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Hi, Jeri —
Based on your comment:
Seems the adults
lose out when there is no homily?
I am not sure I know what you mean
by a puppet Mass?
So the faithful can get to work on
time, for daily Mass, the priest
is allowed to either give a brief
homily, or skip the homily all together
and proceed with the offertory prayer:
{prayers and petitions of the
faithful}.
Our Sunday obligation though, is
a different issue. There should always
be a homily at every Sunday Mass
with few, if any, exceptions.
If you are referring to something
the priest is doing, when you say "puppet
mass", that is so far removed
from what Catholics know as the basic
outline of Holy Mass:
- the Opening Prayer
- Old Testament and New Testament
Readings
- Responsorial Psalms
- Homily
- the Offertory/Petitions
- the Liturgical portion including
the Institution Narrative - Jesus'
word's reenacted
- The distribution of Holy Communion.
- the Ending - Sending/Missionary
Prayer
Then you should notify your local
bishop of this immediately.
Prudence would dictate you should
first talk to your pastor about
this issue before preceding to the
local bishop.
If the local bishop does not respond,
you should notify the Apostolic Nunciature
for the United States.
He is the papal nuncio (officially
known as an Apostolic nuncio) and
is a permanent diplomatic representative (head
of the diplomatic mission) of
the Holy See.
His address can be found at
the end of this
page.
Hope this helps,
Mike
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