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 21st Sunday after Pentecost, or the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time?
Tell us about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
A couple thoughts about the sign of the cross: HERE A taste…
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Hell is pain. There are different kinds of pain available – obligatory – in Hell.
First, there is the pain of loss. If we cannot imagine what the joy of Heaven is, because “eye hath not seen nor ear hath heard” (1 Cor 2:9), that counts for Hell too. To know, without doubt, that Heaven’s happiness will never be ours would itself be a hideous and unhealing torment of the mind and heart. The pain of loss includes loss of Heaven and loss of the vision of God, the whole point of why we were created. Thus, St. Thomas Aquinas reasons that the torments of the damned are infinite, because they involved the loss of the infinite Good who is God.
Second, there is the pain of sense.
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We had a wonderful sermon by an SSPX priest who was just ordained in June. In fact, this was considered one of his first Masses and we received his first blessings after Mass, so we were able to receive a plenary indulgence (with the normal requirements). Our SSPX chapel is in the Boise, ID area and we continue to see new faces every week. Our 2 Sunday Masses are standing room only and the Saturday night Mass is always full, as well, though it is not a Sunday Mass (the Society doesn’t do that).
His sermon was on the theme of the rosary based on Pope Pius XIII’s encyclical about October (I don’t remember the exact name). He started by explaining why we should be pious in regard to the Blessed Virgin Mary explaining our faith in her divine maternity and her roles as Mediatrix of All Grace and Coredemptrix. He then explained how we can sometimes become routine in praying the rosary, but how vital a prayer it is as the prayers themselves were divinely inspired and it was given to us by Mary herself through St. Dominic. He also mentioned the most recent Marian apparitions, especially Fatima. He ended with a story about St. Dominic who drove 15,000 demons out of an Albigensian heretic as he led 12,000 people in the rosary. It definitely inspired me to pray my rosary well!!
The 11am Apostolic Mass was packed, mostly large, young families. Father preached about the necessity of preaching about Hell. We should be thanking God for Hell, as it allows us to meditate on the absence of God, and it reminds us that, without the fear of Hell, we would fall back into our evil desires.
I wish our priests would talk about this. I suspect it would only help.
Being out of town for my oldest son’s wedding, we attended the local NO church. The Gospel was of the rich man to whom Jesus says sell everything you have and give it to the poor. The Deacon gave an excellent homily in which he related a story of a little girl who had a cheap imitation pearl necklace of which she was very fond and wore everywhere. One day her father asked her to give him this prize possession of hers. At first she refused. On the following days he continued to ask her. Eventually with tears she gave it to him. He responded by saying “in return I have a present for you” and gives here a real pearl necklace. Of course this is an analogy of how we often have things we are attached to, and if we give up our attachments and follow Him, how God will reward us with what is even more precious than those things we have here on earth, eternal life.