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## Karla Bellinger

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Karla Bellinger is the Associate Director of the John S. Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgics at the University of Notre Dame.

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## [Preaching Beauty](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/07/18/preaching-beauty)

 Published by [Karla Bellinger](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/author/karla-bellinger)

> Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. . . . You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would not have been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you d...

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## [Pentecost for Preachers: The Mysticism of the Homiletic Moment](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/05/09/pentecost-for-preachers-the-mysticism-of-the-homiletic-moment)

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The Easter season provides busy homilists with a basketful of opportunities to preach and preach and preach. Now Pentecost is coming. What more is there to say? What more is there to give? And, some may ask, where does the strength come from to keep on giving? We turn to this year’s Pentecost Gospel reading from John to find out.

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