Tag: Ars Praedicandi
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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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Ars Praedicandi: Christ the King
ED FOLEY — “Jesus did not simply tell the truth before Pilate–He lived the truth, incarnating that most subversive and illusive form of leadership: the kind with integrity.
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Ars Praedicandi: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
ED FOLEY — Now you might be asking yourself what do animal sensory perceptions and fragmented societies have to do with today’s readings, especially the gospel which is obviously a miracle story about faith … or is it?
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Ars Praedicandi: 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
ED FOLEY — Jesus understood that the stakes were too high to gamble away the hopes of the marginalized and the lives of the innocent.
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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: 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.”