Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at the Mass for your Sunday (obligation or none), either live or on the internet? Let us know what it was. Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff.
Also, are you churches opening up? What was attendance like?
For my part,… with the readings in English…
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “I wonder if the custodian of tradition and the unique form of the Roman Rite in Chicago knows of the…”
on Daily Rome Shot 804: “Rome Shot: Church of San Eustachio https://www.walksinrome.com/blog/a-stags-head-crowns-the-church-of-sant-eustachio-in-rome” on Daily Rome Shot 805: “Rome Shot: Fontana Torlonia, at Via Bocca di Leone, 16, 00187 Roma https://www.tripadvisor.it/Attraction_Review-g187791-d10158379-Reviews-Fontana_Torlonia_a_via_Bocca_di_Leone-Rome_Lazio.html”
on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “jflare – of course not everyone can stick around a whackadoo parish to try to get changes made. In fact,…”
on Prayer request for an amazing priest blogger: “One of my sons was in the grad school at Oxford and met him a few years ago. Fr. H…”
on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “johntenor, I well understand your thought. Certainly I would have agreed some 25 or 30 years past. Regrettably, I can…”
on Daily Rome Shot 803: “1. f8R Kg7 2. Rf7++. The rooks defend eath other , the king blocks the rest. Queening would lead to…”
on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “This is the major problem with parishes run by diocesan clergy. When a new pastor arrives, everything can change–for better…” on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “I directed a parish choir for 25 years starting when I was 22. I literally knew nothing about proper liturgy…”
on Prayer request for an amazing priest blogger: “As a US Catholic husband and father usually stuck with the very mixed and often mediocre experience of the dominant…”
on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “The altar cloth contained the names of loved ones and prayer petitions.”
on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “Is it just me, or after watching these wackadoodle churches, does anybody else get the distinct odor of hellfire and…”
on Prayer request for an amazing priest blogger: “Will certainly add the erudite and edifying Fr. John Hunwicke to my prayer list.”
on Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s UPDATE and some liturgical dance in New York: “To add to what Father said: As some of you may know, I reside in the diocese of Rockville Centre.…”
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Our pastor spoke about the symbolism and importance of ad orientem worship.
we had an older priest (80ish?) who is humble, joyful, and more than a bit forgetful (he skipped over a few lines here and there and repeated a few others for losing his place, bless his heart) – he weaved a meandering thread through Scripture along these lines: there will be a time when it is too late to return the Lord; this is not that time, but for all we know tomorrow could be; turn to the Lord and call on Him for He is merciful.
only 50 allowed to attend in person per mayoral edict. if we weren’t at that (same limit applied ,May-July and since All Saints, was higher between) we were within 6% of the limit. i’ve been in person nearly every week since July and only Sunday @ 1030. today had fewer young people than i’ve seen in any such week FWIW. average age looked to be 65 give or take 3 (hard to tell sometimes w/ masks)
With out of state visitors for the holiday weekend, we elected to watch the live stream from an FSSP church rather than attend in person. The homily touched on how Advent recalls preparation for the coming of Christ at Christmas, his coming at the end of time, and also his coming to us in the present through God’s grace. this can be hard for us with the Deep State and even a Deep Church that is assaulting us and distracting us from being open to Him.
TLM. Father spoke on the Collect.
Excita, quaesumus Domine, potentiam tuam, et veni: ut ab imminentibus peccatorum nostrorum periculis, et mereamur protegente eripi, te liberante salvari.
His point was that despite the current exterior situations, the real imminent danger from which we need the Lord to free us is our own sins.
In person Mass yesterday. A good deacon gave a homily about “the other Christmas ” highlighting on the “Be watchful, be alert, we don’t know when our time will come” portion of yesterday’s Gospel. He also tied this into the Mass after the creed when “deliver us from evil…as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior Jesus Christ ” is recited by the priest before we say “For thine is the kingdom, power, and glory are yours now and forever. ” I had never thought about this previously.
As for attendance, we are capped at 225. I normally go to the 5pm Sunday evening Mass, and did yesterday as well. The past two Sundays there have probably been at least 200.
For what it’s worth I drove the freeway last night and with COVID-19, I think many people chose to stay in town. Sunday night traffic on the Sunday after Thanksgiving is usually packed, since people want to make the most out of a holiday weekend.
We have the Ordinary Form and the Extraordinary Form of Mass in person outdoors socially distanced in our parish in Oakland, CA. At the Ordinary Form Father spoke on Cdl. Sarah’s statement that reverent liturgy is essential to combating the evils of our time: godless terrorism, aggressive secularism, individualistic consumerism and the advancing culture of death.
I just tried to listen to this, but there was no sound. I listened to Sunday’s Advent Stations podcast just a few seconds before I tried this one, and had no problems there.