Category: Obsculta Preaching Series
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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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Real Preaching Part III: Facilitating Transformation
WAYNE A. CAVALIER — Effective preachers respect the intelligence, maturity, and saintliness of the listeners.
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Real Preaching Part II: Evoking Incongruence
WAYNE A. CAVALIER — For each unloving act a worshipper may have notched up, the liturgy of the Word repeatedly throws out the command “to love.”
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Real Preaching Part I: Liturgy is Transformative
WAYNE A. CAVALIER — Liturgy, Congar insists, is not mere ritual for ritual’s sake.
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Co-Responsibility for Proclaiming the Gospel: Part III
MEGAN EFFRON — I would like to highlight the pastoral need for commissioning a more diverse pool of preachers to give the homily at our eucharistic liturgies and to put a human face on a contentious issue.
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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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Preaching as Real Encounter: Part III
LUCAS CHRISTENSEN — For these preachers, the liturgical celebration with its ritual of anamnesis has, in fact, made them participants in the vision of Christ’s divine light. Our ritual even today, with its art, movement, and hymnody brings us into the same real participation.
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Preaching as Aural Iconography: Part II
LUCAS CHRISTENSEN — Preachers in the East Roman world (so-called “Byzantines,” a term they never used of themselves) inherited a rhetorical practice rooted in the classical tradition. Among the engaging techniques developed in this tradition was ekphrasis.