{"id":31088,"date":"2015-09-08T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=31088"},"modified":"2015-09-08T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T01:56:09","slug":"preaching-as-an-ecclesial-response-to-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/08\/preaching-as-an-ecclesial-response-to-the-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"Preaching as an ecclesial response to the gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"

For quite some time now, I’ve been mulling over the place of the homily or the sermon in the Liturgy of the Word. Its position following the proclamation of the Gospel, a moment ritually set apart by the actions of standing and the unison responses to the reader, makes it clear that the homily is a response<\/em> to the Gospel, not simply an explanation<\/em> of it. In other words, the homily is the place where the proclamation of the word is completed because the Word itself comes to life in the community’s own experience.<\/p>\n

To make this happen\u00a0in practice, homilies need to be communal and localized. It can’t simply be the presider’s word; it must be the whole assembly’s word. In a good homily, the assembly’s recognition is evoked at every moment.\u00a0Yes. That is my word. That’s the word that was meant for me.<\/em> In a great homily, the assembly hears things from the Spirit that the presider doesn’t remember having said. (In an Ambrose or Augustine homily, they go on hearing it for centuries afterwards!)<\/p>\n

Here’s an essay tonight<\/a> that (coming from a very different cultural location within Christianity) articulates this intuition in a sound and practical fashion.<\/p>\n

I get how a baby would interrupt a performance\u2019s<\/em> transmission of beauty or message because they interrupt that well-crafted focus.<\/p>\n

But Preaching is about naming and claiming God\u2019s love present in the room. It\u2019s about that Holy Spirit that isn\u2019t given to the preacher and then transmitted to the people: that Spirit is in each one there and they communicate back and forth.<\/a> Churches that have call-and-response to the preaching moment get this phenomenon, and to them,crying babies are just another \u201camen\u201d section.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How it would look in my own assembly, where “Amen” sections are not the norm, is something I’m still working out. But the homily that is a community’s response to the gospel, prophetically and poetically articulated by the presider, should be our goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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