I don't mean that homilists should use new technology or even find a new story. What each believer longs to hear is the simple, unaffected truth told directly. Such simple, unaffected statements, however, can take hours to prepare. Too often preachers make the mistake of telling their own story. This, too, can become boorish if it implies that one person's story is so very much more important or more interesting than the stories of other people in the room.
Thought is hard work and takes time.
On Sunday morning the people gather, waiting, needy. Don't ask them to come to Bible study or an adult spirituality class or a prayer group if you can't feed them when they're right there, waiting to be fed. We must not let them leave Mass still starving. When we take the time to look at how the minutes are apportioned for the various parts of the Mass, we discover that what often gets squeezed out is time for prayer. The other moment for profound prayer at Mass is the eucharistic prayer culminating in communion.