No homily at mass?

[dizzy_dave]

Sometimes if there is going to be someone talking about something at mass, like the principal talking about the school or something there will not be a Homily. It happens about once a month. Is this a liturgical abuse? Thank you.

 

[buffalo]

From the Girm 2003:

The Homily

1. The homily is part of the Liturgy and is strongly recommended,63 for it is necessary for the nurturing of the Christian life. It should be an exposition of some aspect of the readings from Sacred Scripture or of another text from the Ordinary or from the Proper of the Mass of the day and should take into account both the mystery being celebrated and the particular needs of the listeners.64
2. The Homily should ordinarily be given by the priest celebrant himself. He may entrust it to a concelebrating priest or occasionally, according to circumstances, to the deacon, but never to a lay person.65 In particular cases and for a just cause, the homily may even be given by a Bishop or a priest who is present at the celebration but cannot concelebrate.

** 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.** It is recommended on other days, especially on the weekdays of Advent, Lent, and the Easter Season, as well as on other festive days and occasions when the people come to church in greater numbers.66

 

[jlw]

Yesterday, the homily was ommited at our parish because the Gospel reading was sung by three men of our chior. Took quite a long time. We went straight to the creed.

 

[DANNY61902]

I guess the Passion account is allowed to be read by laypeople, with Christ’s part by a priest. Of course, the homily is so intimately connected to the Eucharist that the GIRM is very specific about it. dizzy_dave, I suggest you speak to someone (charitably?) about it if it’s a regular occurrence–it’s probably simple ignorance of the norms.

 

[Titus]

DANNY61902:

I guess the Passion account is allowed to be read by laypeople, with Christ’s part by a priest. Of course, the homily is so intimately connected to the Eucharist that the GIRM is very specific about it. dizzy_dave, I suggest you speak to someone (charitably?) about it if it’s a regular occurrence–it’s probably simple ignorance of the norms.

In my parish they do it aswell, as was the case two sundays ago when a letter was read out from our Archbishop-who had ordered it to be read at all masses- which seems to suggest it is not an ignorant practice.

 

[WanderAimlessly]

DANNY61902:

I guess the Passion account is allowed to be read by laypeople, with Christ’s part by a priest. Of course, the homily is so intimately connected to the Eucharist that the GIRM is very specific about it. dizzy_dave, I suggest you speak to someone (charitably?) about it if it’s a regular occurrence–it’s probably simple ignorance of the norms.

Actually, accoring to my missal and what happened at Palm Sunday Mass in my Parish, there was a Gospel reading (Mt 21:1-11) at the very beginning of Mass. The Pastor did that reading and did the part of Jesus during the Passion Reading.

Other than that, the Pastor did give a homily after the Passion reading.

I have only been a member of this parish for about a month (been going about 2 months), but it seems to be quite orthodox in its practices. I have yet to see any deviation with the homlily.

The pastor also seems to like to do the long versions of ALL readings. Why do I have a feeling we will have all eight Readings, all eight Responsorial Psalms, and the Gospel at the Easter Vigil:bigyikes:

PF

 

[mommy]

Very rarely do we not have a homily. I have only seen it twice at daily mass that we haven’t had one. Both times were by a priest at our parish who’s 2nd language is English (he normally does the spanish mass, and occassionally subs for daily mass) I think he sometimes skips it because I think he has a hard time with English. It’s pretty hard to understand him too, so I don’t necessarily mind so much. When the other priests are present at Daily mass, there is always a homily.

 

[Mt19_26]

At my parish the homily used to be omitted if there was a ‘special’ speaker that week that was usually asking for financial support for some cause. It always bothered me when this happened. I don’t mind the speaker, however, the homily should not be omitted because of this. Thankfully, when we got a new pastor a couple years ago this practice stopped.