What are the criteria of effective preaching? How does a preacher improve? Pierre Hegy analyzes Pray Tell’s 60-Second Sermons and offers some suggestions.
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Category: Homiletics
“We Are Living in Apocalyptic Times”: Imperatori-Lee
Let us “receive a revelation.”
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Who do we trust and why? Reflections on Thomas Sunday (John 19:20–31)
Who do we trust and why? The question seems especially appropriate in this era of claims of “fake news.” However, it is not a new
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The words and Word of God that Create and Renew: A Reflection for the Beginning of Lent
Words carry meaning. They communicate our thoughts and feelings, tell others about who we are and our relationship with them. The can be used to
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Personal Reflections on the Gospel of the First Sunday of Advent, Year A
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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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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