Make your sermon brief, seven to 10 minutes, otherwise people get tired, Bishop Percival Fernandes advises junior priests in his lectures. Mumbai’s priests have been at the forefront of a campaign to ...

Pope and head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has told priests to keep homilies short as ‘people fall asleep’. A homily in a Roman Catholic service usually follows a reading from the Bible and is ...

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Instead of exhaustion, homiletics can bring you life. Perhaps the most visible part of pastoring is the upfront teaching and preaching. Bringing a timely and truthful message demands preparation, ...

Sitting in his favorite blue easy chair, Monsignor Thomas F. Maloney looked around the small rectory office where he counseled hundreds of people as they dealt with some of the worst troubles of their ...

Governor Umar Ganduje of Kano State has advised Islamic clerics in the state to deliver “short sermons” during the Eid-el-Fitri congregational prayers which he okayed to hold despite instructions from ...