7th Sunday after Pentecost: Christ’s Soldier Slaves
Listen up you soldier slaves! Get yourselves squared away.
6th Sunday after Pentecost: I became a hand of Christ
Context is important. We’ve been over the ground we tread before, regarding the liturgical season and the Letter Paul wrote to the Romans. However, here is something from Dom Prosper Guéranger about the flow this time of year: It is to the Romans that are addressed today’s inspired instructions of the great apostle. For the…
5th Sunday after Pentecost: We are in this together
Our journey through the liturgical year in the Vetus Ordo continues this week with out look into the Epistle reading for Holy Mass on the 5th Sunday after Pentecost. For the last weeks we have been giving strong images of Christ as, for example, Good Shepherd. In a sense, the images are “outside” of us…
4th Sunday after Pentecost: Ktisis
Stick that in your demonic Pachamama pantheism and smoke it.
3rd Sunday after Pentecost: Under the mighty hand of God
We continue with our task of opening up something of the riches of the Epistle reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo, the tried and true Traditional Roman Rite which stengthen virtually all the Roman Church’s saints whom we now venerate. As always, we look at context. A major shift has taken place…
Corpus Christi: Gut Check
No! Unworthy Communions hurt all of us who are members of the Body of Christ.
Trinity Sunday: Do I hear an “Amen!”?
Holy Trinity Sunday is “a synthesis of Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost."
Pentecost Sunday: Burning from Him and speaking about Him
Our task this year is to look into the first reading for Holy Mass on Sunday celebrated with the Roman Catholic Church’s venerable and always legitimate and appropriate and contemporary and fruitful and ever alluring and awesome Vetus Ordo. We come to Pentecost at last, that major bookend, with its Octave, to the Pre-Lenten Sundays…
Sunday after Ascension Thursday: The Real Cover Up
We have attained during the week the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord and this is the Sunday that falls between that mysterious event and the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. All the events of the life of the Lord are mysterious, but some are more momentous than others. This is certainly…
5th Sunday after Easter: Lies
We continue with this year’s task, our dive into the Epistle, the first reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite. We began this Eastertide with readings from 1 Peter. As we draw nearer to the Feast of the Ascension we hear from St. James the Lesser through his Letter.…
4th Sunday after Easter: “Be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.”
In the confessional I have often remarked to penitents, and I apply this to myself, that we could avoid a lot of sins by keeping our mouths shut.
