Category: Homilies
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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.
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Easter Sunday, 2025
ED FOLEY — Yet no matter how many empty tombs confront us we baptized are assured that day that none of us are permanently stalled in any cemetery.
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Lent, Gluttony, and Lust
NICHOLAS DENYSENKO — The fulfillment put into us, that we seek, comes only from God and cannot be found in the world.
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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!