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 Feast of Christ the King, or the 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time?
Tell us about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
A couple thoughts: HERE A taste…
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The theme of the Kingship of Christ was further stressed in his 1925 encyclical Quas primas. With this encyclical Pius established the Feast of Christ the King, fixing it on the last Sunday of October, a month which Communists had hijacked for the exaltation of their “permanent revolution”.
“Permanent revolution” is the strategy in Communist praxis that goals should be pursued without compromise with the opposition. Some might point to a possible parallel with the now seemingly endless “walking together” in October after October after October of trying to create a stable process in the Church of re-doing pretty much everything (which seems like a not inaccurate definition of “revolution”). Create listening groups to isolate voices which might run counter to the determined ends and issue concluding statements.
By the way, the Latin for “revolution” is res novae… “new things”. “New” was perceived by the ancient Romans as bad by default.
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The Gospel reading was the healing of the blind beggar from Jericho, Bartimaeus. Father talked about the connection with the story of Joshua and the city of Jericho in the Old Testament, and mentioned a commentary by Origen, explaining how the Jericho story is a prefigurement of Christ, with Joshua being like Jesus, and the walls representing false idols, for example. Very interesting. He then said that the blindness of the beggar is not just a healing miracle, but teaches us about the need for a savior to deliver us from the spiritual blindness of sin. Anyway, I hope I’m getting this all right. One thing I wonder about is why Bartimaeus is named. Usually, the miracles happen to people who are unnamed, such the ten lepers, or the woman with a hemorrhage.
We have a new priest, and he can offer the Traditional Latin Mass, making a total number of three who can do that. They haven’t added extra TLMs, but now the priests can share the load.
I talked about Bartimeaus being blind with his physical eyes, but had the sight of faith. Many today have physical eyes but are spiritually blind.
Christ’s kingdom isn’t here, but it is here where believers in Sanctifying Grace live His teaching and morals. We either spread the Kingdom of Christ, light or the Kingdom of Satan, darkness. We ought do our part in spreading the Kingdom of Christ. With that we have a responsibility of to vote. The one who doesn’t vote votes because the spiritually blind vote in droves for the kingdom of darkness.