Homilies are funny. Saturday night is always me at my most frenetic self: talking fast, maybe "playing to crowd" more, testing the waters, but not always smooth or complete. I'll go back and listen to those and change, clean up, expound, or edit stuff out. Last night's version of this reflection on Orpheus and Eurydice being succeeded and healed by Jesus, the pioneer and completer of our faith, was 16.5 min. Amazingly, after cutting out several pieces, but also clarifying and probably pacing myself more with a fuller, written-out script, the 8am was a whopping 22 minutes and I had even hurried through the end because it was taking so long. (No, I will not share that one. It stunk.) So, knowing that pacing and explaining was ballooning the time, I tried to cut some more and also weight things better for speed. 10am came in at 21.5 minutes; not short, but it balanced not rushing the last part (the Jesus part!) and making more space. Anyway, I'm posting the first and the third here:
