HONORED TO HAVE BEEN A PRESENTER AT NOTRE DAME

NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY

South Bend, Indiana

2019 
University of Notre Dame Summer Preaching Conference

"Mystic and Mystagogue: Preaching as Spiritual Leadership"

June 24 - 26, 2019

from the brochure

A Catholic preacher is to be a shepherd and a spiritual leader. The key question in preaching is: how do we lead our people deeper into an encounter with the living God? In this conference, we will look to our roots in the Catholic spiritual tradition as a source for deepening our preaching. Together we will look at what makes preaching thrive: how can a preacher to flourish as a spiritual leader? How can we lead others into committed discipleship through preaching?

The preacher must be in some sense a mystic, one who is filled with the Lord’s gracious presence and can overflow so as to lead others into that Presence. Because we are a sacramental people, the preacher must also be a mystagogue; one who can both lead the community’s ritual celebrations, and help the People of God to plunge into them with lively faith, and through them touch the holy realities behind them. There is much to ponder as we refresh, renew, and encounter God in these days together.

Here were the speakers and their workshop titles. Mine is in red. 

Keynote Speakers:

Kerry Robinson - Exhortations of Beauty and Meaning: The Role of Preaching in Spiritual Leadership
Fr. Brian Daley, SJ - TBA
Deacon James Keating - The Mystery of Love, Beauty and Death: The Homily that is Prayer
Megan McKenna - Navigating Mystery

Workshop Presenters:

Dr. Kimberly Baker - Preaching as Spiritual Formation: Augustine as a Guide
Fr. Arthur Baranowski - Forming Parishioners to Become “Hearers of the Word” Before They Come on Sunday
Dr. Kimberly Belcher - When All Heaven Breaks Loose: Realizing Eschatology in Worship and Preaching
Dr. Karla Bellinger - Fire in the Bones: The Mysticism of the Homiletic Encounter
Fr. Michael Connors, CSC - Preaching for Discipleship in the RCIA
Fr. Edward Foley, OFM Cap. - The Storytelling Animal: Preaching and the Sciences

Rev. Serge Halvorsen - Iconic Biblical Preaching: Homily as Sacred Image
Fr. Paul Janowiak, SJ - That I might know how to answer the weary a word that will rouse them” (Is. 50.4): Preaching from the Inside Out”
Fr. Ronald Knott - Claiming the Pulpit for Spiritual Leadership and Personal Sanctification
Dr. Susan McGurgan - When We Remember Zion: Preaching, Memory, and Hope
Dr. Deborah Organ - Proclaiming the Word in Difficult Places: Insights and Practices
Dr. Joseph Paprocki - Preaching that Changes Lives
Ana Maria Pineda, RSM - The Preaching Witness of St. Oscar Romero and Rutilio Grande, SJ
Fr. Ron Raab, CSC - Bending toward the Light: Our Posture of Solidarity through Preaching
Bishop Craig Satterlee - Seeing with Eyes of Faith: The Mystagogy of Ambrose of Milan
Fr. Thomas Scirghi, SJ - Preaching: Telling the Faithful What They Want to Say
Deacon David Shea - Preaching Feedback that Matters: Transforming Pious Platitudes into Powerful Preaching
Fr. Paul Turner - Preaching as Pastoring
Sr. Catherine Vincie, RSHM - The Mystagogical Preacher as Community Spiritual Director
Fr. Michael Woroniewicz - Mystagogical Preaching throughout the Liturgical Year: How and When

The famous "golden dome" of Notre Dame University

The beautiful campus on  a summer's day.

Giving my Presentation
Notre Dame Summer Preaching Conference
June 25, 2019

1:30 -2:45 pm 

   

   
                                      

A HISTORIC MOMENT REMEMBERED

I visited the gave of my predecessor, Father Stephen Badin,  who started Louisville's first parish named Saint Louis. It evolved into the Cathedral of the Assumption
parish of today, where I was pastor from 1983-1997. Father Badin was the first priest ordained in the United States. He traveled all over the midwest but is buried in the floor of a replica of his cabin on the land that he gave to the Holy Cross Fathers to start Notre Dame University.

Father Stephen Badin