Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff.
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for the 7th Sunday after Pentecost (17th Ordinary in the Novus)?
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. I hear that it is growing. Of COURSE.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
A few thoughts of my own, HERE.
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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Standing room only at our diocesan 10am TLM. Our current restrictions are that our TLM is limited to Sundays, HDOs, and feast days- and since we have a daily noon TLM, my priest says that “every day is a feast day” and thus offers the Latin Mass each day.
My priest is currently going through the virtues for his Sunday homilies and today he taught on prudence. He warned us against “woke culture” and the world’s lack of reasoning.
So, I was traveling today and not at my usual parish. I attended the morning high TLM at a beautiful church in a beautiful city. I’m not going to say anything too specific about the location because I don’t want to put a target on any parish’s back.
With the bad news coming fast and furious out of places like Chicago and D.C. and Savannah, I was truly heartened by what I saw today. (1) A packed church. (2) A YOUNG congregation. Honestly, if I had to guesstimate the median age of attendees, I’d put it around 28. (3) An attractive, successful looking crowd. These are not the weirdo-loser-oddball fanatics imagined in the halls of the Vatican. These are people with jobs and money and brains who would be a credit to any parish. (4) A fertile crowd. Numerous children and babies in strollers were in attendance. (5) An independent-minded, faith-filled crowd. From the family with three young daughters enthusiastically belting out “Salve Regina” to the young college-aged men leading the rosary before Mass to the tattooed young woman smoking cigarettes on steps after Mass, these are people who are the polar opposite of the rigid, closed-minded cosplayers hammered in papal diatribes on a weekly basis.
These people are exactly where they want to be and need to be, doing what they’re doing and practicing their Catholic faith. Can one elderly man, no matter how powerful, simply will all these people out of existence? That’s been the language coming out of places like D.C. and Chicago lately, i.e., “The Holy Father wills it.” The image I have is of the Holy Father looking at the congregation I joined today and saying, Billy Mumy-style, “You’re all very bad people and very bad Catholics. I’m wishing you into the cornfield.” But that’s not reality. We can’t be wished into the cornfield. Yes, they can shut down our Masses and shutter our churches and scatter us, and they’re already doing that, but there are too many of us now, and we’re too strong to be simply wished away.
Traditionalists are traditional in every aspect of Catholicism except for how they treat priests, bishops, cardinals, and the Pope. Traditional Catholics shouldn’t gossip about the clergy, but rather correct them privately, if that doesn’t work, take one or two others with you to correct them, and only after that does one raise it to the next level.
Someone from the parish criticized him for going to concelebrate Mass with the Pope in Edmonton and he addressed that too. That as a convert from Anglicanism, without the Pope, he wouldn’t be Catholic, nor would the rest of the Anglican converts in the Ordinariate.
Saddest homily I ever heard at Old St. Mary’s.
One of our Priest spoke of “By their fruits you shall know them!” He then went on and called out the 3 Bishops by name who are shutting down the Latin Mass in their Diocese. Wolves in sheep’s clothing! God Bless him and all good priest.
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…correcting privately….
Those scriptural passages that you are referencing are about private matters. Catholics should indeed go out of their way to keep private matters private. A man has a right to their public good name, even if they are not good in private. There has to be good reason to publically reveal private sins.
According to prudence and charity, someone who is publically sinning egregiously and/or creating scandal may be publically addressed without the need to privately correct. It is often the case that those in authority who are abusing their office (secular or ecclesial) cannot be addressed privately by those below them.
Consider this: You notice the mayor of the town putting poison into the drinking water. Do you correct him privately or do you publically warn people against drinking that water?
It is not traditionalism that causes people to grumble and gossip — heterodox people do that just as much (if not more). It is a lack of charity that does it.
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Local NO Mass was decent. The new priest is making headway in continuing to develop the liturgical life of the parish. The homily was good — some missed opportunities to make things practical.