Instructions on Preaching, Catechising and Clerical Life by Saints and Fathers of the Church

by Patrick Boyle

Excerpt from Instructions on Preaching, Catechising and Clerical Life by Saints and Fathers of the Church

The instructions contained in this volume have been translated into English in the hope that they may be useful to ecclesiastical students. They contain the thoughts on preaching and on the virtues of the clerical state of men whose sanctity, learning and practical experience en title them to speak with authority.

243 pages, Paperback

First published September 4, 2014

About the author

Boyle was born in 1905 in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim. He worked for the Ulster Bank in Donegal and Wexford. He began writing when he was in his forties. His first collection of short stories, At Night All Cats are Grey, was published in 1966. He also wrote a novel, Like Any Other Man, published in the same year. These two books were followed by two more collections of stories, All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye (1969), and A View from Calvary (1976). He was a member of the Irish Academy of Letters. He died in 1982.