History
The Word Proclaimed Institute is a natural outreach of Fr. Francis Martin Ministries (FFMM). When Fr. Francis Martin retired from teaching in June 2010, he made a retreat in order to discern what God wanted him to do. The Lord told Fr. Francis specifically, “Help my priests with their preaching.”
It became clear to him that the Lord wanted him to serve his brother priests by providing them with exegetical resources that would help them in preparing their homilies. He founded Fr. Francis Martin Ministries as a way to offer video, audio and print materials.
In November 2011, Fr. Francis went on weekend retreat with the FFMM advisory board to discern the next step. The idea for The Word Proclaimed Institute soon developed into a vision of a preaching institute for clergy, an institute that embraced the call of Verbum Domini. This new institute was created to train priests, seminarians and deacons to “be in close and constant contact with the sacred text”, as authentically taught by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, so that they can preach the Word of God with “conviction and passion” (Verbum Domini).
The first official activity of The Word Proclaimed Institute is our inaugural conference in July 2012.