24 August 2013

That gate ain't gettin' any wider. . .

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NB. Mass with the seminary community tomorrow morning, so here's a Vintage Fr. Philip Homily from 2007. The podcast link still works, ...
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23 August 2013

New class

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Great!   Got word this morning that I'll be teaching a class on the Catechism of the Catholic Church for the pre-theologians at NDS...
22 August 2013

Coffee Cup Browsing (Insomnia Edition)

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More union hand-wringing over ObamaCare .  Shudda thought of that back in '09, guys!  Welfare a better deal than a job. GOP Guv, Ch...
21 August 2013

St Louis Cathedral Mass/Mendicancy

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Celebrated Mass this morning at St Louis Cathedral with retired New Orleans archbishop Alfred Hughes . The new seminarians -- all 27 ...
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"Devote oneself to [preaching] with love"

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I'm collecting selections from ecclesial documents on preaching for the homiletics students.  Here's one from Pope Paul VI...
20 August 2013

Thanks!

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My Dominican Mendicant Thanks to the kind soul who sent me The End of Apologetics . I will have a chance to make use of this book very, ...
18 August 2013

Have you come to help our Lord set fire to the world?

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20th Sunday in OT Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP  Our Lady of the Rosary, NOLA  Surrounded as we are by so great a cloud of witnesses, I mus...
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Homily Podcasts 2006-2008

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A faithful HA reader asked about older podcasts of my homilies. . . Where did they go?   Well, they didn't float off into the ether...
17 August 2013

Dominicans: engines of ecclesial renewal!

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Ran across a good article on the Order of Preachers as an engine of renewal in the Church: [. . .] Today the institutional effort...
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16 August 2013

Gnostic Gibberish from the LCWR

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Assuming the following quotes are accurate . . .this is why the LCWR is currently being "monitored" by the CDF: “If we are to ...
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15 August 2013

How contraception destroyed a parochial school

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A pastor laments the decline of his parish and the demolition of the parochial school. He points to the contraceptive mentality of most Ca...
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14 August 2013

Crowdsourcing: communication skills for priests

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I'm working on the syllabus for my "Proclaiming the Word" course. Basically, the class is all about public speaking, oral co...
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13 August 2013

“This is enough, O Lord! Take my life. . .”

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NB.  here's another one on suffering from 2009.  This one got 27 comments when I first posted it.  Apparently, I struck a nerve! 19...
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Suffering and suffering well

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By request. . .a repost on suffering from 2008: Recently, I conducted a one-day retreat for the local lay Dominican chapter. I was a...
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Liberal Christianity is a clear failure. . .

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A report on an Austrian priest's Dissident Tour of the U.S . An excerpt from the report: Nothing in Schuller’s talk indicated ...