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:
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on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Epiphany (N.O.: 4th Ord) 2023: “Average attendance per usual at the SSPX chapel in the woods. Fr. Leith most certainly dispelled the stereotype of “uncharitable…”
on ASK FATHER: How do you argue with extreme fringe trads that the Novus Ordo is valid?: “@ The Masked Chicken 1. I never said that “the NO Mass is invalid” because I think that terminology is…”
on The Exorcist Files. Podcasts about real cases.: “A friend lent me Fr. Malachi Martin’s Hostage to the Devil, which I found to be a textbook on exorcisms.…”
on The Exorcist Files. Podcasts about real cases.: “I am trying to listen to the first podcast. On Spotify (which was the only place I could easily find…”
on Benedict XVI said that he abdicated because of insomnia: “Although many doctors will prescribe sleeping pills of various sorts on a long term basis, it is close to malpractice…”
on ASK FATHER: How do you argue with extreme fringe trads that the Novus Ordo is valid?: “I might ask whether a liturgy celebrated according to the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom would be a valid liturgy?…”
on Benedict XVI said that he abdicated because of insomnia: “I always believed that Benedict should have been named “Bishop Emeritus of Rome” as it was that office to which…”
on The Exorcist Files. Podcasts about real cases.: “We attended the tour of the relics of St. Maria Goretti, and we asked her to be a special guardian…”
on Benedict XVI said that he abdicated because of insomnia: “Father, please educate this poorly – catechized Catholic…once upon a time the bishop in the Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama retired…”
on The Exorcist Files. Podcasts about real cases.: “Nancy Pelosi’s daughter alleges her mother had an exorcism done in the house where Paul was attacked. The Archdiocese of…”
on The Exorcist Files. Podcasts about real cases.: “I’d like to watch it but in due time, given the weighty subject matter. I met Fr Martins quite a…”
on ASK FATHER: How do you argue with extreme fringe trads that the Novus Ordo is valid?: “Dear PNF, To continue our discussion… 1. ‘Canon 927 logically implies that it is POSSIBLE to “consecrate the matter” outside…”
on The Exorcist Files. Podcasts about real cases.: “High recommendation for Treasures of the Church. I had the opportunity to see it in July 2021, about three weeks…”
on Benedict XVI said that he abdicated because of insomnia: “Amen to that about the stadium act. It pains me even more to think he suffered like this almost all…”
on Fr Z’s Kitchen: Hardwear and soft-fare.: “Fr. Z: I once read a post somewhere (I think it was here) about a priest who got certified to…”
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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.