This sermon was given on the Second Sunday after Epiphany, 2018. The featured picture on the blog for this sermon is from a stained glass window at my basilica of residence downtown. A continued thanks for the music-bumpers of my sermons to the holy nuns of Ephesus.
The first half of this Sunday sermon is truth and the second half is compassion for those struggling with gender-identity disorders. I referenced this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7lxdWxTFyw
"For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord."—Ephesians 5:8
This sermon was taken from the Christmas "Puer Natus" propers, but it is released today on the Christmas Octave.
In the old calendar, when Christmas falls on a Monday, the fourth Sunday of Advent is subsumed into the Christmas Vigil Mass, meaning the priest in purple. This will probably be my only sermon posted for Christmas, due to a short one in tomorrow's Missa Cantata. VENI veni, Emmanuel captivum solve Israel, qui gemit in exsilio, privatus Dei Filio. R: Gaude! Gaude! Emmanuel, nascetur pro te Israel! O COME, O come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel, that morns in lonely exile here until the Son of God appear. R: Rejoice! Rejoice! O Israel, to thee shall come Emmanuel! Veni, O Sapientia, quae hic disponis omnia, veni, viam prudentiae ut doceas [...]
From the consecration to the Leonine prayers.
Family spiritual warfare that is necessary before the peace of heaven.
This class goes from the Creed to the Hanc Igitur.
The people that John the Baptist preached to were very similar to the people of today.
This class was originally "Traditional Latin Mass 4" but it [happily] got derailed into a Question and Answer regarding unity within the Church. Mass podclasses will continue next week.
