Category: Homiletics
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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). Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14 Psalms 128 Colossians 3:12-17 Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23 Be available to be someone’s chosen family. WHAT IS THE MOST INTIMATE thing you can do…
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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) Habakkuk 1:2-3 2:2-4 Psalm 95 II Timothy 1:6-8,…
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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,…
