well anyway it is a hope I go on
and not only in sermons which are a
small part of life (happily. asked
a priest when visiting there how
long to preach he said 'I have never
heard a sermon that was too short'
this is now one of my axioms if I am
ever asked to teach homiletics and
another is 'time of preparation should
not excede time of delivery') well but
I think of what st paul who said
that "by the foolishness of preaching
[it is willed where will and power are one
that good come about]"
and his recognition of the foolishness
tbat inheres in it all says much for
the wisdom the man maybe.