Normand Thomas

Homily Thursday, August 27, 2026

1 Corinthians 1:1-9
"Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."
Let us receive it.
Matthew 24:42-51
"Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come."
Giving ourselves a little time each day, just to reconnect with the present moment and with inner joy, allows us to return to our relationship (religion) with the Lord.
Biblical texts: NAB-RE
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Leo XIV to Lutheran Lay-Bishops: We Have a “Shared Mission in the World”

Today, Leo XIV welcomed the Lutheran State Bishops of Norway in audience.
Referring to the fallen human condition, Leo XIV said it is “all too easy to adopt an attitude of hostility toward those with whom we disagree”.
That is why he seeks – at least with Protestants – “concrete paths of reconciliation and of fraternity”.
Leo XIV recalled Christ’s prayer for the unity of his disciples.
Key phrase: “Grounded in our common Baptism and our shared mission in the world, I pray that we may always grow together in our service to the promotion of peace and justice.”
Picture: Vatican Media, #newsVyggmwuakm

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Father Karl A Claver

Ecumenism sounds nice, but it does not work. Much dialogue has produced hardly any converts to Catholicis, while there have been countless apostate Catholics who have become non-Catholic.

SonoftheChurch

Perhaps the Superior General of the FSSPX should have declared himself a “Lutheran Bishop” from Norway, so he could have joined this delegation in Private Audience with Leo. Hmmm? 🤔

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Entsorgen entlastet: Was gehen darf, um Freiraum zu schaffen. Alte Magazine, ungenutzte Küchengeräte und nicht getragene Kleider.

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Leo XIV: "Novus Ordo Rooted in and Respected the Tradition of Church"

At today’s General Audience, Leo XIV praised the failed liturgical reform after Vatican II.
He quoted extensively from a letter by the future Paul VI, Cardinal Montini, dated October 1962. He wrote that the faithful “cannot and must no longer remain silent and passive”.
No Participation: Novus Ordo Churches Empty
Leo XIV added that “the participation of the faithful cannot be passive”. The Conciliar reform “was intended to allow the liturgy to shine forth”.
He believes there was “the need to make the richness of the biblical texts and prayers more accessible to all the faithful”.
"Necessary" to Revise Liturgy
Furthermore, Leo XIV claims that the liturgy “has always been subject to developments and changes”.
“It is therefore not surprising that the Second Vatican Council too, with the utmost respect for the heritage of tradition, and precisely in order to make it more accessible, considered it necessary to revise the liturgical books.”
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The blind leading the blind…..

Lisi Sterndorfer

Today, Leo XIV praised the liturgical reform after Vatican II as it made liturgy “more accessible”. And: The Novus Ordo is “firmly rooted in the living tradition of the Church”.

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Two huge lies which if repeated often enough will convince Catholics that they are the truth.

POPE LEO INTERPRETED VATICAN COUNCIL II WITH CUSHINGISM AND NOT FEENEYISM AND THEN EXCOMMUNICATED THE SSPX BISHOPS : POPE FRANCIS DID THE SAME WITH ABP. CARLO MARIA VIGANO : NON CHRISTIANS DID NOT PROTEST

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POPE LEO INTERPRETED VATICAN COUNCIL II WITH CUSHINGISM AND NOT FEENEYISM AND THEN EXCOMMUNICATED THE SSPX BISHOPS. POPE FRANCIS DID THE SAME WITH ABP. CARLO MARIA VIGANO : NON CHRISTIANS DID NOT PROTEST
Non Christians in Britain must interpret Lumen Gentium 16 (saved in invincible ignorance) as being physically invisible cases in 2026. This is common sense. It is important for them to interpret Vatican Council II (LG 8, 14 16 etc) rationally i.e. LG 16 refers to an invisible case. So the conclusion is traditional.
Vatican Council II says outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation (AG 7/ CCC 846). Since LG 8, 14, 16 are hypothetical and invisible cases only, they are not practical exceptions for Ad Gentes 7 which says all need faith and baptism for salvation. So AG 7 is aligned with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus of the Council of Florence 1442 and LG 8, 14, 16 etc are not practical exceptions for AG 7 or EENS. Invisible people cannot be objective examples of …
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Lord Bebo & Friends
🇺🇦‼️🚨 A TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE
Ukrainians in Ternopil turned the tables and ganged up on military recruiters.
They stopped their car, pulled out the recruiters, beat them up and freed the guy they snatched off the streets.
The situation escalated so much that riot police had to come to disperse the crowd.
-> Have Ukrainians had enough of living like lobsters in a restaurant fish tank, waiting for the next one to be taken for good?
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Isn't the author, Thomas Reese SJ - a pro-homosexual - some kind of spiritual guide of James Martin SJ?

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Why I hate the old Latin Mass: A confession

(RNS) — Penitent: Bless me Father for I have sinned. It has been a week since my last column, I mean my last confession. Since that time, I have expressed hatred toward the old Latin Mass, aka the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), aka the Tridentine Mass, aka … Priest: Yes, yes, I know what you are talking about. The Mass that was celebrated in the Catholic Church before the Second Vatican Council. Penitent: The old Latin Mass is like a zombie. When we went from Latin into English in 1964, we thought it was dead, but it keeps coming back. We thought it would fade away or people would be satisfied with going to a Latin version of the new liturgy. Not so. Priest: Hatred is a sin. Jesus told us to love one another as he has loved us. Penitent: I know. Actually, I don’t hate the people who go to the old Latin Mass. Many of them are nice, pious people. They find spiritual nourishment in their Mass. With better catechesis, I think they would appreciate the new liturgy. On the other hand, I do hate …

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Lisi Sterndorfer

"Well, I guess I am also jealous of the TLM promoters. They are so well organized that, even though they are few in numbers, they get a huge amount of attention from the bishops and the media."

Preliminary Recourse of FSSPX Rejected: The Vatican’s deadline to respond to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (FSSPX) regarding its preliminary recourse against the July 2 decree declaring six bishops automatically excommunicated has now passed, notes @Michael Haynes The FSSPX submitted its recourse to the Holy See on July 11. Under canon law, the competent authority had 30 days to respond. With that period now expired without a decision, the FSSPX can proceed to the next stage of its canonical challenge. Canon 1735 provides that when no decision is issued within the prescribed 30 days, the time limit for presenting hierarchical recourse begins to run from the 30th day.

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Leo’s liturgical problem: SSPX and the Latin Mass

VATICAN CITY (Per Mariam) — The return of Pope Leo from his summer vacation serves as a useful moment for both the pontiff and the wider Church to take stock of his pontificate after another year, with a number of key agenda items demanding his early attention. As the motorcade departed the papal villas in Castel Gandolfo on the evening of July 27, Vatican observers began to resume their normal posts as Leo’s return to the Vatican signalled the pope’s return to work. This year he took nearly the full month of July for a personal holiday, and though it was interspersed with some lighter duties and trips to pilgrimage spots, it was overall a period of quiet. No official meetings or audiences were scheduled and it is the longest single block of time that Leo has spent away from work since he was elected – last summer he took two separate and shorter holidays at Castel Gandolfo. Pope Leo XIV in Rimini, August 22, 2026. ©Vatican Media So what happens now? The General Audiences have resumed …

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