Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff.
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for the 2nd Sunday Sunday after Easter? Novus Ordo – 3rd Sunday of Easter.
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. I hear that it is growing. Of COURSE.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
A taste of my thoughts from the other place: HERE
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The liturgy’s primary aim is to portray the present, not the past, to give grace and life along with history. You must, therefore, give the parable a present day context, apply it personally. After each sentence, stop and say: Christ is doing this today – and to help me.
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At our NO parish, Father spoke on forgiveness, telling the story of Maria Goretti, and giving us the things to focus on in our own lives to grow in holiness: repentance (frequent confession, daily examine), prayer (meditation and Recollection) and spreading the gospel in word and deed. Good news, my son week be ordained to the priesthood in June! Please pray for him!
Saturday night I was as a Novus Ordo mass (as the KOC was having an exemplification after). The Pastor preached on the real presence.
Sunday morning I went to my SSPX chapel (as usual). Our Pastor spoke about the calling to priesthood. He mentioned 5 (I think 5) SSPX priests were ordained this year and 2 will stay in the US and 3 will go abroad. He noted this number is insufficient especially due to the increase of congregation.
He warned parents not to push young boys into the calling but instead encourage and the let them find the calling.
I’ll note (in case people question) I had the Eucharist in one of the masses (not both as they were both the Sunday Mass).
I do take note that the Novus Ordo was a week behind the Vetus Ordo in the liturgical theme. It’s sad to note two different church cycles, really disorienting a person who wants to stay close to his NO parish but desires to worship our Lord in more fullness and reverence.
For those who look and learn it becomes quite clear that the NO Mass and catechism would be like going to McDonalds with a playground and rap music on the speaker system. While at the SSPX or other Vetus Ordo Church is like going to a table-clothed restaurant and eat a filet mignon (rare please, thank you), a side of potatoes, bacon-wrapped asparagus, a Cesar salad, with a Super Tuscan and creme brulee desert, all with a pianist or other classic music playing…
OK, some N.O. Churches are as good as In-N-Out or Five Guys…
I would say, Why have a Generic Cola, when you can have COKE the real thing.
The padre had an interesting point on the gospel of the Good Shepherd yesterday-
The sheep know the shepherd, but how does the Shepherd know who His sheep are? What are the marks of the sheep that make them His sheep? I’ve never heard that point before regarding the Good Shepherd-really got my attention.
I have a particular love for this parable…and in fact, all the “sheep” parables. I spent thirty years raising a small flock of sheep; within the first few weeks of doing so, I began to see before me, every single day, concrete examples of exactly what those parables were saying. We even had the sad experience of the hireling at one point, a hireling who not only did not care a whit about the sheep, but who also turned out to be a false shepherd, betraying our trust and nearly driving our farm into bankruptcy.
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Considering the fact that most people up until the Industrial Revolution had such an intimate understanding of livestock in general and sheep in particular only goes to show Our Lord’s infinite wisdom in using them as examples. And yes, it even applies today, when most people live in cities and have little to no knowledge of animals beyond cats and dogs, simply because there are still shepherds and farmers today – the small-scale ones who still pretty much do things directly by hand instead of using machinery – means there are still those who can explain the meaning behind those examples in a sad time when the shepherds of the Church so frequently fail to do so.
I’ll note (in case people question) I had the Eucharist in one of the masses (not both as they were both the Sunday Mass).
I am afraid you could get it from either direction.
It is my understanding that which mass it is, is not a deciding criterion. As I recall, (assuming you are in a state of grace), you can naturally receive communion at a first mass on any day. If you go to a second mass on that day and you participate at that second mass, you can receive a second time. This is from Canon 917. Since that would include communicating at 2 masses on the same natural (calendar day), a fortiori it would also cover communicating at two masses of the same liturgical Sunday when separated by a night between.
As I read the canon, it excludes communicating if at the second mass you are merely there at communion. It does not (at least not clearly) exclude the reverse: say, e.g. if you are a deacon helping give communion, communicating at the first mass though you are only there at communion, and then communicating at the second mass if you participate fully at that second mass, but perhaps that is not in keeping with the spirit of the rule if all along you anticipated full participation at the second mass?