Editing Homiletics (section)

=== Conférences in Notre-Dame ===
The next important era is the so-called ''conférences'' in [[Notre Dame de Paris|Notre-Dame in Paris]], following the [[July Revolution|Revolution of 1830]]. The most prominent name identified with this new style of preaching was that of the Dominican [[Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire|Lacordaire]], who, for a time, with [[Charles Forbes René de Montalembert|Montalembert]], was associate editor with [[Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais|de Lamennais]] of "L'Avenir". This new style of preaching discarded the form, the division, and analysis of the scholastic method. The power of Lacordaire as an orator was beyond question; but the ''conférences'', as they have come down to us, while possessing much merit, are an additional proof that oratory is too elusive to be committed to the pages of a book. The Jesuit [[Gustave Delacroix de Ravignan]] shared with Lacordaire the pulpit of Notre-Dame. Less eloquent men followed, and the semi-religious, semi-philosophic style was beginning to grow tiresome, when [[Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré]], a disciple of Lacordaire, set it aside, and confined himself to an explanation of the Creed; whereupon it was sententiously remarked that the bell had been ringing long enough, it was time for Mass to begin (cf. Boyle, "Irish Eccl. Rec.", May, 1909).<ref name=CE/>