Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff.
It is the 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Novus Ordo and Septuagesima Sunday in the Vetus Ordo. We are back in purple for Sunday while the new-fangled gets green. We are now in pre-Lent. Those who attend the Vetus Ordo are never surprised by Lent.
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 a few thoughts about the orations in the Vetus Ordo for this Sunday: HERE
A taste:
You know the response of the Lord to those who complained about getting the same as those hired last: “Is your eye evil because I am good?”. Yup. That’s how the Douay-Reims version has it. RSV says: “Do you begrudge my generosity?” That eye imagery is wonderful. We tend to see things the way we want to see them.
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NO at the Cathedral. Our homilist, while he didn’t specifically mention 7gesima, did mention the importance of confession and of making a plan for Lent. he gave an analogy (i forget the name of the fellow to whom he attributed it) that going to confession is like cleaning out your car. it isn’t a “one and done” sort of thing – there are always little things that accumulate. if enough things accumulate in your car there’s nowhere for someone else to sit. if enough things accumulate in your soul, there’s no room for God.
We do not have any soil nearer than the Catholic cemetery about a mile away… and I’m not sure it would be allowed there!
In the NO the Gospel was Mark 1:21-28, and our PP made an interesting comment on :
In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit;
he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?
Have you come to destroy us?
I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”
Pointing out that even the demons know that Christ is Lord, he cleverly suggested that this sort of failure in those who know Christ and yet still reject Him occurs via a redefinition of a relationship that should be centred in Love into one defined by power.
The demon seeks power, and not Love.
So by extension, those who see Christianity and the Church as a means or as a purpose of power, those who use the Gospel for such purposes instead of receiving it in and with love, are in the same Error and Sin.
Love is what binds us together in and with Holy Church in Trinity through Christ, not power.
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His sermon led me to reflect anyway that the Protestant creeds of Sola Scriptura and Sola Fide are very often conceived by Protestants as based in power and not in love — “I believe therefore I am saved” as if my beliefs could oblige Jesus, and the frequent misuse of Scripture to not just deny 2,000 years of interpretation, but to set oneself up as its sole interpreter.