Ambrose of Milan's Method of Mystagogical Preaching

Craig A. Satterlee

Mystagogy, or sustained reflection on baptism and the Eucharist, is the method of postbaptismal catechesis used in the R.C.I.A. In Ambrose of Milan's Method of Mystagogical Preaching, Craig Satterlee provides a method of mystagogical preaching for to See More >>

An Introduction to the Homily

Robert P. Waznak, SS

Robert Waznak, a preacher and for the past twenty-five years a popular teacher of preachers, believes that before we consider how to preach a homily we need to explore what the homily is. That is why An Introduction to the Homily is not just another See More >>

Homilías sobre los evangelios de domingos Ciclo B

Juan I. Alfaro

Homilías sobre los evangelios de domingos: Ciclo A es el primero de tres volúmenes de pistas para las homilías escrito en español para Ciclos A, B y C. Estas pistas para homilías son concebidas para la diversa comun See More >>

Lay Preaching

State of the Question

Patricia A. Parachini, SNJM

Lay preaching—preaching rendered by a baptized Christian who has not been ordained a deacon, priest, or bishop—has been a growing issue of concern since the mid-1980s. Along with this concern, a new emphasis on the important role of the lai See More >>

Making Good Preaching Better

A Step-by-Step Guide to Scripture-Based, People-Centered Preaching

Alvin C. Rueter

Making Good Preaching Better explores not the preaching of ethics but the ethics of preaching. Using sound theology and practical insights, this book shows that by putting themselves in the place of the people in the pews, preachers can improve their See More >>

The Practical Preacher

Handy Hints for Hesitant Homilists

Paul Edwards, SJ

Taking the premise that a person can learn to be a competent preacher, Father Edwards offers a step-by-step guide to the technical and emotional factors of preaching. He begins with the preparation of material, focusing on the event, and physical asp See More >>

Preacher as Risk Taker

Richard Hart, OFM Cap

Many individuals take risks in life as mountain climbers, magicians, farmers, and gamblers. But do we ever include preachers in that category? Preachers have opportunities to be some of the greatest risk takers. In Preacher as Risk Taker, Richard Har See More >>

Preaching in the Sunday Assembly

A Pastoral Commentary on Fulfilled in Your Hearing

Edited by James A. Wallace, CSsR

What should preachers aim for in Sunday preaching? In 1982, the USCCB document Fulfilled in Your Hearing: The Homily in the Sunday Assembly answered this question. Here, in a pastoral commentary on Fulfilled in Your Hearing, several Catholic scholars See More >>

Preaching in the Sunday Assembly

A Pastoral Commentary on Fulfilled in Your Hearing

Edited by James A. Wallace, CSsR

What should preachers aim for in Sunday preaching? In 1982, the USCCB document Fulfilled in Your Hearing: The Homily in the Sunday Assembly answered this question. Here, in a pastoral commentary on Fulfilled in Your Hearing, several Catholic scholars See More >>

Preaching Romans

Proclaiming God's Saving Grace

Frank J. Matera

Although Paul's letter to the Romans is the most theologically charged writing of the New Testament, it is rarely preached from Catholic pulpits. Perhaps some of the Pauline themes?redemption and sanctification, justification and reconciliation, resu See More >>

Preaching to a Multi-Generational Assembly

Preaching to a Multi-generational Assembly

Andrew Carl Wisdom, OP

With the acceleration of technological change, new and distinct generations are created faster than before. Generational boundaries become more fluid. Multiple age groups have different generational mindsets, distinct worldviews, and varied spiritual See More >>

Preaching to the Hungers of the Heart

The Homily on the Feasts and Within the Rites

James A. Wallace, CSsR

Preaching to the Hungers of the Heart is about words, most particularly it is a book about the Word, the living Word of God, found in the Scriptures, and embodied once and for all in the person of Jesus, the Word made flesh. In Preaching to the Hunge See More >>

Realizations

Newman's Own Selection of His Sermons

Edited with an Introduction by Vincent Ferrer Blehl, SJ; Foreword by Muriel Spark

What is the secret of John Henry Newman's enduring appeal? It perhaps lies in the freshness, persuasiveness, and brilliance of his descriptions of Christianity. Newman, who is to be beatified by Pope Benedict XVI later this year, often uses the word See More >>

Richer Fare

Reflections on the Sunday Readings, Cycles A, B, C

Gail Ramshaw, Editor

These reflections on the Lectionary's gospels have been gleaned from a host of Church sources—from early mystagogical catecheses to current Christian sermons and meditations. Like a feast, Richer Fare strives to satisfy the various tastes by nou See More >>

Selected Works of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin: Volume 1

Homilies and Teaching Documents

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin; Alphonse P. Spilly, CPPS, Editor; Foreword by Roger Cardinal Mahony

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin is widely regarded as having had more impact on the Catholic Church in the United States than any other bishop this century. By the time of his death in 1996 he had attracted the respect and affection of millions around the See More >>