Fr Jim, ordained in 1970, has been a professor of homiletics and the director of San Alfonso Retreat House before becoming a member of the Redemptorist Evangelization Team. His published works include The Ministry of Lectors, Preaching to the Hungers of the Heart, and Lift Up Your Hearts (Sunday homilies for Cycle A and C) with Robert P. Waznak and Guerric deBona, OSB.