Advice to Homilists: Please Get to the Point in Six or Eight Minutes
Advice to Homilists: Please Get to the Point in Six or Eight Minutes New Orleans For eight days at Loyola University New Orleans, three priests and five deacons absorbed the cool mathematics and internal …More
Advice to Homilists: Please Get to the Point in Six or Eight Minutes
New Orleans
For eight days at Loyola University New Orleans, three priests and five deacons absorbed the cool mathematics and internal symmetry of good preaching.
"The idea is not so much 'brevity' as it is not taking longer than you need," said Wilhelm, a doctoral student with a focus on preaching at the Aquinas Institute of Theology.
If priests and deacons do not take seriously their vocational call and the preparation needed to preach the Gospel, Father Shelly said, the resulting communication will be flat and possibly even an obstacle to worship.
"Archbishop Fulton Sheen said, 'If you want me to speak for an hour, I'm ready. If you want me to speak for 10 minutes, I'll need a week,'" Father Shelly said. "This is a very deliberate process. We encourage people to focus in on one idea and also to realize that this is not the only time in the lives of these people that they will hear this text preached on. The worst …More
New Orleans
For eight days at Loyola University New Orleans, three priests and five deacons absorbed the cool mathematics and internal symmetry of good preaching.
"The idea is not so much 'brevity' as it is not taking longer than you need," said Wilhelm, a doctoral student with a focus on preaching at the Aquinas Institute of Theology.
If priests and deacons do not take seriously their vocational call and the preparation needed to preach the Gospel, Father Shelly said, the resulting communication will be flat and possibly even an obstacle to worship.
"Archbishop Fulton Sheen said, 'If you want me to speak for an hour, I'm ready. If you want me to speak for 10 minutes, I'll need a week,'" Father Shelly said. "This is a very deliberate process. We encourage people to focus in on one idea and also to realize that this is not the only time in the lives of these people that they will hear this text preached on. The worst …More
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Quite! However, are Seminaries teaching a sound classical education? Do seminarians learn rhetoric and art of the oration? Chaps these days do not even know how to speak, how to conduct a fruitful conversation. How on earth would they be able to preach?
Yet again the cause of bad preaching is not the preacher, tis his formation and his lack of knowledge and spiritual prowess in 'what to do', for …More
Quite! However, are Seminaries teaching a sound classical education? Do seminarians learn rhetoric and art of the oration? Chaps these days do not even know how to speak, how to conduct a fruitful conversation. How on earth would they be able to preach?
Yet again the cause of bad preaching is not the preacher, tis his formation and his lack of knowledge and spiritual prowess in 'what to do', for whom 'to do it', and why.
Yet again the cause of bad preaching is not the preacher, tis his formation and his lack of knowledge and spiritual prowess in 'what to do', for whom 'to do it', and why.
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These former Catholics "disagree" with the Church because they don't comprehend. They don't comprehend because they are not taught. They are not taught because the teachers (read: preachers) don't teach/preach effectively.
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When asked to explain in their own words the main reason for leaving Catholicism, upwards of four-in-ten former Catholics (48…More
These former Catholics "disagree" with the Church because they don't comprehend. They don't comprehend because they are not taught. They are not taught because the teachers (read: preachers) don't teach/preach effectively.
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When asked to explain in their own words the main reason for leaving Catholicism, upwards of four-in-ten former Catholics (48% of those who are now unaffiliated and 41% of those who are now Protestant) cite a disagreement with the Catholic Church's religious or moral beliefs. Among former Catholics who have become Protestant, nearly one-in-five (18%) say their departure was due specifically to discomfort with the Catholic Church's teachings about the Bible. This view is particularly common among former Catholics who now belong to evangelical Protestant denominations (24%). One-fifth (21%) of those who are unaffiliated volunteered specifically that they do not believe in the Catholic religion (or any religion) and an additional 4% indicated a lack of belief in God altogether
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When asked to explain in their own words the main reason for leaving Catholicism, upwards of four-in-ten former Catholics (48% of those who are now unaffiliated and 41% of those who are now Protestant) cite a disagreement with the Catholic Church's religious or moral beliefs. Among former Catholics who have become Protestant, nearly one-in-five (18%) say their departure was due specifically to discomfort with the Catholic Church's teachings about the Bible. This view is particularly common among former Catholics who now belong to evangelical Protestant denominations (24%). One-fifth (21%) of those who are unaffiliated volunteered specifically that they do not believe in the Catholic religion (or any religion) and an additional 4% indicated a lack of belief in God altogether
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