Homilies need Listeners Too!
From Margaret Mollett, Piketberg, Western Cape – Michael Shackleton’s point in Do poor homilies lose parishioners? (April 16), that Catholics […]
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Church Mass Your Letters
Church Easter Mass
Roman Missal calls Easter Vigil ‘Mother of all Vigils’ for a Reason
The Catholic Church pulls out all the stops for the Easter Vigil, the Mass celebrated on Holy Saturday. The Roman
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Church Mass Your Letters
I Can’t Hear at Mass!
I have been a Catholic all my life and I finally have to have my say about many missed sermons
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Mass Your Letters
Every Mass is Good – No Matter the Priest
Fr Sean Collins CSsR, Cape Town – I was enchanted to read Fr Ron Rolheiser’s article on the Mass (November
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Church Liturgy Mass
Our Missal is Hard on the Ear!
Sarah-Leah Pimental -I refer to Fr. Chris Townsend’s column of 6 June “Let’s Look at the New Missal Translation –
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Mass Your Letters
Mass is Best-Kept Secret of Church
Moira Gillmore, Durban – Why is it that the Catholic Church keeps so silent about the greatness of Holy Mass?
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Church Mass Preaching
What’s the Point of a Homily?
Bishop Edward Risi OMI – Lately there have been comments in The Southern Cross and other publications about homilies. Some
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Mass Your Letters
Open Up Homilies to a Prayerful Laity
From Sr Judy Coyle IHM, Johannesburg -The late Benedictine liturgist Aidan Kavanagh in a small book entitled Elements of Rite
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Liturgy Mass Priests
Should We Vary the Preachers at Mass?
I know of one European diocese where the bishop has approved a “homily team” of half-a-dozen lay people who have
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