Preaching and Initiation

Fr Mike Connors discusses the relationship between preaching and the Church’s traditional mystagogical process of reflecting on the celebration of the sacraments. He encourages preachers to explore and savour the riches of our powerful rites, especially those associated with initiation.

Rev Michael Connors, CSC is a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross.  Trained as a pastoral or practical theologian, he is director emeritus of the John S. Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgics at the University of Notre Dame in the USA, where he continues to reside.  He is a former team member of the North American Forum on the Catechumenate, and author of Preaching for Discipleship: Preparing Homilies for Christian Initiation (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2018).