Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Pentecost Sunday 2023

It’s Pentecost Sunday in the Vetus Ordo.  It’s Pentecost Sunday in the Novus Ordo, though I’m surprised they didn’t just turn it white or green and call it the 8th Sunday after Easter.

Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation?

Share the good stuff.

Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. Pretty much everywhere it seems to be growing.

Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?

I have some thoughts about the Sunday reading HERE.

In John 20:19-23 when the Risen Christ appeared in the locked room to the Apostles, He breathed on them – in Hebrew both “spirit” and “breath” are ruach – and said, “Receive the calling forth from the community.” No. Wait. “Receive the spirit of synodality.” Hmmm… again. “Receive the HOLY Spirit!” That’s it.

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6 Comments

  1. Charivari Rob says:

    Several good points from Father.
    The main one was pointing out some of the flaws of “spiritual but not religious”, given where the Spirit comes from.
    Also spoke a bit on the Church as family with Mary as our mother – Mass had been preceded by a Marian procession around the block.

  2. Gregg the Obscure says:

    At 1030 Archbishop celebrated Mass and conferred confirmation on nearly 40 people from 8 years old up to middle age. (Aside: some unusual confirmation names particularly Moses and Homobonus. Had to look up the latter as he was hitherto unknown to me.)

    His Excellency focused on the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, knowledge, counsel, understanding, fortitude, fear of the Lord, and piety. He exhorted us to pray for such of those gifts as will most help us in our current circumstances. He reminded us that each of us has been put in this time and place for a unique particular purpose that no one else can do for us and it involves “proclaiming the mighty deeds of God” not only by our manner of life, but by explicit witness to the truths of the faith among our families, friends, and neighbors. These mighty deeds aren’t limited to those commemorated in sacred scripture, but they continue to this day. He discussed as an example of this the recent incorrupt Benedictine in Missouri – adding some details of which i had not been aware.

    For the second consecutive year, red rose petals were dropped from the ceiling. Since we lack the Pantheon’s hole in the roof, I still haven’t figured out the logistics of that.

  3. palestrinadei says:

    Father gave us another reminder of the special election this summer and that voting incorrectly or omitting is a serious thing. He then discussed cooperation with the Holy Spirit in reproducing our Savior in each of us. It seemed a bit abstract to me – perhaps he was using “reproduce” as a synonym for “create”, as in “Send out Your Spirit upon us, and we shall be created…”

  4. maternalView says:

    I was caught off guard today. The Vetus Ordo I thought I was attending turned out to be Novus Ordo in Latin. Normally I haul over to an Institute church in another diocese for the times our Cardinal has dictated when we must forgo the TLM and have a NO. But alas I made the best of it. I read the 1962 missal’s Epistle and Gospel ahead of Mass and during the Mass used my missal to follow along with the prayers in Latin that were used including the Canon. Normally it’s a low Mass. A few folks responded in Latin but most like me didn’t. Personally, I go to a low Mass because I’m not a fan of the dialogue Mass later in the morning. A couple of people attempted to keep up with all the standing and kneeling and sitting but most did as if they were at a TLM. Except for the readings, etc & homily it was all in Latin. But as we know it’s not just the Latin; it’s all of it.

    It was interesting to realize that the Canon for NO forgoes the kissing of the alter, multiple signs of the cross, genuflecting compared to the TLM. Really what was terrible about those movements that they had to be banished?

    [You ask a good question. Those things were looked down on as if they were barnacles that had to be scrapped off the hull. They were useless and repetitive and they encroached on the Mass and we got stuck with them until the super-enlightened experts, with their secret knowledge and insight, came to our rescue. They waved their archeologizing wands and – poof – things vanished…. like the Octave of Pentecost. I’m with Chesterton: before you tear something down, figure out why it was there in the first place. Besides, the Council Fathers themselves said there should be no changes made unless they were for the true good of the people. How does the priest kissing the altar fewer times redound to the good of the people? Oh… right… yes… I see… by not kissing the altar as often, people will eventually realize that the altar is really just a table for community meal rather than something special, as if for sacrifice.]

  5. monstrance says:

    Great news at our TLM diocesan parish.
    Getting so busy that our Great Bishop will be allowing at least one more priest to join the staff.
    And – a school building on the campus will be back in operation Fall of 24’ presenting Classical Catholic Education.

  6. Imrahil says:

    Not a sermon note, but at the charismatic event I attended (which I had been planning if I was home, and I was; I had always wished to attend that event also, but the decision whether or not to do the Chartres pilgrimage again was suddenly decided for me when the applications were closed for overcrowding…) I arrived in time for Communion (having attended the TLM in my usual vicariate before) and we were dismissed with “Happy days of Pentecost; it used to have an Octave, you know”.

    To those who go for hashtag-making I might suggest #tradismatic.

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