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 Sunday, Holy Family (TLM) & Baptism of the Lord (NO).
Tell us about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
A taste of what I offered at 1 Peter 5 this week:
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The group with whom Joseph and Mary traveled is called a ???o??? (synodía) a company “together on the road”. The word itself speaks of “walking together”. The irony is sharp. In fact, just as the “walking together” of Luke 2 lost Jesus, so it seems that the “walking together” of the last few years may have done the same.
In any event Jesus is not “walking together” at that moment. He sets aside ordinary human expectation in order to be found where He must be found. Only when He is “about His Father’s (business)” does He rejoin them. Quaerite primum regnum Dei (Mt 6:33) takes flesh here as a priority that disrupts even the holiest of human bonds.
Having sought Jesus in all the wrong places, Joseph and Mary find Jesus in the Temple, the central place of worship and sacrifice which was the microcosm of the universe for the Jews. They found Him in the place of worship, not the markets and byways. It is as if this moment, counted among both the Sorrows of Mary and Joyful Mysteries, is shouting at us today that our best path to Jesus is not in endless process but rather in sacred liturgical worship received from our loving forebears. We are our rites. When our pastors remember this, then we shall see what happens.
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I went to an Anglican Ordinariate Mass, and the priest quoted St. Ambrose showing that by Christ’s baptism he cleansed the waters so that the waters of Baptism themself would become cleansing.
Strong attendance at today’s 11:00 high mass. More families with young children than the already high usual (usually found at 8:00 low mass) likely because of the feast.
Canon gave an excellent homily on the responsibilities we have to our parents, and the responsibilities parents have to their children. He ended his sermon by commanding all parents to restrict their children’s internet access and to only let them use it while supervised.
As a side note, there were close to 20 altar servers today. Deo gratias!
Went to Mass at a wonderful Ordinariate Parish.
Father gave a homily discussing anointing, tying the anointing of the Kings of Israel to the Anointing of Jesus. I thoroughly enjoyed that he tied the Old Testament into the New Testament, then tied it in to our own Sacraments of anointing, ending with a reminder of our own call to be heirs of the Kingdom.
Mercy, humility and patience, needed in family life, are only possible with charity, which recognizes God’s presence, and obedience, which recognizes God’s order.
St. Mary’s on Broadway in Providence RI. FSSP parish. Packed with cross-section of us ‘boomers’ to 20-somethings carrying multiple infants in their arms. 6 servers, MC, deacon and sub-deacon besides the celebrant. Thurifer was not more than 10 or 11, but handled the thurible like a pro. Everyone inside the rail knew their job…and did it well.
Too much to unpack; all the expected topics in light of the vetus ordo feast; key take-away is that society will never be healed until the ills being pushed on family life are defeated. As the family goes, so too society; how we treat the most vulnerable of us translates into how society treats all of us.
We are God’s beloved too.
When you go home, tell someone you love them.
(His homily was so fantastic, I asked if it was recorded somewhere- I knew some people who needed it, but he said it wasn’t)
I asked if he had any other suggestions, his answer “the scriptures”