I love Gandhi’s description of truth. Truth is a giant tree, a giant oak. And there it stands at the top of Isaiah’s mountain that we are all climbing.
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Ed Foley’s Homily for the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
To suggest that I am unenthusiastic about being in the pulpit this morning after such a shocking and chaotic week is an understatement…
Read moreDonald Trump Teaches Preaching
…I’m simply suggesting that reflecting on his speaking style is of value (as is reflecting on the speaking style of other communicators)
Read moreGreg Kandra on Homilies: Keep it simple, already!
You would think some of these guys had never heard a homily before.
Read moreRitual Words in an Age of Drivel
I wonder how our instinctual distrust of the words spoken by so many people public figures colors the way most people hear the words spoken in and by the Church.
Read moreHow Long Should the Homily Be?
The average homily of Pope Francis has about 961 words.
Read moreLiturgy and Civic Strife
I invite readers to share their experiences of liturgies that did or did not address these large issues of our day.
Read morePreparing for a reflection
I was asked to preach at a Vespers service at the Institute for Church Life here at Notre Dame last week, and they very kindly
Read moreArs Praedicandi: Preaching at the Vigil and on Easter Sunday Morning
In addition to offering quite different scriptures to work with, these two liturgies draw very different sorts of assemblies, and so, at least ideally, call for different sorts of homilies.
Read moreArs Praedicandi: Why Lent?
Today, brothers and sisters, God is inviting us to become his shining lights, the givers and forgivers who have the courage the make friends out of enemies, to feed the poor and receive their riches in return, and to welcome the stranger and the sinner, even asking for their prayers.
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