On this week’s episode of “Preach,” Bishop Stowe shares how he connects the image of the Good Shepherd from the Gospels to the climate crisis.
Easter
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Resurrection is not unreasonable. It is nonsensical.
A homily for the Third Sunday of Easter, by Father Terrance Klein
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To be a good preacher, pray more and read widely
Good preaching requires mastery of rhetoric, particularly the tools of repetition and organization, says John Baldovin, S.J. But also, he adds with hyperbolic emphasis, “you have to read, read, read, read, read and pray, pray, pray, pray, pray.”
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In sacraments, Christ chooses to be vulnerable.
A Homily for the Second Sunday of Easter, Sunday of Divine Mercy, by Father Terrance Klein
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Christianity is a religion of the body. The resurrection makes that clear.
A meditation for Easter
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Striking a chord: The debate on singing in the homily
“The idea of a preacher who sings as a part of their homily is part of many African American cultural traditions,” explains Kim Harris. “The songs carry so many of our stories, hopes, and beliefs, and what we’re thinking about and believing and preaching about.”
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Pope Francis, in Easter message, calls for ceasefire in Gaza and prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine
The pope called for specific, concrete, immediate steps that political leaders could take to end the wars and bring peace to the Holy Land and to Ukraine.
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Pope Francis at vigil: Easter marks the ‘rebirth of hope amid the ruins of failure’
“Let us lift our eyes to him and ask that the power of his resurrection may roll away the heavy stones that weigh down our souls,” the pope said in his homily on March 30.
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What Easter means in the Holy Land this year, in the middle of war
Easter will not be postponed this year. It will not wait until the war is over. It is precisely now, in our darkest hour, that resurrection finds us.
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Remembering Joanna, the forgotten witness to Christ’s resurrection
History has ignored Joanna, as it has most of the other women who followed Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem and provided for him and the Twelve “from their resources” (Lk 8:2-3).