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 3rd Sunday Sunday after Easter? Novus Ordo – 4th Sunday of Easter.
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
A taste of my thoughts from the other place: HERE
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Inherent in Christ’s teaching in His Farewell Discourse is that, if He must go to where He belongs, to the Father, they too (therefore, we too) do not fully belong here anymore. The Son has His place with the Father. They, too, have their “father place”, their patria as the early Latin Church Father’s described our heavenly destination, our “fatherland”. This is also a theme in this Sunday’s Epistle taken from 1 Peter 2:11-19. The writer calls his listeners – letters were read aloud to ancient communities – “pároikoi kaì parepídemoi… ádvenae et peregríni… strangers and pilgrims (DRV) … aliens and exiles (RSV) ”. The Catholic novelist and mystic Michael D. O’Brien rendered this phrase for the title of his book Strangers and Sojourners, part of a series (Children of the Last Days) which branches out from Father Elijah.
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Our independent Traditional Catholic priest’s sermon was on the 11th and 12th articles of the Apostle’s Creed. He expounded on the differences of the glorified bodies of the just and the bodies of the damned, at the resurrection of the body at the end of time. He also reminded us what the reward of the just was, being face to face to God for all eternity in His eternal joy.
So, I usually attend a TLM at an FSSP parish at home. I was traveling this weekend, however, and opted for the vigil at St. Patrick’s (I took Confession and waiting 40 min for the service to start was no problem). Getting two sermons on the same topic was interesting.
We are in the process of moving to the Lehigh Valley so this Sunday after the closing on our new house Friday we attended what will be our church, Holy Ghost FSSP church in Bethlehem PA. We attended the 10:30 AM Missa Cantata which was SRO partly due to some pews being removed and partially replaced by metal chairs.
The homily was on the topic of the goodness of God. Father used the parable of the Prodigal Son as an example. The son demands his inheritance which is like us taking the gifts that God has given us but rejecting him. He then goes off and squanders those gifts eventually hitting rock bottom in a pigsty, something that would be anathema to a Jewish audience. All through this the Father (God) never gives up but is constantly waiting for the son to return. When the son does realize his sins and plans to come back as a slave, the father instead welcomes him back into the family as a son, the robe and ring signifying this. Just as God welcomes us back after we have confessed mortal sins and we become adopted sons.
I remember only the joke at the beginning of the homily: Priests get four weeks of vacation per year. Some people say that Priests ought to get two extra weeks of vacation. If a Priest gives good homilies, he deserves two extra weeks off. If a Priest gives bad homilies, the parishioners deserve two extra weeks off. I’ll let you decide why I deserve two extra weeks off. This from a Priest whose first language was not English.