Preaching IN and TO a Post-Modern World
Indeed, preaching must be improved. However, before preaching can be improved, one must first be aware of the cultural context in which one lives today. Jesus asked by chief priests by what authority...
View ArticleThe Need for Liturgy Within Parish Catechetical Programs
Some pastors have experienced people who register in the parish, and go to Mass for a short period of time, but leave once they get what they want: their wedding at their dream church, parish...
View ArticleEschatology and Eucharistic Adoration
…certain “liturgists” and “theologians” … stamp (Eucharistic Adoration) as mere “private devotion.” In fact, in its complete form, from exposition to benediction, it is a liturgical event. …it has a...
View Article“Nuclear fission in the…heart of being”: The Eucharist as the Sacrament of...
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s use of the image of nuclear fission—…in a positive sense, in order to explain the Eucharistic mystery—is contemporary and striking, and apt to convey the quiet, but...
View ArticlePreaching the Homily and the New Evangelization
Preaching in all its forms is indispensable to the Church’s mission given to her by Jesus Christ: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the...
View ArticleThe Eucharist as Source and Summit of Evangelization in the Recent Magisterium
“Yes, if only I am lifted up from the earth, I will attract all men to myself.”1 In recent decades, the Church’s Magisterium has repeatedly taught that the Eucharist plays a central role in the mission...
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