Catholic Preaching

During my diaconal ordination, Cardinal Edmund Szoka gave me the following instruction from the Ordination Rite as together we gripped the Book of the Gospels:"Receive the Gospel of Christ, whose herald you now are.Believe what you read.Teach what you believe.Practice what you teach."Those words have never lost their resonance.Since that day -- October 8, 1998 -- I have tried to live up to that commission to be a "herald of the Gospel," by striving to teach what the Church believes, to practice what I preach to others, and to spread with joy and enthusiasm the truth Christ has entrusted to His church -- in and out of season, in and out of the pulpit.This podcast is a chronicle of those attempts.