Florida Catholic | Diocese of St. Petersburg

November 22, 2008

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Preaching attention

JANET SHELTON | FC
ST. PETERSBURG | It’s the Sunday liturgy at St. Joseph Parish here and Father Tim Sherwood is on his hands and knees. ¶ His homily message is about spiritual thirst and the priest is taking the role of a man searching for water in the desert. We all have spiritual thirst, he explains, and when you are looking for spiritual water, don’t follow mirages — worldly things that distract you from God; they only lead to more sand, more dryness. Read Janet Shelton's story, “What makes a homily good?”

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