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EXTRAORDINARY PREACHING
20 Homilies by Roman Catholic Women Edited by Roslyn A. Karaban and Deni Mack Foreword by Walter J. Burghardt, SJ Paper, $13.95 96 pages, 5½" × 8½" ISBN 0-89390-390-6 |
Are Roman Catholic women allowed to preach? And if so, are they even capable of preaching well?
This book answers an emphatic "Yes!" to both questions. This collection of high-quality homilies
witnesses to how women can minister to, uplift, and draw people closer to God with their extraordinary preaching.
Reviews
“With great enthusiasm I recommend Extraordinary Preaching.
I have the privilege of serving as bishop of the local church to which these
women bring such wonderful gifts. They have given strength and hope to
my life, and I know they have done the same for thousands of others in
our local church. They love and live the Word, have a deep reverence for
the human story, and possess an uncommon ability to draw them together
in a way that puts our hearers in touch with God and their own
hearts.”
— Bishop Matthew Clark, Diocese of Rochester, N.Y.
“This volume of homilies brings depth, insight and faith to the reading
of the Scriptures. It calls both women and men from a women’s
perspective and frees a spirit in the Gospels too little noticed, too seldom
heard, but which we are all in need of.”
— Joan Chittister, OSB, St. Scholastica Priory, Erie, Pa.
“This wonderful volume of women’s sermons is
‘extraordinary’ indeed — not only by way of circumstance
and quality, as the editors note, but also in its depths of faith and
stunning powers of insight. The book is much more than a feast of excellent
preaching; it is also a deep well of spirituality, a witness to the
‘ordination by the Spirit’ that is the fountainhead of true
priesthood. Each woman in turn became a minister to me as I read her
words and was moved, comforted, shaken and challenged by unexpected
new understandings of the Word. What a joy to be offered such
extraordinary riches!”
— The Rev. Gail A. Ricciuti, the Downtown United Presbyterian
Church, Rochester, N.Y.