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 this 20th Sunday after Pentecost, or the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time?
Tell us about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
A couple thoughts about the sign of the cross: HERE A taste…
Sometimes we waver or struggle in our faith. This is not a surprise, for we are not angels who, understanding things in their very essence and lacking the appetites that come with being individuated in matter cannot change their minds. We are buffeted about in life. Doubts can creep in. We must be alert at these moments and take steps to both apply our own elbow grease to the spanner in the gears and beg for graces from God. We also have to make distinctions. There is a difference between difficulties with aspects of the faith and doubts. As St John Henry Newman wrote:
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
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Today our parish priest in talking about marriage said ‘God must be at the center of a marriage and couples must pray together. When there is no prayer in a marriage it will crumble’
For Sunday October 6 our FSSP parish celebrated the external solemnity of Our Lady of the Rosary. For the homily Father gave a little history of the battle of Lepanto emphasizing how the Christians had been praying the rosary and how the wind suddenly shifted 180 degrees in their favor at a critical time in the battle. Also how the Turks who had been captured related how they had seen a vision of the Blessed Mother at the time of the wind shift.
We face an even more serious battle today, more than just 30,000 Turks, we have diabolical forces facing us. Our only defense is to seek the protection of Our Lady, through devotion to the Holy Rosary.