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A Bishop in the Philippines told his priest to stop abusing the kindness of people by subjecting them to boring, unorganised, unprepared, mumbled homilies.
“We have seen many abuses among the clergy – alcohol abuse, sexual abuse, child abuse, gambling abuse, money abuse, travelling abuse, vacation abuse.
Today, I invite you to turn your hearts to another very rampant and widespread abuse among priests – homily abuse.”
“Yes, abuse of the kindness of the people who are forced to listen to long, winding, repetitious, boring, unorganised, unprepared, mumbled homilies.”
“In jest but certainly with some truth, the people say our homilies are one of the obligatory scourges that they must go through every Sunday.” Continue reading
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