It’s the 2nd Sunday of Advent.
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation?
Share the good stuff. Quite a few people are forced to sit through really bad preaching. Even though you can usually find – if you are willing to try – at least one good point in a really bad sermon, that can be a trial. So… SHARE THE GOOD STUFF which you were fortunate enough to receive!
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. I hear that it is growing. Of COURSE.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news? We really need good news.
I have some thoughts about the Sunday Epistle reading posted at One Peter Five.
Under the hammer of persecution against traditional doctrine and worship, organizations have risen to deliver news. Anyone and everyone with a webcam is carrying on. Coalitions or societies have formed in support of cancelled priests. All have good motives. Lately, however, a cacophony has amplified with internecine squabblings. Unsavory and scandalous bickering and finger pointing has erupted to discourage us all and make us into our own laughingstock.
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Two of my sons were made Pages in the Knights of the Altar today. Very cool. Great way to foster vocations. The priesthood in years has been battered and bruised publicly, it’s quite consoling to see good men doing good things like I witnessed today.
Excellent sermon from our seminarian deacon. Christ is on the way during Advent and comes to us at Christmas but we can’t just wait passively for him. He wants us to come to Him as He said many times in the Gospel.
My priest went on a 15 min tirade about how you simply must GO TO CONFESSION!! He was adamant of its importance in your life and really drilled down into it being Advent season making it very appropriate for you to get right with Jesus before the coming of our Lord in just a few days’ time. 13 days to be precise. After so long hearing weak preaching to hear a priest who truly understood who he was come out with such strong preaching about the necessity of confession was quite remarkable.
What was it that scripture says about “a house divided against itself”?
Squabblers, regardless of your individual outlook or which “side” you fall upon, take note…
We have a litter of two-week-old puppies to watch, so I went up the road to the local NO parish. The priest, of African descent, gave a real stemwinder of a sermon. He said if you’re busy decorating your house for Christmas, maybe you should first get busy decorating your soul for Christmas.
In the Melkite Divine Liturgy I attended, the Gospel was of the woman whom Jesus heals on the sabbath. The Pharisees objected that this was against the rules. Jesus points out that you would free your livestock to be able to feed on the sabbath, why wouldn’t you free a person from a burden they had for many years? We often get caught up in legalisms. Jesus points out that the laws we should be concerned about is (1) love God and (2) love your neighbor as yourself, then we can’t go wrong.
“If you want someone to convert, do as St. John the Baptist advised. Tell them to pray, and ask questions.” God can convert a curious heart especially