WDTRPS – Quinquagesima Sunday: PREPARE FOR BATTLE!

[johnnyc176]

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The Sacrament of Penance is a great gift. It frees us from our self-inflicted chains.
We must strive to live without mortal sin.
But we fall. In mortal sin we divest ourselves, as it were, of our spiritual armor. We make ourselves prisoners.
We pray to God to protect us from the dire consequences of sin, including the attacks of the Enemy, which on our own without God’s help we cannot resist.
Among the benefits of the Sacrament of Penance, along with being freed from the chains of sins, is a strengthening to resist sin in the future.

 

[pnewton]

Interesting. We do not follow the older calendar, but the spirit of this Sunday still remained. In fact, I deliberately chose an opening with lots of “alleluias” to emphasis the change that occurred prior to the gospel, where at the end of the Alleluia, it was buried with a reverberating sound heard across the Church. Then the mood changed with a pre-Lenten homily.

I don’t know. Maybe there can be too much preparation and anticipation for Lent. After all, Ash Wednesday pretty much has all that covered. But I do like burying the Alleluia.

 

[peter26]

In the Ordinariate we did observe Quinquagesima today at Evensong. The First Reading was Deuteronomy 6 and is a good one to read prayfully at this time of year since it about following God’s commandments.