Limit homilies to under 10 minutes, Pope tells priests
December 04, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: At his regular weekly public audience on December 5, Pope Francis insisted that priests should not give homilies that last more than ten minutes.
“After 8 minutes, preaching gets dispersive and no one understands,” the Pope said. “Never go over 10 minutes, ever! This is very important.”
The Pontiff made these remarks off the cuff, during a discourse on the role of the Holy Spirit in preaching. He said that priests should reach out to their people “not with persuasive wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power.” Good preaching, he said, is marked by “its content, which is the Gospel, and its means, which is the Holy Spirit.”
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