Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Laetare Sunday, 4th in/of Lent 2026

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 Laetare Sunday the 4th in Lent and in the Novus Ordo 4th Sunday of Lent?

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:

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St. John Henry Newman, in a description preserved in Wilfrid Ward’s Life of Cardinal Newman, captured the Roman concreteness of the place: “This Basilica is so called, because Saint Helena, not only brought the True Cross there, but earth from Mount Calvary on which the Chapel or the Altar there is built.” The translation needed is scarcely more than the sentence itself, for it is plain English and deeply suggestive: Rome received Jerusalem into herself, so that one may stand in the heart of Rome and touch, as it were, the soil of Calvary. Newman continues, “thus if there be a centre of the Church, we shall be there, when we are on earth from Jerusalem in the midst of Rome.”

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