We need to stop complaining about "bad homilies"

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This is true:joy:😂.

Joking aside, the priests’ homilies don’t tend to be as good as they could be. Many people would appreciate more humor, modern-day connection/content, tonal inflection, etc. There are definitely priests who do this well, so I know it’s possible!!
 
No offense taken, for me to drive to mass would take about 1 hour and 30 to 45 mins. But even if the church was next door I doubt I would go to mass any more. It is not my perception either, it is a fact. The message that too many priest have started to give is wrong. Nothing is wrong with the church saying that we have to be willing to help our fellow man, but when they cross the line and tell me the only steps I am allowed to take to help my fellow man. For example, illegal immigration. We are to allow as many as can get to the usa into the usa. It doesnt matter the damage it will have on our way of life, our culture, our safety, or many other negative out comes. since it makes a progressive feel good that is all that matter even if it doesnt do good.
 
Fear always leads to hate.
Polticians love to tell us what to hate and who we should blame.
Jesus taught us to love our neighbor.
 
I had to listen to two homilies in Spanish and I had no clue what was going on.
 
Yes Jesus told us to love our neighbor, but too many people want to tell others what we have to do to show that we love our neighbors. When you question their methods you will be a platitude thrown at you. Like “Fear always leads to hate” or “But those hearing must open their hearts and minds, and allow the message to come in”.
 
Very well said, (name removed by moderator).
I could not agree more.
 
Who are you to judge me? Why do you only take a small part of what I wrote. I live far away from a church and due to a major injury I can not drive that distance.
 
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Practice sounds good, but they are trained poorly. They are trained as if the are public speakers as opposed to a reader. Way too slow, while they try to make eye contact with the people, too much attempt at adding emotions ( not the right word, but I hope it is clear enough).
I think readers should be required to listen to audio books. These are produced by people whose livihhod depends on getting it right. They are read at the pace to where it is easy to listen and comprehend, not where you are left waiting for the next syllable, between every syllable.
 
Again, so much ado about the delivery of the message instead of focus on the message.
 
You are not required to go to Mass if you cannot do so. I was unable to attend Mass do to a similar situation a few years back for a period of one year.

I watched the Mass on EWTN but you can’t receive the Eucharist through the TV of course so i read the daily Mass readings easily available online and reflected upon thos.e

I a lso read varoius commentaries from different priests I have found online. I like Bishop Barron.
Free Daily Gospel Reflections from Bishop Robert Barron. I find these informative and well stated.
https://dailycatholicgospel.com/sign-up-daily-gospel

Have you tried anything like that. It worked for me .

Blessings.
 
This post is wrong on so many levels. So I am suppose to endure a level of pain that would very well force me to not be able to walk for days, just so I can drive to Mass and back?
 
Absolutely not. Perhaps it was not apparent to some you were unable to get to mass due to your pain. I am not sure I caught that in your first post.

Sorry to hear about your pain. God bless.
 
I love the take that Fred Rogers had on this topic. (Many people do not know he was an ordained Presbyterean minister who had been to seminary himself!) He told this story on several occasions that I know of, including in at least one of his books:

When I was a seminary student taking my first homiletics course, one Sunday I heard the worst sermon anyone could ever give…I thought! A substitute preacher had come to our church and, in his sermon, went against every rule that we had been taught in class. As he finished, I was ready to give him my unspoken failing grade; but I happened to look at the woman who was sitting beside me. With moist eyes, she turned and said, ‘That preacher said exactly what I needed to hear.’

Well, that service turned out to be one of the most important times of my life. Obviously, something had happened between that preacher’s poor sermon and that woman in need. It hadn’t happened to me. Of course, I had come there in judgment – not in need.

Ever since that day, I have recognized that the space between a person who is doing his or her best and a person who has come in need – that space is holy ground. The Holy Spirit can use whatever we offer to speak to another person’s heart. So whenever I make a television program or give a speech or just talk with a neighbor, I realize that all I need to do is give the best that I can, and God will translate it into whatever is needed most.

If you come as a beggar, as a person in need, then you’ll get what there is to be had. It doesn’t make a poor homily into a good one nor does it remove the importance of priests who make an effort to deliver really good homilies. It does mean that nothing that the Holy Spirit intends to give you will be wasted because you were sitting in judgment.

That applies to so much in life, doesn’t it?
 
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