My sermon preparation this past week
Took an abrupt turn on Friday afternoon
When the first news of the terrorist attacks in Paris
Began cascading across western media.
Tag: Fr. Edward Foley Capuchin
Remembering the Dead in November: A Homily for All Souls Day
Unfortunately, unlike the Son of God, we cannot restore the dead to life. But we can create a new kind of life requiring a bold new faith, a living memory that holds the beloved close in God.
Read moreIn Case You Missed It: The Homily in the Context of Evangelii Gaudium
The specific request for this contribution to the Pray Tell blog is to examine what Francis says about liturgical preaching in Evangelii Gaudium.
Read moreHomily for the Third Sunday of Advent (C)
by Fr. Edward Foley, Capuchin
“In these dark days, in the wake of such horrific violence, I fear that preaching without some evelation of my shock – my repugnance, my broken-heartedness in view of these vile events, would be a sputtering of unusually empty words.”
America on the new translation
“Can we talk about a new edition of the Missal, not someday, but soon? (A costly question, for sure, but something tells me that many a priest would gladly help foot the bill.) Can we keep talking, not letting weariness with the whole business or indifference or fear of reprisals prevent us from talking and listening to each other?” – Fr. Michael Ryan
Read moreEd Foley’s Homily for the First Sunday of Advent
“The quality of this reform will not be judged by the beauty of our speech, the rhythm of our cursus, the distinctiveness of our rhetoric, or the sacrality of our prayers, but by the justice and mercy this liturgy of the church calls forth from us in the liturgy of the world.” – Fr. Edward Foley
Read moreMarketing or Mystagogy: Reception of the New Roman Missal and Reverse Catechesis
“Catechesis is not simply the imparting of information, but the engagement of the other in the formative process. When a faith community participates in such full, conscious, and active catechesis the echoes surely are traces of the sensus fidelium with which God’s Spirit has gifted the church. May the liturgical catechesis ahead, in full mystagogical mode, stir such an echo that resounds to the good of the whole church and to the ongoing reform of the liturgy.” – Ed Foley
Read moreReligion and Ethics Newsweekly on the New Missal
” I haven’t met a priest yet who feels that this is a good thing, that this is an improvement in the liturgy…From what I’ve seen they’re like sawdust in the mouth. They’re difficult to say.”
— Fr. Larry Janowski, Chicago
Implementation of the new Roman missal
by Fr. Edward Foley, Capuchin
at the January 6, 2011 meeting of the Catholic Academy for Liturgy.
Our challenges: inculturation, sensus fidelium, collegiality, hospitality and the new evangalization, ecumenism, liturgical theology, amplified hybridization of the Roman rite.