[maryz]

that goes for the longer Eucharistic prayer which is hardly ever said.

Well, they had to cut something to make room for that stupid "prayer of the faithful" (not to be judgmental, but this a.m. one of ours was for "resources" for teachers). (Of course, we always prayed in the Canon for the living and the dead, so I'm not sure who they thought we were leaving out!)

[Desdemona]

Well, they had to cut something to make room for that stupid "prayer of the faithful"

I still say put a stopwatch on the homily, limit it to five minutes and there will plenty of time for everything else if an arbitrary time constraint is a deciding factor to what is done at Mass.