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For my part, I spoke about our roles in the terrible war raging in the Church today.
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A Daily Prayer for Priests
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on “They hate the Old Rite because the Enemy has set fear in their hearts.”: “In other words, people are afraid of the Old Rite because Catholics have become spiritually and morally lazy who believe…”
on “They hate the Old Rite because the Enemy has set fear in their hearts.”: “Rigid means following the teachings of the Church. I’ve always believed that’s what is really meant. And yes I also…”
on “They hate the Old Rite because the Enemy has set fear in their hearts.”: “”What is necessary is ‘dual economy’ parishes” Not really certain what is meant by the above, but it reminds me…”
on ROME 22/10 – Day 2: Still getting it together and an ASK FATHER question: “In your second to last photo: our apartment last time we were in Rome is immediately to your right facing…”
on “They hate the Old Rite because the Enemy has set fear in their hearts.”: “This hits the nail on the head. I think when they complain about “rigidity” they are really talking about objective…”
on “They hate the Old Rite because the Enemy has set fear in their hearts.”: “For those who find the old ways,”ridged, sin-obsessed, oppressive and frankly frightening”, They have bigger spiritual problems than their objections…”
on “This has the logo of the Synod (“walking together”) of Bishops. ” Prepare for a rough ride.: “The should have hired Daniel Mitsui.” on ASK FATHER: 1st Communion at a special Mass rather than at a regular Sunday Mass: “Back when most of the children receiving their First Communion were weekly Mass attendees, having a separate Mass for them…”
on ASK FATHER: 1st Communion at a special Mass rather than at a regular Sunday Mass: “First Communion for myself was in second grade in December, yes December. 1966. My confirmation was third grade . Spring?…”
on ASK FATHER: 1st Communion at a special Mass rather than at a regular Sunday Mass: “We had a very strange practice of having two “First Communions”. Both were within the regular Sunday Mass, and both…”
on ASK FATHER: 1st Communion at a special Mass rather than at a regular Sunday Mass: “I am 56, so I received First Communion in what one priest called “the Silly Seventies.” I received First Communion…”
on ASK FATHER: 1st Communion at a special Mass rather than at a regular Sunday Mass: “Back in the mid-70’s when I received my First Communion, it was held at a special Mass because it was…”
on ROME 22/10 – Day 2: Still getting it together and an ASK FATHER question: “Thanks for the travelogue! Always enjoyable. I like the “phone” photo with the street lights reflecting off of the cobblestones.”
on ASK FATHER: 1st Communion at a special Mass rather than at a regular Sunday Mass: “When I received my First Communion in 1978, there were about 150 of us, and the crowd spilled out into…”
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A Dominican Prior rather than one of the diocesan priests preached on the Rosary for the usual Sunday Solemn High Mass noted how His Son suffered so grievously on this earth for us, so no one can say He couldn’t understand. One who suffered loss was his grandmother in Wexford, made homeless when the estate house for which her family worked was torched in the 1920s, widowed when young and losing children too. There were two things in her life, her pink plastic Rosary breads and her cigarettes (fags she called them). She would lose the second, and she had lost much in her life, but God gave Himself to us. I hope I captured Fr Prior’s point in some way.
My homily was entitled, “The Great delusion of our age,” in which I explored the consequences of humanity rejecting God and his creation, seeking to recreate himself, man, in his own vision, as better suits the rebel. Alas, the result is not beauty but parody.
A sign is just a sign. It tells you something and that’s it. A road sign tells you that the next turning is for Portsmouth: and that’s it. A symbol is a sign but it points you to something bigger: the flag the team carries out and the national anthem point towards something beyond the signs of the flag and the team shirt. The sacraments are the only symbols which point to the change that they effect. That change is permanent. That’s why divorce is always wrong.
Thank you for posting your homilies as I always enjoy them and am not always able to hear them locally. I think they are the best I Our sermon today was a spiritual spanking . Ouch. :D
St Pius V entrusted everything to Our Lady at a time of crisis. We should do likewise.
Reminded of a few weeks ago: I was riding on a bus and reading Viganò’s first letter. Suddenly a voice called out “Santa Maria!” It was the conductor announcing the next stop, outside a Catholic school. But I took it as a reminder to trust in Mary’s intercession.
We went to the Henry Ford Museum this weekend, and I spent a lot of time looking for a good church to visit (I wish there was a rating system). I picked St. Alphonsus-St Clement in Dearborn, a beautiful church.
Father focused on marriage – what it means as a sacrament, why God should be the 3rd person in the relationship, divorce, annulments and why same sex marriage isn’t.
It wasn’t a long homily but he hit all the topics. Very impressive – both authoritative and pastoral!