Category: Homilies
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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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Co-Responsibility for Proclaiming the Gospel: Part II
MEGAN EFFRON — Being equipped to draw connections between scripture and daily life is an essential part of being an agent of evangelization.
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Co-Responsibility for Proclaiming the Gospel: Part I
MEGAN EFFRON — Too often, lay people are described solely as evangelists who witness to Christ by living in the world. This is a worthy goal, but only part of our call. Lay people can—and should—also use their words to preach the gospel!
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Sunday of the Word of God Lecture: The Word is Hope
EDITOR — Saint John’s University to host lecture honoring the Sunday of the Word of God.
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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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Australian Plenary Council requests new translation of the Roman Missal
Several motions concerning liturgy were passed.
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Let Us Give Thanks to the Lord…
What are we doing when we gather together as the Body of Christ? And, more importantly, why? From the earliest accounts of our Eucharistic celebration, we know that Christians gathered on the Lord’s Day to read “the memoirs of the Apostles or the prophets” (which, in the received tradition of the Orthodox Church, is the…
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s Homily for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
Mary had the gift of saying yes And so the gift of incarnation lives in the world.
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60-Second Sermon: 23rd Sunday in OT
Kristen Drahos reflects on the Gospel for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (September 8, 2019). Dr. Kristen Drahos is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at Carthage College. She received her PhD in Systematic Theology from the University of Notre Dame, and her work explores various cruciform dimensions of Catholic thought and continental philosophy.