“We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine”
I am having a LSS. Yesterday this song was played on Spotify We used Josef’s Bose sound link mini. Imagine three voices blending with this chorus, Nate’s childish almost shouting voice, Nissa’s lovely voice and mine.
While we were at church today, I remember Nate changing the word “yellow” into gold, green and red whichever took his fancy.The three of us were laughing while the song was being played. Ah, the joys of having them around. Listening to the Beatles brings back memories too, good old memories of my childhood.
Earlier in the mass today, Josef commented that the homily was brief, all of ten minutes. I told him that it was Pope Francis’ directive to limit delivering homilies in ten minutes. Pope Francis said the homily “is not a casual discourse, nor a conference or a lesson,” but is rather a way of resuming “that dialogue which has already been opened between the Lord and his people, so that it finds fulfillment in life.”
I really don’t mind a long homily if it has an inspiring content, if it does not lack focus and it is direct to the point. I’d rather listen to practical applications based on the Gospel than something repetitive, sometimes even to the point of quoting some parts of the Gospel just read. When a priest has delivered the “meat” of his homily in ten minutes flat, that is wonderful. “Please,” he said, “be brief…no more than 10 minutes, please!” For two masses now since February 7 when Pope Francis touched on this topic, I listened to brief but inspiring homilies. I remember Fr. Lovell telling me before what they have learned in Homiletics, a seven-minute homily is enough.
Have a good Sunday everyone! Let us start the week with a smile 🙂
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