Question of Faith

How Long Should a Homily Be?

January 31, 2023 Mike Hayes and Fr Damian Ference Season 1 Episode 59
Question of Faith
How Long Should a Homily Be?
Show Notes

Fr. Eric Garris, Vocation Director joins us.

0:30:  Is Fr. Garris the first repeating guest?

0:55:   The seminarians won the annual basketball game.

1:25:  Mike's formation class used to play seminarians in volleyball.

1:50:  Pope Francis' words on homilies recently.

2:25:   Here's what we tell our seminarians.

3:15:  What do you do when people ask for more catechesis in homilies?

4:00:  Fr. D often points to different parts of the liturgy in his homiles often.

4:45:  What does it mean to "unpack?"

5:35:  The Joy of the Gospel speaks about preaching for about 5 pages.

6:40:  How do you form seminarians for preaching?

7:30:  How do you distinguish a good homily from a poor one?

8:15:  How are Deacons prepared?

9:00:  How do you learn preaching?

9:25:  We got data on preaching!

10:25:  We need to prepare guys well and we do.

11:25:  Examples of good public speaking go a long way.

13:30:  Bad examples are also good to use.

14:15:  Advice from Mike's broadcasting career.

14:30:   You can't say everything.

15:00:  We give the seminarians a good form.

15:50:  They want to be good preachers for others.

17:00  Christ has given you a voice and you need to prepare to give that word to someone else.

17:35:  Mike gives us 2 things preachers need....

18:25:  Is it ok to tell a joke in his homily?  For another time.

18:50:  Don't be a one trick pony.

19:40:  Norm MacDonald makes an apprerence on the cast through Fr Eric.

20:30   One minute homilies?  One clear message.

21:10:  The one sentence review.

22:50:  St Noel is our Church Search in Willougby Hills.

23:30:  Gospel for this week is found here.