It’s the Sunday in the Octave of Christmas and, in the Novus Ordo, Feast of the Holy Family.
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation?
Share the good stuff. Quite a few people are forced to sit through really bad preaching. Even though you can usually find – if you are willing to try – at least one good point in a really bad sermon, that can be a trial. So… SHARE THE GOOD STUFF which you were fortunate enough to receive!
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. I hear that it is growing. Of COURSE.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news? We really need good news.
I have some thoughts posted at One Peter Five.
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We don’t know why exactly we are called into this point in time and place, but we know that God must have a plan for us. If we can accept our state and live it well, and accept the mysterious burdens and challenges that come with living, we are confident that we shall look the Messiah in the face, our selves new born into the happiness of heaven, where there is no weeping or weakness or sorrow and all our great questions will be resolved in the midst of our loved ones and the holy saints and myriad hosts of angels before God’s throne.
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Attendance was good at our FSSP church for the 10:30 AM High Mass with just about every pew taken, many young families with several children. This mass is always preceded by the Rosary with a couple of decades said in Latin, and sometimes the Salve Regina sung after the last decade. Another thing we do which I really like is sing the Angelus in Latin at the end of Mass which is usually around 12 Noon.
Anyway, as for the sermon, Father contrasted the celebration of Christ’s birth with the three feast days we celebrate during the octave of Christmas, St. Stephen the proto-martyr, St. John the Evangelist, and the Holy Innocents. It emphasizes the different ways we need to respond to our salvation by God becoming present with us. We may not shed our blood as St. Stephen and the Holy Innocents did, but we may suffer in other ways for our faith. The estimated 14,000 children that died at the hands of Herod reminds us that many more of the unborn are dying every year due to abortion.
What a Fabulous article! Thank you and Merry Christmas Father!
A good friend of mine ordained last May and finishing licentiate studies in Rome was home over Christmas and filled in for our pastor at the parish where he was assigned for pastoral training. He related to us the story of St. Junipero Serra’s journey through the desert with aid from the Holy Family (I’m not recalling the destination, other than it being a remote monastery or mission). The element most outstanding in my memory was how, when Fr. Serra bent down to bless the young boy when he was about to take his leave, the child traced the Sign of the Cross upon Fr. Serra’s forehead.
a good portion of the Mass was sung (though it’s often unpredictable how much this will be the case) and there was, as is often the case, a small army of servers – we have two sons of the parish currently in priestly formation at various stages, and I’m praying we can provide more.