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It was the 4th Sunday after Easter in the Vetus Ordo and the 5th Sunday of Easter in the Novus Ordo.
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation?
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 some thoughts about the Sunday reading HERE.
A taste:
There is a phrase attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo, namely, that “the virtue of hope has two beautiful daughters, anger and courage: anger with the way things are, and courage to change them for the better.” C. S. Lewis wisely noted that an anger that causes one a dark pleasure is false, as in “the fact that one feels entirely righteous oneself only when one is angry. Then the other person is pure black, and you are pure white.” This is not, of course, the path to truth or righteousness. Pope St. Gregory the Great said: “We must beware lest, when we use anger as an instrument of virtue, it overrule the mind, and go before it as its mistress, instead of following in reason’s train, ever ready, as its handmaid, to obey.”
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Today we celebrated the feast day of St. Stanislaus. Father told us that when the good saint was in need of a witness to verify his purchase of land for a church or he would lose it, he fasted & prayed for 3 days. Then in all his regalia (and not in black pants and suit coat Father pointed out) he arrived at the cemetery where the seller was buried, had him disinterred and presented to the authorities to testify as to the sale.
A definite reminder to fast & pray.
Anything is possible.
The Lord’s command (not suggestion): let not your hearts be troubled. When the Lord gives a command we know: 1) His commands are, all of them, good, and; 2) He will give you the strength and ability to carry out His commands.
An addendum to maternalView’s post: the vice-rector of St. Francis de Sales Seminary helped with confessions and Communion. This would have been unthinkable not too long ago, considering that one of the past vice-rectors was the now semi-exiled (and “out”) Fr. Bryan Massingale…
Elsewhere toward the outskirts of Archd. Milwaukee, our pastor announced our parish’s projects for the archdiocesan capital campain as part of his homily (NO 5th of Easter). In addition to some needed repairs to the parish church, we will be renovating the sanctuary to its pre-wreckovation glory (my words obviously, not his) – and Father made sure to explain prior to outlining the projects that he had the approval of our ordinary and the diocesan office of worship. I think he was expecting backlash…
We also heard that we will be receiving a new pastor – another young man – next month. I’m hoping he continues in the same vein as our current pastor.
A bit late, but on the Sunday here in question we had the external celebration of our Lady Patroness of Bavaria, Com. of the Sunday and of St. Stanislaus. The sermon went a bit like: Oh, “you all know the history of the devotion to our Lady Patroness of Bavaria, so I’m not going to repeat it here” [*], but… why, actually? What is the sense of celebrating our Lady in some specific sense as Patroness of the country? Isn’t she the mother of all Catholics? Isn’t she, besides that, patroness of so many other countries besides our own? Wouldn’t some patron whose specific responsibility is us (St. Emmeram might be a choice – addition by me) be a better fit?
Well, no. Precisely because she is the mother of all Catholics, all our business is her business. That includes the jobs we have, the companies we may lead, the parishes which priests lead, the dioceses which bishops lead, and in case of the Holy Father, the government of the whole Church. And it’s good to actually take the time to go to one’s parents (who may have other children).
[* you may not, so, addition by me: it was a devotion that was gaining prominence and had something to do with an icon that the Duke-Elector’s residence, when Duke-Elector Maximilian consecrated the dukedom to our Lady in order that the two capitals might be spared from major destruction during the Thirty-Years-War, and erected a column to that effect; King Louis III requested and got Papal confirmation and a first-class feast.]