tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778905687600416321.post9078979942105608846..comments2023-11-05T02:55:10.230-06:00Comments on Gottesdienst Online: The Sermon as Love SongPr. H. R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16756503062523543708noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778905687600416321.post-55728499920145205122009-10-31T19:52:47.343-05:002009-10-31T19:52:47.343-05:00Thanks for your comments on this topic, Pastor Pet...Thanks for your comments on this topic, Pastor Petersen. I enjoyed the catechesis symposium very much, and appreciated, as always, the chance to interact with you and others there. I'm pleased that my thoughts on liturgical preaching prompted further thinking on your part. Thanks for sharing those thoughts here.<br /><br />What you have said is a beautiful and helpful way of thinking about the task of a sermon. There's always such a poetry to your way of putting things; which is just great.<br /><br />Typical of myself, everything becomes very concrete and of tangible importance when it involves my children ;-) Entrusting my son(s) and daughter(s) to other pastors has not been far different seeing them get married. That is what has prompted me to think carefully about what it is, chiefly, that I want them to be receiving above all else.<br /><br />Faithful preaching will lead to the Altar; and the Holy Communion ought not be administered apart from such preaching. For me it is most helpful to think of the preaching, not simply as being situated within the Liturgy, but as a fundamental part of the Liturgy itself. I like to call it "liturgical preaching," in preference to "sacramental preaching," because I don't mean preaching about the Sacrament or about the liturgy, but preaching that actually acts and functions and moves the hearer to and from the font, to and from the Altar. But of course there are various ways to describe these things.<br /><br />The important thing, it seems to me, is that the foundation and structure and life of the Church is comprised of: (a) the preaching of repentance for the forgiveness of sins; (b) the administration and ongoing daily significance of Holy Baptism; and (c) the giving and pouring out of the body and blood of Jesus to His disciples. And each of these belong to the others; not simply by association, but by an organic connection.Rev. Rick Stuckwischhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664716292792101540noreply@blogger.com