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 traditional 24th and Last Sunday after Pentecost, or, in the Novus Ordo, the Feast of Christ the King?
Tell us about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
A couple thoughts of my own: HERE A taste…
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If you will permit even more digression, in his 1751 Apostolic Constitution Providas Romanorum condemning Freemasonry, Pope Benedict XIV quoted a prayer which one of the great liturgical scholars of his day, St. Giuseppe Maria Tomasi attributed to Gelasius. It was used in a Mass “contra obloquentes”. Obloquor means “to speak against a person or thing, to interrupt, contradict, to rail at, abuse”. Hence, the prayer could be called variously “Against the nitpickers” or “Against the grumps”. Here it is, straight out of my handy copy of the Liber sacramentorum (aka Gelasian Sacramentary):
Praesta, quaesumus, Domine ut mentium reprobarum non curemus obloquium, ….
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Some good news out of our local seminary. We have a seminarian helping out at our parish – sort of like an internship program (N.O. parish). Today after Communion is sang the Te Deum as Gregorian Chant! It’s a good sign that he feels comfortable enough to a) learn it and b) admit in public that he knows it. That can’t be said of every seminary. I hope the new archbishop doesn’t wreck it. (Haven’t heard any rumor at all about him yet – good or bad. Sound like he’s a native Wisconsonite from farm country, but I worry about the time spent in Chicago).
NO OLJCtK observed at the Cathedral.
Gospel reading was Pilate’s interrogation of the King of Kings and was primary basis of the homily.
When Pilate asked “are you a king?”, he was giving the Lord a way out – an opportunity to make an accommodation. Of course He did not make that accommodation, even knowing what awaited Him after an already harrowing ordeal. But how often do we make accommodations? How often do we step away from our own crosses instead of following His courage?
In the Diocese of Tyler, today was the last Sunday that the Traditional Mass will be celebrated at the Cathedral of the Immaculate conception, Mary Queen of Heaven parish, and a couple of other locations.
St Joseph the Worker, the FSSP apostolate, currently seats ~80, with overflow in a very small parish hall or just outside. Prior to this news, our recent annual census returned an attendance of over 500 across three Sunday Masses. Our very overworked priests are adding a *fourth* Mass on Sunday.
We have a building campaign and are ready to break ground, waiting only on the diocese. But it will be many months before we can build a church that can begin to accommodate what will likely be hundreds more faithful attached to the Traditional Mass.
Fr Z: Perhaps you would spotlight our situation again? And link to the fundraise for our new building? It’s more necessary now than it already was.