Since I entered into so-called retirement, I have cut my Sunday homilies in half from about 12 minutes to about six minutes.
People now love my homilies, not so much because they are good, but because my homilies are short.
If you are a priest or deacon and want compliments about your homilies after Mass, keep them to six minutes!
Here is what the good Cardinal Arinze has to say, press the title:
3 comments:
Six minutes of a prepared, organized, focused, and rehearsed homily...yep, that should do do it.
“Be brief, be brilliant, and be gone” is advice often given to lawyers in making arguments to judges and juries. Given many of the homilies I've heard in my life, it clearly hasn't filtered through to clerics
Nick
I attend a weekly TLM, offered by a terrific priest. However, I dread his homilies. They average 20 to 30 minutes and, no matter how hard I try, I always end up falling asleep as he drones on (and on and on and on).
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