Does your priest ever mention sin in his homilys?

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Our priests speaks a lot about sin. Especially the mortal sin of voting for pro-abortion politicians. We got plenty of that last election year.
 
no, sadly our priest never mentions sin. I really wish he would stress the need to go to confession and being in line with Church doctrine, but he is the priest. He’s very very easy going, that may be why.🤷
 
Yesterday, I had the extreme pleasure of hearing a homily entirely about sin, heaven, hell and confession. We were advised, get this, to avail ourselves to the sacrament at least once a month, and if it was possible bi-weekly or weekly would be better! It was the best I’ve heard yet! (my little brother hated it… mostly because my dad left church saying the family needs to go to confession more often!)
 
Alindawyl said:
That’s about what we get from the priest at the OF parish I attend - plain, fair talk about sin and repentance, along with the constant exhortation to live up to the expectations of God.
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The only times I have ever heard our pastor speak about the sobering prospect of facing judgment has been with respect to himself. Of course, once you catch that he feels he needs to be concerned about having to account for his own life, it doesn’t take a genius to connect the dots. I think it is actually much more effective. You can’t retreat into “where does he get off, sitting in judgment of me and what I’ve done” when the only fair assessment is “wow, if he isn’t complacent about accounting for his fidelity…Yikes!”
 
Yesterday, the entire homily was on sin and Confession. Oh, and Lent.
 
redrosetea said:
Ours never does…His homilies are good and pleasant but I am not sure that is enough?

If we don’t hear about sin at mass, where else will we? Nice people may end up going to hell, and isn’t their job to sort of shepherd us in the right direction?

I have heard so many sermons that almost sound like a greeting card…or Helen Steiner Rice
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We hear about sin. Although once we had a newly ordained priest as a parochial vicar at one catholic parish who started coming down on homosexuality. One of the main families in that parish had a daughter who is a lesbian. She and her partner were sitting in the front pew. He strangely disappeared a couple weeks later. We were told he had been reassigned to a couple of rural parishes about 40 miles away.:hmmm:
 
maryjk said:
Yesterday, the entire homily was on sin and Confession. Oh, and Lent.
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Our priest talks a lot about his own shortcomings so again we can’t accuse him of judging when he is so outgoing about his own foibles.
 
Our priest talks about sin frequently in his homilies. There is also a notice in most of the church bulletins reminding people of the requirements for receiving Communion in a state of grace.
 
oh yes!

he really gets in a fit too when he does. sin, hell, damnation, etc.
this last time i was worried who was going to work himself into a stroke.:eek:
but it is wonderful having such a great priest who is so passionate about our souls.😃
 
The only time we hear of sin in a Sunday homily is when a visiting priest or seminarian is giving the homily. It’s all about being ‘nice’ to each other and kumbaya. Of course we should love our neighbor as Jesus taught, but we also need to be reminded about sin, and the near occasion of sin I might add. Heck, according to the priests in the parish even Sodom and Gomorrah was about inhospitality to your neighbors (exact word used in the homily which I heard x 3 last year) and had nothing to do with homosexuality. I’ve since learned from other sources that this is an interpretation of that OT passage that has been put forward by gay activists.

This past Sunday the homily was given by a Vietnamese seminarian and he spoke about abortion. Although it isn’t appropriate to applaud an homily, the parishioners spontaneously broke out into applause. That’s how starved we are for good catechisis…
 
He mentions it pretty often, but in such a way as to make it seem not really relevent to the congregation.:yawn:
he really gets in a fit too when he does. sin, hell, damnation, etc.
this last time i was worried who was going to work himself into a stroke.
but it is wonderful having such a great priest who is so passionate about our souls.
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You are so blessed to have a priest so passionate about what he preaches. Catholic Churches could use some Protestant enthusiasm. Sometimes I wish Fr. Corapi would come preach at my church. He really tells it like it is!:highprayer:
 
Our pastor mentions Confession at almost every Mass as well as sin. He talks about personal sin and societal sins. We are blessed.
 
LegoGE1947 said:
Our priest talks a lot about his own shortcomings so again we can’t accuse him of judging when he is so outgoing about his own foibles.
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When your confessor gets up and tells the whole parish that he feels as if he is always confessing the same sins over and over again, too…well, it helps us penitents put aside our embarrassment to approach the sacrament. It helps so much to know our confessors struggle with the same thing.
 
EasterJoy said:
When your confessor gets up and tells the whole parish that he feels as if he is always confessing the same sins over and over again, too…well, it helps us penitents put aside our embarrassment to approach the sacrament. It helps so much to know our confessors struggle with the same thing.
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Even the Pope himself, when he was elected, called himself a “poor, sinful laborer in the lord’s vineyard.”
 
redrosetea said:
Ours never does…His homilies are good and pleasant but I am not sure that is enough?

If we don’t hear about sin at mass, where else will we? Nice people may end up going to hell, and isn’t their job to sort of shepherd us in the right direction?

I have heard so many sermons that almost sound like a greeting card…or Helen Steiner Rice
:confused:
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In the churches I attend in the Duluth (MN) diocese: regularly. Hell is mentioned less, but certainly still preached on.

Our priests aren’t shy at all about including abortion in their homilies. Homosexuality is a somewhat rarer topic, but still occasionally spoken about in homilies.

Contraception, on the other hand, I rarely ever hear mentioned.
 
redrosetea said:
Ours never does…His homilies are good and pleasant but I am not sure that is enough?

If we don’t hear about sin at mass, where else will we? Nice people may end up going to hell, and isn’t their job to sort of shepherd us in the right direction?

I have heard so many sermons that almost sound like a greeting card…or Helen Steiner Rice
:confused:
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Oh, you BET ours do! (We have more than one). It’s refreshing.
 
Corki said:
Our pastor mentions Confession at almost every Mass as well as sin. He talks about personal sin and societal sins. We are blessed.
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Yes you are. None of our priests ever mention sin or confession. I guess if we’d go to confession, we’d take up too much of their precious time. And if they mentioned sin, they may turn people away and that’s less money in the collection basket each week. It’s very disheartening.
 
We had a great series of homilies from a FSSP priest on the Ten Commandments…which he (sort of ) jokingly sub-titled “Things I have to tell you so I don’t go to hell”

I like a priest who takes the souls of his people seriously and knows he will be held accountable for them. This may explain why at this church both the confession and communion lines are similar in length. Any other church I have been to usually has communion lines out the door but you’re lucky if you can get to confession there once a week. My territorial parish is twice a month, the TLM parish is every Saturday and before and after Latin Mass on Sundays plus “by appointment”.
 
You can count on our deacon doing it regularly when he gives the homily.👍 Even if our pastor seems to leave it out.
 
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