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 5th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo (13th Ordinary Sunday in the Novus Ordo)?
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. I wrote about the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost but related it to the great feasts nearby.
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St. Augustine, speaking from the deepest restlessness of the human condition, confessed: “quia fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te … for Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in Thee” (conf I, 1, 1). The Collect’s desiderium is that restlessness baptized, purified, and directed toward the invisible goods. The Christmas Preface gives the same motion: “ut dum visibiliter Deum cognoscimus, per hunc in invisibilem amorem rapiamur … so that, while we know God visibly, through Him we may be snatched up into invisible love.” Through the Incarnate Word, visible to the eyes of men, we are caught up to invisibilia. Love becomes the eye. Richard of Saint Victor, channeling an Augustinian impluse, says: “amor oculus est, et amare videre est … love is the eye, and to love is to see” (Tractatus de gradibus caritatis, PL 196, 1203). The one who loves God begins to see the neighbor as God sees him, even when the neighbor wounds, vexes, slanders, or fears us.
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