Remember that our Founder, and those who have walked this path before you, "did not trudge; they strode. For they had the hope."

"I try to preach, and to teach preaching, in a way that … [animates] others to see life the way God sees it," writes Fr. Mike Connors, C.S.C., the Director of the John S. Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgics at Notre Dame. "For me, standing before the assembled People of God is...