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 2nd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 3rd Sunday OF Easter)?
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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That promise of unity is no minor afterthought. The scattered sheep are in peril precisely because they are scattered. Sheep wandering alone do not remain sheep for long. They “became food for all the wild beasts” as Ezekiel put it. The same urgency lies under the Lord’s words in John 10. If the Shepherd lays down His life, the danger must be proportionate to the sacrifice. He does not die because the flock is mildly inconvenienced. He dies because the sheep are in mortal peril. That theme is sounded magnificently in the traditional Collect for this Sunday:
Deus, qui in Filii tui humilitate iacentem mundum erexisti:
fidelibus tuis perpetuam concede laetitiam;
ut, quos perpetuae mortis eripuisti casibus,
gaudiis facias perfrui sempiternis.
A literal rendering
O God, who by the abasement of Your Son raised up a fallen world,
grant to Your faithful perpetual joy,
so that those whom You snatched from the calamities of perpetual death,
You may cause to enjoy everlasting joys.
The prayer does not permit a shallow estimate of our condition. We were stranded in a fallen world. We were snatched by Christ from perpetual death. The height of the joy offered here is sharpened by the depth of the abyss from which we were delivered.
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GO TO CONFESSION!
