Capuchin Preaching
Fr Raniero Cardinal Cantalamessa OFMCap preaching
As Capuchin Friars we are called to preach: to announce the fullness of the Good News of Christ in word and deed. Formed by their life of prayer, study of Sacred Scripture, and fraternal charity, the friars go forth to bring to others the great gift of Faith they have received themselves. In Australia this preaching can take on many forms: it might be in the homily in Holy Mass, a feverino during the Divine Office, or a talk at a youth group, a parish mission, or simply sharing the Faith in an encounter on the street.
Capuchin Preaching:
In focus
"They were all preachers, these Capuchins, preaching by deeds as well as by words...Because they were men who had learned their message in their own hard struggle against the ungodly inducements and habits of the time they lived in, their words when they spoke went true to their mark and men listened to them because they hit the truth as their hearers knew it in the hidden depths of their hearts. In the inexorable truth in which they faced their own lives, they faced their fellow men; and in the knowledge of themselves learned in their own spiritual struggles, their words rang with the compassion and humanity of the fellow sufferer. So they preached from the one text on which their own lives were formed—the Gospel of Christ, and preached as only men can to whom that Gospel is the one way of life."
— The Capuchins, Fr Cuthbert OFMCap, p. 157.