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losh14
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Are priests allowed to turn the homily over to someone else? I don’t just mean a representative from the diocese for the diocesan appeal or from the parish council to give an update, I mean turn over to a third-party speaker? Or even to hand the mike around and have 15 minutes of Q & A?
We briefly had a parish priest when I was growing up who liked to do things differently. This was a mostly-older parish, wealthy, with probably 4,000 parishoners attending six masses each weekend. He was the first to push for altar girls in our parish. He wanted to have a gay and lesbian ministry (this is back in the 80s). He offered to have clergy of other religions (including buddhist and ekin kar) come and talk. He would often give very brief homilies. One was “for next week, think about someone whom you have a wrong against, and go forgive them.” and he sat down. My mother began avoiding him after his spent an uncharacteristically long homily railing against medical professionals (she is a nurse), and after 3 years he transferred elsewhere.
He started a homily at one point by saying “I have nothing to say today but I want to know what you think about today’s Gospel reading”. There were a few polite comments, some back and forth on divorce, and 15 minutes later we began the Liturgy of the Eucharist. He tried it again two weeks later, and this time opened up for a full Q & A. Almost 45 minutes later …
We briefly had a parish priest when I was growing up who liked to do things differently. This was a mostly-older parish, wealthy, with probably 4,000 parishoners attending six masses each weekend. He was the first to push for altar girls in our parish. He wanted to have a gay and lesbian ministry (this is back in the 80s). He offered to have clergy of other religions (including buddhist and ekin kar) come and talk. He would often give very brief homilies. One was “for next week, think about someone whom you have a wrong against, and go forgive them.” and he sat down. My mother began avoiding him after his spent an uncharacteristically long homily railing against medical professionals (she is a nurse), and after 3 years he transferred elsewhere.
He started a homily at one point by saying “I have nothing to say today but I want to know what you think about today’s Gospel reading”. There were a few polite comments, some back and forth on divorce, and 15 minutes later we began the Liturgy of the Eucharist. He tried it again two weeks later, and this time opened up for a full Q & A. Almost 45 minutes later …
