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 6th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo (14th Ordinary Sunday in the Novus Ordo)?
Tell us about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. I know there has been upheaval.
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, preaching on this Gospel in Sermon 95, compares expounding Scripture to breaking bread. In one English rendering: “What you eat, I eat; what you live on, I live on. We share a common larder in heaven.” The preacher does not own the bread. He breaks what he has received. Augustine’s startling verb eructare gives the image a jolt. Latin eructo means to belch or bring up. Scripture is to be received hungrily and then brought up again in praise. Just as cows chew their cud by throwing it back up again (rumination), when it comes to Scripture and the mysteries of faith, we, too, must ruminate. The heart chews the divine word, draws nourishment from it, and returns it to God. The Marian Introit gives the same image: “Eructavit cor meum verbum bonum: dico ego opera mea regi …My heart has brought forth a good word: I speak my works to the king” (Ps 44:2 Vulgate). The Blessed Virgin heard the angelic word, pondered (ruminated) it, carried it, and then burst forth in the Magnificat. She is the perfect ruminant of revelation. She receives the Word, guards the Word, bears the Word, and gives the Word. As we approach the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel – anniversary of Traditionis custodes and the suppression of God’s people who desire traditional worship – we ask her mantle over those who are wounded by shepherds, over parishes deprived of their inheritance, over priests tempted to timidity, and over the faithful who must keep clean hearts in dirty times.
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SSPX priory in Sanford was filled, as usual, for 9:30am High Mass. Father noted how amazing the Encone ceremony and its attendance was. He said instead of compassion – which is what the Church does – those in Rome have sown confusion. The decree was defective and void for vagueness. But what is clear, now, is that they want to kill the traditional Mass.