Effective Preaching: Bringing People into an Encounter with God

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Effective Preaching

Bringing People into and Encounter with God

by: Michael E. Connors, CSC

Effective Preaching: Bringing People into an Encounter with God is a practical collection of essays, featuring leading preachers, homilists and homily instructors. Compiled by Michael E. Connors, CSC, the Director of the John Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgics at the University of Notre Dame, this imaginative book focuses entirely on the practical side of Catholic preaching. It will provide imaginative, hands-on, tested advice to help homilists develop preaching effectiveness, using techniques that will turn satisfactory preaching into exceptional preaching. This practical resource will be essential for priests, permanent deacons, seminarians in homiletics classes; retreat leaders, RCIA catechists; all who preach.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Rev. Michael Connors, C.S.C., is a pastoral theologian and homiletician.  In 1997 he joined the faculty of the Theology Department at the University of Notre Dame, where he now also directs the John S. Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgics.  A native of the Chicago area, he majored in American History as an undergraduate at Illinois College.  He made final profession in Holy Cross in September, 1983, and was ordained to the priesthood in April, 1984.  After several years of parish ministry, he did doctoral studies at Regis College in Toronto in the areas of spirituality and inculturation.