Under One Roof

If you are a Catholic or is well-versed with a Catholic mass, you would know what I will be yakking about. A long and winded homily…

I am a Catholic all my life. I don’t have any intention of converting or have not even considered it. But I have an open mind and have always been aware of other religions. Particularly of Christians and Buddhists. And I am totally aware of the flaws of my own religion.

I go to church every week. I am attentive inside the church but there are priests who just get into long and winded homilies that will cause you to get drowsy within minutes. I know some people can relate to this. It doesn’t matter if what the priest is saying is sensible. Most of the time, they just drone on and on about something or other. Injecting some humor that fall flat on their faces.

Let me cite an example. There is this priest in our parish who dishes out the same homilies for a particular gospel year after year. How should I know? When the priest is new to the parish, I love his sermons. But in no time at all, we notice that he’s recycling his homilies and injecting government issues that leave a bitter taste to the mouth. It’s just plain annoying. The last homily I heard from him was about the gospel on rich and poor people. The way he explained it you’d think if he studied Theology at all!

I just wish the Dominicans would study preaching more. They suck at it! SVDs are more well-versed to preaching and always deliver great sermons.

And please stop with the long and winded homilies! Short and sweet does it good. Straight to the point is more like it.