By Fr. Ray Blake
I was rather taken by this headline, "Unemployed Sicilian man 'murdered his parish priest because he couldn't bear to listen to any more sermons".
I am one of those priests who preach a short sermon every day, and I
suppose preach a little too long on a Sunday. I don't think I am
untypical of priests around here.
But I wonder if we actually preach too much, certainly the daily sermon
is modern phenonoma, even the Sunday sermon wasn't absolutely necessary
before the Council, at least not at all Masses.
A friend tells me he was concelebrating with a priest and asked him to
use the shorter version of the Gospel in the Lectionary, because he had
rather a lot say. "Oh", said the other priest, "I'll look forward to
that, I haven't heard much that is more important than the Gospel of the
Lord!" (continued)
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