People who come to daily Mass are special, different from the congregation who attend Sunday Mass, and of course much different from those who don’t come at all.
I’d like to suggest that homilies for daily Mass can be very short, maybe just a minute long (120-130 words) and they can be edifying if they are the fruit of the homilist’s prayer.
Here is an example of a one-minute homily based on the Gospel for Wednesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time (next Wednesday, July 2). Here is a link to those readings.
- In today’s Gospel, people wanted Jesus to go away. The demons accuse Jesus of coming to torment them. The swineherds run away. The people of the town beg Jesus to leave their district.
- When we sin, in addition to that particular bad act, we also are asking Jesus to go away from us. But thanks to His grace, we come to our senses.
- Today, each of us has come to Jesus: to this church, to this Mass, to this Eucharist. So, we can say, “We matter to you, Son of God! You have come to save us! We have run to you. We beg You to stay with us!”
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