Preaching as Spiritual Leadership: Guiding the Faithful as Mystic and Mystagogue
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Overview
In this unique resource, Fr. Michael E. Connors gathers and expertly guides the collective wisdom of experienced preachers and homilists to provide a unique resource that examines the preacher’s unique role as shepherd and a spiritual leader. The chapters will investigate these dual roles according to the roots of the Catholic spiritual tradition and provide practical advice for priests, deacons, seminarians in homiletics classes or preaching classes, retreat leaders, RCIA catechists―all who preach. Preaching as Spiritual Leadership provides solutions to the following questions:
To be a shepherd and spiritual leader, the preacher must be in some sense a mystic, who is filled with the Lord’s gracious presence, a presence to be shared with others. Homilists are a sacramental people, they must also be a mystagogues: ministers who can both lead the community’s ritual celebrations, and help the People of God to plunge into the liturgy with lively faith, to touch the holy realities behind them.
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- ProvIdes a unique resource that examines the preacher’s unique role as shepherd and spiritual leader
- Investigates the dual roles of a preacher according to the roots of the Catholic spiritual tradition
- Gathers and expertly guides the collective wisdom of experienced preachers and homilists
- Exhortations of Beauty and Meaning: The Role of Preaching in Spiritual Leadership - Kerry Alys Robinson
- The Mystery of Love, Beauty, and Death: The Homily That Is Prayer - James Keating
- Navigating Mystery: The Preacher as Prophet and Mystic - Megan McKenna
- Using the “Art of Arts”: Preaching as Spiritual Leadership in the Early Church - Brian E. Daley, SJ
- “Is That All?” Ambrose of Milan’s Preaching on the Mysteries - Craig Alan Satterlee
- Preaching as Spiritual Formation: Augustine as a Guide - Kimberly F. Baker
- Fire in the Bones: The Mysticism of the Homiletic Encounter - Karla J. Bellinger
- When We Remember Zion: Preaching, Memory, and Hope - Susan McGurgan
- “That I Might Know How to Answer the Weary a Word That Will Rouse Them”: Preaching from the Inside Out - Paul A. Janowiak, SJ
- When All Heaven Breaks Loose: Realizing Eschatology in Worship and Preaching - Kimberly Hope Belcher
- Preaching for Discipleship in Christian Initiation - Michael E. Connors, CSC
- Preaching Mystagogically throughout the Liturgical Year: How and When - Michael A. Woroniewicz
- The Mystagogical Preacher as Community Spiritual Director - Catherine Vincie, RSHM
- Preaching: Telling the Faithful What They Want to Say - Thomas J. Scirghi, SJ
- Preaching as Pastoring - Paul Turner
- Helping Your Parishioners Listen to the Word - Arthur R. Baranowski
- Claiming the Pulpit for Spiritual Leadership and Personal Sanctification - J. Ronald Knott
- Preaching That Changes Lives - Joe Paprocki
- Bending toward the Light: Our Posture of Solidarity through Preaching - Ron Raab, CSC
- Óscar Romero and the Word - Ana María Pineda, RSM, STD
- Proclaiming the Word in Difficult Places: Insights and Practices - Deborah Organ MSW, LICSW, DMIN
- Preaching and Narrativity: The Contribution from Neuroscience - Edward Foley, Capuchin
- “If You’re Going to Ask, You Better Listen!” Preaching Feedback That Matters: Transforming Pious Platitudes into Powerful Preaching - Deacon David J. Shea
- Title: Preaching as Spiritual Leadership: Guiding the Faithful as Mystic and Mystagogue
- Author: Michael E. Connors
- Publisher: Liturgy Training Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: The Good Shepherd; Spiritual Leadership; Preaching
- Resource ID: LLS:PRCHNGSMYMYSTGG
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-03-11T22:43:53Z
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.