Did your priest bring up the homosexual marriage decisions during this weekend's homily?

[phil19034]

The priest who was praying the Mass I attended at my parish mentioned it and lots of other bad things going on in the world.

He started his homily with it by saying he sometimes feels like he’s living in the Twilight Zone due to the Supreme Court ruling, ISIS, terrorist attacks, church shootings, etc.

I don’t know what my pastor said or didn’t say.

Our Bishop (Archbishop Chaput) also released a statement shortly after the ruling was announced. Also our Archdiocese, which already had a Fortnight for Religious Freedom prayer session scheduled for Sunday night, sent and eMail discussing how important it is to pray for Religious Freedom especially in light for this disastrous ruling.

I just learned yesterday that one of our Deacons preached on this too. Three people came up to him after Mass and basically verbally attacked him for preaching the truth. When one was like “it’s people like you who keep my gay brother out of the Church” the deacon revealed that his own brother was gay and died from AIDS, didn’t matter.

Deacon said that in the seminary, they did role playing for situations like this, but it really wasn’t the same as the real thing. It was a trough day for our Deacon, but he had the courage to speak the truth.

God Bless him and please pray for our Priests and Deacons; that they will have the courage and fortitude to preach the truth, and take any backlash they may receive with their heads held high.

 

[oliver927]

No. All we got was a talk about the plan for improvements to the church and how long it will take. New carpet, refinished pews, slight rearrangement of a few pews in the front to improve “the flow of traffic”…

 

[truetofaith]

Remember, a parish usually has children of every age. Do you want to have to explain to a 4 year old what the priest is talking about when he says “same sex ‘marriage’”? I don’t.

That said, there are certainly ways to go about it that are respectful of children’s innocence. The priest can refer to “the recent Supreme Court ruling” and all the adults will know what he is talking about.

As I said in post #30…“The small children can’t help but hear it constantly on Radio & TV every single day…They probably know more than the priest does.”

If my 4 yr. old grandson asks me what same sex marriage is …I’ll just say, 2 men or 2 ladies marrying each other. He doesn’t really listen to what the priest is saying, anyway!

Better for them to hear it in church or from us than from TV.

 

[Joe_5859]

As I said in post #30…“The small children can’t help but hear it constantly on Radio & TV every single day…They probably know more than the priest does.”

If my 4 yr. old grandson asks me what same sex marriage is …I’ll just say, 2 men or 2 ladies marrying each other. He doesn’t really listen to what the priest is saying, anyway!

Better for them to hear it in church or from us than from TV.

I’m sure many children do, but not all. My daughter doesn’t listen to the radio nor watch TV indiscriminately. So she wouldn’t know anything about it.

But, yeah, she’s also probably not paying that close of attention to the homily anyway. Point well taken.

 

[exnihilo]

Remember, a parish usually has children of every age. Do you want to have to explain to a 4 year old what the priest is talking about when he says “same sex ‘marriage’”? I don’t.

My wife went to Mass yesterday, Tuesday, and the priest spoke against SSM in his homily. He used the word sodomy. He’s used it before. If asked what that is by a four year old I’d simply tell them it is a great sin. You’d have the same problem with the word adultery. You don’t need to describe the act.

 

[JonNC]

The homily is supposed to be preached on the subject matter of the Gospel, perhaps drawing on the other readings (which are deliberately chosen to tie-in with the Gospel).

It would be inappropriate for a priest to use his homily to discuss “current events” unless they were relevant to the Gospel.

Had the Gospel been about the wedding at Cana, perhaps it would have been appropriate.

But, since the Gospel had nothing to do with marriage, my priest did not bring it up. My priest is good about avoiding liturgical abuses.

Protestant sermons are often focused on “current events.” Protestants don’t have a prescribed cycle of readings. I’m sure the wedding at Cana was brought up in many protestant services last Sunday. But Catholic worship is not driven by current events. Priests don’t get to pick the readings each Sunday, and it would be a liturgical abuse to significantly deviate from the subject matter of the Gospel.

Lutheran pastors are also encouraged to base the homily/sermon on the text and season. We were out of town, and visited a parish where the pastor did just that, but mentioned the ruling in the Prayer of the Church, asking for grace and mercy on our country and those led astray by this ruling.

Jon

 

[truetofaith]

Lutheran pastors are also encouraged to base the homily/sermon on the text and season. We were out of town, and visited a parish where the pastor did just that, but mentioned the ruling in the Prayer of the Church, asking for grace and mercy on our country and those led astray by this ruling.

Jon

How are we supposed to know how to react to the current godlessness in our country, if our priests are avoiding issues in the news.

If they stick their heads in the sand, we are sunk!

 

[JonNC]

How are we supposed to know how to react to the current godlessness in our country, if our priests are avoiding issues in the news.

If they stick their heads in the sand, we are sunk!

Goodness! You’re typing to a Missouri Synod Lutheran. Our synod regularly has its collective head in the sand on issues, that is until 2008 ( guess what happened that year).
Not anymore. Synod president made a public statement, and I expect our pastors to respond as time goes along.
So, I agree with you. More importantly, those of us with orthodox Christian beliefs need to band together - publicly - to make our faith known.
Jon

blogs.lcms.org/2015/synod-president-responds-to-scotus-same-sex-marriage-ruling

 

[Randy_Carson]

I’m curious if any of the priests brought this up at this weekend’s Mass.

At the Mass I attended, the priest had strong words condemning the ruling. The Mass my sister attended however, the ruling was not specifically brought up at all with a passing mention that we should love all those with differing viewpoints than our own.

Our priest stuck to the readings with no reference to any Supreme Court decision.