Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff.
It is the2nd Sunday of Lent. The Roman Station is St. Santa Maria in Domnica “alla Navicella”.
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? We all have heard the bad news. How about good news?
I have a few thoughts about the orations in the Vetus Ordo for this Sunday: HERE
A taste…
Our days are not so unlike the pagan times. These are again pagan times, with all the resultant impurity. I just read a story from Religion News Service about how Catholics in Rome are sick of the Church and have started up pseudo-cultic worship of the ancient Roman gods. Everywhere impurity is not just tolerated, it is celebrated. Through the might of those who control mass media, it is imposed nearly everywhere. Its ubiquity can obscure hearts and minds and mire them in the earthly, the flesh. This is not just in society at large; these forces are at work within the Church herself.
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High Mass at our FSSP parish was packed, as usual. Looked like some new families came for sacramental prep today too.
Father made a really good point commenting on the Gospel today that I just never really considered. He said the cloud that descended upon Christ and the apostles, and that spoke to them was actually the Shekina cloud that followed the Israelites in the desert with Moses.
I just never put two and two together, and Father just made it click!
He then gave a great treatment on the Divine and human natures of Jesus Christ, basically describing the Hypostatic Union without using the term. Great homily with a lot of meat!
Canon preached on how we should not seek consolations, but the God of Consolation.
At the TLM Father pointed out how Jesus and His Apostles came down from the mountain, they did not stay at the top! We do not put up tents and stay at the top of the mountain. No, we hold fast to the gifts that edify our faith and we go back to the world and live in faith.
At the Novus Ordo, Father said the key word today was “LISTEN” Abraham listened to God and continued listening. If he had not listened he would have slaughtered Isaac. But he listened, and he stopped. God the Father said “Listen to Him!” He could have said other things, like “imitate Him”. Are we listening?
What I have found interesting is that the Episcopal Church has not had the same readings as we do now for two Sundays in Lent. My mother in law lives with us and her Episcopal service always has the same readings as the Novus Ordo. Every Sunday, we have the same. Except these last two weeks of Lent.
Fr. Leith, SSPX packs a lot of meat into his homilies, and yesterday was no exception. He said during Lent we need to practice true penance, citing fasting, prayer and almsgiving. Whenever we donate money, we are in a sense giving our lives to another, not because money itself is life but because most people literally give time in their lives to earn it.
For those who struggle financially, almsgiving can be done with the spiritual virtues. He didn’t mention the corporal works of mercy, but non-financial almsgiving seems to lead directly to those.
If you’d like to hear Fr. Leith talk about virtues, here’s a video he did during Covid on that very subject. I’ve learned a lot from this man’s homilies and I’m glad there’s content of him on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QeoKlvRwSIA