Monday, April 8, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Sermon Title: WHEN GOD DOESN’T SEEM TO MAKE SENSE
Scripture Text: John 11:1-45
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Sermon Title: WHY THE RESSURECTION MATTERS
Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 15:12-20
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Sermon Title: WHEN THEY WORK YOUR LAST NERVE
Scripture Text: Genesis 45:1-20
Redemptorist Father Maurice J. Nutt holds a doctorate degree in preaching from Aquinas Institute of Theology. He completed the executive leadership program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has served as pastor in parishes in St. Louis and Memphis. He is an internationally noted Catholic preacher. Father Maurice is a former director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana, and a past convener of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium. He serves as a doctoral thesis advisor for students pursuing a doctorate in preaching as well as a consultant and teaches in the Academy for the Mastery of Preaching at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, MO. Father Maurice founded Copiosa Care, a Redemptorist Spiritual Direction ministry in 2021. He was inducted into the 2022 class of the prestigious Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Board of Preachers at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Father Nutt is a member of the Redemptorists’ Denver Province Extraordinary Provincial Council and serves as a consultant of the cause for canonization of Sister Thea Bowman, FSPA, for the Diocese of Jackson. He wrote an award-winning biography of his mentor, Sister Thea Bowman, FSPA, titled, Thea Bowman: Faithful and Free. His latest book titled Down Deep in My Soul: An African American Catholic Theology of Preachingwas published by Orbis Books. He also co-edited the book, Preaching Racial Justice (Orbis Books) released in the Fall of 2023. Father Dr. Nutt preaches, writes, and lectures in the areas of homiletics, African American spirituality and culture, pastoral theology, evangelization, and the intersection of ecclesiology and social justice. He is a member of the Academy of Homiletics, the Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics, the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus, Spiritual Directors International, and the Spiritual Directors of Color Network. He is the local superior of the Redemptorist community in New Orleans, where he also serves as the director of the National Shrine of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Archbishop Lyke Foundation. Father Maurice is a proud life-member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.