Answering Whether A Lay Homily Invalidates a Mass?

[Michie]

In this essay, I will explore what the Catholic Church teaches about non-ordained persons concelebrating/quasi-presiding at Mass as homilists and how that affects the validity of the liturgy itself.

This is an important issue because we have frequently observed in our popular Catholic Mass Nightmare Series on YouTube that liberal Catholic parishes oftentimes have a layperson deliver the homily during the Mass. A few of the most notable examples include Seminarian Drop Out Delivers a Marxist Homily, Lay Karen Giving a VERY LONG Homily, The Homily by a Couple of Child Abusing Skittles, Dr. Lamont Hill Delivers Race Essential Homily, and Wacky Rock & Roll Homily.

What is most disappointing about this trend in Novus Ordo parishes is the fact that it runs contrary to several teachings of the Catholic Church, such as in:

Canon Law​

Can. 767 §1. Among the forms of preaching, the homily, which is part of the liturgy itself and is reserved to a priest or deacon, is preeminent; in the homily the mysteries of faith and the norms of Christian life are to be explained from the sacred text during the course of the liturgical year.

§2. A homily must be given at all Masses on Sundays and holy days of obligation which are celebrated with a congregation, and it cannot be omitted except for a grave cause.

https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-...ments/cic_lib3-cann756-780_en.html#CHAPTER_I.

Code of Canon Law – Book III – The teaching function of the Church (Cann. 756-780) (vatican.va)

General Instruction of the Roman Missal​

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In this essay, I will explore what the Catholic Church teaches about non-ordained persons concelebrating/quasi-presiding at Mass as homilist and how that affects the validity of the liturgy itself.

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