HOMILETIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

Thérèse of Lisieux, STORY OF A SOUL, trans. John Clark OCD (Washington, DC: ICS, 1976) 192-193. ( “Ah! in spite of my littleness, I would like to enlighten souls as did the Prophets and the Doctors. I have the vocation of the Apostle. I would like to travel over the whole earth to preach Your name and to plant Your glorious Cross on infidel soil. But O my Beloved, one mission alone would not be sufficient for me. I would want to preach the Gospel on all the five continents simultaneously and even to the most remote isles. I would be a missionary, not for a few years only, but from the beginning of creation until the consummation of the ages. But above all, O my Beloved Savior, I would shed my blood for You even to the very last drop.” ) 

“TIME MAGAZINE”

"The Wire", National Affairs, Colorado, Time Magazine 9 Aug. 1948: 20.

Time Magazine, 04 Dec. 1989.  

TERTULLIAN

Tertullian, On Exhortation to Chastity, Chapt. I, ANTE-NICENE FATHERS, eds. Alexander Roberts, et al., vol. 4 (ca 1885; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 1994) 50. ( "The first virginity is (the virginity) of happiness, (and consists in) total ignorance of that from which you will afterwards wish to be freed: the second...being the glory of virtue...for moderation is the not regretting a thing which has been taken away, and taken away by the Lord God, without whose will neither does a leaf glide down from a tree, nor a sparrow of one farthings worth fall to the earth." )  

UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE

United States Catholic Conference, Putting Children and Families First: A Challenge for Our Church, Nation and World (Washington, DC: USCC, 1991) 48.  

VATICAN COUNCIL II

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Apostolicam Actuositatem, no. 3 (1965). ( "All offenses against human life itself, such as murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, or willful self-destruction, all violations of the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, physical or mental torture, undue psychological pressures; all offenses against human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children, degrading working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit rather than free and responsible persons; all these and the like are criminal. They poison civilization, and they debase the perpetrators more than the victims and militate against the honor of the Creator.” )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Dei Verbum, no. 17 (1965). ( “Stir up faith in Jesus the Messiah and Lord, and bring together the Church.” )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Eucharisticum Mysterium, no. 3 (1967). ( "Consequently, the eucharistic sacrifice is the source and the summit of the whole of the Church’s worship and of the Christian life" )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Eucharisticum Mysterium, no. 45 (1967). ( "In the celebration of the Eucharist above all, no one, not even a priest, may on his own authority add, omit, or change anything in the liturgy....Priests should, therefore, ensure that they so preside over the celebration of the Eucharist that the faithful know that they are attending not a rite established on private initiative, but the Church's public worship, the regulation of which was entrusted by Christ to the apostles and their successors." )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Gaudium et Spes, no. 14 (1965). ( "When (man) acknowledges in himself a spiritual and immortal soul, he is not the plaything of a deceptive fantasy resulting only from his physical and social conditions; rather he is getting at the very depth of reality." )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Gaudium et Spes, no.17 (1965). ( "Since human freedom has been weakened by sin it is only by the help of God's grace that man can give his actions their full and proper relationship to God. Before the judgment seat of God an account of his own life will be rendered to each one according as he has done either good or evil." )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Gaudium et Spes, no. 27 (1965). ( "The varieties of crime are numerous: all offenses against life itself, such as murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, and willful suicide; all violations of the integrity of the human person, such as mutilations, physical and mental torture, undue psychological pressures; all offenses against human life itself, such as murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, or willful self-destruction, all violations of the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, physical or mental torture, undue psychological pressures; all offenses against human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children, degrading working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit rather than free and responsible persons; all these and the like are criminal. They poison civilization, and they debase the perpetrators more than the victims and militate against the honor of the Creator.” )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Lumen Gentium, no. 14 (1964). ( “This holy Council first of all turns its attention to the Catholic faithful. Basing itself on scripture and tradition, it teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation; The one Christ is mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church.” )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Lumen Gentium, no. 16 (1964). ( "Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience--those too many achieve eternal salvation. Nor shall divine providence deny the assistance necessary for salvation to those who, without any fault of theirs, have not yet arrived at an explicit knowledge of God, and who, not without grace, strive to lead a good life. Whatever good or truth is found amongst them is considered by the Church to be a preparation for the Gospel and given by him who enlightens all men that they may at length have life." )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Lumen Gentium, no. 31 (1964). ( "...they are called by God that, being led by the spirit to the Gospel, they may contribute to the sanctification of the world, as from within like leaven, by fulfilling their own particular duties. Thus, especially by the witness of their life, resplendent in faith, hope and charity, they must manifest Christ to others. It pertains to them in a special way so to illuminate and order all temporal things with which they are so closely associated that these may be effected and grow according to Christ and may be to the glory of the Creator and Redeemer." )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Lumen Gentium, no. 33 (1964). ( Thus, every lay person, through those gifts given to him, is at once the witness and the living instrument of the mission of the Church itself 'according to the measure of Christ’s bestowal'." [Eph 4:7] )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Lumen Gentium, no. 34 (1964). ( "Hence, the laity, dedicated as they are to Christ, and anointed by the Holy Spirit, are marvelously called and prepared so that even richer fruits of the Spirit may be produced in them. For all their works, prayers and apostolic undertakings, family and married life, daily work, relaxation of mind and body, if they are accomplished in the Spirit—indeed even the hardships of life if patiently borne—all these become spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ....the laity consecrate the world itself to God." )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Lumen Gentium, no. 53 (1964). ( "Redeemed, in a more exalted fashion, by reason of the merits of her Son and united to him by a close and indissoluble tie, she is endowed with the high office and dignity of the Mother of the Son of God, and therefore she is also the beloved daughter of the Father and the temple of the Holy Spirit. Because of this gift of sublime grace she far surpasses all creatures, both in heaven and on earth....Wherefore she is hailed as pre-eminent and as a wholly unique member of the Church, and as its type and outstanding model in faith and charity....The Catholic Church, taught by the Holy Spirit, honors her with filial affection and devotion as a most beloved mother". )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Lumen Gentium, no. 67 (1964). ( "But it (sacred synod) strongly urges theologians and preachers of the word of God to be careful to refrain as much from all false exaggeration as from too summary an attitude in considering the special dignity of the Mother of God. Following the study of Sacred Scripture, the Fathers, the doctors and liturgy of the Church, and under the guidance of the Church's magisterium, let them rightly illustrate the duties and privileges of the Blessed Virgin which always look to Christ, the source of all truth, sanctity and devotion. Let them carefully refrain from whatever might by word or deed lead the separated brethren or any others whatsoever into error about the true doctrine of the Church. Let the faithful remember moreover that true devotion consists neither in sterile or transitory affection, nor in a certain vain credulity, but proceeds from true faith, by which we are led to recognize the excellence of the Mother of God, and we are moved to a filial love towards our mother and to the imitation of her virtues." )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Sacrosanctum Concilium, no. 10 (1963). ( "Nevertheless the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; it is also the fount from which all her power flows. For the goal of the apostolic endeavor is that all who are made sons of God by faith and baptism should come together to praise God in the midst of his Church, to take part in the Sacrifice and to eat the Lord's Supper." )  

