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 3rd Sunday of Advent – 2022?
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. I hear that it is growing. Of COURSE.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
I have a few thoughts about the Epistle:
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “Dear Masked Chicken, thank you for pointing me to your post of 22 March, which which I largely agree. My…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “Yes. Let all the poisons come out! After seeing it on TV many years ago and reading the two volumes,…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “Perhaps world events are making some nervous international travelers. Personally, I would have loved to go to Poland on a…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “The bit about Claudius thinking that a return to the republic was likely or even possible may take its inspiration…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “Pray for Derek Jacobi! Such a talented actor, but sadly, an irregular life.”
on 15 April 2019 – Notre-Dame de Paris: “I was wrong. It’s not a Cramnerian table. It’s a……. Ikea coffee table made to resemble a half Easter egg,…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “The BBC “radio play” of I,Claudius is also rather good. https://share.libbyapp.com/title/505092”
on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “To MB: THE BEST TIME was a long time ago before Paul VI and Bergoglio and their hand-chosen sycophants decided…”
on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “I don’t know where MB lives, but it’s objectively false to assert that the FSSP “now have a virtual monopoly…”
on 15 April 2019 – Notre-Dame de Paris: “Looking at the pictures, one can be grateful that the artist at least didn’t use this as an opportunity to…”
on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “@MB “When a man feels like he has something no one else can give, something essential, and no one to…”
on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “There was a time when if you wanted to know the miracles of the Church, the great teachings, the stories…”
on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “Out of my wife and my siblings & spouses, half are not RC anymore but are probably still on the…”
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Novus Ordo 3rd Sunday, reverently celebrated, in Rose-colo(u)r vestments… Fr explained why John the Baptist needed confirmation in his cell on what Jesus was saying and doing, and folded that into a theme of repentance, of reporting to us that his extended hours for Confessions during Advent were bearing fruit and gladdening his heart, and an exhortation that if we hadn’t taken advantage of them yet, we still had another 2 weeks of them left.
Weather is turning seriously wintry here so fewer folks attending the local NO. Father emphasized joy: John’s joy at Christ’s appearance, joy Father’s experienced at our parish, and he did make the point that it’s impossible to lack joy if you’re Christian—the two go together.
My daughter tells me the priest at her church spoke about John the Baptist and how his beheading was the 1st form of censorship.
I thought that was an interesting way of looking at it.
In the Byzantine Rite, the second Sunday before Christmas and the Sunday of our Forefathers, we hear the parable of the great banquet to whom the invited guests make excuses why they can’t attend, so the servants (who represent our forefathers in the faith) are directed to go out and invite anyone including the poor and the lame. All of the guests invited but declining to come are preoccupied with material things – a new field or team of oxen. The Kingdom of Heaven which the banquet represents is here now but we are often too preoccupied by worldly pursuits to see it. We may also think that it is something far off (whereas it is here now) or that we are unworthy of it. But we are worthy because we were made children of God.