigner?
ARIC SERRANO, SJ — I wanted to know the people I would be preaching to in the Mayan villages. This meant spending time with them and hearing their stories.
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Preaching the Poetry of Scripture
DAVID SCHMITT — Let the psalms preach the Gospel! Take a look (and a listen) at how Psalm 29 draws us into the drama of The Baptism of the Lord.
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Brief Book Review: From Page-to-Page Proclamation
MELINDA A. QUIVIK — Clare Schwantes validates preaching as a dialogue between scripture as the preacher hears it and context as the preacher interprets it.
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Ars Praedicandi: All Is Vanity
SALLY MESSNER — Even the great Gabriel Fauré knew well the wisdom of Ecclesiastes—that he wouldn’t be remembered.
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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.