Sometime ago I had scribbled down some notes for a semi-serious article after attending mass where I had suffered during the homily. The beginning of the celebration was really lovely, we had moved into a good crescendo up to the central moment; but fifteen minutes and more of homily, which perhaps were not at the same intensity level, made me undergo the process in reverse. I had written what you will find here below, but with the intention of not publishing it. It was just an outpouring destined to stay in the drawer, or rather in the "file" of never published pieces. Then a few days ago, I happened to see a piece of news from a press agency; the protagonist was the President of the Papal Council for Culture, a Bible expert of very well known fame, the inventor of the "Court of the Gentiles", and I said to myself: well... When invited in his role as Bible expert and intellectual to open a course on the spoken word at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi said: "Speech is suffering. Even in the Ecclesiastical community, in the Church and its communication. The word is betrayed and humiliated." Also at the pulpit. Ravasi directly calls the priesthood into question. Because "often their preaching is so colourless, flavourless and inodorous as to be irrelevant". When instead "we need to rediscover the spoken word that 'offends', wounds, unsettles, judges", the "speech that is healthy, authentic and leaves a sign". Full Story:"Stop homilies in church for one year"Source: Vatican Insider: La Stampa
