In the Vetus Ordo, it’s the Sunday of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. In the Novus Ordo, it is the 2nd Sunday after Christmas. However, in many places Epiphany is celebrated on this Sunday instead of 6 January where it belongs.
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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Christ received His “role” Name “Jesus” at his Circumcision. He already had a Name from all eternity, His “being” Name, which God spoke to Moses from the burning bush: I AM. “I AM” was so sacred to the Jews that they would not pronounce aloud the four letters which made it up in Hebrew. There are moments in the Lord’s earthly life when He uses this “being” Name. Consider the force of His “being” Name in the Garden of Gethsemane in John 18. The betrayer, Judas, led soldiers to the Garden to apprehend the Lord. Then,
… Jesus, knowing all that was to befall him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?” They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. When he said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
Christ spoke, in the Greek account, Ἐγώ εἰμι… I AM” and they fell down. One would imagine that soldiers in the ancient world were physically strong. They could not stand the power that came from this Jesus when he said, “I AM”. The Lord’s Name is mighty indeed.
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Alberta FSSP was given property. Big plans in the works.
I was surprised to say the least of you using Xmas in your introduction title!
[Golly! You know that X is a Greek letter, right? Do you have a problem with IHS? or DNIC? or AD? o{];¬) ]
Our excellent Fathers at the TLM mission are often so erudite that I am not sure what to think. One has actually quoted Cornelius a Lapide, more than once. Today, my favorite takeaway was that we must not seek to know our guardian angel’s names, because to know a name is to have a certain power, and it is not our job to have power over our guardian angels. This sheds light perhaps on poor Zachary’s mistake, when (lacking humility?) he questions the revelation about the birth of his son John in such a way that the angel Gabriel has to announce his authority. “I am Gabriel.”
Today I had the pleasure of witnessing the blessing of Epiphany water for the first time. Father Z. you would have been impressed — Father’s assistant quickly caught on to the difference between “Ora pro nobis” and “Orate pro nobis” during the Litany of the Saints. I think I got it too. Ora is singular, orate is plural.
What I don’t understand is what everybody is doing with all that blessed water. Those buckets looked even bigger than a mere 5-gallon size.
FSSP parish and it was the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. Instead of preaching on that topic, the priest decided to preach on confession and the difference between regret and true repentance. He mentioned that Judas had regret and even confessed his sin and made restitution for his sin but he did not have remorse.
Just as athletes make a training plan to reach a goal, we, as penitents, must also make a plan as to how we’re not going to fall into the same sin over and over again.