What HAVE you heard in homilies?

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None of the items mentioned in the poll.

Our parish pastor’s typical sermon is something like a “Dear Abby” response in a western british accent. We had (fortunately no longer) an associate whose sermons were buddhism camouflaged with the sign of the cross (e.g.: “God is not self conscious” and “Love is NOT something you WILL - it’s something you feel in your ‘hara’, the japanese word for ‘gut’”). When I get really desperate for a truly good, Catholic sermon I travel to a parish 60 miles away.
 
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Southernrich:
No liturgical abuses in my parish. The pastor is from India and the assistant is Vietnamese. IMO foreign-born/trained priests tend to be quite orthodox.

I don’t understand what you mean by “Pope teachers.”
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Our assistant is from Nigera and is very supportave of the war effort, so you can’t say that all ‘orthodox’ Catholics are for or against the war. Our pastor who is American has not taken a public stance on the war. Why do you call it Bush’s war? Was it Clinton’s war when we sent our guys into Bosnia? You can like or dislike Bush, but the war is our war, what would Kerry do to get us out of it? If we just pull out the Muslim extremest will be as bad or worse than Sadam about killing anyone who dares to disagree with them. What we need is for people like you who don’t like the war to come up with an alternative that will protect the lives and freedom of the Iraqi people and the safety of the western(Christian) world.
 
Our priest is nearing retirement, so we have a lot of replacement priests. What we hear depends on who shows up. However., we have been told that when our priest retires, he will NOT be replaced, so I guess our parish and our sister parish will be closed down. Pray for vocations.
 
Our Pastor is a great homilist and covers most of the topics in the poll.

One of our retired priest just talks about love, no matter what the Gospel is on. :confused:

The other retired priest speaks on going to Confession, Marian devotion, reading our bibles, Real Precense in the Eucharist, being in a state for Grace for communion, and He loves to give “alter calls” during homilies…i.e. telling people that coming up to receive Eucharist is a public display of our faith in Christ and it’s a ‘Catholic Alter Call’. 🙂 He also has a “Question Box” You can write in questions and put them in this mail box in the back of the church. He’ll put the answer in the bulletin and call you if you leave a phone number. Lots of church teachings covered there. He is also cool because he gives a short intro to each reading so you kinda know what’s going on before the 1st and 2nd reading. He is usually the priest how does any of the Adult formation classes we have throughout the year. He gave a great talk on Purgatory this past winter. 🙂

Besides the “Love” priest, they are usually really good about giving church teachings.
 
A couple weeks ago we had our semenarian speak. He was on the eve of being in the Diaconate (sp?). It was a great talk and whatever parish gets him when he becomes a priest will have a great blessing. He talked about the idea of the priesthood being a marriage to the church. He asked the congregation questions like:
  1. When I make a pastoral decision you don’t agree with, will you still be there?
  2. When I am over stretched with responsibilities will you be there for me?
If was a great talk that really reminded us all about supporting our Priest because of the emmence job they have to do and that we are the spouse they are marrying…are we going to be there for them? It is so exciting that the other guys in his class are just as passionate about the Church, their vocation, and Christ!! God is doing a mightly work in these young men’s life. 🙂
 
I love my parish priests & deacons. I was able to check ALL the boxes!Sorry - is that gloating??
 
No, that’s thanksgiving! God has truly blessed you with such a wonderful parish and pastor!
 
I haven’t heard a good homily yet. My husband is not a Catholic and he joins me at every Sunday mass. He wishes the homilies had more substance than the typical ‘God love’s you’ theme. He says he has come to expect poor homilies! 😦 I too am in need of a better teaching from the pulpit. My question is, what can be done to make a priest TEACH the Scripture / Church doctrine and apply it to today?
 
I am one of those fortunate ones who have a very Orthodox Priest. He has been very instrumental in my changing from a Cafeteria Catholic. For those that have not heard these things, and are thirsting for some sound teaching from the pulpit, you might want to check our parish website. They have posted the homilies since March.stmarysgvl.org/discipleship-tape.asp
 
I started doing apologetics reading 3 years ago, although I didn’t know it was apologetics, I was just interested in learning more about my Catholic faith.

I am disguested with the sermons at my Catholic Parish in Cleveland Heights/University Heights, Ohio. Wishy washy, Sugar coated sermons that I swear I got a few cavities from it last week.

The problem is Priests today have no backbone…very few will say anything against abortion/homosexuality/divorce/pornography, well you get the picture.

The sermons are pathetic, and we’re partly to blame. After a total lame duck talk, boring as all heck, most parishoners will shake fathers hand and say, “Ow what a nice sermon”…Come on, we are the ones with no backbone.

Thanks…
 
The Priest at my church have said something that makes a lot of sense…We are to help them be held accountable for the emmence responsibility of their position. How many of us are truly praying for our Priest or in conversation with them on things we see as wrong?
 
Outside of quotes from the early Church Fathers, I hear all of those on a regular basis from all three priests at my parish…especially emphasizing Confession and Mary. I can’t think of any church I’ve been to recently where the priest never talks about the Real Presence in the Eucharist. In fact, last Sunday I heard a wonderful homily defending the Church’s position on not allowing anti-life politicians to receive the Eucharist. It was truly a blessing because not only was he right on target with his defence, but it was well-spoken and was addressed to a very large congregation.
 
None of the above. Our priest tells stories that I don’t get the point of, tries to tell jokes (sigh), & tells everyone how wonderful we are because we managed to show up on Sunday morning. He also changes the liturgy to suit himself. Thank God he’s being transferred! I don’t know the new priest coming in, but I’ve heard some good things. 👍
 
I’ve heard all of them but only because I go to a Traditional Latin Mass.

Matthew
 
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Southernrich:
No liturgical abuses in my parish. The pastor is from India and the assistant is Vietnamese. IMO foreign-born/trained priests tend to be quite orthodox.

I don’t understand what you mean by “Pope teachers.”
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Goodness I read this and could have sworn you were in my parish.

-D
 
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nobody:
I love my parish priests & deacons. I was able to check ALL the boxes!Sorry - is that gloating??
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Well, if you’re gloating, so am I. 😃

All of them - :clapping:

I almost had to say “all but the last one” until I re-read it and saw the and/or other saints. He doesn’t mention the EC Fathers, but he does mention other saints and their teachings.

John
 
I can gloat as well: our pastor, Fr. Thomas Dufner in St. Louis Park in Minnesota, is absolutely marvelous, and so I was able to check all of the boxes. In addition to quoting the catechism, saints, popes and Church Fathers, he will also throw in some Chesterton from time to time—does it get better than that? He is a tremendous blessing, and well worth our 45-minute drive…
 
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In light of the post regarding teaching from the pulpit (namely, hell being taught) I am just curious as to how many people have actually heard these things at their parish during the homily?
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Our pastor has spoken recently about the need for vocations. He said (jokingly, but seriously) that our parish should be ashamed because it’s 85 years old and has never had a vocation. --KCT
 
I was so pleased with our pastor when he took the opportunity at a mass where children were making their first communion to have the children repeat what they learned about the Eucharist–that they were about to receive Jesus.

I was even more pleased when another pastor, who is not our regular pastor, talked the entire homily about the Real Presence in the Eucharist. This was on the feast of Corpus Christi. He stated that is why he became a Catholic and a priest. He was raised baptist, I think.
 
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