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.
The Catholic Preaching Institute provides comprehensive resources to help clergy develop their craft.
We invite you to explore our print, digital and curated collections.
August 2026 … one for each saintly preacher memorialized this month
- Aug 1 – St. Alphonsus Liguori … on preaching with apostolic simplicity (pp. 17-62)
- Aug 4 – St. John Vianney … Sermons of the Curé d’Ars for the Sundays of the Year
- Aug 8 – St. Dominic … Joseph Ellul, O.P., “Master Dominic and the Grace of Preaching”
- Aug 20 – St. Bernard … Robert Fastiggi, “Lessons from the Sermons of St. Bernard”
- Aug 28 – St. Augustine … Andrew Hofer, “A Reflection on Augustine’s Preaching”
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 8/5/26)
CPI’s recommended online sources (most recently updated on 4/14/26)
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