Title: Captured Fire : New Daily Homilies, Years One and Two  Author: S. Joseph Krempa  Year One ISBN: 0-8189-1288-X  Year Two ISBN: 0-8189-1308-8  Each Paperback Book: iv + 204 pp.  Price for Each: $14.95 + shipping  Year Two also available on the Amazon Kindle. 2-Volume Set: $29.95  ISBN:0-8189-1310-X  To Order call: 1 800-343-ALBA (2522) Please have your Master, Visa or American Express card ready. To order Year One online click here. To order Year Two online click here.

These brief reflections on the daily readings from the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for Year One of the liturgical calendar have been designed for an average weekday congregation and mirror the very best in modern, upt-to-date scholarship. They provide excellent practical applications to the spiritual growth of all the participants at daily Mass. As such they are also ideally suited for private personal meditation as well as for use in the priest's regular preparation of short daily homilies for Year One of the liturgical year. The two-volume set includes: New Daily Homilies for each day in Ordinary Time, and Volume Two: Seasonal and Sanctoral Ccle covering Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter along with selected memorials of the Saints throughout the Year. See also Captured Fire: The Sunday Homilies Cycle "A", The Sunday Homilies Cycle "B", as well as Captured Fire: The Sunday Homilies, Cycle "C".

 

Father S. Joseph Krempa, pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Winchester, Virginia, received his law degree from George Washington University in 1981 and was admitted to the bar in Washington, DC in 1982. He has prior degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo, the University of Notre Dame and St. John's Seminary in East Aurora, New York. His prior publications include a three-volume set of Sumday Homilies (mentioned above) published in 2005 by ST PAULS/Alba House. Reviews Father Krempa is pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Winchester, Virginia. This book is a two-volume set that contains daily homilies based on the Lectionary, from Advent through the Easter Season (Years I and II) and short reflections based on the hagiographies for the cycle of saints from January to December. Each day is allotted a page. The homilies always start from current life experiences; the reflections on the hagiographies invariably focus on current issues of faith and culture. The books may serve for daily meditation or as resource for preparing daily homilies. --James Chukwuma Okoye, CSSp in the May 2010 issue of The Bible Today S. Joseph Krempa's Captured Fire: The Sunday Homilies -- Cycle A was published by ST PAULS (Staten Island, NY) in 2004. His Cycle B was published in 2005 along with Cycle C. Krempa, pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Winchester, VA presents homilies for every Sunday of the liturgical year along with some solemnities and feasts. According to the book, the reflections have been prepared for the average Sunday congregation. Each two- to three-page homily, according to the book, is "meant to inform, edify, and inspire those who read or hear them." The Scripture texts form the center of the reflections with a cogent, clear, and timely application to the problems and concerns of daily life. --Mark G. Boyer in The Priest, November 2006 This book is arranged in three parts: 1. Sundays during the Seasons of the Year (e.g., Advent, Lent, etc.), 2. Sundays of Ordinary Time, and 3. Solemnities and Feasts of the Year. Each homily is from two to three pages in length, so it can be satisfactorily used in most parishes. Priests and lay people will benefit from the thoughts presented here in preparing or presenting their own ideas. Vivid quotations and stimulating examples will enlighten, encourage, and instruct those who read or hear these homilies. The reflections focus on the Scriptures of the day, applying them to the predicaments of daily life in a compelling, simple and suitable way. --Jovian P. Lang, O.F.M. in Catholic Library World, March 2006 Top of Page