Podcast: Preachers, you have one minute to captivate the congregation
A
capacity crowd of 2,000 fills the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in
Baltimore Nov. 2 for a Mass celebrating the 225th anniversary of the
founding of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. (CNS photo/Ann M. Augherton,
Catholic Review)“I have discovered over the years that if you save your big point for the end, people have often tuned you out,” Deacon Fritz Bauerschmidt says, “You really have to give them something in that first minute.”
Fritz is a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of Baltimore assigned to the Cathedral of Mary, Our Queen. He is also a professor of theology at Loyola Maryland University, the Jesuit university in Baltimore, an author, a husband and a father of three.
After the homily, Fritz explains to host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., why the rapper Post Malone provided the perfect hook for his homily.
Read the full text of this week’s homily, and Scripture readings.
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I have discovered over the years that if you save your big point for the end, people have often tuned you out … You really kind of have to give them something in that first minute.”
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