Homiletics:
Guide to Resources

HOMILY AIDS 

Here are some publications Ireland library staff have found helpful in assisting preparation:

Prepare the Word. Latest Issue received.
Ireland Library Periodicals Collection

Celebration.  Latest issue received.
Ireland Library Periodicals Collection

Homily Service. Latest issue received.
Ireland Library Periodicals Collection

Living Liturgy. Current year IRL Reference.
Ireland Reference Room BV30 .L58

New Proclamation. Current year in IRL Reference.
Ireland Reference Room BS534.5 .P765

The Priest (Our Sunday Visitor).  Latest issue received.
Ireland Library Periodicals Collection

America.  Latest issue received.
[The Word column in each weekly issue; indexed in CPLI database -- search: homiletical illustrations and america].

Sojourners Magazine.  Latest Issue Received and Online.

See Living the Word department in easch issue.

Living Pulpit. Online. 
[in ATLA  database].

The Lectionary Commentary. 
Ed. Roger E. Van Harn. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; London; New York: Continuum, 2001.
Ireland Reference Room BS534.5 .L43 2001 3 vols.    

Important note:
The  Web has had a dramatic impact on "homily aids." Some have ceased publication; others are now web only subscriptions. When sites require iindividual payment, it is impractical for the library to subscribe, except when part of a vendor's collection (as in Living Pulpit).

On the other hand, free sermon and homily sites abound.  Some may be useful as homily aids or for sermon ideas.  See below for a list (although difficult to stay up to date, and of course being listed here is not an endorsement of any kind)

BOOKS

Below are links to CLICnet catalog searches of possible interest to homilists. Catalogers assign a variety of headings to homiletics so there is no single search for all material.

• Homiletical Illustrations
• Homiletical Use
• Catholic Church Sermons
• Lectionary Preaching
• Sermons
• Lectionary
• Children's Sermons
• Translated Sermons of the Latin Fathers
• Translated Sermons of the Greek Fathers
• Storytelling 

Homilies & Sermons on the Web
April 2007

• Abbey of Christ in the Desert, Abiquiu, New Mexico
• Benedict XVI, Homilies
• Catholic Church of Saint John Neumann, Eagan, MN, USA, Pastor's Homilies
• Catholic Homilies
• Catholic Homilies and Sermons
• Dominican House of Studies, Washington D.C. Preaching
• Dominican, English Province of the Order of Preachers, UK
• Father Maurice Levesque, Catholic Doors Ministry
• Fathers of the Church, Sermons
• Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Washington, D.C, USA
• Homilies, Augustinian Friars of the Villanova Province (U.S.A.)
• Iowa State University Catholic Student Community and St. Thomas Aquinas, Homilies
• John Paul II , Homilies
• Preacher's Exchange
• Preaching, The English Province of the Order of Preachers
• Preparing for Sunday
• Saint Augustine's Sermons
• Saint John Crysostom, Sermons
• Sunday Gospel Reflections
• The Text This Week
• The Word (America Magazine)

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