{"id":1745,"date":"2011-02-15T09:45:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T14:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:47:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:47:43","slug":"from-the-e-mail-bag-that-homily-sounds-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2011\/02\/from-the-e-mail-bag-that-homily-sounds-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"From the e-mail bag: that homily sounds familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A reader writes:<\/p>\n

I was directed to your blog, The Deacon\u2019s Bench, by a link on The Anchoress\u2019 blog<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 As I began reading the homily<\/a><\/strong> posted for World Marriage Day, I was shocked to recognize it\u2026 because my own pastor had preached this homily almost verbatim during Mass on Sunday (and on Saturday evening also according to my husband).\u00a0 He even attributed your wife\u2019s quote about praying together and separately to his mother.<\/p>\n

It bothers me IMMENSELY that your words were taken and presented as our pastor\u2019s (though he never said they were specifically his, he also did not acknowledge that he read your homily nearly verbatim), and that your wife\u2019s quote was attributed falsely to my pastor\u2019s mother.\u00a0 I am in a quandary how to handle this.\u00a0 A part of me wants to \u201ccall my pastor\u201d on this, to confront him with the knowledge that he took someone else\u2019s work and presented it as his own.\u00a0 To me, this is lying.\u00a0 And part of me thinks that the message is more important than who says it.\u00a0 On the other hand, this is the second time that I was directed to one of your homilies in recent weeks (the Anchoress is a big fan of yours) only to find it eerily familiar.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you welcome others using your materials, I do not know, but I wanted to share that others are using your work without proper attribution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t the first time this has happened to me, and I should make clear up front: as the author of the homily in question, this really doesn\u2019t bother me.\u00a0 As far as I\u2019m concerned, the Holy Spirit owns the copyright to my work, not me, and I\u2019m glad others can make use of the material that I post.\u00a0 In fact, one reason I try to publish my homilies on Saturday is so that people, if necessary, can use them on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m happy to share.<\/p>\n

However, what this pastor has done does seem to cross the line from \u201csharing\u201d into the realm of \u201cfraud.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 I can\u2019t endorse what he did, but I don\u2019t know what circumstances led him to parrot the homily verbatim, even to the point of attributing my wife\u2019s words to his mother.\u00a0 Maybe he just had a really bad week.\u00a0 Maybe he ran out of time to prepare a homily.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to give him the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n

But I also have to assume that, when I post homilies, these things will happen.\u00a0 My blog is just one of dozens of homily resources out there, and a lot of priests and deacons make use of them, for whatever reason, to help fill those seven or eight minutes following the gospel.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, to my way of thinking, the message matters more than the messenger \u2014 but the messenger should probably be careful about how he attributes the message.<\/p>\n

You never know what blogs the people in the pews have been reading.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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