A PRIMER OF HOMILETICS
By
Reverend THomas A. Carney, M.A., K.H.S.
Pastor, Shrine of the True Cross,
Galveston County Mainland
Professor of Homiletics
at
St. Mary’s Seminary, La Porte, Texas
Diocese of Galveston*
Imprimatur:
C. E. Byrne, D.D., Bishop of Galveston
October 1, 1943Dedication
SRis Book is dedicated to His Gxeallency, Most
Reverend Christopher Edward Byrne, DD. LLD,
Bishop of Galveston and Assistant at The Papal
Throne. It is a simple tribute of respect and apprecia-
tian—on the twenty-fifth Qnnitersary of Ris efedulion
to the Spiscopacy.
For the nearly three decades that he has Known the
Bishop-jubilarian (as priest, writer, editor, orator and
Bishop), the author Ras, to his great edification, boon
impressed By tRe remarkable perfection with whick Ilis
Grcellency has bodied forth, in Kis eLoquent utterances,
those trails of “aller Christus” which this Rumble
Book incwleates as the sina qua non of pulpit orators.
This the sincere sdish, if nat the Rope, of the writer Rat
Ris dolume may serve as effectually, by word, Lo inspire
Seminarists and young priests to the pursuit of Sacred
Gloquence as the Life of Rim to shem it is dedicated
fas inspired and continues ta inspire them, By example.
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