This is a very welcome sermon. This is a very important Sunday, and a very
important theme. I knew it was important before I heard this sermon, but I did
not really know why it is important and why it will always be important and why
there is no one that will ever live for whom this theme will not be important,
until I heard this sermon.
Now I know. Fr. Pfeiffer just taught me, in one sermon.
Now I think I know a little better why this theme has been ignored by the post-
Conciliar Church. But I'm actually not entirely sure I know why, because Fr. has
not given that sermon yet and had it recorded, that is, he may very well have
already given the sermon, but it has not been provided among the recordings
that are available online. Maybe he gave it 7 years ago or something like that.
He briefly mentions that the last Sunday before Advent is always the 24th and
Last Sunday after Pentecost, even when the number of Sundays after
Pentecost is more than 24, such as this year, when there have been 26. So
this is the 26th Sunday following Pentecost, but the Church gives us today the
Mass of the 24th and Last Sunday after Pentecost, which was bumped down
two weeks, effectively, there having been the Masses of the 6th Sunday after
Epiphany and the 5th Sunday after Epiphany celebrated during the previous 2
weeks, respectively. He didn't mention, however, how this has been "changed"
in the screwball calendar that the Novus Ordo liturgy follows. That may have
been in another sermon, one from 7 years ago or whatever.
And in that other sermon, the one he didn't have time for today because he
was focusing on these more important things, maybe he has explained about
how the post-Conciliar Church has committed a grave error in their calendar,
by way of eliminating the 24th and Last Sunday after Pentecost, how they
have committed a most grave error by eliminating the Gospel of Matthew 24
from the landscape of gospel readings entirely, how they have done this under
the pretense of moving Christ the King Sunday away from the last Sunday of
October, where it belongs, and into this new and inappropriate position of
the last Sunday before Advent.
But he did give a bit of a clue for why the post-Conciliar Church has committed
this most grave error in their new calendar. Because he said that the enemies
of God are terrified of the Judgment. The Judgment is a comfort to the
victims, but it is terrifying to those who are enemies of God and wish to remain
enemies. On the day of the Judgment everyone will know your sins. There
will be no lies, no false lawyers, there will only be the truth, and the truth is
the friend of the friends of the truth.
I find it fascinating that at the Last Judgment the sins of St. Augustine, St.
Ignatius, St. Mary Magdalene, the sins of the Good Thief were brought forward.
The pardoned shall be rejoicing in the Judgment, but the hardened sinners will
be terrified of the Judgment. The sound of the trumpet penetrates the heart,
and the sound of the trumpet strikes fear in the heart when it opens the heart,
and "the thought of many hearts shall be revealed," as Our Lady says in the
Magnificat. The devils prefer hell to the sight of the face of Christ. The
Judgment is a terrible thing for those who desire to live in sin.
It's fascinating because the Novus Ordo bent is to say that when a sin is
forgiven by God, it is forgotten, as if it never existed. How then would the
forgiven sins of these saints become known to all at the Last Judgment, if they
have been forgiven and therefore "forgotten" by God? Most fascinating.
So when the post-Conciliar Church eliminates this Gospel, it would seem that
the motive must be more important to them than thinking about the Judgment.
Now, if those who made this change in the calendar are among those who
rejoice in the Judgment, they would not have eliminated Matthew xxiv from
their new calendar. Therefore, they must be among those who are terrified
of the Judgment, they must be among the enemies of God.
Can you imagine hearing Bishop Fellay give this sermon?
I find it hard to imagine that he would EVER have given this sermon, but even
if he could have in the past, he has now turned a corner, such that unless he
is converted, unless he turns back around that corner and continues on the
Way of Salvation, he will never be able to give this sermon. And so where does
that put him, among the friends of the truth? Or, among the enemies of God?
Do +Fellay's recent acts and "judgments" make him take sides against those
who rejoice in the Judgment of God? Do they, in and of themselves, expose him
to be among those who persecute the friends of the truth? And where does
this put the Menzingen-denizens at large? Are they not taking up sides opposed
to those who rejoice in the Judgment?
What kind of sermons did the Menzingen-denizens deliver this Last Sunday after
Pentecost? Or should I say "homilies?" Perhaps one on "judge not lest you be
judged?" How many more years do you expect the Menzingen-denizens to submit
themselves to this annual exercise in pretense, doing what they would not if they
had the choice, because, there is a liberal option, and it's quite popular, it's at
every Novus Ordo parish in the world.. In the world.. In the world........................