VATICAN COUNCIL II, Unitatis Redintegratio, no. 2 (1964). ( “The Church, then, God’s only flock, like a standard lifted on high for the nations to see it, ministers the Gospel of peace to all mankind, as it makes its pilgrim way in hope toward its goal, the fatherland above.” )  

WALKER, ALICE

Alice Walker, "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens", DOUBLE STITCH, Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters, eds. Patricia Bell-Scott et al. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1991) 202. ( "And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see: or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. And so it is, certainly, with my own mother....no song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories. Only recently did I fully realize this: that through years of listening to my mother's stories of her life, I have absorbed, not only the stories themselves, but something of the manner in which she spoke, something of the urgency that involves the knowledge that her stories--like her life--must be recorded." )  

WALTON, IZAAK

Izaak Walton, "Life of George Herbert" in GEORGE HERBERT: THE COMPLETE ENGLISH POEMS ed. John Tobin (New York: Penguin Classics, 1991) 311. ( On the way to Salisbury, Mr. Herbert overtook a wretched man on the roadside with a decrepit horse that had fallen under its load. Both horse and rider evidenced great distress and required immediate help. The minister felt compassion for them and stopped. Dismounting, Mr. Herbert took off his clerical coat and helped the poor man to free the weakened animal from its burden and afterwards to reload the horse. Mr. Herbert gave the poor man money to refresh both himself and his horse; he told him, “If you love yourself, you should be merciful to your beast." Thus he left the poor man. When the minister finally arrived at Salisbury, his musical friends began to wonder why Mr. George Herbert, who used to be so neat and clean, burst into their stately company so “...soiled and discomposed". The minister explained to them what had happened. When one of his company asserted that he had tarnished himself by such a filthy adventure, Mr. Herbert’s answer was: "The thought of what I have done will prove music to me at midnight. The omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in my conscience...for, if I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, I am sure that I am bound, so far as it is in my power, to practice what I pray for"...."And now," he said to his companions, "Let’s tune our instruments." )  

