Which Issue(s) has Your Parish Priests Spoken out Against During the Homily?

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ProLifeAction:
Which Issue(s) has Your Parish Priests Spoken out Against During the Homily?

Contraception
Abortion
Homosexual Marriage
Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Cloning
Sex Before Marriage
Living Together Before Marriage
Not Dressing Modestly

How Often? Would You Like your Priest to speak out more often on these issues?
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All of the above, thank God. And he’s no “fire & brimstone” boring homilist - he’s awesome!
 
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margie:
On Corpus Christi, we were treated to an ejaculatory homily on why he would not deny the Eucharist to ANYONE who presented him/herself in a respectful manner. The day he receives a directive to deny Eucharist to anyone will be the day he no longer celebrates mass.
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For your sake, I’m hoping the directive comes SOON.

These forums have made me see how fortunate I am to have a good, holy priest. On Corpus Christi, we have a Eucharistic procession (with a canopy to cover teh Monstrance!) thru the neighborhood, stopping at people’s homes along the way to hear ALL the appropriate Gospels. This is the type of priest that the liberals are trying to silence.
 
None of the above, unfortunately! However, we are in the process of waiting for new of a new pastor. Please pray that we will have a holy and faithful man assigned.
The current pastor’s favorite subject to preach on is the washing of the feet on Holy Thursday - I have heard this subject about 50% of the time, including Midnight Mass at Christmas :confused:
 
Having visited around over the past couple of years I have heard some of subjects touched. Seems to me that the priests have to preach what they think will speak to the hearts of the hearers and not follow any hard line that might alienate many. A homily on modest dress in a university church might not go over well.
 
Most of the above. His current fave is lack of vocations. He acknowledges several factors but is blunt about No1 - parents putting their children off.:bowdown:
 
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ProLifeAction:
Which Issue(s) has Your Parish Priests Spoken out Against During the Homily?

Contraception
Abortion
Homosexual Marriage
Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Cloning

How Often? Would You Like your Priest to speak out more often on these issues?
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Our pastor has been making some great strides in returning our parish to being Catholic – our Bishop is kind of Episcopal or something. So our pastor has had to work uphill to to get the flock to listen.

He did a great job on the Eucharist. He did a wonderful homily on Humanae Vitae, too. The bio-ethic’s of cloning and stem cell stuff have been addressed and as well as abortion being changed into adoption. Our son was very relieved when the pastor got to the adoption part. He is troubled by the thought of “disposable babies” as he sees the abortion world. Christopher just turned six last month and he was adopted.

I pray for our priest and offer some of my Masses for him. In a newsletter I write for our Eucharistic adoration committee, I encouraged everyone who saw a Presence Candle to thank God for the Priest who consecrated the Hosts throught the power of the Holy Spirit, but we still need the priest.

Pax et bonum,
Mamamull
 
Mine has talked on almost all of them. I can’t say I remember stem cell or cloning…but I know he talks frequently on the others. He often talks on strenghting the family and the importance of kids. And all of the other ones you listed have fit into those talks in someway on many occaisions.
Debbie
 
We are only one week into August so he has not hit all of them in one week. 🙂 But he does address them often and in union with the Gospel of the days reading so I can safely say, yes he has and yes he will.

In July and the first Sunday of August, he also taught extensively on the fact we are expected as good citizens to vote with a Catholic conscience formed by our Catholic beliefs not secular values.

He put up a large sign at all the entrances of the church regarding the teachings of the church as to “Marriage is between one man and one woman.”

Some vandals of course snuck in and covered up the one and WO part so that it read man and man. He noticed it and fixed it back asap! 👍
 
DetroitSue,
How lucky you are. We have a very good priest, however we seem to only have activities at the church that don’t draw the towns attention. We have suggested a Eucharistic Procession and have gotten a few others in the parish to go along with us in the suggestion. It may be paying off. Still no Eucharistic procession, but tonight we have having a candlelight procession to dedicate the shrine to St. Philomenia that we have built. But I am sure it will just be from the Church to the shrine which is only the other side of the rectory. But it is a start.
Debbie
 
I don’t see a contradiction between homilies emphasizing “All are welcome, love your neighbor,” etc and homilies which talk on the above issues. Remember that Christ attracted all kinds of people by talking about “the hard stuff” as well as…wait! Loving your neighbor and welcoming all is pretty hard too! We don’t have to stifle a message of welcome and love to talk about the controversies and issues of the day; priests should do both. I personally would love to hear homilies on living together before marriage, because that is accepted as regular and normal before weddings of all kinds of people. But I also want to hear more homilies on welcoming all and loving all too. If we set these up as a contradiction, we are missing a big part of the message. Have just one (Love/Welcome All) or the other (Current Moral Problems) is insufficient; we need both.
 
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