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 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th Sunday OF Easter)?
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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The Epistle from 1 Peter deepens the same mystery from another angle. Christians are addressed as “pároikoi kaì parepídemoi, advenae et peregrini …strangers and pilgrims,” “aliens and exiles.” You know the book, perhaps, by Michael O’Brien, in the Children of the Last Days series, Strangers and Sojourners. The phrase tells us where we stand in history and how we must live while we stand there. We belong here and we do not. We have work to do here, given by God Himself. Yet our final belonging is elsewhere, or rather above, in that patria where Christ has gone before us. This earthly life is charged with purpose precisely because it is provisional. The unfinished quality of our present existence, the sense that things remain unrealized, even the ache of incompletion, all of that belongs to Christian consciousness. We know there will be a recapitulation of all things in Christ, their submission to the Father, “that God may be all in all” (1 Cor 15:28). For that reason our time here is real and urgent, yet not terminal.
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