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 Easter Octave Sunday?
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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Then comes the moment of immense ecclesial and sacramental consequence. “As the Father has sent me, even so I send you” (v. 21). The Son is the One sent by the Father. The Apostles now become sent ones in and through Him. He breathes on them and says, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” This is the institution of the Sacrament of Penance. The power promised in the discourse about the keys and in the authority to bind and loose now takes concrete form in the breath, Hebrew ruach, of the Risen Christ.
When a priest absolves sins, it is not a mere declaration that sins are somehow ignored, covered, or externally imputed away. It is a true remission, a true cleansing, a real loosing. The Council of Trent affirmed de fide that the Church received from Christ the authority to remit post-baptismal sins. The text itself makes plain that such remission requires judgment, and judgment requires knowledge. If sins are to be forgiven or retained, they must therefore be known to the minister to whom Christ entrusted this authority. Hence, verbal confession of sins belongs to the sacrament’s very logic.
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GO TO CONFESSION!
