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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Category: Ars Praedicandi
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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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s Homily on the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
I have never watched a Super Bowl game in my life…Sports…often devolves into a blame-game.
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on The Baptism of the Lord
Jesus’ healing, ministry and love is particular, is personal, is passionate about the individual in front of him, the one lost sheep, the one adulterous woman, the one divorced Samaritan
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on the Second Sunday of Advent
Road construction is violent loud, chaotic and expensive. Today’s word, this advent season, announces an even more chaotic construction project one of global, even cosmic proportions…
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on the First Sunday of Advent
…in these days such apocalyptic readings remind us that humanity has upturned God’s created order that in our violence and greed we have allowed the aboriginal chaos to return that in our racism and xenophobia
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on Christ the King
How do we speak truth, especially to power while maintaining the Jesus demeanor and not resorting to rhetorical, or political or even physical violence?
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