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A RESPONSE TO YOUR BLOG ON "Do I Kneel at the Agnus Dei in the Novous Ordo Mass?"
A response to your blog https://jesseromero.com/blog/do-i-kneel-agnus-dei-novous-ordo-mass
“except when prevented on occasion by reasons of health,”… As a physician, I do declare that it is a grave offense against my mental health to stand for the Agnus...Read more
UNDERSTANDING BINDING PRAYERS
I was wondering if you could clear something up? I was listening to sermons by priests of the xxxx, and more than one has said that binding prayers, imprecatory prayers, etc…are dangerous for the laity and aren’t...Read more
GOING DEEPER INTO MARK 16 - 17
While I understand that laying on of hands has always been priestly and paternal, many charismatics use Jesus saying that “those who believe [in His Name] will lay hands on the sick” etc., as an argument for...Read more
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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THE CROSS IS HERE
The Mass is not a new sacrifice. It is the re-presentation in space and time of redemption. Why should we be penalized by the eternal God because of the accident of time? Are there not women today who want to be Veronicas and to offer veils to the suffering Christ? Are there not men like Simon who want to help carry the cross? Do we not want to take our own sufferings, to have them united with him in order that they might be considered part of the expiation for our sins? It is said that science might someday be able to go back and pick up all the sounds that were ever spoken because they still exist someplace in space. That means that we might recover the voice of Alexander and Gregory and Demosthenes, even the voice of Christ; but what is that compared to going back and finding and repeating the very sacrifice of the cross? What compares to taking the cross of Calvary and transplanting it to New York, London, Tokyo, and Berlin, and applying the benefits of redemption to our souls now? What a mystery of love! This is the Mass.