[Alberta's Child]

It's mostly emotion, like some of the Novus Ordo crowd "feels" the "God-experience."

That's not necessarily the case at all. I attended Novus Ordo masses for most of my life, but if I were to sit down and rank the top 10 homilies I've ever heard at a Sunday mass, I'd say that eight or nine of them were heard at Tridentine masses in the last three years.

And the one or two top-rate sermons I've heard at Novus Ordo masses were given by old Benedictine monks from India at a monastary in northern New Jersey.

[sinkspur]

Homily preparation is probably the single worst indictment that can be leveled at priests today. Most homilies sound as if the priest prepared them while walking up the aisle for the processional. On the whole, they have no content other than platitudes, and don't demand any action other than "love God and your neighbor." They're vapid and horrible.

The Anglican converts preach rings around the native Catholic priests, almost to a man.

I had a great homiletics teacher in the seminary, God rest him. The guys now are obviously not very demanding and, as a result, Catholics are starved for inspired preaching.