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

05 November 2013

Rejoice, endure, persevere

31st Week OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St Dominic Church, NOLA “One by one, they all began to excuse themselves.” That is the ...

R.I.P.

One of our Greats has died. . . Fr. Joseph Konkel, OP, long-time pastor of Holy Rosary Church in Houston, TX. Fr. Joe was also pas...

03 November 2013

Do you seek to know who Jesus is? (updated)

(An edited version of the 2007 homily I posted earlier. . .) UPDATE: I ended up ditching this text and preaching off-the-cuff. Don't...

Where Catholic preaching needs to go. . .?

One of my holiday/summer projects is to reconfigure the homiletics program at NDS. In my hubris, I've concluded that the problem wi...

02 November 2013

Sunday Dinner for the friars

For the first time since. . .what?. . .2008. . .I'm cooking Sunday dinner for the friars! We're having: Chicken Provence (bak...

01 November 2013

Nuncio Visits NDS!

A visit from the Papal Nuncio! Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Papal Nuncio to the U.S. celebrated Mass at Notre Dame Seminary on T...

Bound to Happen

Well, there's a First Time for Everything, I suppose. . . Seminarian Brad Doyle goes to a Halloween party dressed up as. . .Me. (s...

31 October 2013

3,000 a year!

These numbers are a bit unsettling! The secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic ...

29 October 2013

This is not the pope you are looking for. . .

Wait. I thought Pope "A New Wind is Blowing" Francis was going to take us back to the Rainbow and Felt Butterfly days of 1973....

27 October 2013

Made Just By God Alone

30 th Sunday OT Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Our Lady of the Rosary, NOLA Sirach assures us that the “Lord is a God of just...

26 October 2013

Are We Fools?

NB. A little Vintage Fr. Philip ca. 2008 for your Sunday. . . 30th Sunday OT: Ex 22.20-26; 1 Thes 1.5-10; Matt 22.34-40 Fr. Philip Neri ...

Miscellany

Blogging's been light this week, I know. Several seminary-related duties converged simultaneously this week: individual preaching ...

23 October 2013

Catholic Theological Society confesses leftist bias

NB. I am pleasantly surprised (really surprised!) to see this report. The Catholic Theological Society of America is publicly confessing t...

22 October 2013

Living a Life of Departure

Blessed John Paul II Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Notre Dame Seminary, NOLA Two weeks before petitions for solemn vows wer...

21 October 2013

Catholic Priesthood ca. 1964 (ft. Dominicans!)

One of my preaching students at NDS brought this vid to my attention. . . 1964! Ah, a good year. . . _____________________ Follow...

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