'A homily should challenge you to action'

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | May 24, 2003| | Copyright

A church service is a lot like life: It has its routine aspects, it has the basic nourishment, and it has the bits people look forward to. Ministers such as the Rev. John Norman want that last part to be the sermon or homily.

In a short religion-class lecture for Judge Memorial Catholic High School students, the Rev. Norman explained how priests compose homilies, and he turned a talk on how to give a good speech into a discourse on how to live a good life.

A diocesan priest and the president of Judge Memorial, the Rev. Norman has loads of experience gaining and holding the attention of all ...

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