Deacon Anthony Gooley

St. Peter's Square

A Future Diaconate

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The Second Vatican Council sought to restore the permanent ministry of deacon to the life of the Catholic Church and to address a grave pastoral need. Vatican II imagined something new would emerge. Something that would transform the Church’s missionary drive and renew its culture. A new way of being a deacon. A study of Read More
Deacon Bill Weeks

Preaching, Digestion and Transformation

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The purpose of a homily is to assist the people to receive the word of God. It is, in some sense, analogous to the Rite of Communion, through which the people receive from the table of the Eucharist. The homily helps us receive from the table of the word. Preaching assists us with the process Read More

Meeting People Where They Are

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One of the great challenges of pastoral encounters in the highly secularized context in which we live is to meet people where they are and not where we would like them to be. Many of the couples who come to us for marriage are already living together and many have children from that or some Read More