While not able to worship publicly at this time, I did offer the Mass this morning on all our behalf. This service is known as a Missa sine populo (Mass without the people) or a Private Mass.
However, the grace in this worship is very far from private and ripples or reverberates throughout the whole Church, not least our part of it.
This is because all of us are joined to Christ and one another in a mystical, spiritual communion. As the Apostle Paul teaches us, "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body." (1 Cor. 12:13) And so the blessing of even one faithful Communion at the Eucharist extends to us all.
Please know that you were all offered up at the Altar of Our Lord this morning and rest assured of my daily prayers. May God bless, preserve and keep you.
Be strong in Him and take courage, for Christ has "overcome the world,"(Jhn. 16:33) and neither death nor Hell itself have any power over us.
With much love and every blessing,
LSP
18 comments:
Thank you, and God Bless, Parson.
"Wherever two or more meet in His name" includes the Internet.
One of my ordained friends I went to high-school with has been doing "Face Time" services for some of his congregation.
He Lives!
God Bless Parson.
Blessed be, padre.
Thank you, LSP.
I loved teaching about the "communion of saints" and how we are all connected by, in my words, little threads. What one person does, good or bad, vibrates through that little thread.
Hashem bless you and keep you - and us all.
I'm not up to the full Orthodox three-times-a-day thing, but I prayed this morning with tefillin on, and at night after the kids and I say the Shema. Included in that is a prayer for all who love America and Western Civilization and who are fighting to save them.
Thank you, Parson. God bless.
Thank you, LSP :)
Jules, trying to help.
Be safe, Linda.
Well done, RPJ! Maybe escalate to x3? Lord knows we need it.
I know your class was good, Adrienne. Unlike, say, the typical RCIA coloring dolphins nonsense.
And to you, Brig. May God watch over you and us all.
Right back at you, Kid.
That's certainly one solution, drjim. I've been calling people up and generally "beating the bounds"... God bless.
Heh, will try. Still working on doing tefillin consistently every morning. They're a pain in the butt to put on and take off properly.
LSP, you don't know how much your sacrifice means to me in my current affliction. Thanks to you, and to the many others here who pray for the suffering.
N, I laughed!
Thank you, Anon. The prayers go up and may God bless you.
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