Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 4th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O. 11th Ordinary) 2024

Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff.

Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for this 4th Sunday after Pentecost, or the 11th Sunday of Ordinary Time?

Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.

Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?

A couple thoughts about the sign of the cross: HERE  A taste…

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Many of us surely resonate with Peter’s great cry of self-discovery, the recognition of unworthiness, our sins.  Yet, again and again, from nothing God makes marvels.  He created the physical cosmos and spiritual realm of angels when, before, there was nothingness.  He took dirt and made man.  He took dirt-made-man and made woman.  He took our Fall and made of it the felix culpa, the “happy fault”.  In the Epistle readings from Romans 8 Paul describes the groaning under the effect of Original Sin of all creation, which awaits release from that bondage.  In fact, we have a foretaste of the liberation of all creation in the sacraments.  In instituting the sacraments, Christ raised matter to a new dignity in view of our sanctification.  In our Gospel, Christ takes empty efforts of men on their own, laboring in the darkness, and fills their nets with superabundance.  This is accomplished, at Christ’s word: “at Your word I will let down the nets” (v. 5).  Christ’s word then led to another down-letting, that of Peter.  “He fell down at Jesus knees”.  The verb is prospípto, “to fall forward, prostrate one’s self, to rush upon or against”.  Peter threw himself to the ground and bent down towards the Lord’s knees.  This is truly the beginning of freedom.

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  1. JGavin says:

    Canon Altiere gave the best sermon I have ever heard about vocations. He started with pointing out in the Gospel, Our blessed Lord instructs the disciples to put out to fish again. Peter protests that they were out all night and caught nothing. Peter does as instructed. The catch nearly breaks the net. Canon points out that when Peter and the others relied on themselves they caught nothing. They relied on the Lord and caught an abundance if not a superabundance. Canon points out the fish were always there. I have never in 64 years heard that explanation. In that context he transitioned to discussing how a young person should discern a vocation. More importantly, how the rest of us should help. There was quote from Francis DeSales I cannot now recall. If we heard more sermons like this , perhaps we would not be in the predicament we are in now.

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