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Considering that North America now has hundreds of priests from Africa and India, it has been said that some of these priests have a great zeal to preach and they are shocked to hear that Catholics in North America insist on short homilies, maximum 15 minutes. A new priest from Africa, not being aware of the North American attitude towards hearing the Word of God, may easily preach for 45 minutes.
This means that the Christmas Midnight Mass could last one and a half hour. Visit the new online stores that offer a very large assortment of religious goods! Weekly thanksgiving is a bare minimum. If we give thanks only intermittently or rarely we fail to adequately honor the Giver of the gifts.
Community Prayer is Essential. Christians pray together by nature, and the Mass is the premier form of communal prayer. There are two pillars to a well-rounded prayer life, communal and private, and to do one or the other exclusively is to be imbalanced.
The more a person prays privately, the more the person should want to worship with the community, and the more a person worships with the community, the more a person should want to pray privately. Weekly Eucharist is Solid Spiritual Food. Most people are health-food conscious. It is important to eat properly every day to avoid hunger pains, weakness, malnutrition, and disease.
However, during weekdays, he goes into a fast-forward speaking mode when celebrating Mass. Several of us senior citizens have not understood his sermons because he speaks far, far too fast. The usual minute Mass is shortened to 20 minutes, max.
He gives the impression, "Let's get this over with. Is there not something in regulations to guide priests in the performance of this holy rite? A: There does not appear to be any specific laws that determine how long Mass should take, although there is a longstanding custom that daily Mass should take about 30 minutes. Classical moral theologians, such as St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori , were of the opinion that it should last this long, and that less than 15 minutes could even constitute a grave sin.
It is true that these opinions specifically refer to the extraordinary form, which always uses the Roman Canon and has other longer prayers not present in the present rite. However, I believe that the ordinary form also has some new elements, not contained in the older form, which would make daily Mass roughly the same amount of time, or between 25 and 35 minutes if celebrated with all due fervor and respect for the rubrics.
Some of these factors are optional on weekdays; for example, in the time of St. Alphonsus preaching was usually omitted during Mass. Today, in many places there is a brief homily even on ferial days.
Other optional factors which are new or restored from ancient times are the Prayer of the Faithful and the sign of peace. The ordinary form also recommends more frequent singing, even for daily Mass, especially of the Alleluia and some of the proper parts such as the Sanctus.
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