Like the people “before the flood” in Jesus’ discourse, something existentially shattering broke into my well-ordered world with both terror and hope.
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Category: Homiletics
Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s Homily for September 29 (26C)
It is easy to assume today’s readings are a condemnation of the rich.
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Troubling the Lex Vivendi: The Church at Prayer Amidst an Imperiled Home
What is there about Sunday Mass participants that makes them least in accord with teachings on the ecology of Popes John Paul, Benedict, and Francis?
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Does Preaching Make Any Difference Whatsoever?
If preaching doesn’t make a difference in the lives of listeners, it’s a waste of time.
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Reflections on the Parable of the Good Samaritan for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
What if instead of understanding ourselves in the person of the Samaritan, we are the ones in the ditch?
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Samaritan Sacramentality: 3rd Lenten Sunday, 1st Scrutiny
How to preach in the contemporary Roman Catholic context the complex story of a multiply divorced and remarried woman? How proclaim a word enabling two young men to be a sign of conversion for us all?
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How To Preach
Have a point. Don’t be dull. Use evocative language. Be yourself.
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What is Good Preaching?
“We need better preaching” is a common lament of Christian people of all denominations.
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Ars Praedicandi: St. Oscar Romero, pray for us.
This Sunday’s canonization of Oscar Romero provided a lens through which to view the radical call to discipleship that Jesus issues to the rich man—and to all of us—in today’s Gospel.
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Ars Praedicandi: Preaching Abuse
“We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this. We know some of you have heard some of it before. There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church. But never on this scale. For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away. Now we know the truth: it happened everywhere.”
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