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A pastor in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Rev. Rona Tyndall, has penned a thoughtful op-ed piece for the local paper about preaching with more than just words: St. Francis is quoted as having once said, “Preach the gospel continuously, using words if necessary.” What gift has the Holy Spirit bestowed upon you, to enable you to be…

I don’t know many priests who really enjoy doing weddings. Many of my brother clerics have adapted a contemporary word to describe the blushing young woman at the center of it all: “Bridezilla.” A lot of these women come to meet the priest (or, increasingly, deacon) armed with swatches, fabrics, binders of ideas and –…

On Friday June 15th, the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I’ll be delivering the homily at an 8th grade graduation. I’ve never preached to a group of 13-year-olds before. But here’s a draft of my homily. I’ve never had a sheep, so I can’t tell you what it’s like to lose one.…

It’s rare to find a Catholic homily bristling with fire and brimstone. But a bishop in Illinois evidently gave one a few weeks back: “In the face of a pagan and utterly corrupt culture, in the face of 35 or 40 years of relentless hostility from a degraded mass media, with the frequent cooperation of…
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