Tag: Obsculta Preaching Series
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Lent Lectio Divina
EMMA JOHNSON — We want the living water! Join us as we pray with this Sunday’s Gospel reading featuring Jesus’ encounter with the woman at the well.
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60-Second Sermon
PASTOR STEVE GREENE — “God calls us to walk with Him in the wilderness to be purged and pruned of ourselves. To be transformed.”
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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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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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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.
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Preaching as Liturgical Art: Part I
LUCAS CHRISTENSEN — The point of the image is encounter. This sacred art is meant not merely to instruct the faithful (pace Gregory the Great), but it facilitates communion. This is true of all the liturgical arts—they are all forming an encompassing, diachronic and synchronic image of heavenly worship.