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It’s the 13th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo and the 21st Sunday of 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 Epistle reading posted at One Peter Five.
A taste:
The part about “angels” needs explanation. The promise given to Abraham was given directly to him by God, without an intermediary. The Law was given to the people indirectly through Moses. Indeed, the rabbis of Paul’s time thought that God was so overwhelming that the mediation of angels was necessary even in the giving of the Law. God gave it to angels who gave it to Moses. In Acts 7:53 we find: “you who have received the law that was given through angels but have not obeyed it.” In Hebrews 2:2: “since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment”.
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Father emphasized there is no salvation outside the Church that Christ himself founded and appointed Peter as the head, giving authority to His apostles. This church is One, Holy, Apostolic, and Catholic. This is the Roman Catholic Church.
He added that if others outside our Church are saved, it’s due to the grace of Christ that flows out of His Church.
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It seems to me us Catholics are too weak kneed in our conviction and subsequent defense of this dogma. It doesn’t help that are not bolstered by the Bishop dressed in white, whom many have the impression is the Holy Father, who is further crippling this dogma but certainly isn’t the first Koran kissing bishop….
It’s not easy to be Catholic these day. Oy vey!
I talked about the theological virtues that we asked our Lord in the collect to increase and deepen. The virtues are infused into our souls. They build upon and fortify our natural goods. But we must constantly pray they grow and exercise them in our daily lives.