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Aidan T's avatar

We live in a golden age of lay preaching, as witnessed by so many great podcasts and YouTube channels. By all means listen to these. But preaching at mass is a fundamentally liturgical function, where Jesus explains the scriptures as on the road to Emmaus. This should always be done by the priest standing in place of Christ in the liturgy.

This is such a terrible idea I bet Francis does it.-1-

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JD Flynn's avatar

The analysis is not about preaching at Mass, but about regulating and normalizing the other kinds of lay preaching that happen in the Church.

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Aidan T's avatar

That is true, but you did tease the idea at the end. And do you really think the Spirit of Vatican II crowd will be satisfied with lay preachers everywhere except at mass?

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JD Flynn's avatar

Woops. If I teased that idea, I certainly did not mean to! My apologies!

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Aidan T's avatar

Actually, reading it properly, I donтАЩt think you did. Maybe my spidey senses are too on edge.

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JD Flynn's avatar

Understandable!

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