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For my part, for the TLM this morning, I spoke about how sacramental reality is not less real than sensible realities and connected that to our participation in our sacred liturgical worship.
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Father, it was perfect symmetry for two people. One cup handle facing one way and the other the other way.”
on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “From a reader: “What are in the frames between the vestments?” Those are the priest’s vesting prayers. I’ll show more…”
on WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo) – Mighty humble Shepherd, humble mighty flock: “Fr Z you are an inspiration in your knowledge about and love for the things of God and the church.…” on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “Holy cow that pasta. I wish we had smell-o-vision and taste-o-vision.”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “The German grind continues. It is in their nature.”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Scary about the women. What I mean is this: it would be disheartening enough just to find out that a…” on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “I wonder what’s going on with these women. Don’t they know that the greatest example of womanhood is Our Blessed…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Fr.Z sez: It is really sad that some people still push this rock up the hill. Reminds one of Sisyphus,…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Alas, those men pushing for ordaining women. STILL trying to get women to do all the work. My mother warned…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Dear Dcn PB, I don’t see how the reality can be described differently than by saying that the one sacrament…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Most people, whether pro or con, misunderstand the history and practice of the female diaconate. The deaconess was a separate…”
on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “I remember only the joke at the beginning of the homily: Priests get four weeks of vacation per year. Some…”
on “you must not remember your forefathers…” Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “My children at one of the solid Chesterton Academies have been taught science and theology by an amazing young Catholic…” on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “What is it that changed about the Catholic Herald? Interesting interview by George Farmer. (If only the faithful could be…”
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Father spoke of our need to go to Confession! He spoke of how through Confession we gain new life in Christ. He announced that he would be available 30 minutes before daily Mass every morning this week along with extending hours next Saturday. I have been impressed with how good his homilies have been this year (might have been the copy of God or Nothing we gave him this Christmas).
Oxford Oratory, Solemn Latin OF. A pastoral letter from the Archbishop to mark the start of Passiontide which concentrated on the account in St John’s Gospel of the raising of Lazarus. It was apposite and by no means anodyne.
The Gospel was read in full. It is quite long, so there is a much shorter version which leaves out vast chunks and no doubt is used in most churches.
Hang on, wasn’t one of the aims of the Novus Ordo to make more of the Scripture available? Even the John prologue read on Christmas day is optionally shortened to leave out John the Baptist.
People’s attention span is too limited to listen to the Gospel, but can put up with badly thought-out ‘ad hoc’ homilies, even on weekdays. Any more reasons for Summorum Pontificum?
Same as Adaquano – the need for Confession and the availability after weekday Masses during Lent.
Setting the parishes up for Palm Sunday and Easter, I focused and reamed and emphasized and pounded on the reality of our Lord’s humanity (“Jesus wept”), the fact that Lazarus was dead dead dead and Jesus, despite knowing what he was going to do, really and truly suffered the grief and pain of loss! I then connected the reality of the history with the reality of our faith (since they are not separate, but just one thing)
Next week, I hope to preach little, a sentence or so. I am under no illusion that most people will not remember this week’s message (or necessarily have heard Today’s Mass), but it is important to me to prep those parishioners who are attentive to hear our Lord’s Passion as a homily that I dare not attempt to rival in eloquence.
Before Mass, Father announced that in the past, when he’s preached on Catholic doctrine regarding sexual morality, parishoners responded “colorfully”. He said he would again preach on it, in particular Internet Pornography, and that should anyone not want to be there, he reminded them of other masses where he wouldn’t be the preacher.
Fr. focused on the sins of the temple as seen by the prohpet Ezekiel and drew the comparison to today’s addictions to Internet Pornography. He stressed the gravely sinful nature of it, it’s pernicious reaches in our society, how young children are when exposed to it and how damaging it is to everyone’s relationships. He urged adults to take ownership of their own internet activity. He urged people to talk openly to their children, and take ownership that parents’ responsibility is to help their children get to Heaven.
He urged everyone to go to Confession.
Our Sunday readings in the season of Lent draw us toward Lazarus’ emergence from his tomb in order to prepare us for Christ’s resurrection on Easter morning. Each Sunday reading pounds on the theme of Christ’s humanity so that the glory of his miraculous resurrection doesn’t outshine the truth that he is one of us in all but sin. He cries. He bleeds. He feels and expresses anger. He mourns and believes. And he loves. Just like we do.
https://hancaquam.blogspot.com/2017/04/untie-him-let-him-go.html
Fr. Philip Neri, OP
When Jesus said, “Ego Sum” it made a lot of people angry
Father spoke about how we are dead because of sin. He added that we are also entombed in our own sins, and we cannot get out on our own. We can, however like Lazarus, rise and escape death if we heed the call of the Master to come out of our tombs. He enjoined us to go to confession because that’s where Christ calls us to come out.
And when we leave the confessional, we will be unbound. Our face, hands and feet no longer tied with the burial cloth, as we are free from sin.
I wrapped up a sermon series on confession, working with a book we gave out. I talked about the things that tie us up and keep us from going free, even when we go to confession. I reminded people of the extra times for confession during Holy Week.
When Jesus said “Before Abraham was, I am” he knew exactly what he was saying and so did the Jews which is why they wanted Him dead. C.S. Lewis says in “Mere Christianity”: A man who says what Jesus said either is what he says, or is a madman like someone who goes around thinking himself a poached egg. It has to be one or the other, it cannot be that he is “a great moral teacher” but just a person.
In Jesus we have the perfect sacrifice, like the lambs without blemish brought to the temple for sacrifice. We either reject Him or we fall down and worship Him.
from The Most Reverend Robert J. Hermann
the Archdiocese of St. Louis as Auxiliary Bishop
The mass was on catholic radio.
… that Jesus was doing the Father’s will…
the exact quote from the sermon above: “Throughout this event, Jesus suffers because of what is happening to Lazarus. He was saddened when He heard that Lazarus was dying, but He stayed on several days. He was simply being obedient to His Father who wanted to show His glory in raising Lazarus from the dead.”
http://stlouisreview.com/article/2017-03-22/i-thought-you-should