In the Vetus Ordo, it’s Septuagesima Sunday. In the Novus Ordo, it is the 6th Sunday in Ordinary (Ordered) Time. Green vestments for the Novus Ordo, and violet for the Vetus Ordo.
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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They are your prayers too, raised in your stead by the priest at the altar of Sacrifice. You raise them by your baptismal share in Christ’s priesthood through your attentive listening which is far from passive when you are truly engaged with them and the sound of the voice of the alter Christus, praying in persona Christi capitis. In the priest’s vocal praying and by your full, conscious and actual active participation in his praying, Christ the Head and Christ the Body come together into, as St. Augustine of Hippo might put it, Christus Totus, Christ Whole Entire.
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A young man accompanied me to TLM, his second ever. He was very struck by how many other young men were there and how people were left alone to worship as they saw fit, not that people were distracted by private devotions, bht, for example, people went up for Communion if and when they saw fit, not row by row.
Sermon was one of best I ever heard. And not too long. It was how we train to achieve something we value. What we seek is salvation. We use this period of pre Lent to get in training, Lent helps us with the hard training and we hope to s hieve Easter with Our Lord. I paraphrase and perhaps miss the nuance but he said St Paul deliberately exhorts us as if we are military recruits.
We went to the NO vigil Mass at a parish where the priest offers both NO and VO and the sermon was about the need to seek heaven rather than worldly honors. It was the first time my family, wife three daughters, two sons-in-law, four grandchildren and “J” have been at Mass together in a few years. We were there because “J” was going to be baptized using the VO after the Mass. We have had custody of “J”, who is 5, for almost 5 years. Because of technicalities in our state’s child custody laws none of the priests we talked to thought she could be baptized. But our dear priest finally managed to get the diocesan canon lawyer to recommend she be baptized. It was a truly marvelous experience. When we began taking care of Jayde I was 68 and my wife 64, COVID was raging and it turned out our decision made it difficult and therefore rare for us to make the long trip to the VO Mass. I learned that now attendance at the Sunday TLM is usually over 300 at the high Mass and up to 80 at the very early morning low Mass and Father averages 2 infant Baptisms a month, 99% of which are in Latin. I would guess back in 2011 we had 150 to 200 at Sunday Mass. There was only one TLM per week back then except for 1st Friday and Saturday. The other Latin Mass parish in the diocese apparently is bursting at the seams at all three Sunday Masses.
There was an excellent homily at Our Lady Queen of Angels ( Fsspx). at Fort Myers, Florida. Father Rigi spoke about the Epistle, with St Paul urging a zealous running of the race. Fr. Rigi said we need to not only accept the sufferings from Jesus but we also need to embrace them and finally love them.
Father explained the meaning of Septuaguesima and the following pre-Lent Sundays. We can begin making little sacrifices now as a preparation for Lent. The Epistle reading uses the analogy of an athlete training to win a perishable crown, unlike the one that we are promised. He noted how devoted athletes are when training for events such as the Olympics where they just get worldly fame and a medal, even training from childhood, whereas us Christians are not as fervent even though what we will receive is eternal life. We even find it hard to give up meat once a week.
This is not so much good as gently humorous. At the NO we heard no sermon because it’s time for the Annual Appeal. The movie screen lowered and our good Cardinal spoke about giving. Before that, the lovely young woman lector who introduced the video pronounced his name Koopitch.
Greetings Padre,
Regarding the Ordo and all these controversies over the Nervous Disorder founded during a runaway Council by renegade committee packed with protestants and led by a Masonic man of dubious sexuality, the “Vetus Ordo” term that you esteem is a misnomer.
It’s not old, it’s perennial.
As to sermons, at our High Mass for Septuagesima, our humble flock TLM community in Brooklyn heard the homilist make the excellent point that earth is in a way a Potemkin Village, preparing us for our true home. And St Paul didn’t swing at air–he landed his punches.