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It’s the 17th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo and the 25th Sunday of the Novus Ordo.
Elsewhere I guess its the 4th Sunday in the Season of Creation. HERE Did you get any of that in your parish today?
More importantly, 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:
Of our Sunday Lesson Bl. Ildefonso Schuster remarks:
The passage from the Epistle to the Ephesians (iv, 1-6) vigorously impresses upon us the idea of the unity of the Christian family, a unity founded on the identity of the Spirit which inspires all the members of the mystical body of Jesus Christ. God is one, the faith is one ; there is one baptism and one bishop. With these words in olden days the Romans, making a tumult in the Circus, answered the heretical Emperor Constantius, when he proposed to allow the Antipope Felix II, whom he himself had appointed, to reside in peace beside Liberius, the staunch defender of the Nicene faith.
What is Schuster talking about. Tumult? Antipope? Two Popes?
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Homily on the parable of all the vineyard workers getting paid the same thing. The necessity of humble acceptance not only of converts, but of last minute conversions of horrible criminals and villains. St. Maria Goretti didn’t want revenge on her killer; she prayed for him to change his ways and be saved. We need to pray for our enemies.
Reminder that there’s a 54 day novena in progress, against the proposed pro-abortion amendment to Ohio’s constitution.
Today’s sermon led me to wonder whether the parable of the vineyard workers getting paid the same wage has, as one meaning, to refer specifically to the gift of sanctifying grace: there is one baptism, and all are washed clean in that one baptism. Newborn babies and hardened old sinners alike receive sanctifying grace and are made into adopted children of God.
Whenever I hear this Gospel, my immediate thought is the last workers didn’t have to endure 6 months of RCIA.
Share the good. Our parish priest is kind and devout. He clearly loves the mass and does everything with reverence. It is a NO, but no weird modernist twists. Straightforward and as far as my understanding goes, proper to the book. The music varies due to the use of those paper throw away seasonal books with their mix of older quality hymns, and those songs I wish would fall out of use, but to my amazement, piano and bass guitar are actually able to be reverently played(actually SOUNDS like church music!)–but that is likely due to the excellent skill of the players, we are fortunate in our very very tiny parish in the middle of nowhere on the northern edge of the Bible Belt, to have our instrumentalists. I love our little choir, they work hard to sing each song well, and select more of the older good songs than the regrettable newer things. We have confession before every Mass, adoration after each Mass, and a social with donuts and coffee next door. We actually have community in this parish. I read about some places and am VERY thankful for what we have.
We couldn’t make our normal TLM at 7am, so we went to the new (as of Sept 10) TLM at the Norbertine Abbey. Of course, under the caring and accompanying guidance (or draconian and oppressive tyranny) of our supreme pontiff, the mass cannot be held in the main church but is instead in the cemetery chapel where there are no fonts/stoups for holy water, no pews or kneelers (the priests and seminarians set up chairs) and limited airflow. Still, there were at least 100 in attendance. It is the Latin Mass, so it is worth the drive and the uncomfortable conditions to be clear of the uncomfortable gyrations of the typical Novus Ordo.
Everyone: Thanks for sharing the GOOD stuff. We have enough bad. Some people don’t get any good at all.
We were fortunate in our travels to find another TLM, this time in Indianapolis. It was a proudly Italian Catholic parish with the church built in 1909 that had never been renovated! Both Masses were TLM, one sung. The priest was diocesan and spoke about the differences of obedience in orders, diocese, and laity. Head a few humorous digs at Jesuits and obedience. Again, lots of young families and a full church.