The content of our new life is to be thankful and to share the good news with the world that he is risen
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Category: Homiletics
Ars Praedicandi: Interrupting Empire
The story of Christmas interrupts the story of empire.
Read moreArs Praedicandi: Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council
The Lord whom we glorify in song at each Liturgy is the same Lord who never ceases to pray that those whom he has chosen will be one, as he and the Father are one.
Read moreLiturgy Lines: The Voice and the Ear
Communicating the word is a two way process which requires attentive listeners for it to be effective.
Read moreOrdinations, Culture, and Following Christ
The ideal image of clergy as those who draw others in and then get out of the way, pointing to the living God, not themselves… Our North American culture is so pathologically about a reality that is only ‘me’, particularly the ‘me’ who consumes, controls, and manages, that I experienced a moment of hopelessness that any of this made sense in 2017.
Read moreWhat is the Church? A reflection on the readings for Friday during the Easter Octave
“What is the Church?”
Simon Peter said to the other disciples, “I am going fishing.”
Simon Peter, the passionate. “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!”
Simon Peter, the spokesman. “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.”
Simon Peter, the failure….
Read moreArs Praedicandi: The Untamed God of Easter
Preparing a homily: “The guards were shaken with fear…and became like dead men.”
Read moreArs Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A
That fact that such a quick fix approach
is rampant among preachers and bloggers.
Is evident to me in the number of them
who suggested preaching on the text “Amazing Grace”
with its “once I was lost, but now I’m found, was blind but now I see.”
Is it really that simple?
And if not,
what is the alternative to quick fix Sunday?
Ars Praedicandi: Jena Thurow’s Reflection for the Feast of St. Patrick
In the reading of the Confessions that we just heard, Patrick writes about “spending himself” in Ireland – in a land in which, though it and its people were foreign to him, he served as a witness…yet he constantly rejoiced and gloried in the name of the Lord.
Read moreArs Praedicandi: Reflection from the Thursday after Ash Wednesday
“So as this Lent approached, I asked myself: How will I get through this Lent?”
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