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It’s the 20th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo and the 28th Sunday of the Novus Ordo.
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation?
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. I hear that it is growing. Of COURSE.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
I have some thoughts about the Sunday Epistle reading posted at One Peter Five.
The Mass today has deep currents. As I write, I am reminded of what it is to be a part of the exiled people, those who want the Traditional Roman Rite. In a recent exchange in presser at the Synod (“walking together”) the image of being banished from the Church was offered to Card. Tobin, who, after having just waxed eloquently about how beautiful the Church is by inclusion of active homosexuals, then denied that traditional Catholics were banished. It’s for your own good, he implied. You’ll get used to not being happy. It is as if he said, “Sing us one of your songs.”
The Christian, beset, banished, persecuted, reacts with joy. If we have passing moments of anguish or melancholy, knowledge of our baptismal character should buoy us up right away. Thinking about the blessings of our very existence, in the time and place God wants us, the availability of the actual graces we need to live our vocation, these blessings raise us above the huggermugger. That sense of the presence of the Holy Spirit in us as in a temple, fills us with a joy that wants to burst out. When Peter and Apostles left the Sanhedrin after their scrutiny, they rejoiced (Acts 5:41). Paul and Silas sang in prison.
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I went to a Polish Mass today for a number of incidental reasons. I read the readings and prayers from an English missal (‘actual participation’, of course!). I didn’t understand the sermon, but there was an infant baptism, which is always a joy and a reminder to live more fully according my own baptismal character. The hymns sounded modern, but the ordinary prayers were intoned to common Latin chants. The people were clearly devout and attentive, and there were lots of young families, plus some young single men in evidence too. Not all is doom and gloom.
It was the last Sunday Mass for one of our priests. He is getting punished because he is too traditional by being sent to the hinterlands. He spoke about the cross that traditional Catholics have had to carry after TC and how the past year has been the best of his life, driving daily to a school gym to offer Mass. It was a fantastic sermon that brought many to tears.