St Marys Seminary Baltimore, MD SOT catalog 2019
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PS511 Basic Skills for Effective<br />
Preaching<br />
3 credits. Preaching I helps the<br />
student develop the basic expressive<br />
and communicative gifts<br />
needed for effective preaching,<br />
including the use of Scripture,<br />
poetry, culture, and art to stimulate<br />
faith and imagination. Special<br />
emphasis is placed on cultivating<br />
the student’s poetic and rhetorical<br />
abilities in oral communication<br />
and written composition as well as<br />
learning how to use prayer, meditation,<br />
and biblical exegesis for<br />
preaching in parish situations.<br />
PS512 Preaching from the Lectionary<br />
3 credits. Preaching II helps to<br />
develop more advanced homiletic<br />
abilities necessary for pastoral<br />
ministry as a priest, including the<br />
use of the lectionary readings for<br />
preaching major liturgical seasons<br />
and feasts, the skills for preparing<br />
and delivering daily and Sunday<br />
parish homilies, homilies for seasonal<br />
liturgical preaching and on<br />
select pastoral and doctrinal issues<br />
such as homilies for children, for<br />
weddings and funerals, and for<br />
challenging or controversial topics.<br />
PS530 Pastoral Care and Practice I<br />
1.5 credits. This course will<br />
address the theological foundations<br />
of and psychospiritual<br />
dynamics for pastoral care and<br />
counseling required of pastors. It<br />
is always taken in conjunction<br />
with PS535.<br />
PS531 Pastoral Care and Practice II<br />
1.5 credits. A continuation of<br />
PS530, this course provides basic<br />
information on the principles,<br />
methods, definitions and issues of<br />
pastoral care and counseling in<br />
the parochial context. It is always<br />
taken in conjunction with PS536.<br />
PS535 Pastoral Internship I<br />
1.5 credits. This is a one semester<br />
hospital-based ministry intern-<br />
PS520 Pastoral Ministry in an<br />
Ecumenical and Interfaith<br />
Context<br />
3 credits. An introduction to the<br />
theological foundations of ecumenism<br />
and interfaith relations,<br />
various expressions of Christian<br />
and Jewish traditions, ecumenical<br />
dialogues and theological issues,<br />
and practical ecumenism, this<br />
course is designed to prepare<br />
future clergy for informed and<br />
sensitive interaction with faith<br />
communities (both their clergy<br />
and their lay people) from other<br />
traditions.<br />
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