Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 13th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 20th) 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 13th Sunday after Pentecost, or the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time?

Tell us 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…

The Law in Leviticus 13:45-46 required that people with “leprosy” must wear torn clothing, live outside the camp, leave their hair unkept, cover the lower part of their face and cry our “Unclean! Unclean”.

This treatment hasn’t yet made its way into Holy See’s documents oppressing the faithful who desire the Traditional Latin Mass.  Time will tell.

The word in Hebrew for what is commonly translated as “leprosy”, tsara’ath, can mean a variety of things, skin diseases certainly, but also even mildew on the wall, mold on something.  As far as skin diseases are concerned, it could mean conditions people recover from such as contact dermatitis or shingles.  Hence, there were laws governing how people who did recover from tsara’ath could be ritually purified and returned to the community.  Those in the ancient world with true leprosy, Hanson’s Disease, generally didn’t recover.  Hence, their being cured was instantly recognizable as miraculous.

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6 Comments

  1. Crysanthmom says:

    Such a beautiful article and such important advice as usual. Thank you Father.

  2. JGavin says:

    Canon gave an excellent sermon on faith and Faith. He taught a number of points.
    This was at an ICKSP parish. I am astounded at the level of preaching.
    After years at various NO parishes , preaching tends to hit or miss. I have seen enough showman over the years. I would actually love to get a copy of his sermon.

  3. Thomas says:

    Those who pwesist in sacrilegious communions will not have a happy death.

  4. Not says:

    I love this Gospel. I find it humbling. The Jews like us Catholics did not return to give thanks to God. The lowly Samaritan did.

  5. Katrinka Yobotz says:

    Fr. gave excellent teaching on the Epistle, the difference between having faith to believe and having faith in. He taught about the protestant errors of once saved always saved, and sola scriptura.
    As to the Gospel, I had always heard this passage is about the marginalized, gratitude and thanksgiving. But while meditating on it before Mass, I saw something else. Christ told the lepers to go show themselves to the priests. On the way they were all healed. But only the Samaritan came back to Jesus, fell down and worshipped Him, recognizing His Divinity. The other nine did not recognize Him and presumably continued on to fulfill the old law by going to their priests. But there is more, Jesus calls Himself God when he points out that the others do not return to give glory to God (i.e. Himself). Then he tells the Samaritan — not to go to the priests, but — to go his way that his faith has made him whole. The others were cleansed, but only faith in the High Priest, Jesus, cleansed this man spiritually.

  6. JonPatrick says:

    Just as leprosy gradually eats away at our bodies, sin can eat away at our souls. One sin that does this is the sin of gossip. There are 2 kinds of gossip or slander, detraction which is spreading a negative truth about a person. This might not be a sin if someone is genuinely warning about an evil that the person is doing. However if we are just passing on the information just to malign a person then it is a sin. Calumny is spreading false information about someone. We are seeing it a lot in our politics right now.

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