The Preaching Life

Welcome to the preachinglife!
This blog is being launched on August 8th 2010, the Feast of St Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers. The reason for this blog is to provide a place where preachers can share thoughts and ideas for their preaching life. Every Sunday thousands of homilies and sermons are shared with the people of God. Every preacher has thoughts, insights and inspirations that they have used in their vocation to preach. This blog will help preachers to share them. A thought may seem obvious to me, but may have never occurred to another - a sharing of ideas can help to develop our own preaching and bring life into this key part of the ministry.

So how does it work:

1. Each week the citations for the Sunday lectionary readings will be posted on the blog.  Some feast days from the calendar will also be included. I use the New Jerusalem Bible text, so you might want to look at your own lectionary as well.

2. A short 'thought' will be posted. Not a full homily, as that would be too easy, and you might not preach the way I do.

3. You are welcome to post your own thoughts in the comment box, but these may be screened. Not that I would like to prevent debate, I just don't want to be responsible for odd things coming from pulpits!

4. This blog is for sharing thoughts and insights into the Word that will help preachers in their preparation  for the Sunday liturgical homily. But if you would like to share ideas for other celebrations, please do.

5. We are a community of preachers! As a community we should share with each other the joy and burden of preaching Christ who is all and is in all.


So here we go!

Welcome to the preachinglife!!