With the approval of Pope Francis, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has drawn up a Directory on the Homily. This document teaches those who need to prepare sermons how to examine a subject from the theoretical point of view and also how to give direction to it.
Made up of two parts–one dedicated to homilies delivered in a liturgical setting and the other focusing on the art of preaching–the document provides priests and seminarians with guidelines concerning the methodology and content to be kept in mind when preparing and delivering a homily.
In his Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini, Pope Benedict XVI told those in charge of the Congregation for Divine Worship that it would be very useful to draw up a Directory of this type.