And the purpose of this talk will be to bloat and complicate the following proposition.

If St. Paul evangelize the world, he can evangelize your parish as well.

That's what we call a real condition. St. Paul did evangelize the world. The prodigist is true.

Now, one of the great reasons we fail to evangelize in whatever ministry

we may be entrusted with, one of the great reasons we failed to evangelize is that we fail

to preach with St. Paul. And it's understandable why we fail to preach with St. Paul. St. Paul is hard to understand.

It's Defeite, in fact, that St. Paul is hard to understand. St. Peter says, our friend Paul has said many things that are difficult to understand.

St. Paul is an enigma. I love very much the words of Festus to St. Paul. Paul, he didn't call them

saints, your great learning has driven you mad, which would make my Episcopal motto, should I reach

the office. We failed to evangelize the St. Paul, and I think one of the reasons is perhaps an unfortunate

effect of the new lectionary. In the old lectionary, the epistles had a certain prominence

that they've lost in the very successful revision of the lectionary, which has put huge weight on either

side of St. Paul. So we have very successful, typological relationship between the Gospel and the

Old Testament, and all of our attention is drawn to the Old Testament and to the Gospels,

and you've preached the same parables every single Sunday for years and years and years,

and no one remembers what you said,

so you can keep doing it, but everyone overlook St. Paul, this lecture you'll continue in the middle,

which is not simply there to provide extra filling. The new lectionary, in fact, and I think

this is interesting and indicative, gives us

just as much time, for instance, on the 15th chapter of 1st Corinthians as it does on John 6th. So we

spend these weeks in the midst of the summer enforcing and reinforcing this doctrine of the Eucharistic

presence of our Lord, and we forget that

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