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 18th Sunday after Pentecost, the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Novus Ordo.
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
A couple thoughts about the sign of the cross: HERE A taste…
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Paul says that the Corinthians, and we, their distant heirs, have been “enriched with all speech and knowledge,” so as to lack no spiritual gift while we wait for the Lord’s revealing. This enrichment is not mere eloquence or erudition but the infusion of faith that blossoms into wisdom. Augustine’s adage “Crede ut intellegas… Believe, so that you might understand” (cf s. 43.9) illumines the line like a shaft through stained glass, or through an opened roof. Knowledge (scientia) alone cannot reach the mystery; only wisdom (sapientia) rooted in faith can perceive its form. Isaiah’s words, “Nisi credideritis, non permanebitis… Unless you will have first believed, you will not endure,” link faith and firmness, belief and endurance. To believe is to stand solid on the rock that no storm can move. Augustine makes of this: Nisi credideritis, non intellegetis… Unless you will have first believed, you will not understand” (tr. in Io. 29.6).
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Wonderful, catechetical sermon by a young transitional deacon on sin and the necessity of confession at my newly dynamically orthodox territorial parish in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. He walked the congregation through what constitutes mortal sin and why sacramental confession is essential. It’s worth noting that not so long ago this church was the kind of place you’d go when your own parish wasn’t bat5hit crazy enough. (And it’s also with nothing that it was packed this morning, like most Sundays.) It has since been “clustered“ under another parish with a faithful pastor.
Father preached about gratitude and the Real Presence and explained some of the parts of the Eucharistic prayer and that they are expressing that even what we offer to God comes FROM God and that we need to be thankful for that
I could not understand one word of sermon at SS. Trinità, il mio italiano è inesistente.
But it will be the highlight of my trip meeting you and The World’s Best Sacristan™!
Our new “ministerial assistant” has been at the parish for a month. He is from Nigeria and newly ordained. His first Mass (N.O., 7:30am) lasted an hour and 20 minutes. This Sunday, it lasted an hour or so. Only slightly accented, Fr. J chants parts of the Mass and appears to be reverent in his liturgical actions.
During his Sunday’s sermon, you could hear a pin drop. No coughing, no movement, no distractions. He spoke on the proper disposition to receive the Eucharist and how the Readings relate to this. Not a long sermon, but powerful, direct to the point. He cited statistics on the latest Church surveys. Holding his hands high, spreading the fingers, he stated that statically, less than this many were properly disposed, at this Mass, to receive the Eucharist. I haven’t heard a sermon this powerful and insightful for many years.
Although this parish has a “liberal” architecture, with Extra-Ordinary Eucharistic Ministers, it was noticed that reception of the Eucharist took a while longer. The line thanking Father, after Mass, was longest I have seen in the 5 years I have been a member of this parish.
The Rosary, led by a Deacon before Mass and Prayers/Intercessions before the Recessional, are the norm.
The parish is changing with a new, young pastor and assistant. The old choir, not so much. It was an impactful Sunday morning, still contemplating what was “preached.”