A quick word to the priest
readers, if I may. I hear CONSTANTLY as
an excuse for “laying low” and “keeping one’s head down”the following:
“If I rock the boat, I will get exiled and
shipped off to Darkest Outer Nowhere.”
Um, yeah. Has it ever occurred to you that there are
HUMAN SOULS in Darkest Outer Nowhere who
a.) Our Lord created the universe for
so that those human souls, as individuals, might exist, be saved, and be happy
with Him forever in heaven, and that He would suffer the entirety of His
Passion repeatedly for those people, as individuals, who just happen to live in
Darkest Outer Nowhere? Has it occurred
to you that maybe one little old lady in Darkest Outer Nowhere has been begging
Our Lord for the last 45 years to send a good and holy priest who will Offer
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the Traditional Rite, and that maybe that
priest, chosen to answer those prayers, is YOU?
And b.) that the efficacy of
your offering of the Holy Sacrifice is not tied to the worldly attractiveness
of the culture you currently reside in and are so afraid to be exiled
from? Or that the efficacy of the Holy
Sacrifice is not a function of how many lay people are in attendance?
Take it from me, just because
something feels unpleasant to YOU does not mean that it is, by definition, bad,
or not God’s will. Sometimes it is
precisely what feels awful to US that is what is best for EVERYONE ELSE. Has that ever occurred to you? Probably not.
Let me say it again:
Sometimes that which feels awful to us as individuals is what is best
for EVERYONE ELSE, and is God’s will.
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