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.
Also, are you churches opening up? What was attendance like?
For my part,…
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.
Also, are you churches opening up? What was attendance like?
For my part,…
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“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops.”
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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I myself made a comment on an abc news article today regarding the crack team of scientists that Biden and Harris are assembling for COVID. I simply pointed out that two people who outright deny basic science, like how a baby in the womb has fingerprints, and its own DNA so is a separate human being, or males have a Y chromosome, and two males cannot in anyway naturally have children, and two females cannot have children without the cooperation of someone with a Y chromosome, are not qualified to choose qualified scientists.
After some very ugly followups my post was promptly deleted. I got canceled. I feel a little proud that I was kicked out of their group so quickly.
We have been blessed at our N.O. parish to have had public Masses for the last several months, and attendance has been fairly strong as far as I can tell! Granted, we’re restricted to every other pew, but we have not had to start going the “ticketing” route, and I’ve arrived as ‘late’ as 5 minutes before Mass with my family of 7 and the ushers have still managed to get us in.
Father’s homily yesterday was a strong one, emphasizing that the “oil” of the virgins was really their own lives of virtue and the preparations that each of them made (wise virgins) or failed to make (foolish virgins) to welcome Christ into their lives. This is why, Father explained, the five wise virgins did not share their oil with the foolish ones: just like I can’t give anyone else the virtues I have cultivated myself, nor can they get into Heaven based on my efforts, neither could the foolish virgins have benefited from the preparations of the wise.
A little cuteness after the Dismissal–Father has the laudable practice of hearing Confessions before and after Mass, and yesterday said, “If the Gospel, or my homily, scared you, just come to Confession! You’ll be all set.” We are blessed with truly heroic priests, and I thank God and pray for them every day.
Cardinal Dolan had a strong conclusion for his sermon, about 31 minutes into this video:
ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL Sunday Mass – November 8th 2020
Thanks, Father!
Attendance was pretty good on Sunday for the 8 a.m. Mass, in contrast to past Sundays, on which it’s been fairly sparse. Every other pew is roped off–but we now have holy water again!
The priest’s sermon was terrific–because it could be easily remembered. The theme was the Gospel reading of the parable of the wise and foolish virgins. The priest pointed to the oil, the trimming of the wicks, and the wise virgins’ telling the foolish virgins to go out to the merchants and buy oil. He likened the oil to a constant prayer life, the trimming of the wicks to going to confession (which he recommended be done regularly), and the admonition to go to the merchants as what one should do about people in one’s life who are following their own idols instead of God: don’t mess with them and let them go their way.
It was a medieval-style tropological sermon. And because it had a clear structure, not just a ramble about this and that, it stayed in my mind. More sermons should be like this.
By the way, until recently, the Mass reading of that parable used the word “bridesmaids” instead of “virgins,” which I always thought sounded ridiculous. It brought to mind girls in matching party dresses and also the movie Bridesmaids, all inappropriate for a time when wedding customs were quite different from our own. So I’m glad they’ve gone back to virgins. Now to get rid of “o’clock,” which always makes me smile. Christ died at “three o’clock”? Hey man, they didn’t have clocks back then! What’s wrong with “the ninth hour”? Why are Mass-goers thought to be so stupid that they can’t figure out how people told time at the time of Christ? Same with “the eleventh hour” in the parable. That phrase has become part of common usage ( synonym for ‘the last minute”), so it’s insane to “translate” it as “five o’clock.