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Catholic Preaching

During my diaconal ordination, Cardinal Edmund Szoka gave me the following instruction from the Ordination Rite as together we gripped the Book of the Gospels: "Receive the Gospel of Christ, whose herald you now are. Believe what you read. Teach what you believe. Practice what you teach." Those words have never lost their resonance. Since that day -- October 8, 1998 -- I have tried to live up to that commission to be a "herald of the Gospel," by striving to teach what the Church believes, to practice what I preach to others, and to spread with joy and enthusiasm the truth Christ has entrusted to His church -- in and out of season, in and out of the pulpit. This podcast is a chronicle of those attempts.

info_outline 7.9.25 Homily for Wednesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I 07/10/2025
info_outline 7.8.25 Homily on Tuesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, I 07/09/2025
info_outline 7.7.25 Homily for Mass of the Holy Spirit for the Tertio Millennio Seminar in Krakow 07/08/2025
info_outline 7.6.25 Homily for the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C 07/06/2025
info_outline 6.26.29 Homily on the Solemnity of SS. Peter and Paul 06/29/2025
info_outline 6.26.25 Christian Mission and Integral Human Development at Acton University 06/26/2025
info_outline 6.26.25 Homily on St. Josemaria Escriva and the Call to Holiness 06/26/2025
info_outline 6.25.25 Entrepreneurial Vocation at Acton University 2025 06/25/2025
info_outline 6.22.25 Corpus Christi Homily (C) at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs in Auriesville, NY 06/22/2025
info_outline 6.21.25 The North American Martyrs and Christian Heroism, on the Centenary of their Beatification 06/21/2025
info_outline 6.11.25 Missionary Identity and Spirituality of the Priest, Part II 06/12/2025
info_outline 6.11.25 Missionary Identity and Spirituality of the Priest, Part I 06/12/2025
info_outline 6.5.25 Homily for Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter 06/06/2025
info_outline 5.29.25 Homily for Ascension to Seminarians at the Altar of the Tomb in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican 05/30/2025
info_outline 4.18.25 Conclusion of the Seven Last Words 04/18/2025
info_outline 4.18.25 Seventh Word from the Cross, Father, Into Your Hands, I Commend My Spirit 04/18/2025
info_outline 4.18.25 Sixth Word from the Cross, It is Finished! 04/18/2025
info_outline 4.18.25 Fifth Word from the Cross, I Thirst 04/18/2025
info_outline 4.18.25 Fourth Word from the Cross, My God, My God, Why Have You Abandoned Me? 04/18/2025
info_outline 4.18.25 Third Word from the Cross, Mother, Behold Your Son 04/18/2025
info_outline 4.18.25 Second Word from the Cross, Truly I Tell You Today, You Will Be With Me in Paradise 04/18/2025
info_outline 4.18.25 First Word from the Cross, Father Forgive Them For They Know Not What They Do 04/18/2025
info_outline 4.18.25 Introduction to Seven Last Words 04/18/2025
info_outline 4.9.25 Homily for Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent, Seminary of Xuan Loc, Vietnam 04/08/2025
info_outline 4.3.25 Homily for Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent 04/03/2025
info_outline 4.2.25 Giving Reason for the Hope Within Us, Keynote for the Southeast Regional Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies 04/03/2025
info_outline 3.31.25 Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen and the Preaching of the Missions 03/31/2025
info_outline 3.31.25 Homily for Monday of the 4th Week of Lent, Missionaries of Mercy as Pilgrims of Hope 03/31/2025
info_outline 3.25.25 Homily for the Annunciation 03/25/2025
info_outline 3.24.25 TPMS Midwest Regional Keynote on the Jubilee of Hope and the Missions of the Church 03/25/2025
 
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