"The first time I saw the Divine Liturgy interrupted (after the Gospel reading) was in a Greek church in St. Augustine, Florida, and thereafter in other Greek, Antiochan and OCA churches -- and can safely be called an "American phenomenon," a western influence that is alien and contrary to Eastern praxis and mindset."
I don't think I've ever seen this in any Orthodox Church anywhere.
Kolo, there is one Greek Orthodox church in St. Augustine and one in Fort Myers, both in Florida. In both churches, the latter one on more than one occasion, the Divine Liturgy is interrupted by homily (I even once wrote to you about the pulpit on the side, which I found strange because in Serbian churches the priest usually stands in front of the royal doors). The same is true in the Antiochan orthodox Jurch in Jackson, Mississippi, and the OCA church is visited in Jacksonville, FL (when everyone sits on the floor (rugs) during the usually somewhat animated "sermon"). The Serbian church in Orlando, Fl, does not interrupt its Divine Liturgy.
It must be my "bad" luck I guess.