Was there a good point made in the sermon you heard at the Mass you frequented in fulfillment of your Sunday obligation?
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My part, I took on the issues of McCarrick and Francis’ change to CCC 2267.
Was there a good point made in the sermon you heard at the Mass you frequented in fulfillment of your Sunday obligation?
Let us know what it was!
My part, I took on the issues of McCarrick and Francis’ change to CCC 2267.
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“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops.”
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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We had a homily on the life of St. John Vianney
One point Father made that resonated with me is that, contrary to the idea that the crowds had that Jesus would relieve them of the effort of providing for themselves, the Christian faith is work, and sometimes the work is difficult, even down to attending to prayer and going to Mass. That is certainly the truth for me, when I consider how hard it is for me to keep my mind from wandering during my Rosary, or what a drag and a burden it has become to keep my Sunday obligation in the face of mostly lousy liturgy and the many bad shepherds and scandals that plague the Church, both universally and locally. Father didn’t actually come out and say “to glory through suffering,” but that was his essential point.
I would love to read your sermon, Father! Would you post it?
An excellent homily on the Transfiguration, looking forward to tomorrow’s feast day.
We had a great homily on not only rejecting shows, movies, books and other secular things that will lead us to hell but replace them with GOOD HOLY TRUE shows, reading material to help our souls.
My homily, on the Gospel of John’s “Bread of Life” discourse, compared the two sorts of food Jesus spoke of, and then I posed two questions: do you believe in the change of “perishable” food into the Food that endures, that happens at Mass? And do you believe that Christ will likewise change YOU into himself in similar fashion?
Father made a great point about how the language in today’s (TLM) Collect should inspire confidence in God as we ask Him to grant us what we fear to ask for. In particular he developed the senses of the difficult-to-translate pietas as both God’s kindliness toward us and our godliness, best exemplified by Christ, with respect to our relations with others.
Fr bridged the Gospel of Mark for XI Sunday after Pentecost and that of Matthew for the Feast of the Transfiguration tomorrow where the former sees our Lord heals and in the latter He is transfigured to talk of how the Faith holds the power to transform.
EF – There were two parts: Faith & Humility
We have to have faith and as St. Paul says to accept “I am what I am”. He also said to put the past is in the past, because “it’s not how you start, but how you finish”.
We need humility to do the right thing. Remember, HE paid the price for us. God wants us to succeed and gives us the Grace to do so.
Our Pastor spoke at all Masses about the “Uncle Ted” fiasco and what’s going on in our country as well as throughout the world in the church. I give him credit, I don’t know if many of the other Pastors in our area have talked about this with their parishioners yet. Later on in the Mass we had a baptism, which gave us all some hope for the future!
In the Byzantine Rite Divine Liturgy, Father spoke about the parable of the servant forgiven a huge debt who then turns around and won’t forgive the much smaller debt of a fellow servant. We all owe a huge debt which a debt of love (love God and love our neighbor). Since we are not perfect the debt continues to grow. We must plead with God to forgive our debt, which Jesus has already paid for us and to be willing to forgive the debt of others. As it states in the Lord’s Prayer – “forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors”.
Excellent sermon on the Sixth Commandment delivered by Father Pasley at Mater Ecclesiae parish in Berlin NJ. He read extensively from the Catechism of the Council of Trent….my kind of guy!