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 Sexagesima Sunday, and in the Novus Ordo the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
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:
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Standing by Paul’s tomb, the Church listens to Paul speak of himself in a way that unsettles modern expectations of authority. The Epistle spans what we now call 2 Corinthians 11:19–33 and 12:1–9, divisions unknown to Paul himself. In the first movement, Paul catalogs his sufferings in relentless detail. Beatings, shipwrecks, hunger, exposure, betrayal, danger from enemies and false brethren. He does so in response to accusations from some in Corinth who dismissed him as unimpressive, unskilled, even fraudulent. Paul answers by exposing the true cost of discipleship. Apostolic authority is authenticated by conformity to the Crucified. To belong to Christ entails being handed over to weakness, insult, hardship, persecution, and calamity.
Yet Paul does not stop with visible sufferings. He moves, at the precise point where modern editors placed a chapter break, into territory even more dangerous to describe.
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