If laypeople are to be permitted to preach, then they should be biblical scholars
I’ve never read at Mass without having some aspect of the reading come home to me in a new way by dint of saying it aloud.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich, chairman of the German bishops’ conference, spoke for many of us when he said he is often disappointed by the quality of homilies at Mass. And then he went on to ask whether laypeople should be allowed to make sermons.
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