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To: Lil Flower

"You cannot say the about Protestant churches and you and I both know it."

Your statement is overly broad. Most Evangelical churches read the scriptures, in context, and exposit the scriptures read, in context, as part of their worship services. In fact. for most Evangelical churches, the "breaking" of the word is the central part of the worship service that all other parts lead up to. That is the purpose and function of the offices and gifts of preaching and teaching that were given to the churches. The model for this is Ezra when he returned from exile reading the scriptures to the returning exiles and then giving the "sense" of it to the congregation.

In many of the Roman Catholic churches I have visited, the homily is just a short "add on" to the liturgy and usually just a comment on some current news item or something that struck the Priest's fancy during the week. Very little exegesis of the scripture reading for the day.


228 posted on 03/09/2007 8:13:28 AM PST by blue-duncan
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To: blue-duncan
Your comment about the homily did nothing to address what I posted about all the Scriptures that are read during Mass.

And the central part of Mass is the worship of Jesus Christ, not what a preacher thinks a particular passage means.

252 posted on 03/09/2007 12:17:33 PM PST by Lil Flower ("Without Love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing." St. Therese of Lisieux)
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