Posted on 05/15/2014 9:40:21 PM PDT by ReformationFan
You seem to have understood rather the opposite of what I was saying.
Well then, elucidate. And I do apologize for misunderstanding.
I meant that it’s expected in the Catholic Church that a priest or deacon will tell the congregation what he thinks about a Bible passage, along with other facts. We just don’t usually call it “preaching the Bible”; we call it “giving a homily.”
In most cases the Church doesn’t teach that a passage means “just this and nothing else.” We have “This is My Body” means “This is my Body,” but people can comment endless on the parable of the Prodigal Son or the implications of “I am the Good Shepherd.”
I've been a Catholic going on seven decades, a practicing Catholic and I go to daily Mass, so I've heard PLENTY of homilies. Also, every Catholic Church on the planet goes in a three-year cycle when it comes to Scripture readings, so I hear the same set of Scripture readings every fourth year.
"Commenting" isn't part of their training. That is why priests have a four year college education first, THEN go to the seminary for another four-six years. That is why priests don't really get rolling into their profession until they are almost 30. It is a CALLING, not just a profession.
PEOPLE can "comment" forever on whatever they want, but priests can't. There are some opinions and life experiences they bring into their homilies, which make them more interesting but the CORE of their homilies is quite regulated.
Okay, if you say so.
Perhaps you ran into homily free-commenting priests. I never did. But what do I know? I’ve only been hearing Mass for almost seven decades, from many parts of the world.
God is omnipresent, so He doesn’t live in a house.
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