Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff.
It is the 6th Sunday of Easter in the Novus Ordo and the 5th Sunday after Easter in the Vetus 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.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
I have a few thoughts about the orations in the Vetus Ordo for this Sunday: HERE
A taste:
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The dedicated, self-reflective Christian doesn’t let the Word (aka Christ) go in one ear and out the other. The Christian strives to take a firm grip on the Word and make it his own. We eat the bread from the good crops God protects and transform it into our bone and flesh. On a deeper level, the Word (aka Christ) isn’t what we, as the agents of transformation, change into ourselves. The Word is the change agent that transforms us more and more into what He is, more manifest images of God in whose likeness we are made. This is true of the Word, Christ, in Holy Scripture as it is true of the Word in the Eucharist. If we are professed Christians who are not actively striving to be transformed by the Word, we are not true to ourselves or true to the Word.
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Not really a sermon, but striking all the same. A few Sundays ago, circumstances (a veterinary tragedy) dictated that I attend a later Mass at my FSSP parish instead of the 7:00 AM I usually go to.
The 1:00 PM Mass follows soon after the 11:00 AM High Mass. As I came in, the recessional music played on the organ was Bach’s Fugue in A minor, BWV 543. I’ve been attending for eight years now and have never heard the organ played (no music at the early Mass), so this was both a surprise and a delight. Bach being Lutheran, I don’t know how kosher this was, but my view is that no one has ever been harmed by listening to Bach.
Well, my parish is N.O.M.—however, I try to implement a “brick by brick” mentality. After Mass and the coffee hour, I took a small group to the field across the highway from the church. Our parish farms it, so to “kick off” the Minor Rogation Days starting tomorrow, I brought my Rituale and Holy Water to bless the field. (Naturally, vested in surplice, stole, cope, and biretta!)
May God bless our parish’s harvest of durum wheat! It helps pay for the building, and we also donate a portion of the grain. We also grow potatoes to sell and give schoolchildren breakfasts.
Be faithful in prayer no matter what.
My wife and I have 4 boys, aged 11 down to 3. We got to Mass. Due to the boys, I don’t remember any of the homily. We got them to the “local” TLM (50 min drive, which culturally in England is A LOT). Praying for spiritual fruit in the future.
I think there’s a new family or two over the last couple of weeks in my diocesan Vetus Ordo. Lots of young families with lots of young children. I’m becoming increasingly grateful for being able to attend the V.O. within ~30 minutes.
our NO homilist was mostly mumbly. but the two parts that were clear were good.
1. “if you love Me, you will keep My commandments” – “thou shalt not kill” in the context of abortion. “nothing in Scripture or Holy Church’s Tradition allows for abortion” (!)
2. in line with your theme, an admonition to keep Scripture ever in our hearts and some practical advice to do so including mention of some apps that make it easier to do so.
We are moving later this year, and in our new area, we have been “parish shopping.” It’s in the middle of the Bible Belt, so the Catholic churches tend to be smaller and farther away from our new home. This Sunday we tried a Catholic church we had not been to before, and were delighted to discover it is a new parish, less than two years old, with an Anglican priest convert who is married with six children. The Mass was wonderful, and it follows many of the Anglican rituals. Ad orientem, altar rail, Communion on the tongue *required*, chanting, not singing, and a wonderful short homily. It was wonderfully prayerful. We attended the 8:30 Low Mass, and the 11 AM is a High Mass, which looks like it has more chanting. We intend to go back. After the 11 AM Mass–every week–they have a pot luck in the parish hall…what a wonderful way to meet people and build community…..instead of a race to see who can get out the parking lot first after Mass. And there was NO altar table at all; just the traditional ad orientem altar.