Preaching to the Converted : On Sundays and Feast Days Throughout the Year

Short (700 word) homilies for each Sunday for all three cycles, in one volume.
Preaching is getting harder and harder. Preachers are up against some tough opposition and have only a brief window of opportunity to reach today's overly busy faithful at Mass." "What preachers need is a good story to tell and a dynamic way of presenting it, and this book has it all! It contains brief story-based reflections of no more than 750 words on the readings for each Sunday and feast day in the Catholic lectionary. These reflections are concise, engaging, intelligent, and adaptable." "Preaching to the Converted will help preachers and homilists, communities who have Sunday celebrations in the absence of a priest, teachers who use the readings in classrooms, people who prepare reflection sessions on the Sunday Gospel, individuals who want a personal and prayerful preparation for the day's liturgy, and even those who need a written reflection on the Gospel for their parish, school, or CCD bulletin or newsletter.
Born at Warwick, Queensland, and growing up in Toowoomba, Fr Richard Leonard SJ directs the Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting for the Bishop's Conference. Fr Richard is a member of the Australian Catholic Media Council and a film critic for all the major Australian Catholic newspapers. He has served on juries at the Venice, Berlin, Hong Kong, Montreal, Brisbane and Melbourne International Film Festivals and has lectured on film, faith and culture across Australia and the Pacific, Asia, the UK and the USA.
He is the author of a number of books: Beloved Daughters: 100 Years of Papal Teaching About Women (David Lovell Press, Melbourne, 1995); Movies That Matter: Reading Film Through the Lens of Faith (Loyola University Press, Chicago, 2006); Preaching to the Converted Throughout the Sundays and Feastdays of the Year (Paulist Press, New York, 2007); The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema: the Films of Peter Weir (Melbourne University Press, 2009).