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Homily Guides

Preparation guides for the Sunday readings, for preachers and for anyone who wants to go deeper.

Looking for a particular Sunday? Browse the Year A index, which lists every guide by liturgical day rather than by publication date.

The Sunday Brief

Free, once a week on Thursday morning, for priests, deacons and anyone preparing to preach. The morning after each new guide goes up: the Sunday and its readings, the opening of the analysis, and the homily themes the full guide develops, with a link to the rest.

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For preachers

What Is in Every Guide

You are going to say this out loud, under your own name, to people who trust you. That is the standard everything here is built to.

The Four Readings in Full

First reading, psalm, second reading and Gospel, printed complete so you are not opening four tabs to see the shape of the day.

Analysis That Connects Them

The real linkages between the readings, worked through with current biblical scholarship, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the Fathers, with the Catechism where it applies.

Themes You Can Preach

Homily themes with illustrations and applications. Preparation, not a finished homily. A homily somebody else wrote is not yours, and it shows.

Every Citation Is Real and Checkable

Paragraph numbers, not gestures. If a quotation cannot be verified it is paraphrased and said so, because a wrong citation in a homily is worse than no citation, and it is your credibility that pays for it rather than mine.

Each guide goes up eleven days before its Sunday. That is deliberate. A guide that lands on Friday is a guide you read, not one you use.

Forming deacons, or teaching preaching? There is a page written for you: for diaconate formation, and for those who teach preaching.

The readings and the opening of the analysis are free on every guide. Always.

The full analysis and the homily themes are for members. First week free, then $9.99 a month, cancel any time. The trial takes a card and bills on day seven unless you cancel, and I email you the day before it ends so nothing lands on your statement as a surprise.

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