My Sunday Mass intention today is for my benefactors, those of you who donate regularly, ad hoc, or send things.
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 Feast of Christ the King (Last Sunday of October) in the Vetus Ordo and in the Novus Ordo the 30th Ordinary Sunday?
Tell us about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. Where I was, at The Parish™, it was completely jammed. It is the end of the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
A taste of what I offered at 1 Peter 5 this week.
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Three years later, in Quas primas (11 December 1925), Pius established the Feast of Christ the King, fixing its celebration on the last Sunday of October, the month Communists dedicated to their “permanent revolution”, namely, pursue goals with no compromise with the opposition. That phrase, “permanent revolution”, which is coming into ominous vogue again today, was penned in 1844 by Karl Marx in a work diabolically called The Holy Family. The Devil always tells you what he is doing.
One wonders what Papa Ratti would make of our seemingly interminable ecclesiastical processes of reimagining, restructuring, and permanent walking together, with their listening sessions and conclusions that somehow always seem to require still more listening sessions. “Permanent process” has a certain uncompromising revolutionary ring to it.
In any event, by placing Christ the King on the final Sunday of October, Pius XI situated the feast immediately before All Saints, All Souls and the month of November when Mother Church directs our attention toward the Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. November dovetails with Advent and its expectation of the glorious return of the Lord. Christ’s universal sovereignty, the triumph of His saints, the purification of the departed, and the judgment awaiting every soul are brought by the Feast into a close liturgical harmony. The Church gives us a mini-season within the “green time” for getting our priorities straight before moving again to penitential violet.
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NO. Pastor preached on setting a good example, riffing on Saint Josemaria and the Epistle to the Thessalonians. Challenge people to let their lives proclaim the faith they profess with their lips, especially by bringing Christ to the rest of their community and not just those who happen to be gathered at our, fairly full, Masses every week.