Need your opinion

[johnthebaptist1]

As a person that grew up as a Catholic. I need, what or how you feel about what I,am going to ask.
When I go to Mass and listen too the Gospel,I look forward too what the Priest say in his Homaly.But, I don,t injoy when the priest,saids, today we won,t have a homaly, because the Superbowel game is going to start shortly. Would you let the Bishop know
about this?.
Because I already had a sitution with the Priest, when I went too leave Catholic materal
in the rear of the chuch for people too read. He told me not too because, I only allow
materal from certain groups.
I beleive that a priest, is suppose to bring us closer to GOD, so cutting the homaly out
I feel is not right.
GOD BLESS :)

 

[MarkThompson]

As a person that grew up as a Catholic. I need, what or how you feel about what I,am going to ask.
When I go to Mass and listen too the Gospel,I look forward too what the Priest say in his Homaly.But, I don,t injoy when the priest,saids, today we won,t have a homaly, because the Superbowel game is going to start shortly. Would you let the Bishop know
about this?.

Could you say that more clearly? The Super Bowl was six weeks ago.

Anyway, for the modern form of the Mass, the GIRM (¶ 65) states:
There is to be a homily on Sundays and holy days of obligation at all Masses that are celebrated with the participation of a congregation; it may not be omitted without a serious reason.
Obviously, a game is not a serious reason. If you went to the traditional Latin Mass, I’m not aware of anything that requires a homily, although nowadays it’s very common.

 

[JRKH]

Our priest is our local shepherd and as such needs to guard and help his flock, leading by example. However, as far as a priest “bringing us closer to God”, they can do this by examples that we follow, but it is primarily the task of each individual to move closer to God through obedience to His commands to Love.

Now - to your specific questions. As pointed out above the lack of a homily is a breach of the GIRM, but unless it is a fairly common practice, I would not recommend reporting it to the Bishop. Just let it go.

Peace
James

 

[laszlo]

Distributing any material in the church without the explicit approval of the pastor is sin against the obedience to the hierarchy.

As for the homily to omit it is lesser evil than the mass of people leaving before the completion of the Mass.

 

[COLOS]

…
When I go to Mass and listen too the Gospel,I look forward too what the Priest say in his Homaly.But, I don,t injoy when the priest,saids, today we won,t have a homaly,
…
, so cutting the homaly out
I feel is not right.

A homily is great, but that is not why you assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

You are there to have sacrifice offered for your sins. You are there to recieve the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ given for your salvation.

I don’t know what else to say other than it sounds like you might be “majoring on the minors”, so to speak. Even if the homily were completely incomprehensible or totatlly absent from the Mass (or even if everything were said in a language which you do not understand), it would not detract one little bit from the salvific power of the Holy Eucharist. Now having said that I must also say it most certainly is not appropriate to violate any of the rubrics set in place by the Holy See.

I do understand our need to be verbally instructed by our holy and humble Priests, but it is good to recognize what is most important for our salvation. A sermon by itself cannot save us, but one single communion has the power to make us Saints.

The Holy Eucharist is the source and summit of our Christian Faith.

Pray for me,
Andrew

 

[Claire_from_DE]

Distributing any material in the church without the explicit approval of the pastor is sin against the obedience to the hierarchy.

As for the homily to omit it is lesser evil than the mass of people leaving before the completion of the Mass.

It’s fairly pointless to say one is a lesser evil than another. However, a priest is to give a Sunday homily so it would be wrong for him to totally omit it. As a priest, he has a vocation to teach in this way.

As for people leaving before the end of Mass, we all know we should stay. I would say that many people are just thoughtless and haven’t received good catechesis about the Mass. The priest should preach on this maybe. He could have said, “I’ll keep my homily short today if you all would give Our Lord the courtesy of remaining in church until the Mass is over.” Ah, one can dream…

 

[skinny_pumpkin]

homily and “materials” ?? Prayer, ascesis, and the sacraments bring you closer to God.

 

[pollycarp]

Johnthebaptist1 - Find a traditional parish. I attend a traditional Latin mass and faith comes before sports events there. And the first person to leave Mass early was Judas. Not a good ending there.

Why can’t there be a little sign in church vestibules that says don’t leave anything here
unless approved by the pastor. People don’t know.

h

 

[puzzleannie]

I too am disappointed when our pastor does not preach because is probably the best homilist I have ever heard. I particularly dislike videos shown in place of the homily even when it is a message from the bishop. That being said, my personal preference is irrelevant, so is my “enjoyment” or satisfaction. If the pastor or bishop or both have decided to deliver a message in this way, or to publish the message in the bulletin for a good reason rather than to preach, that is in their realm to decide, not mine. I am too old to get wound up about this stuff. I have enough stress without manufacturing reasons to be resentful.