Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 11th Ordinary)

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 3rd Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo (11th Ordinary Sunday in the Novus Ordo)?

Tell us about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.

Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?

A taste of what I offered at 1 Peter 5 this week.  I wrote about the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost but related it to the great feasts nearby.

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Sin broke that order. Original Sin did not disorder only the soul. It wounded the entire material order in which man, its head beneath God, had been placed. Hence St. Paul can speak of creation as if it were personal, indeed almost maternal: “the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now” (Rom 8:22). The ?????? waits, not for annihilation, but for liberation from bondage to decay. It longs for “the revealing of the sons of God,” not what the sons reveal, but the unveiling of what they are in Christ. The old creation and the new creation are not two unrelated universes, one thrown away and another brought in as replacement. They meet in the flesh of the risen Christ. He is the hinge, the crossing point, the place where created nature is taken into indestructible union with uncreated divinity.

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