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 Low Sunday, 2nd of Easter?
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 couple thoughts about the 1st reading: HERE
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on The shift toward “the old ways” is really a step forward into the future.: “There was this piece and another one on the same general topic. The article seemed to waver back and forth…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 41 (0): Se vedemo & My View For Awhile: “Father, as always, thank you for taking us with you on your Paschal pilgrimage! I always feel like I’ve been…”
on Fr John Hunwicke – R.I.P.: “He will be greatly missed. Reading his blog has always been one of the high points of my day. Requiescat…”
on The shift toward “the old ways” is really a step forward into the future.: “What I find sad about this article is the mention of Catholics who would rather leave the Church than have…”
on The shift toward “the old ways” is really a step forward into the future.: “Gonna take a while for the full effect to be felt. Priests ordained from say 1992 through 2015 are generally…”
on The shift toward “the old ways” is really a step forward into the future.: “Re the first comment, I also have a bete noire archbishop and talk to some seminarians and new priests, some…”
on Fr John Hunwicke – R.I.P.: “God grant him rest. I shall miss his erudite and witty posts. May the Lord grant his family comfort and…”
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on The shift toward “the old ways” is really a step forward into the future.: “Thus, Biden aka POTATUS, and Merrick Garland, spying on Catholics. And I’m sure it is still going on.”
on ROME 24/4– Day 39 & 40 (-2 & -1): An ACTION ITEM!: “Tota: I have not heard those claims. However, if there is any truth to them, then it would not do…”
on The shift toward “the old ways” is really a step forward into the future.: “Let’s simplify this headline: Orthodox Catholicism on the rise in US”
on ROME 24/4– Day 39 & 40 (-2 & -1): An ACTION ITEM!: “Fr. Z, what do you think of the claims that the Masons made changes and spread fake Miraculous Medals and…”
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My FSSP chaplain said to me the other day “We’re getting a lot of non-Catholics coming to our masses now.”
Reminds me of JPII asking a bishop from a former iron-curtain country what the state of his church was like after the fall of the Berlin wall: “We need another persecution” was the despondent reply. Keep crushing us, Pope Francis!
One of my favourite communios today: “Mitte manum tuam”. Thomas being asked to put his hand in the side of Our Lord. The semiology in the Graduale Triplex has a melodic picture: Mitte is fa fa sol fa. But the old signs (not Solesmes) show the first fa as lengthened. I see it as Thomas tentatively putting his hand towards the wound then drawing it back, but Our Lord grabbing it and encouraging him to put it into His side. Hence the repetition on fa. Then “et noli esse incredulus”, the source of the great hymn “O Filii et Filiae”. And the exultant alleluias at the end. Such a joy to sing! If you have a Graduale Triplex, you’re walking around with the musical equivalent of Chartres cathedral in your coat pocket.
Father said a lot of good things today at High Mass.
1) Keep your baptismal robe in mind at all times.
2) We can’t stay away from the world to avoid suffering because of an unbelieving world.
3) He mentioned the Si Consurrexisti from the short lesson for Sunday at Prime in the Divine Office ( Colossians 3:1-2 ) that we are to keep in mind seeking the things that are above as part of our being in the world and not of it. Personally, I had a ding moment in which it hit me the words of second half of Psalm 68:33 “ Seek ye God and your soul shall live “ ( It’s one of the Psalms in one of the ferial Matins. ) Mind the things of God, seek God and my soul shall live was my takeaway from that.
4) The Hour of Prime in the Divine Office is a Morning Offering.
Preached on the Gospel at all Masses. How the two appearances cap both ends of the Octave. Main point was the institution of the Sacrament of Penance. Like on Holy Thursday, Jesus said what He meant and meant what He said: “This is My body…My blood…” and on the day of the Resurrection to His Apostles: “Whose sins you forgive shall be forgiven them…”
Thomas, although missing received the infusion of the Holy Ghost like the elders appointed by Moses in the Book of Numbers. Our Lord knew His chosen ones. It wasn’t necessary for Thomas to be present to receive the outpouring and infusion of the Holy Ghost.
As our Lord breathed on His 1st Bishops/ priests, He does today through Apostolic Succession.
The newest parochial vicar had 1030 today. FWIW that young man has the best singing voice I’ve ever heard in a church. Also the first time i’ve ever been at a NO Mass where the celebrant wore a maniple.
Back to the point: he emphasized the power that the Lord gave the Apostles, and their successors, and all priests to absolve sins. He exhorted all of us to abandon ourselves to mercy in the sacrament of confession. He reminded us that any and all of our sins can be forgiven if only we take them to confession. (Just so happens he heard my most recent confession a few days ago.) Once we receive the Lord’s mercy, it is incumbent on us to be merciful to others since faith without works is dead.
Solid and growing Traditional Latin Mass in Midwest. I counted >40 young children in the first seven rows. Amazing vitality. The TLM presents something to believe in.
The TLM has 200-275 Mass attendance per week. Plus two masses the during the week draws 40-60 each.