Category: homiletics
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Sunday Reflection
Our two priests were away and the community had a Typica Service today. I was blessed to give the reflection at this service. Troparion – Tone 1When the stone had been sealed by the Jews, while the soldiers were guarding Thy most pure body, Thou didst rise on the third day, O Savior, granting life…
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Be the Mikveh
And he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. – Matthew 8:3He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.’ – John 7:38Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will…
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The Holy Family
The assignment was a 7 minute homily on a specific feast in the Advent/Christmas cycle. My assigned day is Holy Family Sunday (which is actually a Friday this year). Be available to be someone’s chosen family. WHAT IS THE MOST INTIMATE thing you can do with someone in public? Any guesses? It’s eating together. Sharing…
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Jesus does go on, doesn’t he?
This is an assignment for my Homiletics class. Randomly picks out of a hat, as it were, it’s a coincidence that these are the readings for last Sunday. Yes, these homily assignments are extremely on-brand for me. The Readings for the 27th Sunday, Tempus per Annum (C2) Is he grateful to that servant because he…
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Whose Wedding?
The assignment was a five-minute homily on the stated passage. We began with the exegetical work in an earlier post. Scripture: John 2:1-11 Today, Jesus, the Bridegroom of the Church, is calling us to our wedding feast. A CHALLENGE has come to me three times: in two podcasts and a book. The podcasts are Every…
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Showing your work
For the first assignment in homiletics we were to read the book Elements of Homiletic: A Method for Preparing to Preach by Otis C. Edwards. Then we were to put the method in play using a randomly assigned Gospel pericope. My passage was the Wedding At Cana, St John 2:1-11. The method, by the way,…
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