Fire Starters
Description
Though daily Mass is held most frequently, resources for daily homilies can be in short supply. In this book, Bishop Sklba offers a rich collection of ideas ? fire starters ? for preparing brief, spiritually nourishing homilies for daily Eucharist. Like building a campfire, where one ignites the logs with more easily flammable paper, these fire starters" are intended to provide the spark for weekday homilies. God's Spirit provides the flame.
Each day, the biblical citations and summary phrases for the reading and the gospel plus the refrain from the psalm are provided. After each citation, Bishop Sklba offers a series of meaningful insights from his expertise as a Scripture scholar, prayerful study of Scripture, and many years of preaching and pastoral experience. These brief entries provide knowledge and inspiration that will stimulate personal prayer and spark homily possibilities for the preacher every day.
Fire Starters will support anyone privileged to be called to leadership at weekday celebrations of the Eucharist to prepare for the important ministry of preaching.
Bishop Richard J. Sklba served as auxiliary bishop of Milwaukee for over thirty years. He is a well-known biblical scholar, completing the licentiate in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He is a member and former president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America. He has served on many committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, chairing its subcommittee on the Review of Scripture Translations from 1991 to 2001. In 1988, he received the Catholic Theological Society of America's John Courtney Murray Award for achievement in theology.
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- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- First Week in Ordinary Time
- Second Week in Ordinary Time
- Third Week in Ordinary Time
- Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
- Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
- Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
- Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
- Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
- Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
- Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
- Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
- Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time
- Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
- Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
- Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
- Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
- Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
- Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
- Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
- Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
- Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time
- Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time
- Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time
- Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
- Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
- Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
- Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
- Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
- Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
- Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time
- Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time
- Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time
- Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time
- Thirty-Fourth, or Last Week in Ordinary Time
- Appendix: Sparks for the Preacher
