Bishop Tobin: Get Ready – The Mass is About to Change

Rhode Island Catholic ^ | 5/20/2010 | Bishop Thomas J. Tobin

[BenKenobi]

It’s a miracle!!

[marajade]

exactly

pew sitters

[markomalley]

I just think setting your watch so that when 15 mins are up then the sermon is over and one sitting in a pew week after week can just wake up but not live what was taught and practiced in daily living is missing.

Also, remember, that the homily is not the high point of the Mass. In fact, for weekday Masses, as often as not a homily is not given.

[marajade]

Is this thread a Caucus thread?

[markomalley]

Is this thread a Caucus thread?

No, why?

(Having said that, I do appreciate your very polite and respectful attitude)

[marajade]

I don’t want an admonishment from the religion moderator.

[HighlyOpinionated]

I’ve been responding with the “correct” response for years, in English.

So my response to this is “THANK GOD, someone in Rome is listening.”

[marajade]

Knowing nothing about a Catholic worship service but spending tons of sundays in a Lutheran worship service my guess is homily=sermon?

[battousai]

“e.g., the famous Fr. Corapi”

I so love listening to his presentations whenever I get the chance.

This change I think is a step in the right direction if you can get something to reflect more acurately the original then what is to complain.

[don-o]

Rote dictation in a religious ceremoniously setting does nothing engaging the holy spirit in changing a sole’s heart.

Thanks for your opinion. Uh, what IS "rote dictation" and "a religious ceremoniously"?

[sitetest]

Thanks. Glad someone got it (and thought it was funny, too).

[Judith Anne]

Uh, what IS "rote dictation" and "a religious ceremoniously"?

It's how you cook fresh sole's heart. Kinda like BBQ shrimp.

[trisham]

And people say I don’t have a sense of humour. :)

[markomalley]

Knowing nothing about a Catholic worship service but spending tons of sundays in a Lutheran worship service my guess is homily=sermon?

The last Lutheran service I went to was in 1977 in Germany (HS trip over there for a month). If we were in a Catholic area, the Lutherans got dragged to the Catholic Mass. If we were in a Lutheran area, the Catholics got dragged to a Lutheran service.

So the answer to your question is: I "think so" but it's been so long, I couldn't tell you. (Both of them are when the liturgical leader talks...just not sure all of the details involved with the Lutheran sermon)

[sitetest]

If you’re laughing at MY jokes, maybe you don’t. ;-)

[trisham]

Heh. :)

[sitetest]

Dear markomalley,

At least by Catholic definitions, a sermon and a homily are different things. But they are similar and analogous between the Mass and the services of various ecclesial communities. Here's something from a blog that quotes Homiletic and Pastoral Review:

•A homily explains a passage of scripture and gives practical applications. (”In this passage, Jesus is saying.... This applies to us today in such situations as....”)

•A sermon develops a point of doctrine or morals in a systematic way. (God is ______. Scripture describes this attribute in several places.... or The virtue of _____ can be fostered in a number of ways; firstly....)

sitetest

[sitetest]

A [missing] link for the above:

http://pestle.blogspot.com/2006/09/homily-vs-sermon.html

[markomalley]

cool by me.

[sitetest]

Okay. How do you cook the heart of a frozen sole?