WARNKE IBVM, SISTER OLGA

WARNKE IBVM, OLGA, University of Toronto, Fall, 1988. Retiring in 1969 from a teaching career at St. Michael’s University, Sr. Olga Warnke IBVM (1911-2000) served countless students in her capacity as a spiritual director. Sr. Olga witnessed love's peerless impressiveness by word and example--"How well have you received God's love? How well have you shared God's love?”--with the unshakable conviction that God's love is the sole means by which the great questions of life and eternity are made comprehensible. How well one receives and shares God's love is the heart of Our Lord's great commandment and the preeminent measure of man's humanity: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind....You shall love your neighbor as yourself." [Mt 22:36-40]  

WEATHERFORD, JACK

Jack Weatherford, NATIVE ROOTS (New York: Ballantine, 1992) 59.  

WILDER, THORNTON

Thornton Wilder, Our Town, (New York: Harper Perennial, 1998) 46. 

WOJTYLA, KAROL (POPE JOHN PAUL II)

Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II), LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY, trans. H.T. Willetts (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981) 23. ( God is “...the ultimate cause of everything—how to be good and possess goodness at its fullest.” )  

Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II), LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY, trans. H.T. Willetts (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981) 24. ( “No one else can want for me.” )  

Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II), LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY, trans. H.T. Willetts (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981) 27. ( “God does not redeem man against his will." )  

Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II), LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY, trans. H.T. Willetts (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981) 39. ( "Love in this utilitarian conception is a union of egoisms, which can hold together only on condition that they confront each other with nothing unpleasant, nothing to conflict with their mutual pleasure. Therefore, love so understood is self-evidently merely a pretence which has to be carefully cultivated to keep the underlying reality hidden...the greediest kind of egoism at that, (the exploitation of) another person...." )  

Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II), LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY, trans. H.T. Willetts (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981) 41. ( “...the personalistic norm confirms this: the person is a good towards which the only proper and adequate attitude is love.” )  

Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II), LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY, trans. H.T. Willetts (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981) 42. ( "For to be just always means giving others what is rightly due to them. A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use. In a sense it can be said that love is a requirement of justice....Justice concerns itself with things (material goods or moral goods, as for instance one's good name) in relation to persons, and hence with persons rather indirectly, whereas love is concerned with persons directly and immediately: affirmation of the value of the person as such is of its essence." )  

Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II), LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY, trans. H.T. Willetts (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981) 55-56. ( "Love owes its fertility in the biological sense to the sexual urge but it must also possess a fertility of its own in the spiritual, moral and personal sphere. It is here that the full productive power of love between two persons, man and woman, is concentrated, in the work of rearing new persons. This is its proper end, its natural orientation." )  

Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II), LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY, trans. H.T. Willetts (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981) 60. ( "The Creator’s will is not only the preservation of the (human) species by way of sexual intercourse, but also its preservation on the basis of a love worthy of human persons." )  

Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II), LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY, trans. H.T. Willetts (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981) 85. ( "Fully realized, (love) is essentially an interpersonal, not an individual matter. It is a force which joins and unites, of its very nature inimical to division and isolation." )  

Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II), LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY, trans. H.T. Willetts (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981) 120. ( "In other words, love as experience should be subordinated to love as virtue,--so much so that without love as virtue, there can be no fullness in the experience of love." )  

Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II), LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY, trans. H.T. Willetts (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981) 247. ( "Justice towards the Creator, on the part of man, comprises as we see two elements: obedience to the order of nature and emphasis on the value of the person." )  

WYMAN, LILLIE B. CHACE

Lillie B. Chace Wyman, "Studies of Factory Life: Among the Women" Atlantic Monthly 62, no. 371 (Sept. 1888): 321. THE FEMALE EXPERIENCE, ed. Gerda Lerner, no. 26 (New York: Oxford UP, 1992) 135.  

WYON, OLIVE

Olive Wyon, excerpted in THE HIDDEN TRADITION, ed. Lavinia Byrne (New York: Crossroad, 1991) 72.  

ERRATA

Source not known: ( "Only God has the right to demand what we have no hope of paying; (yet, God calls us to imitate His grace) in a life of mutual forgiveness, even if we can’t equal it." )  

Source not known: ( Adam was taking it easy in the garden, laying on the grass and looking up at the clouds. He was identifying shapes when he decided to talk to God. "God," he said, "how long is a million years?" God replied, "In my frame of reference, it's about a minute." The man asked, "God, how much is a million dollars?" God answered, "To me, it's a penny." The man then asked, "God, can I have a penny?" God answered, "In a minute." )