When Will This Division End?!!!

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We, it seems to me, can discuss differing opinions of our own..  We can discuss why.  But no need at all to attack in some way the poster.  NO need to be an annihilator, yet claim I am a practicing Catholic which are mutually opposed and contradictory, inconsistent.

Mea maxima culpa again.

 

 

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The Mass is not for teaching,  as someone has stated in this thread.   However, it can and does teach.

The Mass can teach perhaps especially in the homily.  Usually, Father's homily or sermon is commentary on the Scipture Readings, and especially The Gospel. It is highlighted as an important part of the liturgy of The Mass by the special ritual around it repeated nowhere else in The Mass.  The Gospel is anecdotes and words of Jesus, very often His Teaching words.

Another way The Mass can teach is that somewhere in the liturgy a word, phrase or sentence etc. might linger after Mass.  One has never noticed it in a Mass before, but now one is drawn to give it special thought and reflection - perhaps wisely and prudently asking The Holy Spirit for His Help.

My previous pp would commence the sermon with a short joke and usually good one.  Then he would address the meaning of what we had heard in Readings and The Gospel.  After that, he would speak about how the previous could take effect in ordinary every lives.  He did not go A B C always, sometimes he would vary the chronology.  He was teaching in the context of The Mass.  Weekdays when it was a Mass attended by students from the parish school, he would go down from the altar and stand in front of the children.  The content really was for children.  I could come home reflective of his little homily to the children.  He was teaching them......and me often as well.  The Mass can indeed teach.  Actually reading back this post, I am thinking that one of the purposes of the Mass is to teach; hence The Church has included the homily (for one) in the defined liturgy of The Mass.