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Saying that churchgoers have a "serious" problem with "long, winding and dry homilies," Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas on Friday discouraged priests from delivering boring liturgies.
“Our youth complain about lifeless and uninspiring liturgies. How can we set their hearts on fire if we ourselves are not afire for God? We must prepare our homilies,†the incoming president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said in a statement Friday night.
He also urged priests to stop being "swivel-chair pastors" and instead "(go) out to the barangays and public schools, visit the charity wards of hospitals, teach catechism again, visit homes again—make a ‘mess’ in society.â€
Villegas said priests cannot merely stay in churches and become “pastors of status quo†while people are waiting for the Gospel. “This cannot continue. We cannot be swivel chair pastors," he said.
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