The Word at Hand
The Catholic Preaching Institute provides comprehensive resources to help clergy develop their craft.
We invite you to explore our print, digital and curated collections.
The Word at Hand
The Catholic Preaching Institute provides comprehensive resources to help clergy develop their craft.
We invite you to explore our print, digital and curated collections.
SPOTLIGHT resources … celebrating three “Doctors of the Church” this month!
January 2 – St. Basil the Great
- Fr. Luke A. Veronis, “Starting the New Year with Inspiration from St. Basil the Great”
January 24 – St. Francis de Sales
- Fr. Thomas Dailey, “The Soulful Homily,” Homiletic & Pastoral Review (May 2000)
January 28 – St. Thomas Aquinas
- Dr. Randall Smith, “What Lessons Do Thomas Aquinas’s Sermons Hold for Modern Preachers,” Homiletic & Pastoral Review (June 2017)
Each month, CPI’s homepage highlights revered and lesser-known Catholic orators, topics relevant to current events, and contemporary discourse on modern homiletics. We invite you to visit our Preacher Features archive page.
Saint Charles Seminary offers numerous preaching sources, available to the public. Contact CPI to checkout books from the print collections:
The John Cardinal Foley Chair collection (most recently updated on 10/8/25)
CPI’s recommended online sources (most recently updated on 11/3/25)
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