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 the Sunday after Ascension Thursday? Novus Ordo – 7th Sunday of Easter… OR… Ascension Thursday Sunday. Not confusing at all.
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news? I know there is a lot of BAD news. How about some good news?
A taste of my thoughts from the other place: HERE
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Third, Christ ascended as the High Priest to present perpetually His Sacrifice to the Father. We use the images of physical locations, such as the Father’s “right hand”. So, we can speak of Christ in the heavenly temple at an altar beyond space and time where He renews His self-oblation without ceasing. This means that His High priestly action is in eternity and not just in points of historical time. By the Ascension, all the transformative mysteries of the Passion and Resurrection are still available to us. The action and effects of the Last Supper, continuous with Calvary and the empty tomb, are not bound by clocks, calendars or by geographical location. The High Priest in Heaven guarantees that we can have many Masses at many altars in many places at the same time. Christ is not just in this Host and then in that Host but in every Host, not just on this altar only now, but on every altar. He simultaneously is available to us in thousands of Hosts around the globe or in thousands of Host in the same church building. There isn’t just one priest now acting in Christ’s person, but many persons who are His priests who act in persona Christi.
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Father gave a great sermon today about how unity is not unity unless we reorient ourselves to heaven. That the world needs to be more Christian and Catholic, not the Church becoming one with the secular world.
Fr largely focussed on June as the month of the Sacred Heart and to carefully pray the Litany of the Sacred Heart as reparation for certain immorality that has become associated with the month.
Our church was packed as usual for the 10:30 AM High Mass. At the sermon, Father talked about how he and another priest from our parish were privileged to attend the ordination of 5 new priests for the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP). This ties in with the Ascension – the fact that we have the sacraments are not as a substitute for Christ being physically present with us, but that his ascending to heaven enabled the Holy Spirit to be with us and it expresses itself through the sacraments. (Those weren’t his exact words but that is how I understood it). He talked about several aspects of the ordination ceremony itself.
I spoke on understanding our regrets and failures as the source and power of wisdom and kindness.
Attended my niece’s nuptial Mass in upstate NY – pure TLM. Vows right after procession and then the Mass. Twelve altar servers in black cassocks and white surplices and a Master of Ceremonies to assist Father who was in a fiddleback chasuble. Good choir singing the Mass. All but the gospel in Latin. Father had a mic and we could hear his quiet praying. No homily. Plenty of incense at beginning, at readings, at offertory, and it involved the people in their turn. Sang the Pater Noster along with the priest and with just a smattering of others. 4-person communion rail – just right. The most conforming high TLM I have been to in fifty years. NO SIGN OF PEACE!
Next day, 9AM Mass: same thing with twelve servers and excellent coordination. Several of the boys looked no more than 8 years old. Attendance was about seventy-five. This is the setting where future priests come from.