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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N.O. Mass
Priest did not shy away from loving Christ more than father and mother, son and daughter. Explicitly said that there should not be *anything* that we would not sacrifice for Christ. ?
At FSSP Low Mass this morning. My layman’s take home message: we must speak as one voice. Don’t complain or grumble because that is not pleasing to God.
He spoke of a “schismatic” group that is planning on consecrating bishops at the end of June. They are even electing their own pope.
Fr is promoting a book about the false notion of an autonomous episcopate.
(Vetus ordo, diocesan) Preaching today was about prayers and understanding for the 1st July, for the situation of the SSPX, and for understanding all around. Then, understanding around the subtleties of echo chambers on the perpetually online world – and that it is possible to view both sides of an argument with… understanding.
The first reading was from 2 Kings 4:8ff. Father continued the story beyond what was in the lectionary. In the continuation, the boy of miraculous birth died at a young age. First Elisha sent his servant with Elisha’s own staff to the boy, but this had no effect. then Elisha himself went to see the boy and he “lay upon the child on the bed, placing his mouth upon the child’s mouth, his eyes upon the eyes, and his hands upon the hands.”
Patristic commentary ensued. St. Jerome explained that Elisha’s staff was the Mosaic law. it lacks the ability to give life, but to confirm our death and sin. Another Father (sorry i have forgotten just who) explained that for Elisha to make those particular contacts a young boy, he would have had to be in a highly contracted physical position – just as in the incarnation the Lord had to make Himself small so he could make contact with us.
sadly verse 35 was not part of what Father read nor the commentary he shared. i’d love to see what the Fathers have to say about that detail!
BTW the boy was indeed raised.
The national Eucharistic pilgrimage and consecration of the Nation has been going through Massachusetts these past few days, with a Eucharistic procession in Boston on Saturday (from the Common out to Bunker Hill). Saturday’s anticipated Mass for Sunday was followup to the Procession.
After starting with remarks on Sunday’s readings, the Archbishop tied-in from the theme of love of God over love of parent or child to another passage – the Genesis account of Abraham & Isaac and the sacrifice on the mountain – pointing out some of the foreshadowing/parallels of the New Testament (The Father having the Son travel three days, the hill being the intended place of death, the carrying of the wood meant to be the means of his own death…).