Mass on this day is a welcome retreat from all the noise, and a gift.
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Category: Ars Praedicandi
The Eucharist Commits Us to the Poor
All these hungry people, and the disciples don’t think they’ve got the wherewithal to help. But, guess what? They have.
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s on the Sixth Sunday of Easter
[Warning: Game of Thrones Season 8 Finale Spoilers!] It might seem futile, even perilous in the current political climate actually to step up … to speak out…But chaos theory reminds us that even the disruption of a single butterfly can trigger a tornado in Texas, a revolution in respect, the foregrounding of love…
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s on the Fifth Sunday of Easter
Jesus was a door opener, a wall obstructer, a barrier resister…and those of us baptized into his image are commissioned to do the same.
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s on the Second Sunday of Easter
On this feast of Thomas so called doubter, transfigured as Thomas the empathetic, Thomas the wound toucher, Thomas the Spirit dweller, we recommit to God’s mission in the crucified to touch the broken body with reverence and love
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Ars Praedicandi: Third Sunday of Lent (Orthodox) March 31st
For many of us, we’re carrying the cross when we’re dealing with struggles, every day, that never really go away.
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s Homily on the Second Sunday in Lent
For in truth, in this place, at this moment, Christianity itself can be imaged as a symbol of why our divine Ancestor Jesus became human at all…
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s Homily on the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In these times of such eye-beam blindness and social myopia of Civic dismay and maybe even ecclesial despair we await again the outpouring of God’s saving Spirit at this Eucharist
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Ars Praedicandi: The Two Prodigal Sons and Forgiveness
There are two prodigal sons in this parable. One has alienated himself from his father by trying to satisfy his passions. The other distanced himself from his father and his brother by indulging in anger and envy.
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s Homily on the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
…But if you think that crowd of award winners was criticized how much more the crowd that Jesus chose as his base: the lepers, prostitutes, tax collectors, and Samaritans. His valentines, his palentines, even more so, his “egalentines” – equal in dignity.
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