Pentecost XXI

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O Sacrament Most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, All Praise and All Thanksgiving Be Every Moment Thine

Daily Sermons
October 28 – Fr. Nkamuke – Saints Simon and Jude
October 29 – Fr. McKenna – Indulgences for the Poor Souls
October 30 – Fr. McKenna – Poor Souls
October 31 – Fr. Lehtoranta – St. Cyprian and Tricks of the Devil
November 1 – Fr. Lehtoranta – On Our Way Home
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✠ The Bishop’s Corner ✠
Summer is never so beautiful as in dying. These last days of sun and even some early St. Martin summer shed a particular complimentary light on nature. The green, green grass watered with abundant rainfall looks at last perfect and utterly in order. Many thanks to Brendan and his intrepid “assistant” Doby for a fine season. “The strife is o’er, the battle done” curiously seems to be nature’s mood as darkness settles in today with our fall back away from light. But may we ever walk in the light, regardless of time or season. Our Lady of the Light, pray for us.

Today our little segment of All Saints marches in for the High Mass, and stays for a delightful little party and presentation. Yesterday most of you made it to Mass for their Holy Day. Some of you were probably saving your fire last weekend for this, which was why we didn’t see too much of you last weekend for Forty Hours. But know that if we are all to become saints, it will be due to the Blessed Sacrament. And if we all have a place to offer up Mass and receive Holy Communion, come what may over the travail and troubles of the times. This is due to our corporate devotion at this church to Jesus in the Sacrament of His Love. Try to make it up somehow, won’t you.

Our two military units, I was telling our faithful few at the closing Sunday night, assure that these powerful prayers never die out for lack of interest. Both “have to” come: The Guard of Honor (the men who willingly volunteer to guard Our Lord during the long hours of the night’s adoration), and the school children who both give and receive enormously as they innocently pray and participate, some of them too young even to realize that this sublime privilege is a terrible burden! But it mustn’t be too unbearable, because now we are seeing second generation students, seeking that old time religion: “it was good enough for mother, for father, it is good enough for me!”

Why should the stadium be packed with orangemen for Bengals, while only two or three Catholics are found to rejoice in returning to church once a year or so, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, to return thanks and adoration in a joyful spirit? I give thanks that so many of you, our regulars, were with us, working and praying. I salute too, our home schooling families who may always be counted on. And what a joy it is to see an unexpected face or two each year, so welcome to swell our thinning ranks! But so the work of St. Gertrude the Great goes on. Now you know the story, and just in time for our feast day and anniversary on November 16.

This weekend we welcome a visiting priest from Austria, Fr. Arnold Trauner, who is telling us today a little bit about his life and work. Like the older Fathers here, Father is a former Pius X priest. He works with several other similar priests in a rapidly expanding apostolate, which even includes Hungary. They have recently send a vocation to our seminary in Florida. Bishop Sanbon doesn’t know where to put all of the seminarians, a happy problem in a so recently built seminary. A Novus Order priest has converted and come from Cuba and now is studying for true ordination.

More true priests mean more true Masses, and this is an all important consideration for the true point of view. Most Masses today are spoiled by the invalidity of the new rite, or by the sacrilegious inclusion of the Argentinean antichrist Bergoglio. I feat that Catholics, true Catholics, find it all too easy to ignore the reality of his heresies and their implications, so as to say in their comfort cocoon, especially that of the “una cum.” Is there a single attack on faith or morals that our “traditional” Catholics will not admit to the sanctuary of the Consecration under the rubric of “opinion” and the reality of comfort? Is this the stuff of which martyrs are made? No, it is the stuff of a religion which knows how to accommodate pretty near everything except the exclusivity of Him who said, “I am the truth. He who is not with me is against me.”

Bergoglio has had a busy Fall, working for the fall of Christendom. Lately he has plotted against marriage, for perversion, evolution, and relativism. He has denied the truth of the Blessed Trinity, even the existence of God. And yet still… What more will it take?

Let us ask the Holy Souls to help us, as we resolve to help them, especially today and tomorrow with the “as often so often” indulgences, starting today in church at noon, tomorrow with so many Masses, and then this week with the traditional indulgenced cemetery visits. See the bulletin for details.

Remember there is First Friday this week, with the regular Masses, and two Benedictions, but no All Night Adoration. Thanks again for your Forty Hours participation, and what ever you can manage for the true “poor beggars” of All Hallowstide, the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Be generous, be generous.

May He who is never outdone in generosity reward yours!

—Bp. Dolan