Your Faith Has Saved You: Homilies for Liturgical Year A–Sundays, Solemnities, and Some Feasts

by Rev. John P. Cush

This book is a collection of homilies for Sundays, solemnities, and major feasts in the Church’s Year A liturgical cycle. It opens with an exploration of Saint Matthew’s Christology, presenting Jesus as the fulfillment of Scripture, the authoritative Teacher, Emmanuel, and the herald of the Kingdom of Heaven.

The homilies follow the liturgical year from Advent through Christ the King, offering theological reflection rooted in Scripture, tradition, and pastoral application. Designed for clergy and serious lay readers, this volume supports faithful, disciplined preaching and invites deeper participation in the Church’s liturgical and spiritual life.

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Excerpt from Canto XXIX of Dante’s Paradiso:

Christ did not to his first disciples say,
‘Go forth, and to the world preach idle tales,’
But unto them a true foundation gave;

And this so loudly sounded from their lips,
That, in the warfare to enkindle Faith,
They made of the Evangel shields and lances.

Now men go forth with jests and drolleries
To preach, and if but well the people laugh,
The hood puffs out, and nothing more is asked.

But in the cowl there nestles such a bird,
That, if the common people were to see it,
They would perceive what pardons they confide in,

For which so great on earth has grown the folly,
That, without proof of any testimony,
To each indulgence they would flock together.

By this Saint Anthony his pig doth fatten,
And many others, who are worse than pigs,
Paying in money without mark of coinage.

(translated by The Literature Network)

Italian Original

Cristo non disse a’ suoi primi compagni:
“Andate, e predicate al mondo ciance”;
ma diede lor verace fondamento;

e quel tanto sonò ne le sue labbra,
che, a l’armi de la fede, fecero scudo
e lance del Vangelio.

Ora si va con motti e con iscede
a predicare, e pur che ben si rida,
gonfia il cappuccio, e più non si richiede.

Ma tale uccel nel becchetto s’annida,
che, se ’l vulgo il vedesse, vederebbe
la perdonanza di ch’ei si confida;

però che tanta stoltezza in terra crebbe,
che, sanza prova d’alcun testimonio,
a ciascun’indulgenza si correrebbe.

Di questo ingrassa il porco di sant’Antonio,
e altri assai, che sono ancor più porci,
pagando di moneta sanza conio.

TESTIMONIALS

“The homilies of Fr. Cush are a wonderful resource for deacons and priests as a starting point of thought and prayer for new homilies. They are also a good form of study for those religious and laity looking for deeper understandings of the liturgical Sunday 3-Year cycle readings.” – Kiki Latimer, author of Home for the Homily and host of WCAT Radio’s “The Catholic Bookworm”

“Fr. John Cush has assembled a collection of homilies that are short, succinct, catechetical, and firmly based in Scripture.  In addition to referencing the Catechism of the Catholic Church, he often intertwines the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Summa Theologiae.  Cush pushes preachers to step outside their comfort zone and “put out into the deep” by adding Magisterial teachings and encyclicals to their preaching.” – Deacon Steve Kramer, D.Min., Director of Homiletics, Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Father John P. Cush, STD, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, is the Editor-in-Chief of Homiletic and Pastoral Review. Fr. Cush serves as a full-time Professor of Dogmatic and Fundamental Theology, Director of Seminarian Admissions and Recruitment, and Formation Advisor at Saint Joseph’s Seminary and College in New York. Before that, he served in parochial work and in full-time high school teaching in the Diocese of Brooklyn and had served as Academic Dean/Assistant Vice-Rector and Formation Advisor at the Pontifical North American College Rome, Italy. Fr. Cush has taught theology and Church History at the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum), and the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Santa Croce), all in Rome, Italy.

Fr. Cush holds the pontifical doctorate in sacred theology (STD) from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy in the field of fundamental theology, He had also studied dogmatic theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum), Rome, Italy, on the graduate level. Fr. Cush is the author of The How-to-Book of Theology (OSV Press, 2020) and Theology as Prayer: a Primer for Diocesan Priests (with Msgr. Walter Oxley), as well as being a contributor to the festschrift Intellect, Affect, and God (Marquette University Press, 2021). He is also the author of Nothing But You: Reflections on the Priesthood and Priestly Formation through the Lens of Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire, July 2024).

 

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