Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!

"A [preacher] who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they are necessarily reflected in his [preaching]." — BXVI

12 October 2013

On the dangers of using secular partisan labels in the Church

Fr. Mark Massa, S.J. was the speaker last night at NDS' annual Msgr. Tekippe Theological Forum . His lecture was titled, "A P...

10 October 2013

Advanced Preaching seminar description

HP 602 Special Topics in Homiletics/Preaching: Preaching to Nihilists “If you live today, you breath in nihilism. In or out of th...

09 October 2013

The modern homiletical crisis

Among the books and articles I'm reading to prepare for the Advanced Preaching Seminar at NDS this spring is an excellent book by Phil...

08 October 2013

"If they are going to follow Christ in today’s environment something more rigorous is needed. . ."

Very enlightening interview with the Eastern Province Dominicans* about their phenomenal growth in vocations. . . One fact I didn'...

My Anxious Monday of Waiting

One week ago today at 5.50am, I was driving down the Carrollton Ave exit off I-10 when I felt a weird sensation from the brake pedal. . .s...

07 October 2013

California's neo-feudalism

And they did it all w/o any GOP "obstructionism"! ". . .the Golden State now suffers the highest level of poverty in the ...

06 October 2013

Seeing with faith

27 th Sunday OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Our Lady of the Rosary, NOLA In a homily delivered in Assisi, Italy on the fe...

05 October 2013

On being set aside. . .

NB. From 2009. Alas, never preached this one. . .I was looking for an example of a meditative homily to show my students. What do you thi...

The Mass: Line by Line

_________________________________ The Mass: Line by Line Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Director of Homiletics, Notre Dame Seminary ...

The moral failure of the Wounded Healer

Just had to share this. . . The Shea (and his Enormous Beard) was recently seized by the Holy Spirit and inspired him to write the follo...

04 October 2013

The Counterfeit Christianity So Many Prefer

From Archbishop Caput. . . words of Wisdom : The words and habits of religion are easy. We can sometimes use them to fool ourselves. ...

Pantheistic Harmony ain't Franciscan Peace

Once again, defying the desperate/vain hopes of CathProgs. . . Pope Francis in Assisi : Franciscan peace is not something sacchar...

01 October 2013

Is he the Pope, or isn't he?

HEAR YE! I'm tired of orthodox Catholics bitchin' about Pope Francis. I'm sure the Devil loves hearing the self-righteous w...

30 September 2013

For Fr. Blake & Mundabor!

Just a quick note to give a shout out to my British readers at Fr. Blake's Blog and those arriving here from Mundabor's Blog . ...

29 September 2013

Woe to the spiritually complacent!

26th Sunday OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Our Lady of the Rosary, NOLA Pursue righteousness. Fight hard for the faith. Lay hold...

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