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, 1943Dedication 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. J