Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all.
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Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for this Feast of Christ the King – Last Sunday in October, the 30th 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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When Benedict XV died unexpectedly of pneumonia in 1922, Achille Ratti, then Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, was elected to the See of Peter in the longest conclave of the century. He probably also took the longest to accept. When asked if he accepted, he reportedly pondered in silence for several minutes, as if shouldering the weight of the world. One Cardinal quipped that they had “put him through the 14 Stations and then left him on Calvary.” He took the regnal name of Pius XI and the motto “Pax Christi in regno Christi… The Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ.”
From the start, his motto signaled his intent. His first encyclical, Ubi arcano (1922), lamented that World War I had not brought peace and that new wars threatened. He deplored the conversion of churches to secular use and pointed to concupiscence as the root of societal ills. Only under the Kingship of Christ, he said, would there be true peace. Three years later, in 1925, with his encyclical Quas primas, Pius XI established the Feast of Christ the King, fixing it on the last Sunday of October, the month Communists had hijacked for the exaltation of their “permanent revolution.” In a diabolically ironic twist, the term “permanent revolution” had been penned in 1844 by Karl Marx in a work called The Holy Family. The Devil always tells you what he is doing.
“Permanent revolution” in Communist praxis meant that goals must be pursued without compromise with the opposition. Some have suggested there is a parallel with the now seemingly endless “walking together” sessions, those processes of endless redoing and reimagining that attempts to create a permanent “process” within the Church herself. “Revolution” in Latin is “res novae …new things.” For the ancient Romans, “new” was by default bad, a sign of instability and rebellion.
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We had a typically good attendance at Mass in our chapel: At least 200 with many babies and about a dozen boys and men serving (Missa Cantata). Good point: The (Irish) priest admitted that England was one of the most Catholic countries before H8’s lust-driven departure from the Church; the story of one of the 40 English martyrs; the incongruity of a Pope sharing the stage with the successor of H8 taking note of Pope Francis’s apology for the supposed crimes against Canadian First Nations children. Afterwards we processed through the small town for two miles with the Blessed Sacrament, stopping for Benediction once along the way.
There’s a spiritual trap in the account of the Pharisee and the tax collector. it’s so easy to think “I’m glad i’m not like that Pharisee”, but as soon as we do that, we have become him.
Father also commemorated St. Quodvultdeus. He was an associate of St. Augustine and a bishop in north Africa. when the vandals conquered the area, they wanted to get rid of Catholic bishops and priests since – even worse than being vandals – they were arian heretics. they loaded Catholic clergy onto leaky boats, neglecting to provide them with oars, sails, or rudders. the clergy prayed steadfastly. eventually the boats came aground safely in Naples where they were warmly welcomed and he lived and served there for many years.
i went down a small rabbit hole looking to find more about this saint (particularly where he landed as Father was mumbly at that moment). i found that in north Africa they gave names that were much like those of early American puritans: Restitutus, Deogratias, Primosus, Fortunius.
choir was short-handed today with only seven of us – five being professional musicians (a full contingent is 12-14 including an organist, who was also missing today). i was astonished to be the only one familiar with Adoro Te Devote. Very much looking forward to chanting the Dies Irae next Sunday.
There was so much in Father’s sermon that it is hard to recall it all. He emphasized that Jesus is King here and now, the world is still in the hands of Satan. The battle has already been won for us but that doesn’t mean evil isn’t still fighting.
After Mass we had a procession around the neighborhood singing a litany in Latin of course, then returned to the church to sing the Angelus as is our custom after the high mass.