Resources and Support for Effective Preaching: Weekly homilies, reflections, best practices, notices of upcoming workshops and events, a bibliography, and a link to the Catholic lectionary. Coaching, consultation, and homily feedback, as well as weekly homilies are also available upon…
Category: Evangelization
How do Catholics Read the Bible? by Daniel J Harrington, SJ
Do Catholics really read the Bible? If so, how do they read it and is there anything unique about their approach? What role does the Bible play in Catholic life, teaching, and culture? As a leading Scripture scholar who also…
Rites of Justice: The Sacraments and Liturgy as Ethical Imperatives, by Megan McKenna
Megan McKenna explores the connect between walking with God and participating in the rituals of the church. Using stories, reflection, Scripture and Church history, she leads us to a deeper understanding of Catholic sacraments and ritual. Her reflections show how…
Jesus: An Historical Approximation (Kyrios) by Jose Antonio Pagola
In this Spanish best-seller, now available in English for the first time, the Biblical scholar Jose Antonio Pagola reconstructs the historical Jesus with a scholarly exegetical and theological approach. He addresses basic questions about who Jesus was; how he understood…
The Joy of the Gospel – Pope Francis – Paperback
The Joy of the Gospel (Evangelii Gaudium) is the long-awaited teaching of Pope Francis on the proclamation of the Gospel. Pope Francis is calling upon the Church and the world with encouragement to begin a new chapter in evangelization. This…
The Joy of the Gospel – Pope Francis – Hardcover edition
A specially priced, beautifully designed hardcover edition of The Joy of the Gospel with a foreword by Robert Barron and an afterword by James Martin, SJ. Find it. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
Best Practices for Parishes – Home page
Best Practices for Parishes (BPP) is a self-study tool that enables parishes to assess seven dimensions of parish life using best-practice statements drawn from church documents, pastoral experiences, and ministry experts. The assessments become the basis for planning and implementing…
A Weekend With the Holy Trinity
A blog post review of William P Young’s allegory, “The Shack.” Includes a You Tube video discussion of the themes of the book. No spoilers included. Find it here. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
St. Dominic’s Insight and Evangelization Today
St. Dominic’s insight that the Gospel must be taught both with words and through the lives of the ones proclaiming it in the contemporary world with all of its challenges holds as true today as it did some eight hundred…
