Liturgy

Sunday Comes Every Week: Daily Habits for the Busy Preacher

Frank G. Honeycutt

For pastors, a new sermon comes every week. Conventional wisdom says that pastors need to sequester themselves to prepare their weekly sermon without distraction. But veteran preacher Frank Honeycutt suggests just the opposite: prepare your sermons as part of a daily, lived experience in the community.

Using the days of the week as a framework, Honeycutt describes practical and essential tasks leading up to the writing and delivery of the Sunday sermon—habits that will provide lasting spiritual nourishment for pastors who plan for a long career in parish ministry. 

Honeycutt reflects on the joys and hazards of ministry and explains how a faithful process of preaching shapes pastors for a lifetime of healthy ministry.

2019    160 pages    R355.00

The Crisis of Bad Preaching: Redeeming the Heart and Way of the Catholic Preacher

Joshua J. Whitfield

A response to a pastoral crisis: poorly prepared, often stale, and largely irrelevant homilies that are fuelling the mass exodus of people from the Church.

Echoing Popes Benedict and Francis, the author confronts what is perhaps the most common complaint of Catholics around the world: hollow, vacuous preaching. A parish priest in Dallas, Whitfield encourages fellow preachers to profound renewal, reminding them that preaching is not just something they do, it is essential to who they are.

Catholic preaching today often achieves the opposite of what it should, which is connecting the People of God with the Gospel of Christ in a motivating way. Whitfield stresses that preachers need to return to this ideal because the wellbeing of the Church depends on it.

2019    164 pages    R315.00

The Catholic All Year Compendium: Liturgical Living for Real Life

Kendra Tierney

With wisdom and humour mother and blogger Kendra Tierney shares how her family celebrates Catholic seasons and feasts.

She provides ideas for stories, activities, foods, and decorations that will help you to celebrate your Catholic faith with your family and friends without expertise or much advance planning. She also offers tips and survival tricks from her fifteen years in the Catholic mommy trenches about such challenges as bringing young children to Mass and saying a family Rosary.

2018    360 pages    R299.50

Worship and the Church: An Ecclesial Liturgy

Editors: Peter C. Phan and Sallie Latkovich

Gerry Austin, OP,  Dominican friar, teacher and Catholic priest, has devoted over fifty years to spreading the good news of liturgical scholarship and practice to the church across the globe. His dedication to the field of pastoral liturgy is highlighted, and the breadth of his involvement can be seen by the origins of the essay authors, ranging from the U.S. and Canada to New Zealand and Australia.

The essays are organized in two sections, Foundations, which deals with historical issues in liturgical studies, and Systematic Issues, which examines the present state of the liturgy.

2019    351 pages    R699.50